Nobody Cares: PRS

[Innula Zenovka]

Facebook bans far-right groups including BNP, EDL and Britain First

Number of organisations and individuals permanently banned for being ‘dangerous’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Of Necromancers and Ghouls – Happle Tea

www.happletea.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Porsupah Ree]

KY-R representative Andy Barr invited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to speak to coal miners in his district about her Green New Deal, in an attempt to score easy political points.

AOC accepted immediately and began talking about how her plan includes pensions for coal miners in order to facilitate a "just transition."

Barr panicked and rescinded the offer, to which AOC said "we don't need his permission to visit his district and have a town hall."

Sandrockcstm, RDM (@sandrockcstm@elekk.xyz)

Content warning: Uspol, AOC, Coal Miners, Hilarious

elekk.xyz

 

[Porsupah Ree]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today granted final approval of the first generic naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray, commonly known as Narcan, a life-saving medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The agency is also planning new steps to prioritize the review of additional generic drug applications for products intended to treat opioid overdose, along with the previously announced action to help facilitate an over-the-counter naloxone product.

FDA approves first generic naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose

FDA granted approval of the 1st generic naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray, commonly known as Narcan, a life-saving medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose

www.fda.gov

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

FDA approves first generic naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose

FDA granted approval of the 1st generic naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray, commonly known as Narcan, a life-saving medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose

www.fda.gov

This is big if true! But there will be some problems with patient compliance for some people. Namely, Narcan very quickly blocks the psychoactive effect of opioids, which takes away the "good feeling" that's hiding the physiological effects the opioids are actually having on the body, and it doesn't feel great. Or for short: Narcan almost instantly induces withdrawal symptoms.

Still though, this is an important step and I think it will save lives. But it doesn't fix the problem, or even make a huge dent really, and we need to make sure none of our leadership tries to claim it does.

 

[Free]

Educational tidbit of the week: Real lawyers take notes.

 

[Tigar]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Porsupah Ree]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

You have to use a government-issued ID in order to receive a traditional boarding pass too. The ID has your photo on it. Either way, a human or a machine is matching your face to your credentials.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Quite a fascinating article considering the question of whether humans represent the first civilisations on the planet, delving into the difficulties involved in detecting much older evidence of anything that might have come before:

Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?

A look at the available evidence

www.theatlantic.com

It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me.

Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work as an astrophysicist, I’d begun researching global warming from an “astrobiological perspective.” That meant asking whether any industrial civilization that rises on any planet will, through their own activity, trigger their own version of a climate shift. I was visiting GISS that day hoping to gain some climate science insights and, perhaps, collaborators. That’s how I ended up in Gavin’s office.

Just as I was revving up my pitch, Gavin stopped me in my tracks.

“Wait a second,” he said. “How do you know we’re the only time there’s been a civilization on our own planet?”

When it comes to direct evidence of an industrial civilization—things like cities, factories, and roads—the geologic record doesn’t go back past what’s called the Quaternary period 2.6 million years ago. For example, the oldest large-scale stretch of ancient surface lies in the Negev Desert. It’s “just” 1.8 million years old—older surfaces are mostly visible in cross section via something like a cliff face or rock cuts. Go back much farther than the Quaternary and everything has been turned over and crushed to dust.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I dunno - it might take some outside-the-box thinking. Large-scale structures like buildings, yeah they'll just fall apart into hills of indiscriminate rubble and rust away to formlessness eventually; but what about smaller things - say, metal hand tools? When these fall on the ground they tend to wind up covered and buried quickly, and that is very important: under the ground, the metal will still rust away but it will leave a mold, which can fill and essentially fossilize. And fossils can last a heck of a long time.

Wood also likes to last a long time and can fossilize. Human-worked wood will fossilize into shapes that will be recognizable as worked; in fact, whole wood structures might end up being preserved - rising sea levels will eventually inundate cities and the wooden frames of buildings will end up preserved in much the same way as submerged forests, which can last for tens of thousands of years or longer. Wood that petrifies can last way longer - there's petrified forests in Newfoundland that are over 300 million years old.

But I think the far longest to last will be trace fossils. These are your famous dinosaur footprints and things made in that way: animals making imprints in the surface that get filled in and preserved as layers deposit on top. We have trace burrows from simple tiny critters that are over 2 billion years old. These:

...are called climactichnites; they're the fossilized tracks of gigantic ten-foot-long Cambrian worms that lived 500 million years ago, made as they slithered along over the mud. In time the mud in that location became stone, and the tracks are now preserved for a good long time. If it occurs to you that they kinda sorta look a little like tire tracks (but wigglier), that's what I'm getting at. Humans are bound to leave behind some shoe prints, boot prints, and tire and tread tracks that should be pretty unmistakeably technological to a scientific civilization examining them in 500 million years; that Nike Swoosh is not likely to be mistaken for the actual shape of a critter's foot-pad.

 

[Ellie]

Grand Rapids could make it illegal to call police on people of color for ‘participating in their lives’

NOT the Onion.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Grand Rapids could make it illegal to call police on people of color for ‘participating in their lives’

NOT the Onion.

Isn't it already illegal to abuse the 911 system and to make a false police report?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Isn't it already illegal to abuse the 911 system and to make a false police report?

I think so but from what I've read you have to be like a serial abuser of 911 to actually get in trouble for it; otherwise a cop comes over and just gripes at you.

I guess the only problem a proposal like Grand Rapids' brings up is, when you start talking about punishing overreaction, people who like to overreact tend to talk like the only alternative to their preferred reaction is no action whatsoever. And that's no big deal if you have one or two passive-aggressive nutbars now refusing to call 911 for any reason anymore; but in the present political climate I can see large numbers of people "boycotting 911" to make a political point and that can lead to real damage.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

FYI, this meme is not true


Christianity, like most religions, does borrow heavily from other religions. But you don't need to make stuff up to rag on them about.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

It’s bath time! New YouGov survey examines the nation’s bathing habits | YouGov

Most bathers enjoy a good soak of 10 minutes or more, whilst bubble bath is still a favourite addition to most baths

yougov.co.uk

Distressingly though, the survey reveals that 17% of people urinate in the bath. Younger people are the culprits here, with 22% of 18-24 year olds and 21% of 25-49 year olds peeing at least occasionally in the bath, compared to just 6% of those aged 65 or over.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

In the bath? That you're sitting and supposedly getting clean in?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Fascinating article on the "Prosperity Gospel" in the USA and its influence on both Individual 1 and his supporters:


Evernote link in case FT one reverts to being paywalled

A preacher for Trump’s America: Joel Osteen and the prosperity gospel

Get a fresh start. Choose your FT trial Weekend long reads FT Magazine Life & Arts A preacher for Trump’s America: Joel Osteen and the prosperity gospel Lakewood Church’s $60m ‘smiling pastor’ holds u...

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