Notices by kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social)

USA preemptive obedience

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

“The big difference…was that all of the scientists I worked with were incredibly frustrated. Everyone was at the end of their rope, asking: what the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

Texas Republicans Share Perfectly Normal Fantasies About Killing Women Who Have Abortions, IVF: “This past January, a group of Republican Party officals in Hood County, Texas, met with a group called Abolish Abortion Texas to discuss how they would like to put women to death — including minors, including victims of rape and incest — for having abortions or IVF, along with the doctors who perform them.”

https://www.wonkette.com/p/texas-republicans-share-perfectly

The other thing that strikes me is how viciously the Nazis went after their “enemies” as soon as they got into power. They attacked leftists, communists, church leaders & intellectuals (as well as Jews). They had lists of people they wanted gone. And they ticked off those lists assiduously. Nobody expected this in a “civilised” nation.

I’ve been re-reading all my history books about the Nazis. One thing that strikes me is how hard it was to fight back against Nazism from inside. The normative culture is so strong and everybody is just going along. Ordinary folks, with denouncing their neighbours to the Gestapo. The Gestapo was tiny only 32k. It was the ordinary people that were informing on their neighbours. Ordinary people enabled Nazism.

Such evil: “On one occasion, a handful of [Gazan] children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn. But the snipers apparently stayed behind. None of these children survived.” #gaza

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children

Oh that’ll help 🙄 Federal government approval final hurdle for mega Qld coalmine that could double Australia’s emissions”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/07/winchester-south-mine-queensland-federal-government-approval-emissions-whitehaven

lol in today’s #Brexit means brexit news

People vaccinated before their first case of #COVID-19 are diagnosed with #LongCOVID almost four times less than unvaccinated people, suggests a large new study published Nov. 22 in the BMJ.

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076990

My adorable cat nephew Oscar (he is an ancient)

“If you agree that Australia's Lunar Rover should be named Yarrum, after our first cultural astronomer, Yarrum Parpur Tarneen - please vote. She's not on the currency but she could be on the Moon.” Via Jessica Adams

https://consult.industry.gov.au/name-australias-lunar-rover

A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long #COVID’
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-tsunami-of-disability-is-coming-as-a-result-of-lsquo-long-covid-rsquo/

@pjcj @MarkAsser where is @internetofshit ?

“Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cases in which the SARS-CoV-2 virus crossed a mother’s placenta and caused brain damage in the infants they were carrying.” ht @1finekitty
#covid

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-caused-brain-damage-2-infants-infected-during-pregnancy-us-study-2023-04-06/