4/ snip "Globally, approx 45% of crops (by calories) are grown not for human consumption but for animal feed & fuels. “The proportions are even more striking in the United States, where just 27% of crop calories are consumed directly — wheat, say, or fruits & vegetables grown in California. By contrast, more than 67% of crops — particularly all the soy grown in the Midwest — goes to animal feed. And a portion of the rest goes to ethanol & other biofuels."
10/ snip😮 😲 😬
"Billionaires are, by definition, psychopaths. It is impossible to earn a billion dollars. Take a salary, let’s say $500,000/yr, & calculate how long you'd have to work, spending nothing, to earn your first billion. At $500k/yr it would take 2,000 years. Or, if you simply steal $3 from every single American, you can make a billion in a single year. Billionaires’ wealth comes only from wage theft from workers. It is never earned. It is estimated that ~5% of deaths in the US are attributable to poverty, making every billionaire a de-facto mass murderer. No one becomes a billionaire because they are intelligent or talented. They become billionaires because they are able to rob millions of other people into poverty, destitution, & early death & still sleep soundly at night. These are the people determining our future. They are brain damaged by power. If you are banking on billionaires saving the planet because “it’s in their best interest,” you misunderstand their interests."
I learned a new word today (thanks to Wonkette): testeria; when men lose their shit.
The "...post immediately received national attention and provoked widespread testeria."
A much better and generally more appropriate word than 'hysteria'. '
There he goes again. Reacting like a typical testerical male.'
What does it take for a massive civilizational infrastructure to manage its catchments, watersheds, wetlands, & forests as preventative solutions to drought? I hope someone's asking questions like this (without threat of being suppressed, or worse, for saying so).
"Mexico City could run out of drinking water by the end of June, an event locals call "Day Zero."
Mexico City has long struggled to bring water to its millions of residents, but 3 consecutive years of low rainfall & high temperatures have created a serious emergency.
The Cutzamala water system — a series of treatment plants, reservoirs, & canals that provide water to tens of millions of people — is running dry.
Rambling around YT for late-breaking news, YT's algorithm knows I like #comedy, so it shows me a guy named Don McMillan (new to me), a very funny #comic who uses #Powerpoint (I know right?) to get laughs.
He gets laughs!
Probably most appreciated by "Nerds, Geeks, or Dorks" or some combination thereof, like 'engineers', or something (he explains the differences with excellent charts & graphs). https://youtu.be/kwz-Md6OoyA
"Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison squirted raw H5N1-containing milk from infected cows into the throats of anesthetized laboratory mice, finding that the virus caused systemic infections after the mice were observed swallowing the dose. The illnesses began quickly, with symptoms of lethargy & ruffled fur starting on day 1. On day 4, the animals were euthanized to prevent extended suffering. Subsequent analysis found that the mice had high levels of H5N1 bird flu virus in their respiratory tracts, as well their hearts, kidneys, spleens, livers, mammary glands, and brains.
Ken Burns delivered the keynote address to the 2024 undergraduate class during the 73rd Commencement Exercises. He observes that voting for Trump is voting for slavery. https://youtu.be/9n1OqPzIKH4
Photo of a sculpture of a child hiding under a school desk, with the caption "This Memorial Day we remember all the school kids who paid the ultimate price so Republicans can continue to get campaign donations from the NRA."
#Musk is a free-speech absolutelynotist.
"This is why right-wing #billionaires sue people reporting on them," continued Collins, who previously worked as a reporter for #NBC News covering, among other thing, right-wing disinformation. "They know they can't win these lawsuits. But they also know legal fees will cripple the little guy reporting on their lies & crimes. This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires.
"This is the latest example of billionaires & pandering politicians abusing the legal system to retaliate against their critics & harm the public's right to know,"" https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-media-matters-suit
Now, the fascists don't want anyone in the library, because they might learn about incidents like this leading up to and during the Civil Rights movement (among other things).
"Just 10 "superspreader" users on #Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34% of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January & October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US & UK. More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.