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Yogthos

"The risk that fungal attack poses to humans is skyrocketing. The surge has been driven by Covid, mounting resistance to drugs & an increase of immunocompromised patients."

Another consequence of let it rip. You don't want an invasive fungal infection.

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/

Yogthos

The Voting Machine! - Soviet cartoon about imperialist corruption in the UN, 1950.

Yogthos

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe archive.ph/3Da76#selection-923

Thorwegian ❄️

@yogthos i'm sure this would be true for me too, if it weren't for an increasing need to earn money to service debts, buy necessary items for the home, etc.

DerPapa69

@yogthos for me it's just one straight line along the x axis

Yogthos

A new theory suggests that consciousness may have evolved as part of the memory system in order to help flexibly combine memory to plan future actions.

Rather than experiencing the world in real time, we may be perceiving our surroundings and internal thoughts as memories.

Consciousness would then allow us to recombine existing memories to project into the future.

bumc.bu.edu/busm/2022/10/03/ne

AnArch

@yogthos George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.".

DerPapa69

@yogthos very interesting stuff, but I wish the title was "New Explanation for Consciousness Just Dropped"

Yogthos

Western war propaganda about the conflict in Ukraine ticks every single one.

ArtΡ‘m

@yogthos Just war propaganda, without a specific side. Of course it is since it's 10 rules of war propaganda!

Yogthos

modern animals drawn like dinosaurs based on skeleton structure

Yogthos

On this date in the Julian calendar, October 25, 1914, the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, rose up in revolt against the Russian Republic's Provisional Government. Sparking the Russian Civil War that would last six years before the Bolsheviks were victorious.

Yogthos

Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul openly admits that US diplomats lie in general and lied to Ukraine in particular about allowing it to join NATO. Offers the excuse "That's the real world! youtube.com/watch?v=ivcSVG5eCe

Yogthos

How long will Sunak last as the PM?

Anonymous poll

Poll

one month
6
22.2%
two months
13
48.1%
three months
4
14.8%
six months
4
14.8%
27 people voted.
Voting ended 26 Oct 2022 at 3:24.
Kranfahrer

@yogthos

a financier moves to the top. there are parallels to germany.

Yogthos

on the relationship between capitalism and overpopulation

β€œToday, when the Earth’s population is increasing at an ever faster rate, and is expected to mount, at the very least, to 6,000 million in the year 2000, bourgeois sociologists and economists are making much of the theory that the population grows in geometrical progression and the means of subsistence increase in arithmetical progression. Hence they view population growth as an eternal evil threatening innumerable calamities, such as famine, wars and so on. 
 However, overpopulation is not a law of nature. It does not appear because there are too many people but is due to the conditions of production under capitalism. Capitalism constantly produces a surplus-population. Economic crises, chronic unemployment, destitution are not at all the effects of overpopulation, but are, indeed, its causes. Bourgeois overpopulation theories are wrong because their authors regard the conditions, which are merely produced by capitalism, as absolute and eternal. 
 In reality, the growth of labour productivity, made especially rapid by the technological revolution, provides for an abundance of goods unthought of in the past. However, the progress of science and technology encounters obstacles created by capitalism, whose interests have long come in conflict with the interest of the working people, of the[…]”

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