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Mikoyan said:
Having seen this more than a few times, I wouldn't call it my favorite architecture but it's definitely one of the definitive modern-classical college buildings.
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Yeah, not my favorite either, but I'll take it any day over the more common [BOX] design they mostly use for buildings nowadays.
 
I might be late here, but I think we may have missed this one. Danny Seagren passed away on November 10th at the age of 81. He played Spider-Man on "The Electric Company".

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ChompChomp said:
Quick research indicates that racehorses live as long as normal domestic horses, which is the aforementioned 25 - 30 years.
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The number I've seen most often is 20. And it's not just lifespan. The conditions they're kept in are often miserable. They are at risk of severe injury any time they race and the actual process of conditioning them to race is cruel.

Much like greyhounds used for racing, the conditions they're kept under cause physical and psychological harm and the animals are nervous wrecks incapable of doing much other than the specific task they're given, which is something a horse would never naturally do.

Then there are the breeding practices, which involve artificially using hormones and other bullshit to ensure foals are born in factory fashion to be born as close to August 1 as possible, because for some barbaric stupid reason some time in the past, they decided all race horses are "officially" born on August 1 whatever their actual birth date. So even the breeding practices are inherently cruel.

I don't think we should exploit animals like this solely for amusement, at least if it's to the detriment of the animal's health and psychological wellbeing. Similarly I disapprove of fur. I don't have as much of a problem with leather from cows as we are already using the animal for food, so we may as well use every part of the animal, but we seriously don't need fur (with the possible exception of indigenous people in cold climates where it is a necessary source of warm clothing).
GettrGriftr said:
Fuzzy Zoeller, two-time PGA major championship winner and whose career was unjustly ended because "muh racial insensitivity", dead at 74.
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He was an early victim of cancel culture. Even Tiger Woods wasn't pissed off by that remark. It was a joke that went astray with no malice behind it. It's really disgusting what was done to this guy for utterly harmless behavior.
 
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UtopiaGuy said:
I might be late here, but I think we may have missed this one. Danny Seagren passed away on November 10th at the age of 81. He played Spider-Man on "The Electric Company".

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Unless I'm forgetting something, Danny Seagren, who started playing Spider-Man in the Electric Company "Spidey: Super-Stories" back in 1974, was also technically the first actor to ever play Spider-Man in live-action in any official Marvel-sanctioned capacity, with the other possible candidates being Nicholas Hammond, who played Spider-Man in two CBS TV movies starting in 1977, and Shinji Todo, who was Spider-Man in the Japanese TV series from 1978.

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AnOminous said:
don't think we should exploit animals like this solely for amusement, at least if it's to the detriment of the animal's health and psychological wellbeing
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I'm a huge animal lover. For over a decade, I lived right by Churchill Downs, and while I went one single time to the downs after dark (underage, free beer), I never participated in anything derby. Just can't get myself to gamble on an animals misery.
 
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Stoppard was also a prolific uncredited script doctor, one example of this was his doctoring the script for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. All of the dialogue in the film was written by him. Credited screenwriter Jeffrey Boam’s earlier draft can be found online and if they'd gone with it, the movie would’ve been unwatchable in my opinion.
 
Absurdity said:
Georgios Smaragdis, aka synthwave musician Starcadian, was killed on May 1st while riding his E-bike to the recording studio in New York. He was doored by a parked van then the rear wheel of a box truck ran over his head after he was flung into traffic. Despite all that, he managed to live for about 30 minutes until pronounced dead at the hospital. 44 years old.

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Finding out a guy whose music you were a big fan of for years died 6 months ago after a search to see if anyone on the Farms mentioned him for whatever reason feels a bit jarring.
 
just found out so it's a few months late, but Robert "Bob" Schrupp from the YouTube channel Bob & Brad died from his cerebral ataxia. horrible way to go. if anything on you hurts look it up on their channel. they can fix it

 
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