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Scientists warn humanity that urgent actions are needed to avert catastrophe caused by widespread extinction of tree species. Industrial capitalism is annihilating life as we know it. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10314
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In 2017, US dropped at least 60,208 bombs blasting combatants and civilians overseas with roughly seven bombs every hour around the clock. This was a 28% increase on the previous year. The telegraph reports that Kremlin’s energy war is pushing Europe and the UK towards economic meltdown and socialism. Seems like a good outcome to me. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/31/putin-has-pulled-shock-win-could-destroy-free-world/ @yogthos Didn't pass the paywall - how do they foresee that Putin et al will also be brought down by this? US ran covert propaganda campaign in Iran, Lebanon, Russia: Stanford University Study https://thecradle.co/Article/News/15085 Open Surge is a fun 2D retro platformer inspired by Sonic games and a game creation system https://opensurge2d.org/ China makes big leap forward in basic research spending: The total is nearly 24 per cent higher than a year earlier https://archive.ph/M8qjG Gorbachev won Western acclaim by betraying USSR https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1274337.shtml At least Judas had the decency to hang himself, Gorbachev is still running around Rome picking up pieces of silver. - Kwame Ture Europe continues to be dependent on Russian gas, only now it's being imported via China at a premium. U.S. life expectancy drops by 6.6 years over two just two years. https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/31/u-s-life-expectancy-drops-sharply-the-second-consecutive-decline/ Gorbachev died. His legacy? Russia's GDP dropped by 40%. Real wages halved. Poverty ballooned from 2.2 million in 1987-88 to 66 million in 1993-95. Millions died under the brutal regime of privatization and shock therapy. Half a million women were trafficked into sexual slavery. As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-river-water-shortage-jay-famiglietti Stable Diffusion is a really big deal https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/29/stable-diffusion/ Google’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid: How Google Weaponizes “Diversity” to Silence Palestinians and Palestinian Human Rights Supporters |
