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Proud WashU grad here. Just happy to see us show up on Hacker News today.
Your profs do fantastic work for the community.

I've donated to some of your faculties in the past, and am always pleased to see your teams recognized for their stellar work.

Cheers =)

back in the day that was called the tithe. the real original tithe. the voluntary tithe.

but that all went sideways when they made it mandatory and rebranded it as "taxes".

sorry, I may still be hung up on a twitter response about taxation so I'm a bit jumpy about it

or maybe what I cannot get over is the living within lingering legacy of having had your "own" culture be made up so you can be exploited

then realizing this, and finally (forever) being ostracized by peers for not going with the grain

Sifakas are among my favorite lemurs (which is not to say that they’re not all my favorite lemurs). It is so adapted to arboreal life that on the ground, it moves by hopping sideways. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s_sifaka for an animated gif showing this.
I had never heard of fosa, so I looked them up. It turns out it is usually spelled fossa, and as well as lemurs they also eat tenrecs.
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