I was already having an #age#crisis when the skin around my eyes suddenly swelled up. #Today I found out why. The reason is not my age. I have urticaria for the first time ever. My neck also itches. Have you ever had this? 😮😮 #symptoms#finland
Google's search quality has been in steady decline for years, and Google assures us that they're working on it, though the most visible effort is replacing links to webpages with lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a confident habitual liar chatbot:
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“I visited a school, hosting thousands of displaced persons,” Lazzarini continued. “The place was overcrowded. The level of distress and the unsanitary living conditions were beyond comprehension. Everyone was asking for water and food. Instead of being at school to learn, children were asking for a sip of water and a loaf...
An obsession of mine is researching how countries handle threats of #food & #water insecurity.
#Germany for example, has secret locations in which it stores legumes, grains & milk powder.
#Finland has 6 mths of grain & fuel & a min. of 3 months of medicine.
In terms of water security, 9 countries in the #MiddleEast will have extreme lvls of water stress by 2040.
But this will also be dire for #Australia, #USA#China & #India.
Interesting #news values on the #BBC site just now, down from the main news from #Russia. A #pop#festival performance is apparently more important to us than the #UK government's response to the #crisis in nuclear armed Russia. Further down, more from the same festival is more newsworthy than policy developments in the #SNP, a party seeking the breakup of the UK. I don't know who pockets the profits at #Glastonbury, but they must pay their #PR bods plenty to get this stuff reported as "news"
"The Death Spiral Effect: a vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behavior, characterized by continuous flawed decision making, myopic single-minded focus on one (set of) solution(s), resource loss, denial, distrust, micromanagement, dogmatic thinking and learned helplessness."
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....
Boeing plane returns to airport in Japan after crack found in cockpit window
So, self certification and putting accountants in charge of the company worked out well, did't it Boeing… The odd ‘Max' falling out of the sky, doors flying off mid flight, cracks in the windows….
Any flier had better check what type of aircraft they might be booked on!
Thinking about finding IT job in climate and today I started looking for area of monitoring of weather/climate disasters and following crisis response. What I have found, however, is climate risk modeling and predicting for companies to prepare / get insurance / mitigate, as well as emission accounting / estimation used to strategise how to lower them. Perhaps just govs&orgs work directly with disasters? Examples and pointers to such IT careers welcome #AskFedi#climate#crisis#disasters
One big advantage of being #actuallyautistic is, for me, that I'm so used to #crises in my life (heck, life is one big #crisis to me), when something happens that NT's perceive as a crisis, I usually don't blink an eye.
"Oh, but you stayed so calm and handled the situation!" – Nope, you're just used to see me on a daily basis in constant crisis mode.
A short NYT video (1-2 minutes) of interviews with displaced kids. At a U.N. camp in southern Gaza, children have been forced to flee their homes and live in squalid conditions while trying to make sense of a war with no end in sight.
20 percent of Greenland’s ice cap lost due to climate change
It has been discovered that 20% of Greenland’s ice cap has been lost due to #ClimateChange, which equates to roughly 30m tonnes of ice an hour. #GlobalHeating has been a major cause of ice loss in #Greenland. This #crisis has been closely under survey for decades, with much of the ice cap driving up sea levels.
Joe $Biden Can’t Ignore the Internal Pressure Over the #Israel-#Hamas Conflict
A second administration official resigned in protest over the president’s approach to the #war, the same day more than a dozen campaign staffers in an open letter urged him to call for a #ceasefire as the #crisis in #Gaza worsens.
#Canada's 988 hotline, which gives people access to #SuicidePrevention services via call or text, went live on Thursday.
People in every province/territory who are experiencing a #MentalHealthCrisis & need immediate, real-time support can use the three-digit number.
Like 911 for accessing fire, police & medical emergencies, 988: #Suicide#Crisis#Helpline is a short, easy-to-remember number to get a quick response from coast to coast to coast, 24/7 & free of charge
Is the world facing a “polycrisis”? Is there even such a thing?
The term is meant to describe "the world’s current tangled mess of problems — pandemic, war, climate extremes, energy shortages, inflation, rising authoritarianism, and the like."
UN describes Gaza as ‘scene of death and destruction’ amid food, water challenges (thehill.com)
“I visited a school, hosting thousands of displaced persons,” Lazzarini continued. “The place was overcrowded. The level of distress and the unsanitary living conditions were beyond comprehension. Everyone was asking for water and food. Instead of being at school to learn, children were asking for a sip of water and a loaf...
[Analysis] National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think. (www.youtube.com)
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....
Video: War Through the Eyes of Gaza’s Children (www.nytimes.com)
A short NYT video (1-2 minutes) of interviews with displaced kids. At a U.N. camp in southern Gaza, children have been forced to flee their homes and live in squalid conditions while trying to make sense of a war with no end in sight.