@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-09-20 16:31:13
Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-20 08:09:19
"The nursery said it had implemented strict protocols, such as dividing up walking and nonwalking babies to reduce the spread of infection"
(Dividing up like how? Are they still sharing air?)
“They’re using all those good hygiene practices, staff have got PPE, they’ve got aprons, gloves,"
(Aprons and gloves won't help you against an airborne virus...)
"some settings still keep masks,”
(Are they fitted ones or baggy ones? Who wears them? When and where are they taken off?)
“Thanks to Covid, we got very savvy at knowing what we needed to do in the case of a very serious illness occurring like this."
(Really seems like no you didn't...)
#measles #MeaslesIsAirborne #CovidIsAirborne
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-07-20 07:00:06
Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography
@rberger@hachyderm.io2025-07-19 18:48:22
"A society under “number go up” tends towards evil. The men and women behind an excessively high rate of return often make deeply sinful and immoral choices, little different than the Confederate plantation owners did in whipping slaves or lords in castles did when abusing serfs. That they do it with spreadsheets doesn’t make it better. (We even use old terminology: I know of several people in a large health insurance conglomerate who set policies to deny care whose nickname is “the three witches.”)
And that’s why Jeff Epstein’s story is so compelling, it expresses this evil in a way that we all understand. On Sunday, I wrote about the oddness of the story, how an elite sex trafficker convicted of procuring children as prostitutes was friends or associates with everyone from Trump to Bill Clinton to Larry Summers to Bill Gates. Epstein represents how elites live in one moral universe where evil bacchanalia is rampant, while the rest of us live in a different more normal one. Every society has elites, and there are always weird things that elites do. But America, and the West, have reached a point where there is increasingly deep resentment and cynicism about this divide."
#USPolitcs #EconomicInequality
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-number-go-up-rule-why-america
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-20 03:04:00
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-20 21:43:13
I want to underscore what @… says in this post.
“Have zero dependencies” and “Don’t use abstractions” are basically the libertarian survivalism of software development: a narcissistic project rooted in an ignorance of how systems work, and in a denial of the unavoidability of society and interdependence.
https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/114887699553725803
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-09-19 13:00:23
"Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots"
#Myanmar #Trees #Environment
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-08-21 02:46:38
I rode on this street (15th Ave NE) 1000s of times with no bike lane, when I used to live on 16th Ave NE. It sucked. I pointed out that drivers only really parked on one side of the street. The city had a plan to repave and add a protected bike lane, but it was delayed for years due to, of all things, "natural gas" pipe expansions. I moved to NYC before they started the project.
It looks SO GOOD, and just as I predicted, the parking is not overloaded despite being on only one…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2025-08-19 20:56:51
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-09-20 13:22:00