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prabirkc

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Health Worker, speak Santali, Tamil, Bengali. Goet

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vik, to random
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The reduction of pollution in China may be having some unexpected consequences: https://phys.org/news/2024-05-north-pacific-due-china-aerosols.html

prabirkc,
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@vik Waiting for more research. This sounds implausible. 2+2=4 might not cause the sun to rise in the east. Though both are true at the same time

prabirkc,
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@vik 🤣

strypey, to random
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Fireigner (n.): An immigrant firefighter.

prabirkc,
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@strypey That's Irish! Though not all Oirish ah fireigners!

prabirkc, to india
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Some relief https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/united-left-sweeps-jnu-student-union-polls-wins-all-4-posts-5304497#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories #India #MastIndia @mastodonindians

strypey, to Podcasts
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"We are under new management in this country, and we are here to grow this country, and we want to have more ambition and aspiration, and what was happening before was not working... we're going to turn this country around, and that means we are going to have tough choices from time to time... NZ is open for business..."

, PM of NZ

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/focusonpolitics/audio/2018929258/clock-stops-on-urgency-filled-100-day-plan

prabirkc,
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@strypey Called "targetitis" by health activists in India. A common and preventable malady. Target Free approach is one term used. Of course the reduction in budget also needs to be reversed. Which requires a Welfare oriented government

prabirkc, to india
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https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/anand-patwardhan-ram-ke-naam-ram-mandir-ayodhya-babri-masjid-modi-advani-bjp #India #MastIndia @mastodonindians

glynmoody, to random
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A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap - https://www.wired.com/story/cheap-insulin-biosimilar-rbio/ absurd that some in some countries can't afford this life-saving substance

prabirkc,
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@glynmoody Actually the old process is cheap enough. The price rise is only in the USA. Not even in Canada. New processes are good. But controlling price should be a government policy too

madhu_shrieks, to mastodonindians
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when will the next census happen. I don't want to use data from 2011 😭 #MastIndia @mastodonindians

prabirkc,
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@madhu_shrieks @mastodonindians Some hope after the General Elections.

prabirkc, to india
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/tree-felling-for-coal-mines-in-hasdeo-forest-begins-in-chhattisgarh-locals-environmentalists-protest/articleshow/106190263.cms @mastindia @mastodonindians #MastIndia #India

prabirkc, to india
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The global stocktake has a list of actions countries “could” take to reduce emissions, this is not enough. The future of our planet is not optional. It's not a “could,” it's a MUST. #FFPO #COP28 #LossAndDamage #FossilFuelPhaseOut #FastFairForever #India #MastIndia @mastodonindians

prabirkc, to mastodonindians
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https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/pdf/20230718-antibiotics.pdf @mastodonindians #MedMastodon "But the real reason is that there is much more profit in drugs that are used for treating diseases like cancer or diabetes. There is even more profit in doing research and bringing to the market drugs that are made for what are called orphan diseases—rare diseases that may afflict only a few million, but for which medicines are necessary and high-end."

strypey, to Futurology
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Today I'm having a deeper look at a survey tool called ,

"Our software is free and open source and works both online and offline. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, aid professionals and researchers working in developing regions. Our team of developers, designers, support staff and researchers work tirelessly from countries around the world to keep the tool accessible to everyone."

https://support.kobotoolbox.org/welcome.html

prabirkc,
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@strypey Have used it quite a bit. Very useful indeed. Disaster Response and Humanitarian agencies use it too

prabirkc,
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@strypey They have a free humanitarian response service. I used that

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prabirkc,
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@nikita32 @mastodonindians Seems to be of Syrian extraction. Maybe something about that too? Assyrian or even Ziggurat related (Syria and Iraq share the heritage)

jon, to random
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Do it, Musk

It’s going to be fun seeing MEPs and Commissioners trying to cope on some other platform 😜

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-considering-taking-twitter-x-out-of-europe-dsa-2023-10?r=US&IR=T

prabirkc,
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@jon Twit-xit!

strypey, to ireland
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"The Labour Party do not believe we can solve the issue of drugs through criminal sanction against the user. The issue of decriminalisation of the person should and must be at the forefront of our approach. Addiction needs to be treated as a health issue, not a legal one."

#AodhánÓRíordáin, Justice Spokesperson, Irish Labour party

https://labour.ie/news/2023/06/30/fundamental-reform-of-drug-policy-needed/

#Ireland #DrugLawReform #DrugDecriminalization

prabirkc,
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@strypey Excellent proposal. The sellers and profiteers who make money out of the user and the poor poppy or marijuana cultivator should be prosecuted imho.They are pathologically greedy

anniezaidi, to random
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"Previously unpublished documents accessed by The Reporters’ Collective now reveal the Adani Group discreetly lobbied with the government in April 2018 for the removal of restrictions on hoarding agricultural commodities. One of the centre’s three contentious farm laws, enacted two years later, did just that."

https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/adani-group-complained-against-farm-law-govt-diluted-it-to-allow-hoarding-by-corporates?s=09

prabirkc,
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@anniezaidi some governments have hanged hoarders in the past

liaizon, to india
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Anyone on the fedi reporting on the #Manipur civil war?

prabirkc,
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@liaizon Try #ndtv https://www.eastmojo.com/ https://countercurrents.org/ and https://www.himalmag.com/ in increasing order from centre to left Not necessarily on fedi. But try @mastodonindians and #MastIndia for a range of updates from South Asia

strypey, to random
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People are being poisoned at unprecedented levels by a drug that's sold over the counter. Surely this harmful drug should be illegal, and people imprisoned if they are in possession of if, even for personal use. Some irresponsible parents even store it so unsafely that their kids get hold of it.

Won't somebody think of the children?

</sarcasm>

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-the-most-common-substance-in-nz-accidental-poisonings/2DOP5LTCJZGKNDJEHNPNCXLVKU/

#drugs #DrugLawReform

prabirkc,
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@strypey You can hardly ban Paracetamol. But you can control the amounts given to children. And sometimes syrups have contaminants- so I do not really suggest syrups as a solution

prabirkc,
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@strypey For older adults care is needed. But it may be difficult to restrict the number around for those trying to poison themselves. Even if you make it prescription only and use child safe containers. Any adult who wants can keep getting prescriptions and build up a stock

prabirkc,
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@strypey Oh! 🐸

prabirkc,
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@strypey certainly missed that. You are correct imho. Of course ganja is rather easy to find here. And only recently read a news item that said it was agreed in one state that it could be used in the incense at temples but not handed out to devotees

prabirkc, to random
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The entire board of the scientific journal Neuroimage resigned in protest against its publisher, Elsevier. “Elsevier preys on the academic community, claiming huge profits while adding little value to science,” said Professor Chris Chambers, head of brain stimulation at Cardiff University and one of the resigning board members. “All Elsevier cares about is money, and it will cost them a lot of money. They just got too greedy.” https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/08/academic-journals-entire-board-resigns-accusing-elsevier-greed #MedMastodon #MedicoFriends

strypey, to random
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When I was involved in starting a volunteer-run community newspaper in the late 1990s we built and maintained our own website, which contained full copies of all our issues. How did the web get so mystified and inaccessible that community groups - and even businesses - now rely on FarceBook and other corporate providers to host their web presence?

prabirkc,
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@strypey information overload and short messaging has reduced the attention time of readers. The big papers still bring out fullpage versions. But even dedicated readers are just looking at headlines and sharing. So papers do that for them too

prabirkc, to mastodonindians
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Medical appeal for Manipur riot victims @mastodonindians

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