For iPhone users in the hurricane path - info on making your phone work on satellites when the towers are down: support.apple.com/en-gb/101573? Feel free to drop links to similar resources for other phones (or anything helpful in general)
When there are mandatory evacuations, and yet some people are locked in place and abandoned, that should be considered premeditated murder.
Reality-based thread:
The most important news for your future this week: 1. You are not going to live forever. You're likely not even going to live dramatically longer or healthier. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
In the twentieth century, human life expectancy rose dramatically. Based on the past three decades of observed mortality in the eight countries with the longest-lived populations and in Hong Kong and ...
The thing no one wants to admit is that a cadre of credible experts almost always warn of disaster before it strikes. No one acts because it is more expedient and more short-term(!) profitable to ignore the messenger. Hell, punish the messenger, if the public will let you get away with it!
It's symptomatic of the harm done by the larger "wellness movement" (which predates covid), through which so many ppl reject medical interventions they find confusing/intimidating for a DIY "you have the power within you" approach that increases *feelings* of self efficacy at the expense of health.
I still haven't got over seeing some of the smartest people I know be absolutely 180 degrees wrong on covid e.g. talking unmasked about their infection as a helpful "natural booster"
New large study finds COVID may increase risk of heart attacks and strokes for three years after infection. Unlike other infections, the elevated heart risks from infection did not appear to diminish over time, a striking finding that the researchers say is "unique to COVID."
I am begging people to understand that the Biden policy on the border, and the one Harris keeps messaging she will continue and expand, is to make it *easier* for refugees to enter and stay in the country in a well documented and quiet way that undermines Trumpist attacks about "weak borders".