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Nazis protest at Disney World, FL

jeudi 15 juin 2023 à 12:17

*People with Nazi flags, signs supporting [DeMentis] gathered outside Disney World.*

I think it most likely that they are real Nazis and real supporters of DeMentis.

If homeless, restrict WiFi, SF

jeudi 15 juin 2023 à 12:17

San Francisco told a public library to switch off its WiFi system at night so homeless people could not come there to use it.

San Francisco seems to hold the championship for making homelessness extra painful.

Too late to save Arctic summer ice

mercredi 14 juin 2023 à 05:47

*[It is] too late now to save Arctic summer ice, climate scientists find.*

True price of war

mercredi 14 juin 2023 à 00:47

*We Still Haven’t Learned the True Price of War.*

No army at war, no matter how careful and scrupulous, can avoid killing and injuring people that were not supposed to be targets. Sometimes soldiers motivated by a brutal spirit intentionally kill civilians. Sometimes an excess of zeal plays a role alongside possible bigotry.

But usually the killings that nobody ever specifically intended make up most of the civilians killed.

Since there is no way in war to prevent "collateral damage" to people's lives, every country must figure this in when deciding whether any given war is justified.

PFAs known, since 1961, to be toxic

mercredi 14 juin 2023 à 00:47

Since 1961, chemical manufacturers' labs have several times observed experimentally that some kind of PFA was toxic. The companies covered it up and claimed PFAs were safe.

The failure to report this to the EPA (once that existed) was illegal.

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