speak easy
speak easy's JournalNa-na-na-na : The time Family Feud went completely off the rails.
By the end of the round, Steve is saying 'A game show is supposed to be fun'
'I Quiit. I Quit. I Quit.' [very funny]
Why do ppl hate Apple?
First off, I have no doubt why MAGAs hate Apple: An elite, West Coast, liberal co., that charges way too much while trying to keep porn off their platform. Oh yeah, and the CEO is gay. What's to like?
A Song that does not get old. It gets better
Here's the thing you fucking stupid turtle,
you could have brought Trump's political career to a full stop by convicting him on February 13, 2021. You could have been Majority Leader without Oz, Walker and Masters. But like the cynical, corrupt to the core, smartest guy in the room wannabe, you took the path of least resistance. The crazies may not be smart, but they have an insatiable taste for blood. You lost. Choke on it. FU.
journa.host : "Banning someone for posting a link to an NYT article"?
In response, Parker Molloy, a journalist who writes the Substack newsletter The Present Age, accused Mr. Pesca of anti-trans bigotry, and then posted angrily at Mr. Davidson for not removing the post.
@adamdavidsons decision not to take action on anti-trans content isnt inspiring confidence and I totally understand why other places are doing instance-level blocking, she wrote on journa.host. (Instance-level blocking refers to the ability, on Mastodon, for one server to block content from another.)
Zach Everson, one of the journa.host administrators, responded that he agreed with Ms. Molloy, then added, Banning someone for posting a link to an NYT article sets a precedent that we really need to work through.
On Saturday, journa.host suspended Mr. Pesca, who was informed via a text message from Mr. Davidson, a longtime friend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html
Overdose deaths increased 16 percent in 2021 compared to 2020
Overdose deaths fall under the category of "accidental deaths" which are the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. Accidental deaths were responsible for 3.4 million deaths in 2021, which is 80,000 more than the previous year. The increase in overdose deaths is directly coupled with the opioid epidemic as it continued to be worsened by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid.
Fentanyl was responsible for approximately two-thirds of overdose deaths, reports The Washington Post. Just this year, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than 379 million doses of fentanyl, enough to kill every person in America, the Post continues. Overdose deaths increased in every demographic over 25 years of age except for Asian men.
The CDC's figures also found that the U.S. life expectancy has once again dropped to 76 years and 5 months. This added to the pattern of decrease that the country has seen over the past two years.
https://news.yahoo.com/overdose-deaths-increased-16-percent-153656221.html
Life expectancy falls to 76.4 years in the U.S.
U.S. life expectancy continued to fall in 2021 as covid, drug deaths surgedAn American child born in 2021 could expect to live to 76.4 years, according to the latest government data
Even as some peer nations began to bounce back from the toll of the pandemic, life expectancy in the U.S. dropped to 76.4 years at birth, down from 77 in 2020, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. That means Americans can expect to live as long as they did in 1996 a dismal benchmark for a reliable measure of health that should rise steadily in an affluent, developed nation. (In August, using preliminary data, the agency had pegged life expectancy in 2021 at 76.1 years.)
Notably, every age group in the U.S. from young children to seniors 85 and older saw a rise in its death rate. Men, women and most racial groups lost ground. In some previous years, even when overall life expectancy declined, some groups advanced.
This one, its sort of across-the-board bad news, said Eileen Crimmins, a professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California who studies life expectancy around the world. Weve gone since 1996 without improving. Thats incredible, given how much weve learned about medicine, how much weve spent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/22/us-life-expectancy-decline-2021-covid-fentanyl/
Thats incredible, given ... how much weve spent.
China changes definition of Covid deaths as cases surge
No new fatalities reported this week!
China changes definition of Covid deaths as cases surge
No new fatalities reported this week, despite numerous reports of overloaded hospitals and crematoriums
Authorities reported no new fatalities in the latest Covid statistics update on Wednesday, despite widespread reports and images of overloaded hospitals and crematoriums and queues of hearses. The official number of deaths since the pandemic began in Wuhan three years ago even had one struck off on Wednesday and now stands at 5,241 an extremely low number compared with many less populous countries.
The infectious disease expert Prof Wang Guiqiang told a State Council news conference on Tuesday that the National Health Commission had recently revised its guidelines to scientifically and objectively reflect deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic, classifying only fatalities caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure in patients who had the virus as Covid deaths.
Deaths caused by other diseases such as cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases and heart attacks are not classified as deaths caused by coronavirus, Wang said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/21/china-covid-infection-surge-puts-end-of-global-emergency-in-doubt-who
The UK is facing a 'prolonged recession that will last for the whole of 2024'.
The Office for National Statistics said the UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the three months ending in September compared with an original estimate of a 0.2% decline and also revised down growth in every quarter stretching back to the third quarter of 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/22/uk-only-g7-member-with-economic-output-still-lower-than-pre-pandemic-level
Q: So what will the Tories do? A: Cut services, spending and benefits.
British government to usher in new era of austerity in effort to restore market confidence
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/british-government-to-usher-in-new-era-of-austerity-in-effort-to-restore-market-confidence.html
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