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liltingly t1_izwqg5g wrote

Quantitative physiology 6.02X takes a systems approach to biological processes. Course VI is EECS, so 6.022 uses the lumped circuit abstraction to understand blood pressure regulation and respiration amongst other things. Course VI is not just computer science (VI-III) which people are assuming. And I think now there’s a bajillion sub fields in VI, not just I, II, and III.

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liltingly t1_izrzagw wrote

Flip side is the Korean tour busses would land hundreds of tourists on campus multiple times a day and clog up the infinite for students. “Dream Tours” was the biggest culprit. Also a girl got sexually assaulted in the tunnels and another in a classroom during my time as a student — both non students assaulted by non students.

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liltingly t1_izryu1o wrote

There’s actually an few animal labs that you have to sign documents to protect their secrecy. Courses like 6.022 end with a vivisection on a live rabbit (killing it at the end) and you basically have to walk a maze to get there and never divulge where it is. There were rats and monkeys and pheasants in that place too.

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liltingly t1_iy8eeq2 wrote

TL;DR — Political messaging trucks and these images specifically are abhorrent, but the overall issue of a separate Khalistan nation is complicated. Most people on either “side” probably have a nominal opinion on the issue, but want to be left out and live life.

The images here are over the top, but the history of the Khalistan movement are a very complicated part of past and modern Indian history, with both sides having extreme wings (albeit the Hindutva wing has far more people, outside of Punjab). I was in DC wanting to see the White House with my SO (both Indian Americans) and suddenly stumbled onto a massive clash between Hindutva folks and Khalistan supporters right in front, at the perfect spot to view the WH. I think some Indian dignitary was visiting. The HNs were trying to rope us in and hand us flags (which we declined), and the Khalistanis were yelling at us assuming we were with the HNs. I assume the non-Indians thought we were with the HNs too… Violence almost broke out a few times, and getting unwittingly caught in the crossfire, we noped TF out of there. We just wanted to see the damn White House and couldn’t!

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liltingly t1_iu72trd wrote

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liltingly t1_iu6zofq wrote

I guess GP was meaning “rheumatic” arthritis not RA. That categorization subsumes PsA. I have enthesitis in my knees and ankles, as well as SI inflammation. Doctors keep shifting my diagnosis around from PsA to spondyloarthropathy etc since there’s no smoking gun. I generally just say I have a rheumatic disease as they treat it with the same biologics

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