herid @herid@qoto.org

Actual small-town rural life maybe involved a rifle for hunting. Now reactionaries have been convinced by gun manufacturers, through their quislings at the NRA, that a true authentic American lifestyle involves owning multiple military weapons. Just absolute chumps.

Bottomless. You can't get ahead of it, you can't mock it. It's always stupider than you can imagine.

There is no end to the stupidity. It is bottomless.

You can try to think, "what is stupider than stupid? What's the absolute stupidest?" But you're outmatched here. You're out of your league. You have to train for years to be this stupid.

With the exception of a handful of famous historic events that happen once every few centuries, this is literally and demonstrably NOT how science progresses.

RFK Jr. and other anti-vaxxers have the nerve to sue multiple media outlets for allegedly boycotting coverage of the misinformation they are spreading.
#COVID #antivaxxers
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-anti-vaxxers-sue-media-outlets-over-covid-conspiracy-boycott-1234660028/

Classic Dmitry Medvedev. At a gas infrastructure conference today, he said the Europeans have had to switch to coal and wood, “but not us!” Meanwhile, 4 million households in Russia rely on stove heating. In some eastern regions, it’s 40–90% of all homes. https://t.me/bbbreaking/145462

I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.

"Warm 2022 makes the past eight years hottest ever recorded" by Oliver Milman for The @TheGuardian_uk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/12/2022-hottest-global-temperatures-past-eight-years-climate-crisis

If 6 southern states follow Texas and boycott financial firms that take climate & sustainable investing seriously they will cost taxpayers up to $708M

These attacks are laughable. But what they cost taxpayers is no joke

Read @jordanwolman@twitter.com 👇

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2023/01/12/boycotting-comes-with-a-cost-00077692?nname=the-long-game

2022 was the 5th warmest year on record in our @BerkeleyEarth@twitter.com surface temperature dataset, and the warmest year on record for regions where 850 million people live.

28 countries saw their warmest year on record, including the UK, Spain, France, Germany, New Zealand, and China.

Here is what global temperature anomalies (departure above the historical average) looked like in 2022; we saw extreme wamrth over Europe, parts of North Africa, the Middle East, China, Russia, and the Antarctic Peninsula among other places:

The people who said “counting covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test would overcount” are the same people who will happily attribute anything bad that happens to someone after they’ve had a vaccine to the vaccine, how ever long ago they had it.

https://t.me/United24media/3109 ⚠️🇮🇱Jewish Ukrainians are on their own as Israel sides with Iran. The new Israeli government will not change its policy towards Ukraine and will not transfer weapons to Kyiv so as not to spoil relations with Russia, Politico reports "Israel's policy towards Ukraine has not changed," an anonymous Israeli official told the (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

#Canada can't have high-speed passenger rail, right?

It's not Europe, eh. We're spread out!

Except that half the country's population (18 million people+) live along the narrow corridor from Windsor to #Quebec City.

So why are we still relying on airplanes and low-speed, always-late diesel trains rather than hi-speed electric?

Map/chart via Marco Chitti.

The Covid bivalent vaccine booster works better than expected.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-bivalent-vaccine-booster-outperforms

"Twitter has an alarming rise of alt-right, anti vax and antisemitic users."

"There's this alternative called Mastod-"

"And it greatly disturbs me that one capricious man's inflated ego determines the rules."

"There's this federated option Mast-"

"Not to mention the incessant ads and desperate efforts to extract money from users makes Twitter almost unbearable."

"The non-profit Ma-"

"Welp, nothing to be done about Twitter I suppose, might as well stick it out on this hellhole."