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  • Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe

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  • In South Africa, the law determines that if something's labeled "Product of South Africa" it can't have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

    "Produced in South Africa" can have imported ingredients - and I've been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It's easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

  • Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe

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  • "All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, "it's just business."" - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

  • Heatwave shuts down schools in nearly half of Manila

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  • While the temperature forecast is for 33 ºC, the heat index in the capital yesterday was up to 41. Forecasts for the next 2 days, are up to 40 on the heat index in the capital. Yesterday the heat index was over 40 in several other areas, with a maximum of 45. https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/weather/heat-index

    If you don't want to be complicit in causing a mass extinction event by making the biosphere unlivable, then by far the most important thing to do is to not contribute to human overpopulation which is the biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change as well as the biggest other atrocities.

  • Disney Introduces Christian Character After Ditching Transgender Story

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  • It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

    • Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
    • Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
    • Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
    • Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"

    So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

  • Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department

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  • Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low

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  • New Disease Spreading Rapidly, Killing Dozens, After Children Ate a Bat

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  • These hemorrhagic-fever like outbreaks (like Ebola and Marburg) usually don't spread too far because of how dramatic the symptoms are and of how quickly they usually kill patients: here "death occurs within just 48 hours of the onset of symptoms".

    "However, here, it is concerning that we have hundreds of cases and over 50 deaths, with hemorrhagic-fever like symptoms widely reported among those cases." - Michael Head. Current estimate of a "fatality rate of 12.3 percent" is of course a major problem locally, tho that % could be completely wrong.

    If there are few or no asymptomatic carriers, and the incubation is period is short, then it's unlikely to be like COVID-19.

    Bird flu is still big concern - and potentially the solution to omnicidal anthropogenic climate change.

  • Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News

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  • Because they blocked you? Maybe they don't want to see posts from people who don't summarize the articles in the subject/title?

    (The current subject is from the source, "Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News".)

  • South Africa suspends American businesses and mineral exports

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  • I haven't seen any reliable sources say this yet.

    An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country's public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa's minerals should be withheld from US, but I've seen no reports that it actually will be.

    I also couldn't find anything at the government's website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

  • Climate researcher fired for refusing air travel wins compensation

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  • If someone does something psychotic a lot, does that make it ethical for someone-else to do it even once?

  • New Climate Attribution Study Shows that Big Oil Set the Stage for LA Fires.

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  • LA county is the 2nd biggest oil producer in California, California is 12th biggest oil producer in the USA, the USA is the biggest oil producer in the world.

    Face, meet leopard.

  • Worshippers killed in India stampede at world's largest religious festival

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  • Kumbh Mela deaths:

    • 1820 = 430 deaths, 1000+ injured
    • 1840 = 50+ deaths, 100+ injured
    • 1906 = 50+ deaths, 100+ injured
    • 1954 = 800-1000 deaths
    • 1986 = 200+ deaths
    • 2003 = 39+ deaths, 100+ injured
    • 2010 = 7 deaths, 17 injured
    • 2013 = 42 deaths, 45 injured
    • 2025 = 39+ deaths, 200+ injured

    https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/maha-kumbh-mela-stampede-up-prayagraj-stampede-injury-2671695-2025-01-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_stampedes_in_Hindu_temples

    That's just Kumbh Mela. Last year at Hathras

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    Teen girl dies by suicide after online search for ‘what happens after death’

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  • When I did a search for "what happens after death" with double quotes at google.com and at google.co.in, the 1st 2 sentences at the top of the page was a quote from an article at Psychology Today mentioning the superstitious idea of heaven:

    "Key points. A common view is that after death, the soul ascends to heaven."

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    Teen girl dies by suicide after online search for ‘what happens after death’

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  • Mozilla chairman's salary vs Firefox market share (as of 2023)

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  • 22% inflation vs 700% increase for the CEO between 2016 and 2022?

  • President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/ :

    As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has.

  • Linux for my grandparents

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  • If you think your grandparents would prefer the Windows 8 or macOS type UI, then GNOME is the way.

    I think Xfce or MATE is vastly better tho.

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  • If the options include popular Hitler, popular Stalin, and unpopular Gandhi; but only 1% of voters choose the non-genocidal option, maybe Carlin was right:

    "Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

  • Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

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  • There is a difference between sustainable, non-sustainable, and catastrophically unsustainable; and it's an important difference. Having a locavore diet is very easy where I live, except for vitamin B12 supplements which are not locally sourced or made. I don't know what you mean by "survive the winter", it's not an issue where I live. I only use salt and turmeric when I prepare food - tho some processed food I buy contains other spices.