herid @herid@qoto.org

Another nail in the #lk99 coffin: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
It looks more and more likely that there was never any superconductivity, at room temperature or otherwise, in these samples 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sudden DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION improves HEALTH immediately & over 3 yrs

Pittsburgh: a highly polluting coke plant is suddenly closed

- Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs

- No change in control

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ace4ea

Twelve Quick Facts About Gun Ownership in America:

1) The US has about 120 guns per 100 people.
2) No other nation on Earth has even 110 guns per 100 people.
3) Or 100 per 100 people.
4) Or 90 per 100.
5) Or 80 per 100.
6) Or 70 per 100.
7) Or 60 per 100.
8) There is one nation that has about 50 guns per 100 people.
9) That nation is Yemen.
13) Fucking YEMEN.
10) Yemen hasn't had a mass shooting since 2013's Sana'a Attack.
11) That attack was committed by armed members of al-Quaida.
12) They committed it using American guns.

I'm sure none of these facts are at all connected.

Everyone must work for the victory, for the protection of people and Ukraine - address by Volodymyr #Zelenskyy President of #Ukraine 03/08/23

Extracts
The battles are tough, the occupiers are trying their best to stop our guys. The assaults are very fierce.......... It is difficult everywhere. But no matter what the enemy does, it is the Ukrainian force that dominates. And I am grateful to everyone on the frontline for this!

Full address🔗https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/usi-povinni-pracyuvati-na-peremogu-na-zahist-lyudej-i-ukrayi-84713

#SlavaUkraine #StandWithUkraine

(ATLANTA) – People exposed to a wildfire within a year after having lung cancer surgery have significantly lower chances of survival compared to lung cancer patients who are not exposed to wildfires, researchers from Emory University, the American Cancer Society and Yale University found

https://www.miragenews.com/research-wildfire-exposure-reduces-survival-1057419/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #health

This is what happens when you pay people for the work they do. (Via @Radical_EgoCom)

Musk’s rebranded Twitter is offering extremely hefty discounts to advertisers while simultaneously threatening them that if they don’t spend at least $1k on ads in the next 30 days their brand will lose its checkmark and they won’t police impersonation https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-rebranded-twitter-cuts-ad-prices-d2615d8f

“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott “Barbie” because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie

https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?

The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?

Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7104

OMG who did this? I am crying

#Heineken, #SbarroPizza, #TGIFridays, and #WeWork said they would leave russia in response to its brutal war against #Ukraine

#Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and a team of investigators updated its findings on which companies are continuing to do business.

"These companies are breaking their promises. They are functioning as wartime profiteers," he told CNN. "It's beyond disappointing. It's shameful and unethical."

Read more here 📎 https://www.yahoo.com/news/heineken-sbarro-pizza-tgi-fridays-220918004.html

#StandWithUkraine

1/ Stacks of cash were among the many items found and photographed (and allegedly stolen) by Russian security forces searching Yevgeny Prigozhin's house. He has been responsible for disbursing vast amounts of 'black cash' to relatives of dead Wagner troops. ⬇️