herid @herid@qoto.org

1/ "The most you can get is a slight injury, if you get something more – that’s it, you will die," says a Russian military paramedic. His comments highlight the terrible state of medical care in the Russian army, which is causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. ⬇️

Elon Musk is diving deeper into delusion each day, and in a cringe-inducing interview on CNBC, he tried to use 'The Princess Bride' to justify his recent antisemitic tweets.

It's clear he is immune to shame or even, it would seem, the threat of reputational or financial harm he is causing himself and his companies.

https://secondnexus.com/musk-princess-bride-antisemitic-rants?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

Free million $ business idea. Service that re-prints insurance cards but with numbers that are legible without a magnifying glass/phone zoom.

Excellent. Montréal continues to show us a way forward:

Starting on July 1, drivers of larger, heavier cars will pay more for residential parking permits in one busy corner of town.

Permit prices will depend on both engine size and vehicle weight, with cheaper prices for electric, hydrogen and plug-in hybrid cars.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/05/16/heres-a-big-idea-the-larger-the-car-the-more-you-pay-to-park-the-damn-thing/

#montreal #mtlpol #parking #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Tomorrow is the last day of A Little Wordy and then the game will disappear. I want to thank you all for playing. 🖤 https://theoatmeal.com/wordy

ENOUGH.

Via Brandon Friedman:

#Texas has become a nightmare under Republican rule.

"Police say the 12-year-old shot 32-year-old father Matt Davis with an #AR15 he grabbed from a vehicle."

Peyton Yager:

A 12-year-old is accused of murdering a Sonic employee over the weekend in Keene, TX.

The pre-teen was arrested along with a 20-year-old.

Police say the 12-year-old shot 32-year-old father Matt Davis with an AR-15 he grabbed from a vehicle.

#GunViolence

It's now legal in Florida to deny someone medical care or insurance coverage because you don't approve of their sexual or gender identity.

DeSantis is weaponizing religious beliefs into state sanctioned discrimination.

Am I misunderstanding something?

This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

h/t @Hoch

I made this poll for important research purposes. Please boost so it can reach a wider audience.

I'm not planning to leave Twitter at the moment, but I'd say in the last couple of weeks I've reached the point where if I was not on Twitter, I would not miss it all that much. Thanks to Mastodon and other services, what Twitter gives me as a user is replaceable. If that's true of me, it's true of others. That should scare Elon Musk a whole lot.

It is a bit odd that not paying a fare is called “fare evasion” while not paying for parking isn’t called “payment evasion” or whatever.