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2023-08-10 at 3:36 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
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2023-08-10 at 3:39 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-08-10 at 1:15 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-08-10 at 12:58 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastRaging wildfires decimate entire Maui communities
At least three large fires on Maui are still active and out of control, which means a full picture of the devastation hasn’t yet come into view.
The early numbers underscore the scale of the disaster, however: In addition to the six people killed, at least 20 more people have sustained serious injuries. Thousands of people are displaced, with hundreds flocking to shelters and many more sleeping in their cars. And Maui County’s emergency response is near a breaking point as Hawaii National Guard and federal resources begin to move in. -
2023-08-10 at 12:18 AM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
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2023-08-09 at 11:07 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastJuly Was Earth's Hottest Month Since Official Records Began
"It has not been this warm, combining observational records and paleoclimate records, for the last 120,000 years," said Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
"The global average temperature for July 2023 is confirmed to be the highest on record for any month – the month is estimated to have been around 1.5 degrees warmer than the average for 1850 to 1900," said Burgess. -
2023-08-09 at 8:51 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
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2023-08-09 at 6:14 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
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2023-08-08 at 5:22 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast‘Virtually certain’ extreme Antarctic events will get worse without drastic action, scientists warn
A new review draws together evidence on the vulnerability of Antarctic systems, highlighting recent extremes such as record low sea ice levels, the collapse of ice shelves, and surface temperatures up to 38.5C above average over East Antarctica in 2022 – the world’s largest ever recorded heatwave.
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2023-08-08 at 1:35 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-08-05 at 2:48 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-08-05 at 2:10 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
Originally posted by aldra you don't ever seem to have anything to say - virtually everything you post is copypasted from somewhere else with nothing added. case in point - you posted a video with no comment.
what sources? why do you find them convincing? why do you think crime directly correlates to poverty?
why do the richest majority-black counties in the US have higher crime rates than the poorest majority-white?
police in a specific case were poorly trained and motivated, so let's get rid of all of them and replace them with nothing.
eliminating the media's ability to stoke racial tensions and create outrage based on often-justified shootings? sure.
The BLM riots, the single most destructive event in US history, happened because the media turned a multiple felon who overdosed in police custody into a 'murder'.
The recent French riots happened because the media turned a justified shooting (an adolescent who stole a car, and when stopped by police tried to drive up onto a busy pavement) into a 'police brutality hate crime'.
but that's really beside the point - I already said I'd fully support scaling back the police if, in turn, the state gave citizens the legal power to enforce their own justice on criminals who steal from or otherwise try to victimise them.
I don't ever seem to have much to say because saying anything is pretty pointless, we are really just delusional animals barking at each other, clouding our perception of reality by creating more and more abstract concepts that just cause us to drift farther away from it.
I'm not going to explain the entire video and all of its sources to you. If you want to know, watch it, that's why I posted it. If you don't want to, that's fine, but don't act like those sources don't exist just because I've presented them in a medium you're not interested in.
Feel free to ignore relevant evidence like Uvalde that is detrimental to the case you're trying to make, it's not like I actually care about your opinion in the first place.
Keep waiting for the state to "give" you the power to enforce your own justice - yes, any day now. No need to fight for your rights or anything, just keep waiting... -
2023-08-05 at 1:55 PM UTC in Do you believe in God?I spent years thinking about that.
I think whatever the truth is, it is beyond human comprehension and trying to figure it out is probably just a waste of time. -
2023-08-05 at 1:44 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
Originally posted by aldra do you have any individual thoughts of your own?
I always seem to be able to think of exactly what to say to get under your skin.
Originally posted by aldra in practice all this does is prevent the police from combating crime while providing no alternative.
The movement began as a response to police brutality and excessive use of force, which has been shown to not be very effective at "combating" crime. You know what has been shown to be effective at preventing crime? According to the sources provided in the video, giving people access to resources to help them deal with their problems and climb out of poverty.
Originally posted by aldra the effect is to essentially allow crime to occur and to use state funds (ie. the citizens' funds) to clean up afterwards in order to prevent any violent confrontation.
Oh, so when there was a school shooter in Uvalde the police simply stood around and allowed the crime to continue to occur because they didn't have enough funding to respond to the violence immediately? I guess 37% of that city's entire budget just wasn't enough.
Originally posted by aldra I guess less black 'kids' get shot for waving guns at cops when they get caught though.
Ah, there it is. Your true motivation. The essence of aldra.
Originally posted by Meikai And when the goal you want to accomplish requires making the police less effective at their very important jobs I'm not sure your motives are all that pure.
Are you a member of the ownership class? Do you have a lot of capital you need protected against the masses?
Or are you among the masses? Assisted living? Do you contribute anything to society?
If you were to be involved with police, are you more likely to be the one putting money in the officers pocket, or more likely to be the one getting your head cracked open for being a weird little gay girly boy?
I thought you had a little more self awareness. -
2023-08-05 at 5:49 AM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the policeWouldn't have believed these authority worshipping boot-lickers actually used to be members of totse if I hadn't seen it.
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2023-08-05 at 5:38 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows
“Unprecedented is a word that gets bandied around a lot, but it doesn’t really get to just how shocking this is,” says Hobbs, a sea ice scientist at the University of Tasmania.
“It is very much outside our understanding of this system.”
North Atlantic ocean temperature sets record high: US agency"This situation is extreme: we've seen maritime heatwaves before, but this is very persistent and spread out over a large surface area" in the North Atlantic, said Karina Von Schuckmann from the Mercator Ocean International research centre.
The expert noted that the oceans have absorbed 90% of the excess heat produced by human activity since the dawn of the industrial age.
In 2023, the world has experienced a harrowing testament to the advancing climate crisisDroughts, floods, heatwaves, forest fires, and other extreme weather events are no longer isolated incidents, but a simultaneous, global reality. Southern Europe’s sweltering temperatures and the sharp decline of Antarctic sea ice underline an escalating situation that is much more than a series of alarming coincidences. This widespread volatility reflects deeper systemic issues within our planet’s climatic equilibrium, indicating a shift in weather patterns possibly linked to global warming-induced alterations in the jet stream and ocean currents.
Canadian Wildfires Producing Catastrophic Carbon EmissionsThese episodes significantly degraded air quality in the United States, with particulate matter levels exceeding 50 μg/m3, resulting in flight cancellations, school closures, and severe disruptions to production and daily life. For example, the second instance of transboundary transport led to the worst air pollution in New York City since 1960, while the third led to Chicago’s air quality index exceeding the standard by 5.6 times on June 27.
Chilling Forecast: Scientists Predict a Collapse of the Atlantic Ocean CurrentShutting down the AMOC can have very serious consequences for Earth’s climate, for example, by changing how heat and precipitation are distributed globally.
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2023-08-04 at 11:46 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the policeI don't think you know what reality is.
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2023-08-04 at 11:44 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-08-04 at 11:33 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-08-04 at 11:32 PM UTC in The horrifying results of defunding the police
