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The climate crisis is pushing African food farmers into starvation
The April harvests from Juwawo’s 3 fields used to be enough to feed his family for a year. Now, they barely get by. “With 6 children to care for, life is very hard,” said the 44-year-old farmer.
Such hardship now affects nearly 2 million Malawian farmers, said Malawian president Lazarus Chakwera
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uspol, palestine, gaza, biden
okay, I think I largely agree with #PodSaveAmerica about #palestine / #biden - like...
dataset:
1. (several months, years) "we won't even say we'll condition it, we'll ask them in private, our support is iron clad" -> zero change in gaza
2. one phone call where "if you don't change we might have to change 1" -> israel changes under the slightest hint of pressure** *
*the aid has to continue flowing for the change to be considered effective
**if israel doesn't change their assault on civilians, we'll need the administration to follow through AND CONDITION aid. otherwise item 2 backfires.
it's almost as if leverage works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDngcTenCTs

uspol, palestine, gaza, biden
okay, I think I largely agree with #PodSaveAmerica about #palestine / #biden - like...
dataset:
1. (several months, years) "we won't even say we'll condition it, we'll ask them in private, our support is iron clad" -> zero change in gaza
2. one phone call where "if you don't change we might have to change 1" -> israel changes under the slightest hint of pressure** *
*the aid has to continue flowing for the change to be considered effective
**if israel doesn't change their assault on civilians, we'll need the administration to follow through AND CONDITION aid. otherwise item 2 backfires.
it's almost as if leverage works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDngcTenCTs

good rant about bad weight-loss rhetoric
From Kate Manne.
"... the measure so-called obesity is based on, the BMI, is hopelessly flawed and simplistic. The likely reason that the AMA ignored these worries and deemed obesity a disease anyway can be gleaned by following the money: the new weight loss drugs Belviq and Qsymia had been introduced to the market just prior, and were not selling as well as predicted."
#BMI #BadScience #drugs #BigPharma #Oprah