This Is Fine

[milliefink]

Worth a repost:

[knoxblox]

I think I remember this being based on a skit with David Walliams, but I can never find video of it.

[j9c]

Ron Magill

[see also (cold-stunned sea turtles in a convention center in Texas, 2021:]

Thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles being rescued in Texas

[docosc]

So say we all

[j9c]

Man I’d really like to know what or who that little kid grew up into.

Jazz the Professor

[knoxblox]

US government warns ransomware attacks on schools may increase

[smulder]

UN sees life expectancy, education and income fall

[milliefink]

Republicans are still pretty close to grabbing, well, almost everything in the U.S. really.

Heather Cox Richardson

September 7, 2022 (Wednesday) Today, in Texas, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor undercut a key part of the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare. That law assigned to three different government bodies the task of deciding what preventative treatments—cancer screenings, vaccines, and so on—health plans must cover. In Braidwood Management v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, various business owners and individuals opposed buying insurance that covered some …

[docosc]

Well, they first have to end democracy and the popular vote, so, yeah, pretty damn close.

Die With Your Boots On (2015 - Remaster)

But not yet!

[smulder]

Eat Now, Pay Later: Going Into Debt for Food

[j9c]

Black Lives Matter. Still

Follow up:

[dfaris]

Huge satellite could outshine all stars and planets in the night sky

[NukeML]

Greaaaaaaat

[dfaris]

Unfortunately the article doesn’t give much info outside the paywall.

Here’s additional info.

BlueWalker-3 Satellite Launches This Weekend, May Be Bright

[DukeTrout]

So what you’re saying is that we will be able to play squash in orbit?

[dfaris]

And you can watch it on the internet on your phone.

[smulder]

@dfaris

doesn’t give much info outside the paywall

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BlueWalker 3: Massive satellite could become the brightest object in the night sky | New Scientist

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[dfaris]

Climate change, conflict, and the pandemic keep supplies short

• Tomatoes
• Avocados
• Coffee beans
• Wheat
• Chickpeas

[docosc]

COFFEE???

CUE PANIC! (Yes, this is a complete sentence)
Can’t grow coffee, can live without avocados, we grow all the rest. There wil be more as this procedes.

[FloridaManJefe]

tell ya what, in the upcoming rationing due to severe shortages of produce due to climate change, i’ll propose a trade: i’ll swap you my allotment of coffee beans for your avocado stamps. i would also happily trade tomatoes for chickpeas.
yeah, we’re screwed. this is not fine. not fine at all.