Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

@HarriettMB

I have never understood what on earth Billy Piper saw in the fascist twat!

This is a marketplace for trump supporting arsehole businesses. Now you can easily establish what business never to buy anything from!

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@HarriettMB

I don't see how he can be not guilty; if the authorities didn't have evidence that he did what it is alleged he did, they wouldn't have brought the prosecution. The only thing a not guilty plea is going to get him is a stiffer sentence.

@syntaxseed

Anyone who thinks that the USA is going to become "factory to the world" again is hallucinating!

That mantle has now passed to China, Vietnam, Thailand and other 'developing' countries.

What we are witnessing is the decline of a once great power; the USA is in terminal decline just like the decline of the greatest empire the world has ever seen, the British empire, just like the decline of other gigantic powers - the Roman empire, the Ottoman empire, the Russian empire/soviet union, the Spanish empire, the French and so on

A point or two to ponder:

When vehicles tyres wear, they liberate large quantities of rubber dust and although these days only about 40% of the rubber content of a car tyre is natural latex, that is still a massive quantity of rubber dust which, for those people unfortunate enough to be allergic to Hevea latex, could be expected to bring on a life threatening allergic reaction, particularly in towns where traffic is dense and the continuous heavy traffic will stir up the rubber dust especially in prolonged dry spells.

When I was young and right up to the 1990s, vehicle brake pads and brake shoes contained large quantities of asbestos which produced a fine dust as the friction materials wore away. This dust was deposited on the roads particularly after disc brakes became common (the dust produced by drum brakes tends to stay in the drums).

My questions are therefore:
why are people allergic to natural latex not dying like flies in the street from exposure to rubber dust from vehicle tyres and why were the majority of people who lived in towns prior to the 1990s not affected by asbestosis and mesothelioma from exposure to vehicle brake dust?

@EmptySet @Remittancegirl

Nuclear weapons and their delivery systems required quite a lot of maintenance if they are to hit their assigned targets and detonate as designed.

Given the parlous state of much of Russia's weaponry and the lack of maintenance that has been evidenced by the war in Ukraine, If the war in Europe went nuclear, I wonder what chance there is of Russia's nuclear arsenal actually working if deployed?

@broadwaybabyto

This is absolutely typical USA-think. The only thing that validates a person is how many fückin dollars they can make - a society with zero values and no morals!

@LMac1970

I read somewhere that feeding wild birds, particularly blue-tits (some of the most frequent visors to our feeding station), when they have young; i.e. around now, actually significantly reduces the percentage of chicks that survive to adulthood. Seed and fat-balls are allegedly not suitable feed for chicks who need to be fed on food like caterpillars and other 'soft' insect foods.

We stop feeding about this time of year and only restart when the breeding season is over.

@raymondpert

The sad thing is the actions of anti-vax cünts and anti-vax policy, will almost certainly impact the poor, the black, the Hispanic and other frequently disadvantaged classes of society much more than than the billionaire class!