Trump’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Science Manufactures Doubt | By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.
Trump’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Science Manufactures Doubt
By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.David Michaels (The Atlantic)
I'm Better than @RowdyJoe at Taxi Driving | Dani's Race Gameplay
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FOSS open world driving game played by main dev: blenderdumbass.itch.io/danis-r…
Canada's first large-scale shipment of LNG delivered to port in South Korea
Canada's first large-scale shipment of LNG delivered to port in South Korea
A tanker carrying Canada's first major shipment of liquefied natural gas has arrived at a South Korean port. Find out more.Meghan Potkins (Financial Post)
Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland
Anti‑immigration protests have taken place in dozens of towns and cities across Poland.
Most demonstrations attracted several hundred people or fewer on Saturday - but police estimated that about 3,000 took part in the largest rally in the southern city of Katowice.
The protests were organised by far-right political group Konfederacja, and another nationalist organisation.
Politicians from Konfederacja and the opposition Law and Justice party have been warning about a flood of illegal migration in Poland - but official figures do not support their claims.
Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland
Right-wing politicians claim Poland is being flooded by illegal migrants - but official data does not back their claim.Adam Easton (BBC News)
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Russia. Russia did this.
If you don't understand that then you are literally living in your own anus.
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Exclusive: Trump's funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions
The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found.
Reuters has identified 21 unfinished projects in 16 countries after speaking to 17 sources familiar with the infrastructure plans. Most of these projects have not previously been reported.
With hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cancelled since January, workers have put down their shovels and left holes half dug and building supplies unguarded, according to interviews with U.S. and local officials and internal documents seen by Reuters.
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Impressive free and open source RTS 0 A.D. gets an essential patch update
Impressive free and open source RTS 0 A.D. gets an essential patch update
0 A.D. is a free and open source RTS game that saw a first release in years back in January, now an important bug fix patch is out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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0 A.D. Franchise - Official Web Site
0 A.D. is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers.Wildfire Games (0 A.D. Franchise - Official Web Site)
Astronomers capture dawn of new solar system for 1st time
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More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDT
Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000Sammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
While I would normally agree that labeling a protest group as terrorists would be government overreach, I'm not sure if that is true for Palestine Action. Their protests have more similarity with terrorist actions than I would be comfortable with
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/pa…
Particularly the last bullet point in that article is a big one
In June 2025, the group carried out one of its most provocative actions to date: infiltrating RAF Brize Norton, the UK’s largest airbase. Activists used electric scooters to breach security and vandalised military aircraft with red paint.
You can't break into a military base, vandalize property, and expect the government not to do anything about that.
I'm all for pro-Palestinian protests and standing with Palestine, but this is not it.
Palestine Action: What has the group done, as it faces a ban?
MPs in the UK have voted to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation, but what has it actually done?Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
This was exactly the concerns raised by this wretched law at the time. The definition of what constitutes terrorism is so broad it was inevitable that it would become weaponized by politicians.
The fact that it is being used to crush peaceful protests is ominous.
It seems that the Israel chimera is fast tracking authoritarianism across the West.
Iraq war protestors did the same thing in 2003 and they were acquitted at trial by the jury. Their barrister was....Keir Starmer
There were similar attacks on RAF jets during the genocide on Myanmar I believe. They were also acquitted by a jury
In the latest edition of London Review of Books they speculate that making PA a terrorist group is to remove jury trials as prosecutions under the Terrorism Act is reviewed by a district judge without a jury present. The government doesn't want juries to acquit them as they most likely would, given the history of direct action in this country.
Republicans keep voting for bills they say they don't like
Republicans keep voting for bills they say they don't like
In some cases, GOP members of Congress have said legislation they supported will need to be fixed down the road. In others, they've backed off explicit threats to vote "no."Sahil Kapur (NBC News)
Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels sign declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in the east
Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels on Saturday signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end decadeslong fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a permanent ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement to be signed in one month.
A final peace deal is to be signed no later than Aug. 18, and such a deal “shall align with the Peace Agreement between Congo and Rwanda” facilitated by the U.S. in June, according to a copy of the declaration seen by The Associated Press.
It is the first direct commitment by both Congo and the rebels since theys seized two key cities in eastern Congo in a major advance.
Backed by neighboring Rwanda, the M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups fighting for control in Congo’s mineral-rich east. With 7 million people displaced in Congo, the U.N. has called the conflict in eastern Congo “one of the most protracted, complex, serious humanitarian crises on Earth.”
Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels sign declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in the east
Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration in Qatar to end decades of conflict in eastern CongoVia AP news wire (The Independent)
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Vietnam: Tourist boat capsizes due to weather, 37 Dead
A tourist boat in Vietnam capsized on Saturday, leaving 37 people dead and several others missing.The vessel was carrying 53 people, when it capsized while doing a tour of northern Vietnam's famous Ha Long Bay. Most of the passengers were tourists from the capital Hanoi, local media said.
Vietnam: Tourist boat capsizes, killing dozens
A sudden storm in northern Vietnam’s famous Ha Long Bay tipped the vessel. Children were among the victims.Jenipher Camino Gonzalez (Deutsche Welle)
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I've been to Ha Long Bay several times and it's generally very calm there so this is very unusual:
There were "hailstones as big as toes with torrential rain, thunderstorm and lightning," Ha Long Bay office worker Tran Trong Hung told the French AFP news agency.
There's a lot we still don’t know about Jeffrey Epstein
There's a lot we still don’t know about Jeffrey Epstein
Amid the conspiracy theories, the totality of Epstein’s crimes—and how he made his fortune—is still a disturbing mystery.Mother Jones
How does one get a job at a private school with insane tuition and an extremely low acceptance rate, the kind of school that Vanderbilts send their kids to, with no degree? How does someone presumably diddle very very wealthy young girls (that’s probably why he got fired?) without any consequences?
Like yeah, private schools can hire whoever they want as teachers, but that’s the kind of place I would expect would want its teachers to have some kind of certifications?
And wtf:
He was headmaster of the Dalton School from 1964 to 1974. For a brief time, at the end of his tenure as headmaster, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was employed as a math teacher. It is unclear whether Barr hired Epstein. In 1973, Barr published Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery. It has been noted that the plot of the novel anticipates the crimes of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/obama-democrats-message
While I agree I don't think you'll get many Democrats who are willing to put their necks out to stop him now that it's open season for hunting Democrats. What would you do if you were in the Senate or Congress? Would you vote to impeach the Orange Julius Caesar and have your family at the top of every crazy MAGA supporters hit list or are you going to stay quiet, stay low, and don't bring any attention to yourself until you can lose your seat to a republican. One option your kids are targets of domestic terrorists, the other you get to collect a fat paycheck.
Cause if you think the last set of Democrats who were murdered will be the only ones, you're nieve.
If you are advocating that we not punish traitors in the democratic party, whats the point of politics at all? Why have a government or laws? Why vote if both the dems and republicans just vote for the same things?
Your way of thinking leads nowhere.
Democrats Are Preparing a Deliberately Incomplete 2024 Election Autopsy
The Democratic National Committee’s official 2024 postmortem will reportedly spend little time reviewing the Biden and Harris campaigns
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South Korea rain death toll rises to 14: Government
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/44339398
At least two people were killed during heavy downpours in South Korea on July 20, the interior ministry said, bringing the death toll to 14 from torrential rains this week.
Death toll from heavy rain in South Korea rises to 14
The toll could rise, with 12 people still unaccounted for after five days of heavy downpours. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Holiday travel financially out of reach for 40% of people in France
Holiday travel financially out of reach for 40% of people in France
Four in ten people in France cannot afford to leave their homes to go on vacation, a new study has found, an inequality that has persisted at the same level for the past 40 years.Bahar MAKOOI (FRANCE 24)
We have a relative living in France. His government pension is a whopping 90 € per months. That isn't even enough to pay groceries for two weeks.
France is in dire need of a revolution.
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in reply to silence7 • • •The only experiment this idiot has ever performed was answering the question of "Does my finger/penis fit in the outlet?"
He gave up on the sciences after that
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in reply to silence7 • • •This is the Republican project. Let's not lose the plot here. Taco is the symptom, but this is what conservatives and Republicans have been after for decade upon decade upon decade.
Read Toxic Sludge is Good for You as an example...published back in 2002.
Related video: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UxdD_XI…
The conservatives had to use PR in the past, but I'm sure because they are authoritarians, they would much rather just have direct, fascist-like control over such things. Taco could get the cheeseburger from heaven tomorrow and this project will still continue unabated. We need to remember that no matter what, this does not start nor does it end with Taco.