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How to Spot Weather Misinformation Conspiracy theories tend to thrive in the wake of natural disasters like the Texas floods. Here's what to look out for.

How to Spot Weather Misinformation time.com/7301427/texa...

Misinformation tends "to thrive in the wake of natural disasters..."

"...it’s important to think critically about the information you’re seeing and who is posting it before you amplify it. Slow down. Take your time."

How old are you really? Are the latest ‘biological age’ tests all they’re cracked up to be? These tests promise to show how much cellular ‘wear and tear’ your body has undergone, and how that corresponds with your age in years. Here’s what the science says.

"Biological age" testing = mostly wellness influencer hype.

How old are you really? Are the latest ‘biological age’ tests all they’re cracked up to be? [Nope.] theconversation.com/how-old-are-...

You don't need expensive testing to live a healthy lifestyle! #Move

I'm seeing some of you say horrid things about Texas re the flooding and please shut the fuck up, children are dead, some some sympathy you ghouls... I live in a deep red state and we are the way we are because of gerrymandering and racism. Donate to vetted local orgs not the Red Cross.

If you're being snarky about children drowning in a flash flood what the fuck is wrong with you

I ask you, when are French Horn's not epic?

Even a traffic cone as a muffle cannot stop the *Epic*

Texas continues grim flood recovery with at least 43 killed, including 15 children Some two dozen girls still unaccounted for after summer camps swept away as Guadalupe River rises 26ft in 45 minutes

"Torrential rain caused the river to rise 26ft (8 meters) in just 45 minutes"🤯

"In eastern Texas, there has already been a 20% increase in the number of days with heavy rain or snow since 1900, with the intensity of extreme rain set to rise by another 10% in the next decade."

The heartbreaking thing is that this sort of thing *Always* hits the innocent much harder than the guilty. Kids deserve far better than to fall victim to our mistakes.

There's a significant initiative in the far north doing this for our Rangers, a group which until recently I didn't even know existed.

If you're looking for info on IR deflection it's a lot more straightforward than you'd think.

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?

Looking forward to this Friday

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US | CNN There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.

Already worse than 2019…&it’s July. “Falling childhood vaccine coverage and a large, smoldering outbreak…have driven the United States to a troubling new milestone: There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.”

An 8yo girl from Mountain Brook- the community next to where we live- a girl who our son may have swum next to at camp last summer- died at camp in the horrid Texas floods. Fuck every last one of you who is gloating about red states getting what we deserve. I hope you choke on dog shit. Go away.

Fun Fact! Canada produces Steel, Lumber and hemp for rope!

I wonder if we manufactured them into these vegetable-chopping apparatus that they might have tariffs waived?

I'm ALREADY sick of reading about, getting angry about, posting about RFK Jr et al.

We are ONLY 5 months into his Dark Age hellscape?

Let's stay strong! #GoScience #GoTeam 💪

Say it with me. RFK Jr. is killing children.

The USA is dangerous and lawless country. Travel there at your peril.

Accurately?

These guys are all pretty reasonable actors, but ehhhhh... I mean Tom Holland can be hilarious, but.... ehhhhh...

I'd buy a ticket for a Janelle Monae Bond flick. She was good in Glass Onion if under-utilized.

If she can do as much as she did with some remarkably mediocre Doctor Who scripts, I'd buy tickets.

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

They handed me a mat and a folded-up sheet of aluminum foil. "What is this?" "Your blanket." "I don't understand." I was taken to a tiny, freezing cement cell with bright fluorescent lights and a toilet. There were five other women lying on their mats with the aluminum sheets wrapped over them, looking like dead bodies. The guard locked the door behind me.

text There were around 140 of us in our unit. Many women had lived and worked in the US legally for years but had overstayed their visas often after reapplying and being denied. They had all been detained without warning. If someone is a criminal, I agree they should be taken off the streets. But not one of these women had a criminal record. These women acknowledged that they shouldn't have overstayed and took responsibility for their actions. But their frustration wasn't about being held accountable; it was about the endless, bureaucratic limbo they had been trapped in. The real issue was how long it took to get out of the system, with no clear answers, no timeline and no way to move forward. Once deported, many have no choice but to abandon everything they own because the cost of shipping their belongings back is too high. I met a woman who had been on a road trip with her husband. She said they had 10-year work visas. While driving near the San Diego border, they mistakenly got into a lane leading to Mexico. They stopped and told the agent they didn't have their passports on them, expecting to be redirected. Instead, they were detained. They are both pastors.

I met a family of three who had been living in the US for 11 years with work authorizations. They paid taxes and were waiting for their green cards. Every year, the mother had to undergo a background check, but this time, she was told to bring her whole family. When they arrived, they were taken into custody and told their status would now be processed from within the detention center. Another woman from Canada had been living in the US with her husband who was detained after a traffic stop. She admitted she had overstayed her visa and accepted that she would be deported. But she had been stuck in the system for almost six weeks because she hadn't had her passport. Who runs casual errands with their passport? One woman had a 10-year visa. When it expired, she moved back to her home country, Venezuela. She admitted she had overstayed by one month before leaving. Later, she returned for a vacation and entered the US without issue. But when she took a domestic flight from Miami to Los Angeles, she was picked up by Ice and detained. She couldn't be deported because Venezuela wasn't accepting deportees. She didn't know when she was getting out. There was a girl from India who had overstayed her student visa for three days before heading back home. She then came back to the US on a new, valid visa to finish her master's degree and was handed over to Ice due to the three days she had overstayed on her previous visa. There were women who had been picked up off the street, from outside their workplaces, from their homes. All of these women told me that they had been detained for time spans ranging from a few weeks to 10 months. One woman's daughter was outside the detention center protesting for her release.

When we arrived at our next destination, we were forced to go through the entire intake process all over again, with medical exams, fingerprinting - and pregnancy tests; they lined us up in a filthy cell, squatting over a communal toilet, holding Dixie cups of urine while the nurse dropped pregnancy tests in each of our cups. It was disgusting. We sat in freezing-cold jail cells for hours, waiting for everyone to be processed. Across the room, one of the women suddenly spotted her husband. They had both been detained and were now seeing each other for the first time in weeks. The look on her face - pure love, relief and longing - was something I'll never forget. We were beyond exhausted. I felt like I was hallucinating. The guard tossed us each a blanket: "Find a bed." There were no pillows. The room was ice cold, and one blanket wasn't enough. Around me, women lay curled into themselves, heads covered, looking like a room full of corpses. This place made the last jail feel like the Four Seasons. I kept telling myself: Do not let this break you. Thirty of us shared one room. We were given one Styrofoam cup for water and one plastic spoon that we had to reuse for every meal. I eventually had to start trying to eat and, sure enough, I got sick. None of the uniforms fit, and everyone had men's shoes on. The towels they gave us to shower were hand towels. They wouldn't give us more blankets. The fluorescent lights shined on us 24/7. Everything felt like it was meant to break you. Nothing was explained to us. I wasn't given a phone call. We were locked in a room, no daylight, with no idea when we would get out.

Canadian victims of the Trump regime have witnessed and documented first hand the inhumane conditions ICE keeps its victims, subjecting them to psychological and mental torture and degrading living standards. Many victims are kept locked up for months and even years. #StopICE

My GM probably.

The United States is a nation beyond the rule of law.
People are being kidnapped on the streets by men in masks.
They are being disappeared and deported to foreign concentration camps.
A Canadian died in their hands. We must demand full access and independent investigation of his mistreatment.

As a Canadian, already in progress. Thank you for getting the message out.

Ah foraging for fossils in Gnome Man's land...

My apologies, it retrospect it was probably Hastur, the King in ...Orange?

Hmmm, from up here it looks like the Clinton, Bloomberg & Cthulu endorsements may have cost Cuomo the "rational human" voting segment.

Evolution isn't the only way to get "minimum viable product"...
Have you considered that if there is a god, maybe they're an idiot middle-manager?