As far as I have been able to read, nobody wants to pay for it.
Fyi, people are mostly safe, for now, so long as the milk drank is pasteurized.
Though its spread everywhere (most recently in Walrus - click “Bird flu” in red at the bottom of the article to see a list of recent developments) indicates that it might start jumping to humans soon. Whatever that means, it doesn’t sound ideal.
If bird flu did begin to spread between humans, it would be a cause for significant concern because the H5N1 virus has a high mortality rate. From 2003 to 2024, 889 cases were reported in 23 countries, and more than half of those people died, according to WHO. So pre-pandemic vaccines have already been stockpiled.
Tbf, those people might have been the ones at greatest risk like the elderly and immunocompromised, so the actual fatality rate in the general population would probably be significantly lower… possibly more like a bad flu than anywhere close to COVID, but it’s still not great to have to contemplate no matter what.
So I have a thought: let’s totally ignore it, b/c we all (the Elites uh I mean “everyone”, yeah totally that’s what I meant) will be safe forever, whoo-hoo! :-P
While this is certainly a possibility, and we should be prepared for it,
This is mostly what I was going for:-). But yeah, you bring up a good perspective: companies aren’t known for paying for things that are not needed, and since the milk is safe after pasteurization…
In my other comment in this thread (I have no idea how to properly make links to comments, without kicking you off your instance to view it), I quoted a linked article describing how the fatality rate was extremely high, as in literally over half - though I did not dig further to see e.g. how many were immunocompromised to begin with.
Thank you for sharing the detail that they all were caught directly from animals. That makes sense:-).
Like spam emails, it worked. People have likely clicked, and here we are talking about it. As long as it continues to work, they will remain in business… :-(
What bugs me about it is that it’s The Guardian, from which I tend to expect better. Therefore, I went ahead and clicked it, and am tremendously relieved to see that mostly it’s just an overly simplistic title - it would have read much better as something along the lines of “measuring the economic impacts of obesity” imho - though the article itself is still somewhat slim.
Globally the costs of overweight and obesity are expected to soar from $1.96tn in 2020 to $4.32tn by 2035, according to the World Obesity Atlas published last year.
I wrote a poem over the last few days to work out my feelings about Mother’s Day and my mother. I have nowhere else to share it, so I’m plopping it here, below. I think writing this was helpful for me, maybe? Not sure how I feel about the final work, but the process was actually pretty cool for working through my feelings,...
Thank you for sharing - it’s beautiful. And yes I think there is literally no other way forward, than to move in the direction you need to be at - it sounds so trivial but it is so very difficult.:-)
What strikes me the most from your poem is its kindness, with you offering it on this day when some people may really NEED to hear it the most.
It is unlikely that you would have that level of kindness if you hadn’t had your heart broken. But also, you chose to learn from it, and carry that with you rather than simply shut it down.
So beneath that, it seems to me, is bravery also.:-)
I think that message tends to not resonate well. e.g. in USA politics liberals tried that and conservatives freaked out, thinking that “those (out-of-group) people” might actually get some help, even in situations where “these (in-group) people” would have gotten more.
Hate and fear are more primal, and people are trying to get the message out to the widest possible audience.
I think people are starting to realize that now (especially after the pandemic opened people’s eyes to just how many of their neighbors would literally outright kill them, not only by refusing to wear masks but preventing others from wearing one too), but it is debatable how many people were “fully” that way when climate change was first starting to be noticed, and there may also have been more independents. [Edit: in fact, I keep hearing that even in the USA that is known for being so bipolar, only ~11% are on the extreme right and another ~11% on the “left” (for us, setting aside how right-leaning that is on the global scale, but at least it is the side that doesn’t want Trump… which isn’t nothing, see e.g. the funding sent towards Ukraine, even if so late that it may have cost the defense effort, yet still an enormous amount), leaving 3/4-4/5ths that are in-between. So not every conservative is a Republican. Don’t forget: the media lies. Not equally, but indeed on both sides, and both sharing at least one of their myriad of reasons - profit.]
Also there is tremendous value in telling people things - whether they receive it or not is on them, but at least your own conscience is clear, if you shared what you knew. Like if you yelled “Fire!” but someone ignored that and went into the building (but never came out), you may feel terrible but not nearly as bad as you would have if you knew but chose to say nothing, for whatever reason.
Also, the more I think about it, I was being simplistic in my earlier comment: regardless of how pleasant life is or could be, whether humans (or even most large mammals) will continue to exist is a much more pressing concern. So it is not merely an issue of the choice of messaging, it is also about talking about the things that matter most. e.g. Kurzesagt has leaned much more towards the positive side of the message than they used to, but they still focus on the more realistic side of e.g. after our modern technological society collapses what could we expect to look forward to after that - like in a few hundred to thousand years, could we recover [edit: rebuild], especially without access to fossil fuels anymore? Here are two videos both from Kurzesagt:
As I mentioned in another reply in this chain, Kurzesagt is among the sources that are attempting to inform people about the effects of climate change. They are based in Germany iirc.
In the USA, the definition of “liberal”, like “conservative”, has changed greatly over the years, skewing ever more towards the latter, but it was not always that way. Also, I am making a distinction between Democrat politics vs. liberal philosophy.
You cannot compromise with the capitalist class that is suffocating the planet.
This is something that I do not understand: are you advocating for a radical overthrow of the entire government, in the very next USA presidential election in the coming months? Or are you advocating for a protest vote for like an independent, exactly like what happened with Clinton, before which more than anything else is what put Trump in office then? If not, it seems to follow by your definition that we would be “compromising” to vote for Biden, who “ha(s) not actually cared much at all about climate change. Not enough to do the changes required to see it mitigated.”
So we either compromise or we… do what? It reads to me like childish “tough talk”. Maybe that’s not what you meant, hence getting back to how I do not understand it. And at a bare minimum, it suffers from being a statement of what to not do, yet never states what should be done in its place. Therefore, it seems likely to result in helping Trump win again.
Upvoting, since while I do not agree (though I haven’t kept up with their latest videos, e.g. damn do they really advocate for leaving Earth behind? I never saw that but in that case, I would agree with you that’s not great - though just b/c they have videos about aliens doesn’t mean that they are advocating that as their solution? can you send me any examples to look at?), in any case I do thank you for explaining your POV.
Fwiw, I do see that Kurzgesagt’s newer videos do have a “forced” optimism injected into them that their older ones did not - example. As you see, it wasn’t even that they were “all doom & gloom”, they were simply factual & even slightly positive, but they were not positive enough, so people complained and stopped watching them for that reason, therefore this was their response. Here is where we could argue that capitalism won… but they do exist in a capitalist society, and had to find a way to move forward, and anyway I actually don’t think that’s it (though I have no direct proof here).
As that famous saying goes, there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
I think they opted for the latter (walking the path), so as to have at least some hope of reaching people. And it worked!?! In the sense of solving that immediate issue of concern, i.e. at least they made really fantastic videos. If someone could not understand their 5-minute blurb of e.g. the vaccination process (What Actually Happens When You Are Sick?, then as the premise of how this whole conversation string started, they really aren’t listening and won’t hear no matter how simply it is explained. This is a service that they provided, b/c it needed to have been at least tried before abandoning all hope from that path.
Mind you, that path overall may have failed, but we cannot say that it was from lack of trying, in large part b/c of Kurzgesagt’s videos - free, easy to watch, funny cartoonish graphics make them pleasant to look, they are nicely paced, have great voice-overs, etc. Most importantly, anyone from a child to an octogenarian could handle 10 minutes of that, even if they have to pause and rewind, or watch many times, etc. - if they really did want to know, such a video leaves no excuses to not knowing after having watched it.
Keep in mind that Kurzgesagt’s goal wasn’t to solve the problem - their goal was to educate the general populace, which I don’t know if they accomplished, but they did at least make the videos.
Similarly it is up to scientists to monitor - which they likewise are doing - and for governments to enact policy change and… shit, yeah that’s where it all breaks, isn’t it?:-P But Kurzgesagt at least did their part admirably, imho (I dunno about scientists, I cannot judge there but even if not, that would be in large measure up to funding which gets back to governments).
So, if our governments or even humanity itself deserves to survive, it’s up to our next steps to make it happen… or not, whatever. But, and here’s where I finally start to diverge from what you said, after you make a “diagnosis”, the next step is to do something about it. Simply stating that we should not compromise with capitalists makes sense… so then what do we do?
So far I’ve checked several “getting started”'s and FAQ’s and Google and everyone just tells me that it’s possible but nobody tells me fucking WHERE. So obviously I’m in need of help. Preferably with a diagram or colourful pictures....
Tbf, it is about as buried as a feature can be - in the 2nd of 2 tabs, the 3rd of 3 elements, having to scroll WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY down past all the already-blocked users and communities to find it. OP should have done their due diligence prior to making such a post, but also it is fairly buried, both statements are true.
This feature has all the classic earmarks of being an “afterthought” that despite its crucial importance in improving a new user’s experience, yet is also extremely rarely used (maybe twice a year?), so it was just tacked onto the existing Blocks page without enhancements that could have made it much more prominently visible. e.g. putting it up at the top, or I note that it has been possible for almost half a century to make a bookmark to something further down in a page - example, and description.
It is things like this that keep Lemmy in a perpetual Beta stage, where new users are turned away due to lack of ease with the UI. Then again, things like Lemmy.World sending duplicates of every single action are also fairly important, and this software is entirely free, and it’s still millions of times better than Reddit, that many of us would outright refuse to visit even if its UI had gotten better (though it has gone the other way instead).
So, it is what it is: somewhat difficult for a non-technically minded person to navigate, but something that the rest of us enjoy regardless.
What I absolutely loved about that protagony video, and to some extent the glimmers of this that I saw in the movie itself, was how DEEP it was. Like yeah, it makes some people feel uncomfortable - and that’s the point, b/c it allows us to have these kinds of conversations where perhaps some men relate more to the robots, even if some women relate more to the men in that movie.
Hollywood has historically done a piss-poor job at feminism - probably b/c of the constraints of capitalism where even women will not pay to see shows that stray too far from the usual - though more of late I think it has done a bit better, at least in offering a bit more choices (still horrible behind the scenes though, even in women-owned and primarily women-employed studios). And at first glance this show looks to be one of the worst, with the nude female hologram - except that she is us, here and now, and the CEOs in the movie are the CEOs irl, “above” us all.
Therefore it is feminism turned on its side, to become all about remembering the human - as in: whenever we have a choice, however rarely that might occur, what will we do with it? Man vs. Woman no longer matters as much as the past, when we are all united in being not-billionaires.
That they already know all about the lack of agency of housewives or pleasure bots or the centrality of women’s fertility to their social value … because they live it, and are busy handling it IRL and this film isn’t really helping anything.
Except, as your last sentence mentioned, it is good for men to see the issue portrayed, from both sides. That’s not nothing.
Edit: those are some great examples like Ripley from Alien and the wife from the Shining who did similarly, but by a different means. The former shows the girl boss who while being a woman fills roles that historically were more thought of (even by women) to be held by men, whereas BR 2049 made it even more personal by having the main character be an actual man (sort of:-P), filling roles that historically perhaps women were more known to be in.
Ofc not every film is going to be enjoyable by everyone - some may not like it purely for the use of neon coloration, or for the sadness of it being dystopian. And the lack of agency is depressing to see.
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I wrote a poem over the last few days to work out my feelings about Mother’s Day and my mother. I have nowhere else to share it, so I’m plopping it here, below. I think writing this was helpful for me, maybe? Not sure how I feel about the final work, but the process was actually pretty cool for working through my feelings,...
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