All I can think is how incredibly shameful it is for this kind of behind-the-scenes bullying to be happening, but the persons responsible apparently must not see shame in it somehow…?

My first thought was misfolded prions. Sounds like one possible avenue of the potential harmful “environmental exposure” the microbiologist (and CJD researcher) in the article was talking about.

According to the video, the places aren’t being built to be attractive to live in but to be cheap upfront investments for landlords (so not just small but crappy layouts and quality overall), and the majority of said landlords are “middle class” (their words) couples rather than large companies.

For hands-off investors, maybe. Directly responsible parties should see jail time though.

There’s a Brit Marling movie where exactly that kind of thing happens to some corporate execs. (I think it was a chemical company instead of mining though.)

The title is…

Personally, I like to check both Firework (for the forecast animation), and Accuweather (for additional local measurement data).

Interesting observation. I’ve done the same myself, at least in urban surroundings. I hope it makes your walk more enjoyable and satisfying.

It helps to grow up cleaning your own schools and having being taught personal responsibility from a very young age. I have no doubt there are still elementary kids commuting to other towns alone by train to go to school, as there were when I was living there.

A bunch of young trees don’t equate to old growth forests in any sense and it’s even worse if the species hasn’t evolved in in balance with that environment’s other species and conditions.

So it’s not even just that the tree needs to survive. On top of that we need to put time and resources into the right mix of regionally native trees which will thrive and integrate into their surroundings to properly reform ecosystems over numerous decades that we don’t even have.

Maybe I’m being naive, but in the absence of solid evidence, my working assumption is that they have some satellite pattern of people who have parts of the spectrum of traits they want, but not all of them. If so, then that means that although they would suppress it for the job, some of them surely have a conscience.

But I admit this is all hypothetical, just based on things I’ve read and some specific testimony I heard in a podcast that shed more light on things recently.

Anyway, I did a slight edit above: probably --> “possibly.”

I can only speak for myself and not OP here but if she left, then probably not. The career folks? Definitely. If their hiring profile is anything like that of the CIA, they have a specific preference for sociopaths/narcissists-- folks who are very good at manipulating others.

It doesn’t. Graeber was an anthropologist and Wengrow is an archaeologist. It’s a review of existing evidence from past civilizations (the diversity of which most people are hugely ignorant about), making the case the most common representations of “civilization” and “progress” are severely limited, probably to a detrimental extent since we often can only base our conceptions of what is possible on what we know.

That’s highly subjective, but the fascinating book The Dawn of Everything argues otherwise. There are even parts about the anthropological evidence some peoples just up and changed systems every so often (yes, non-violently). Our problem as people in the modern era is many can’t imagine anything else, not that no one ever did.

Yes, because the requirement for extensive infrastructure running across large stretches of land makes market entry nearly impossible for new competitors (while also being disruptive for customers if it does become possible). Hence all the issues we have with lack of competition and its effects.

If by the nature of the product or service there is no ease of switching providers and if the thing is a necessity to get by in the modern world, it shouldn’t be (solely) private.

This article isn’t just about random raw materials entering the atmosphere, it’s specifically about the potential dangers of pollution of the magnetosphere and ionosphere with magnetic metal dust. The author claims to be the only one out there studying this but isn’t the only one who has expressed such concern. From the conclusion:

“Our technical civilization poses a real danger to itself,” Carl Sagan warned in his 1997 book Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium. The magnetosphere is our first line of defense against an otherwise lethal solar system, and any pollution of it should be intensely studied and monitored. Indeed, if an asteroid the size of a Starlink satellite was headed towards Earth, it would activate planetary defense monitoring. But since it’s a human-made object impacting the atmosphere, we don’t monitor it at all.

Space companies need to stop launching satellites if they can’t provide studies that show that their pollution will not harm the stratosphere and magnetosphere. Until this pollution is studied further, we should all reconsider satellite internet.

I’m surprised and disappointed the percentage isn’t higher than that, but these polls tend to have skewed sample groups anyway.

Maybe some of them require it? I haven’t encountered that requirement for a store membership myself though.

Of course. Markets respond to company profits and losses, not employee profits and losses. Layoffs, low wages, and buybacks boost share prices, we all know this! As long as a few people will pay big money, those who benefit don’t care if most people can’t afford anything. To me, this is one of many signs chasing higher GDP all the time largely just enriches the wealthy further while doing nothing for most people.

That’s how they did the non-targeted (carpet) bombings. These were three guided, precision strikes on a group that pre-cleared their travel arrangements on a specific route at a specific time with the IDF in advance, even targeting vehicles with WCK logos specifically marked on top. The outcome is exactly what they wanted: no food aid to Gaza at all.

Now they just have to pretend to have a study and bury the topic for a year or whatever like they do with every other atrocity when speaking internationally, which the media will take at face value even though officials and IDF members have been well-documented, calling for Palestinian people to be wiped out, their restrictions on aid have always been horrific and absurd, and settlers were blockading aid trucks with “raves” to prevent aid getting in.

Western nations will sanction any other country for a fraction of what Israel has done, but instead it seems our leaders are content to let this play out and gradually push more and more for the replacement of the prime minister with someone just as bad or worse when it’s all over, for an optics upgrade (since the Netanyahu “brand” is burnt now).

This is as interesting as the time I learned from an expert talking about research into aging that technically younger animals (and likely people) can experience aging if they’re injected with the blood of an older counterpart, suggesting (among other arguments he made) not just that it’s “contagious” but that aging should be treatable and youthful physical health could be extendable to longer ages.