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COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

I've gone back to a paper diary. I switched away from the app I loved and had used for years as it was getting dodgy. I tried Fossify Calendar but just couldn't settle with the display to the point that I started forgetting upcoming appts, so I have delightedly gone back to paper. As the Queen of Admin it suits me very well. I'm keeping the new calendar app just for push reminders of a few bits, but my mental map of the week comes from my diary. I can feel myself relax, daft old …

I get moving off of WhatsApp, but Signal is E2EE. I think they are trying to find ways to add backdoors to communications.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/

In the six days that followed the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran on 28 February,
$11.3 billion was spent on American taxpayer-funded bombs that hit the country and caused hundreds of deaths,
the Pentagon has told lawmakers.
This figure does not capture the full cost of the conflict,
such as deployment of forces,
and will now be far higher given the ongoing nature of the war.
But even the limited snapshot of the financial cost of the war has undersco…

Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/teslas-self-driving-software-gets-dutch-…

#Reiche will offenbar die Solarwirtschaft genauso kaputtmachen, wie sie es damals unter Altmaier und der Windkraft gemacht hat.
Die Frau ist eine Katastrophe für die deutsche Wirtschaft!
Und jammert mir nie wieder vor, wie "furchtbar" doch Habeck war ...

Reiche-Pläne entfachen Debatte: Ministerin will private Solar-Besitzer zur Kasse bitten
Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche hat angekündigt, die Förderung für Solaranlagen zu beenden. Damit dürfte die private PV-Anlage für viele unwirtschaftlich werden. Das ist aber nicht alles, was Reiche plant.

Der deutsche Einzelhandel fühlt sich im Kampf gegen Kriminalität alleingelassen. 🚨
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11253325?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Why cutting down rainforests may be driving 28,000 heat deaths a year #environment

Why cutting down rainforests may be driving 28,000 heat deaths a year
Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent research in Nature Climate Change shows that clearing large areas of the rainforest exposes hundreds of millions of people to higher temperatures, increasing heat stress (when the body's way of controlling temperature fails) and, in some cases, contributing to death.

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@technewsbot/116388642590631653
Since the Dutch are the first to argue that they value straightforwardness:
Idiots.

People say potus this term is worse than they imagined. Maybe my imagination is stuck on the millions of preventable deaths his first term spawned, and other horrors: he is well on the path to my imagination’s picture.
But he will try to kill hundreds of millions, maim, torture and violate more, before he will leave office…I fear my imagination is not embellishing his aims.
They wrote a document outlining all of it, and some days I reallly wish more people had taken that seriou…