One of the hardest things to convey to people is avoided disaster. I've heard people say hurricanes are nbd anymore because even though more people are living on the coast and deaths haven't skyrocketed. Why is that?
No joke here (sorry): Homelessness in Finland is very low because they provide small apartments and mental health support without any conditions attached to it. 80% of those who use it get jobs , gain stable housing, and sobriety But thanks for the plastic trash can in NYC, Mayor Adams
This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/
This extends well beyond sports, of course, but it seems every day lately has brought a new shipment of “it absolutely doesn’t have to be this way, a vast majority of people see this with extreme clarity, and yet: here it goes: the worst possible outcome, yet again.”
rant: please do not complain that the medications are doing nothing for your animal, and that you just want something to "fix it", when you are not following ANY of the recommendations I have made over NUMEROUS visits. /rant off.
NOAA just sent out a "rare news release" urging media to focus the public's attention on Hurricane Helene's potential to cause widespread flooding "hundreds of miles inland," including "the urban areas around Tallahassee, metro Atlanta and western North Carolina, including Asheville."NOAA just sent out a "rare news release" urging media to focus the public's attention on Hurricane Helene's potential to cause widespread flooding "hundreds of miles inland," including "the urban areas around Tallahassee, metro Atlanta and western North Carolina, including Asheville."
why are people not posting about fat bear week here. get it together apnews.com/article/fat-...
An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.
I will scream forever that gloating about natural disasters is some ghoulish asshole shit because the people most impacted are never the fascists with money and power but the most marginalized and vulnerable.
the overstimulation is real 🫠
i can't speak for pennsylvania, but so much of the character of texas arrived via immigrants from all corners of the globe. that character why i'm still here. texas is worth saving from republicans.
