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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40398135

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39357260

Warning: This article contains swearing (Quoted, from Bill Gates).

If you scroll to the bottom of the article, they post their sources, including studies published in peer reviewed journals. I’m sure most of us see this headline and go, “Duh,” but here we have hard data. Every time our billionaire and political overlords wring their hands about birthrates, the collective response from all of us should be, “fuck you, pay me, or kick rocks.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37270226

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37270226

I heard people claim for some time that Proton supports the Trump administration. I’ve only ever really seen the claim made based on a single tweet.

Article is from 2014, and there are some broken image links so here's an archive link

In February 2024, ZA/UM cancelled the standalone Disco Elysium expansion which was then known by its codename X7 and is now known as “Locust City”. At the same time, ZA/UM announced they would make nearly a third of their workforce redundant. I was on that list. As co-creator of Locust City alongside Argo Tuulik, I was approached by GLHF.gg for comment and issued a press statement about joining ZA/UM in 2022, which I likened to “being born into Yugoslavia in the ’90s: you’ve just missed the Party and now all you get is the bloodshed.”

Posting Dora's article as the primary link since it has the more serious allegations in it, but Argo Tuulik's also written his own detailed piece here: https://medium.com/@fourhundredblows86/the-rise-and-ruin-of-locust-city-an-all-too-elysium-story-36c02da760ff

Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together ropes and planks of wood and trampling miles of barley in the dead of night, hundreds of times, over 13 years. It meant riveting 1/8th sheet steel into a 3 m-high monolith and depositing it in the Utah desert. Even theoretical works used to require huge leaps of logic and real effort: to turn 1I/’Oumuamua — a building-sized chunk of nitrogen ice — into a defunct solar sail from a network of interstellar buoys emplaced by a Galaxy-spanning civilization, or to misinterpret common seafloor iron-rich spherules as “steel-titanium alloys” likely from an “alien gadget”. In contrast, the latest release from Avi Loeb and collaborators — that maybe the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien technology — feels phoned in, like they’re just going through the motions. Where, I ask, is the dedication to the craft?

Archive link: https://archive.ph/A7LI4

The Lie of the “Failed State”

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/38766119

The statistics confirm a catastrophic toll: Nestlé’s aggressive marketing of infant formula in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) directly caused ~10.9 million infant deaths between 1960–2015, with peaks of 212,000 deaths annually in the early 1980s. This was driven by promoting formula in regions without clean water access, leading to fatal waterborne diseases when formula was mixed with contaminated water. A Grim Inheritance of Death, Wrapped in Corporate Platitudes

This is ancient, and it is honestly just some random blog post. I generally agree with it though. It came up because Code Pink is very upset that the "Hands Off" protests are in favor of NATO:

Even its name is B.S. propaganda

Long à lire, mais lu posément, y'a beaucoup de réflexions intéressantes. J'aime aussi l'introduction qui explique le personnage du Capitaine Nemo, et comment on arrive au punk, au cyberpunk, au solarpunk.