Ben Kalafut

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Ben Kalafut

Ben Kalafut

@BKalafut

Father, Husband, Citizen, Scientist Opinions are my own, not those of any employer or civic organization, past or present.

Western Michigan Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@brhodes "Blockade"? There is not now and there has not been, since the end of the missile crisis 60+ years ago, a blockade of Cuba. Have you no shame?
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Ben Rhodes@brhodes·
Rubio now full Orwellian: the total blockade that we have put on your country after decades of an embargo has nothing to do with the scarcity in your lives or the fact that we are intentionally starving your children.
Vera Bergengruen@VeraMBergen

Secretary of State Marco Rubio releases a 5-minute video speaking directly in Spanish to the Cuban people. “The reason you are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not because of an oil blockade by the United States...[but] because those who control your country have looted billions of dollars."

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Bad Theology Takes@BadTheoloTakes·
Kyle here thinks that necessary and not necessary are the same, that desire and lack of desire are the same, and that we're morally bound to agree with him because of some D&D rules.
Kyle@kylehmb1

@BadTheoloTakes Everything you’ve said is utter nonsense and doesn’t address what I already said re Suarez. The council did not eliminate the possibility of desire or blood etc. this is utterly ridiculous. Also it’s a dogmatic definition confirmed by a pope so it’s defacto binding.

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Gabe Nagy
Gabe Nagy@g_nagy·
Check out our latest paper from our graduate student Megan Rooney! When ion heating can be a good thing: "Improving Peak Capacity in Glycan Ion Mobility Separations through Traveling Wave-Based Ion Heating" pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
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MOBILion Systems
MOBILion Systems@MobilionSystems·
Ion mobility is moving from “helpful” to necessary. What looks like a single LC feature can contain multiple mobility-resolved species, leading to chimeric spectra. HRIM enables cleaner precursor isolation and clearer MS/MS spectra. Read more: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@JypsRidic @TheAndersPaul @JudiciaryDems If you know anything about Illinois Democrats, you'd know that's an accurate description. Between the unfunded pension liabilities, the transfer payments, the deliberately disastrous flip-flop on school choice, and the corruption, they've made a wreck of their state.
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@JudiciaryDems Heaven forbid you actually run candidates who appeal to the median voter. Representative government, or something.
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@queenie4rmnola Where are the white people in Metairie complaining about "black supremacy", who may have more of a gripe since a district was gerrymandered specifically to negate their votes?
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@reformedroom Historically: to (over)emphasize a point about Jesus being fully present under either species, accidentally for ~400 years. Modern: Hygiene. The older generation for whatever reason thinks cold sores (HSV) is no big deal. Add the flu, norovirus, and rsv to the mix, too.
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𝗅𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍@reformedroom·
to my roman catholic friends, why has the church taken the cup away from the people in communion?
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Natalie Wolchover
Natalie Wolchover@nattyover·
What's especially cool is that the flagellar motor exploits the indivisibility of 5 by 2 to run on a fuel of rising entropy as protons diffuse into cells. For me as a physics and math person, this is biology at its best. quantamagazine.org/what-physical-…
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@BadTheoloTakes The people in Dolton will be upset that you lumped them in with South Holland, but there are only 17 of them , so nobody cares.
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@TheModerateCase (there's no see of Baraboo, Wisconsin--chose a pure hypothetical on purpose.)
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@TheModerateCase Can one be a Catholic and not like the Bishop of Baraboo Wisconsin or disagree with his opinions? The Pope is the Bishop of Rome. The question is answered the same way. Primacy is a relationship to his brother bishops, not to the man in the pews.
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The Moderate Case@TheModerateCase·
Question for Catholics: Can one be a Catholic and not like the Pope and disagree with his statements and views on religion and or politics? If so, why? If not, why? I have seen tons of Catholics taking both sides on this. I am genuinely curious.
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Dave@GamewithDave·
People who actually experienced the 1990s: What is something you miss from that decade that just isn't the same today
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@E44Teddy And that's a Court on which sat, at one time or another, Roger Taney, Abe Fortas, Charles Whittaker, and Samuel Chase.
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
The Soviet Union and Germany share responsibility for WWII. The Soviets won and the (western) Allies, minus Poland, merely got to set favorable terms as losers.
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@MrsCMFrancis Not typically. Usually there's an active refusal to pray in common, which is even more a separation than knowing (because we hear the echoes) that their pastors are slandering us for kicks and clicks.
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Caitlin Francis@MrsCMFrancis·
As an Evangelical, I absolutely think that I have many brothers and sister in the Catholic Church. I am asking this sincerely: do Catholics feel the same? (P.s. any bashing on either side in the comments is getting an instant block)
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Alleria 🇨🇦 Content Creator
Someone is defacing Canadian coins with their 51st state bullshit. If you get one of these in the wild, take it to the bank to be exchanged so they can destroy it. Also defacing canada currency is illegal.
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Ben Kalafut
Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@ThymeToBeBorn On the other side of the country, I used to bring a peculiarly rowdy kid, who also got screamy due to the coronavirus shutdowns, to the Mass run by the group that kept Gregorian chant and polyphony alive during the worst period of the late 20th C. Find a new home!
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Ben Kalafut@BKalafut·
@ThymeToBeBorn And given the number of baptisms per year it's on pace to have kids outnumber adults. I'm not slumming it, either--it's the most "high church", artistic liturgy and with the most red-meat preaching in all of West Michigan.
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ThymeToBeBorn@ThymeToBeBorn·
Even the friendliest church isn't doable with lots of little kids. Everyone still expects the littles to act like adults before and after service, talking quietly, etc, no rowdiness, 90 minutes of silence for service. Give me a break this is just not an environment for kids.
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