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You can't edit the post on someone else's blog, but you can when reblogging it to your own. This means that anyone who rebloggs the post from you, someone who reblogged from them, or anyone else down the chain will retain your edits. It was really popular to do this to John Green.

Edit: Fixed a mistake.

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I would have probably died at birth. The story I heard was that the doctor's pregnant mistress showed up, they got into a fight, and he was so pissed that he left in the middle of his shift. He eventually came back, but by then I had already swallowed amniotic fluid. I ended up spending a few weeks in another hospital after that.

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It just stops. The story I heard about why was because the author was afraid of dying and leaving it unfinished, so he just stopped and effectively left it unfinished.

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Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

Almost anything first person. It makes me incredibly nauseous, which is really unfortunate because there are some really neat games that use the mechanic. I recently sold my copy of Echo Night since I couldn't play for more than around ten minutes at a time. I also couldn't complete the tutorial in Half-Life because it made me so nauseous that I had to spend almost the entire day in bed. Weirdly I'm perfectly fine with Metroid Prime.

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Oklahoma Senate candidate: Parents who use IVF are “waging an assault against God”

I honestly think this is actually logically consistent with an anti-abortion position.

His issue is that IVF creates multiple embryos, but not all of them are implanted. Instead the extras are either frozen or destroyed and following anti-abortion logic, that would be incarceration or murder respectively.

Just for the record, I don't agree with the guy. I'm just in awe of this tiny sliver of logical consistency from a Republican. It's like seeing a rare animal years after it was considered extinct.

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What’s your favorite interesting fact?

In 1990 British Airways 5390 suffered an explosive decompression when a cockpit window blew out due to improper maintenance. The force of the decompression partially pulled the captain out the window pinning him to the fuselage while his feet were caught on the control column. Thanks to the efforts of the first officer and flight attendants the plane was able to land safely around twenty minutes later. There were no fatalities.