When a cell doubles and redoubles, sequestering nutrients and resources, unchecked and uncontrolled, to the detriment of the surrounding tissue and eventually the entire body, we call it 'cancer'.
When a person sequesters wealth and resources, land and corporations, drunk on power, unchecked and uncontrolled, to the detriment of others and eventually to society, we call them 'billionaires'.
Greed is a disease.
The death of supercontinents brings diamonds to the surface
Deep mantle waves trigger mysterious kimberlite volcanoes
“Kimberlites seem to be responding to rhythms of supercontinents”
https://www.science.org/content/article/death-supercontinents-brings-diamonds-surface #supercontinents #diamonds #DeepMantleWaves #kimberlite #volcanoes
If the Tories and Republicans get re-elected at their next respective election, then humanity is doomed.
It’s game over, because this decade is absolutely critical to averting complete #ClimateMeltdown. If these countries won’t play ball, many others won’t either.
Assuming most folks here completely understand this…so how do we get the rest of the US and UK to comprehend what is at stake and the power they absolutely must use at the ballot box?
"For the sake of our health, our economy and our climate, we need our province to stop fighting a losing battle against 2035 clean electricity, and start figuring out how we can best use it to benefit Albertans." https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-alberta-fighting-a-losing-battle-against-net-zero-power-by-2035
This is why I ended up with a Hyundai Ioniq rather than a Tesla. Tesla had a head-start of years in the EV space, but has largely squandered it with a stagnant product line and crap like this. The rest of the industry has now caught up. Teslas used to be the only cool EVs around, but now just about every carmaker has an EV that is competitive or better in every way. Tesla is just not keeping up and hostile crap like this is poison to a brand.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
@gemelliz @theLUCASTDS @brownecfm You might already know this, but I learned something interesting about measles that applies to COVID as well.
Measles suppresses the immune system when we are trying to fight it off, and according to the paper linked below, the effect may last 2-3 years. When the measles vaccine was introduced, apparently a drop in the incidence of other diseases was noticed. It wasn’t because the vaccine was effective against those other diseases, it was that the measles virus wasn’t given a chance to suppress the immune system.
My understanding is that COVID acts in a similar fashion. So not only will people suffer from COVID, and post-COVID/long COVID symptoms, they will likely also experience an increase in contracting other diseases.
That’s my ham-fisted understanding, anyway.
"I'm apolitical" or "I don't get involved politics" just means you have the privilege of being favoured by state policies regardless of which party wins the election and you are blind to this privilege.
Never trust apoliticals. They will never have your back when your very existence is politicised and attacked.
@BruceMirken @JamesHMcLaren I guess. But that you and me know that seems a weakness in his acumen.
You’re right though: he has done what he has done and escaped prison so far.
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