《militaries account for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2022 estimate by international experts.》
World’s war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot | Reuters
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AMERICA IS WRAPPED IN MILES OF TOXIC LEAD CABLES
Environmental muckraking by the WSJ. Who would’ve expected?
《The U.S. has spent decades eradicating lead from paint, gasoline and pipes. A WSJ investigation reveals a hidden source of lead contamination that has not been addressed.》
A Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada (UMC Affirmation of Faith #883)
We are not alone, we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone.
Thanks be to God. Amen.
A Beginner’s Guide to Website Staging – DreamHost
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/website-staging-beginners-guide/
《Maintaining a WordPress website is a never-ending process.》
They make it sound so *enticing*.
POSSE desires
Ya know, I’m starting to be surprised this hasn’t been done yet (maybe it’s hard), but what we really need is an app (or web app) that acts as a front end for composing POSSE posts, and:
- Gives you various indicators/metrics as you type of the character limits of each of SEVERAL social media apps to which you wish to crosspost;
- The ability to include multiple links and indicate which one is the most important for those stupid sites that only embed one;
- Ditto images;
- Maybe makes it REAL EASY to provide summary slugs w/in character limits for various social media sites;
- Tagging in a way that meshes with each of several different social media apps….
And probably a bunch of other stuff I can’t think of off the top of my head.
Josh Hawley uses fake quote from antisemitic nationalist mag | The Kansas City Star
Josh Hawley is an idiot. Except that none of his base will care.
《Hawley wrote: “Patrick Henry: ‘It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.’”
The problem? Henry never said that. The quote is false. Made up.
Instead — as Hawley’s readers pointed out in a fact-checking Community Note appended to his tweet — the line is from a 1956 piece in a magazine, The Virginian, that was about Patrick Henry. Not by him. It appeared in another magazine, The American Mercury, as a Henry quote later that year and apparently took off from there.
The kicker? As historian Seth Cotlar of Willamette University pointed out, The Virginian was “virulently antisemitic (and) white nationalist magazine.” The American Mercury, for that matter, was also an “antisemitic rag.”
That ugly provenance comes through in the piece that originated Hawley’s quote. “There is an insidious campaign of false propaganda being waged today,” the magazine complained, “to the effect that our country is not a Christian country but a religious one — that it was not founded on Christianity but on freedom of religion.”
“I’d like to put a plug in for this thing called “Google,” Cotlar pointed out. “If you type in a quote from a Founding Father you’re thinking of tweeting out, in a matter of seconds you can quite easily discover if it’s for real or not.”
Good advice for us all.》
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article277023863.html
The All-Volunteer Force Is in Crisis – The Atlantic
Hmm. 😕
《Since the end of the draft, the American republic has quietly, steadily acquired a military caste.》
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《The AVF’s problems should give pause to any politicians or policy makers who are somehow still sanguine about America’s ability to win wars. In any major conflict, the military will have to dramatically expand and adapt in ways the AVF cannot manage. America has not even begun to have a conversation about what comes next.》
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/all-volunteer-force-crisis/674603/
White women have helped sink the affirmative action ship
https://wapo.st/44rb0Ly (Gift link)
1,372 comments. I wonder how many are from outraged white women.
Supreme Court conservatives block Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/supreme-court-decision-student-loan-forgiveness/
Republicans are evil, of course, like water is wet. (Not cartoon “evil”, either.)
But I think liberals assumed the dam would hold forever, once built, and need no maintenance, and now there’s 18 inches of water in the living room.
It’s not enough to elect a president every four years without concerning yourself about legislature and judicial, state and local (including school boards), midterms and off-years.
This Myth About Innovation May Have Doomed the Titan
《OceanGate put it this way on its website: “By definition, innovation is outside of an already accepted system.”
In Mr. Rush’s telling, innovation was the province of maverick individuals, not stodgy legacy players and certainly not cumbersome government bureaucracies. Mr. Rush was perpetuating a myth — one that is particularly popular in Silicon Valley and among technology start-ups — that governments are just an obstacle and that innovation comes from bold trailblazers moving fast and breaking things.
That story is often wrong, and it was 100 percent wrong in this case.》
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/opinion/titanic-titan-oceangate-innovation.html?unlocked_article_code=KNvSPtRnQLjff9QQfC3cWs4CgPGRV_GI8PtnMCPrxMiaPG_uoEWTMRneZFOeeiI1x_Z3xb7P3FUZ6X-dgJiKDbCQgsiJotInJ66iGzaSLoettweJY3Y3afDjjpS9MDT4TgS6lu6jk1vMh7IyLeBHEdFtQxF1wzmrKpHfuDDsRDVAgvuZ8uF2Vv-pjyTAundh-jMnp0nttwep4CtDoX1heWDX9EEzkUdeqonTGH636INBFhFPqFzX2GLJUoAyk3Tkfr-cg0l0e56v265TWRkZj5oGdJKm878XUjn9DxYA8qcE5DX0eihF6i6Y4pzy6eCCUa7AIAkY62q-OPClW_E9L4GkH5XsUHNKmK9UVw&smid=url-share
(Gift link.)
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