| Time |
Event |
| 8:38a |
About urban fire wildland interfaces
Modeling suggests that 1/3 of the population of the US lives within reach of
the
supercharged
fires that global heating has made
possible.
Scientists are studying how fires nowadays spread between and within
buildings, hoping to find ways towns can protect themselves.
But it may require removing lots of urban trees that help protect
people from heatstroke.
Building houses out of concrete could make them fireproof.
That's what people in cities generally do in India. |
| 8:38a |
Weaponize semitism, control universities
*Congressman [Nadler] tells the Guardian that [the bully] is exploiting fight against
antisemitism
as a ruse to stamp his will on schools.*
I am sure that is true, but that's only half of it.
Machiavelli, in the Prince, suggested many tactics and ploys to
beat the people into submission. One was to put someone in charge of
the repression; then, after a sufficient period of repression, to fire
per for being so cruel about it. By putting the blame on per, you can
evade being blamed yourself, even though in truth the repression
was decided by you.
I speculate that the
bully is doing a variation on that: after repressing people in the
name of protecting Jews, he will later blame someone for that
repression on those Jews, so he can evade responsibility for his own
repression.
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| 8:38a |
Severe Weather in KY and AK
Regions of the US have had very
heavy
rains for many days, leading to scattered floods and evacuations.
There is no evident reason the heavy rains can't continue, and if they do,
floods may start destroying hundreds or thousands of buildings.
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| 8:38p |
Landmines creeping back into use
Landmines are
creeping
back into use, reversing the progress in
getting rid of them.
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| 8:38p |
US neo-Nazi group calls for targeted Ukraine attacks
*US neo-Nazi group with Russia-based leader calls for
targeted
Ukraine attacks.
The Base, terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence
abroad as Trump pulls FBI from pursuing far right.*
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| 8:38p |
Arrested by deportation thugs while going from US to Canada
Rebecca Burke describes being
arrested
by the deportation thugs
as she was trying to go from the US to Canada, then held for weeks
in a harsh prison where the lights were always on and there wasn't
enough to eat.
I suspect the harshness was because the prison had been farmed off to
a company. There is no excuse for being so harsh to those facing
possible deportation.
I have a theory about why they put her in prison: because she tried to
cross into Canada overland, where there was no airport. According to
their rules, they can't let anyone do that. But if we look at the
issue actually at stake, they had no real reason to be so strict and
harsh. If they let her out so she could get a flight and leave, her
presence in the US for a few more days would have done the US no
significant harm. The underlying reason was that they are too eager
to be cruel.
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| 8:38p |
Kill zone strip in Gaza
Israel declared a
kill
zone strip up to a mile wide inside border of
Gaza, and soldiers shoot at anyone they see in it. They have
destroyed all the houses, farms, and everything else inside that strip.
They have no told the Palestinians where the edge of that strip runs.
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| 8:38p |
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| 8:38p |
"Advanced technology" used in controls of new cars
A comic makes
fun of the "advanced technology" used in the controls
of some new cars.
It is funny, but too bad he doesn't realize this is a serious issue.
Those peculiar interfaces are implemented by computers that
use sensors learn all sorts of things about you, cameras among them,
and you don't know which companies are watching you through them.
This ought to be a HHOS.
</li> |
| 8:38p |
Weakening the rules around PFAS
The poisoner's henchmen are working to
weaken
the rule requiring
measuring the danger of each PFAS, so that only a few will ever have
to be tested.
</li> |
| 8:38p |
Phone footage of killing of Gaza paramedics
*Phone footage
appears
to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza
paramedics.*
We have seen the Israeli government lie many times to deny war crimes,
and cruelty to Palestinian civilians. I don't expect Israel to tell
the truth after so many lies.
</li> |
| 8:38p |
New York State officials refuse to terminate DEI policies
New York State officials have
refused
the wrecker's demand to terminate
the DEI policies in state schools.
They are prepared to fight his demands in court.
</li> |
| 8:38p |
Photos from April 5 protests
Photos from the
April
5 protests against the Republican threat to
human rights and democracy.
I was blocked from effectively supporting these protests because the
web site to find out where and when they would occur demands users run
nonfree software to get that information.
The site that contains the data, and requires nonfree JS code, is
mobilize.us. If you can find a way to obtain these data about coming
protests, and post them on a web site that
respects
users' freedom,
I will gratefully link to that for future protests I support.
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| 8:38p |
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| 8:38p |
(satire) Money in heaven now
(satire) *Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their
Money
In Heaven Now.*
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