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When a government pretends not to make vaccination compulsory for everyone, yet has enacted rules that makes the unvaccinated unable to live a normal life—it is pure hypocrisy for making inoculation voluntary while making the unjabbed suffer for their “selfish” decision for not protecting themselves and others.
Guesstimate how many developed countries practise vaccine apartheid in one form or another, while claiming to respect the personal rights of their citizens to get jabbed or not.
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What is half of 8? 0, 3, or 4?
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Why do spiders and scorpions have 8 legs?
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What is half of 8? 0, 3, or 4?
What color is the number 8?
How are eight and infinity related?
Why do spiders and scorpions have 8 legs?
Why are superstitious Chinese fond of the digit 8?
What is the spiritual significance of the number 8 in the Bible?
What are some common traits for people born with the digital root 8?
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Get the CRE8TIVE MATH mug.Also known as “Friday 13.” The feeling most White House staff experience every day since 2016, because with Trump, every day is a Friday the 13th.
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Get the Trump 13 mug.The question asked, whether or not aloud, when a death is announced these days, as if few people died in the community or country in pre-pandemic days.
If the answer to “Was it caused by COVID-19?” is rumored or suspected to be positive, fewer relatives and friends are prone to attending a funeral wake.
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How can we fall for less magical thinking in mathematics? By teaching about faulty thinking habits, exposing false assumptions or hypotheses, warning against unquestioned extrapolation or generalization of rules or formulas, and debunking irrational or conspiratorial thinking.
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Donald claimed to be a billion-dollar man, but most business folks think that he’s merely a trumpillion-dollar fellow, whose name can’t even be spotted on the first twenty pages of the Forbes’ billionaires list.
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Get the Trumpillion mug.When you design your customer’s experience in such a way that it ends up on a high note—think of IKEA customers looking forward for their favorite hotdog after they have frustratingly lined up to the check-out counters.
To get the customers to return, apply the hotdog formula to your business: offer them something positive, which would make them forget about any inconveniences they’ve experienced—put them in a positive frame of mind at the end of their shopping trip.
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