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The smallest domino is the Assassination of RFK

In 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Bobby Kennedy) was assassinated for his support of Israel by a Palestinian man, Sirhan Sirhan.

Because of his father's tragic death and his family's legacy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grew up in the political spotlight. Decades later, he aligned with the Trump administration and was appointed as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

As part of government funding cuts in July 2025, the administration and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. dramatically scaled back a crucial CDC program called FoodNet that actively monitored foodborne outbreaks.

FoodNet went from tracking eight major foodborne pathogens down to just two.

One of the pathogens they stopped tracking at the federal level was a microscopic parasite called Cyclospora.

Because the federal government stopped tracking the parasite, health departments lacked coordinated, day-to-day data to catch early warning signs.

This made the outbreak harder to detect and contain early. Without early detection and containment, the parasite spread rapidly through contaminated produce, causing weeks of violent, explosive, watery diarrhea as it spread.

The last domino is Michigan being hit the hardest by this outbreak, going from ~50 cases a year to thousands of confirmed infections.

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德化白瓷 Déhuà báicí/dehua white porcelain

Dehua County, located in Quanzhou, Fujian, China, is renowned for its white porcelain.

Its kilns flourished during the Tang (618-907 CE) and Song dynasties(960–1279 CE), peaked in the Yuan and Ming periods, and remain famous today, particularly for their white porcelain. Fired at high temperatures, the unglazed porcelain exhibits a smooth, jade-like texture, appearing crystal-clear and pure white.

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.