Along those lines:
Compared with other high-income peers, the US has the shortest life expectancy at birth, the highest rate of avoidable deaths, the highest rate of newborn deaths, the highest rate of maternal deaths, the highest rate of adults with multiple chronic conditions, and the highest rate of obesity, the new analysis found.
Spend the most money to get the worst outcomes, profit!
What could possibly go wrong?
A) selling organs is illegal under federal law (AIUI)
B) coercing someone into “donating” organs is also illegal, and immoral as all hell
There may be some issues with this law.
Also,
Welp, that’s depressing…
See also:
TW: this is a very sad story in which plenty of pivotal moments could have averted this young man’s death but to paraphrase @Mindysan33 … multiple late-stage capitalism-related factors… combined with people forgetting how to be human to another human were what killed him.
Speaking of safety or things one never wants to see while watching a flight tracker…
Needs to be steeper. And bloodier.
Change the Y axis to log scale?
How can legislation billed as an environmental protection statute risk being a primary threat to clean water? The answer is that there could be seemingly unintended consequences of investments to reduce greenhouse gases and replace fossil fuels with cleaner options.
There are two particular farm-related provisions in the IRA that won’t put more food on the table, but will nevertheless impact water quality in the midwest. One will incentivize producing more ethanol, a renewable fuel, from corn. Another will move to limit emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, by processing manure generated by massive livestock and poultry farms. Wastes from these could end up polluting waterways.
The incentive for more corn production is particularly worrisome as farmers typically make heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers when growing corn, said Chris Jones, a research engineer and water quality specialist at the University of Iowa.
No worries. They’re working on it. Hard.
Or, you know… build up the infrastructure to support an aging population?
You first, Yusuke. You first.
Ok, what the hell is going on?
Is there a TikTok fad for DIY satellites?
“shaped like an octagon and was at an altitude of 20,000 feet, posing a hazard to commercial aircraft.”
