“placing lives, homes, businesses and emergency responders at risk”

Priorities…

The order of magnitude higher incidence of colon cancer in the west, comes from the western diet’s higher intake of animal protein and fat, and lower intake of fibre:

O’Keefe SJ, Li JV, Lahti L, et al. Fat, fibre and cancer risk in African Americans and rural Africans. Nat Commun. 2015;6:6342, (video).

Getting a diagnosis of early colon cancer isn’t prevention. Prevention is eating a healthy diet with 60-120g of fibre per day from a whole-food plant-based diet, instead of the average 18g fibre per day from a typical western diet (video).

To prevent the script from spreading further, all Wikimedia projects were set to read-only for about 2 hours, and all user JavaScript was temporarily disabled.

The NoScript extension in Firefox makes the web so much nicer. It turns out sites that don’t require JavaScript tend to made by vastly better humans than sites that do. More so for sites that require cross-site scripting and cookies to just show text.

Can’t search on google.com without allowing JavaScript, but it turns out Lite.DuckDuckGo does, and for me at least gives vastly better search results.

Wikipedia can be read and edited without allowing JavaScript, and I personally don’t like the crap that the scripts provide. It’s also usable without cookies, tho the idiotic UI options column on the right is a hassle without cookies.

Wouldn’t it be better to make a new redacted book that removes all the psychotic verses, and name yourself after this new redacted book rather than the original fairy-tale book?

Do Torah Jews reject the quoted parts of Deuteronomy 20 and 32, and the other blood-thirsty commandments in mostly Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?

The perversion of religion maybe. None of the abrahamic texts justify this insanity.

Have you ever read any of the Abrahamic texts?

Deuteronomy 32:40-46 40. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. 44. And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46. And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

Quran 9:111 Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain. It is a promise which is binding on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfilleth His covenant better than Allah ? Rejoice then in your bargain that ye have made, for that is the supreme triumph.

The scary thing is not just that commanders may be saying this, but what an extreme outlier the citizens of the USA are when it comes to not being able to differentiate between reality and fairy-tales: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0316/Do-countries-become-less-religious-as-they-get-richer

Even when the specific fairy-tales oppose these actions: quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:

“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” Matthew 5:39

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,” Luke 6:27

Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

 1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year of car use
58.60 one year, for every child you have

Chart, Wynes et al. 2017 PDF

Quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:

“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” Matthew 5:39

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,” Luke 6:27

Aren’t the A and Q keys also at terrible positions?

Factory farming for the vast majority of chickens, is life-long enslavement in torturous conditions.

Hundreds of billions of non-aquatic animals are enslaved by factory farmers every year.

Trillions of fish are enslaved in factory farms every single year.

If I remember correctly I had the same start: tested Knoppix, tried Mandrake for a short time, then Ubuntu which I used for several years until Gnome 3 when I switched to Xubuntu for several years, but when snap happened I tried Debian, then Mint for a while, but I’m now trying MX.

In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

“Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

“All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

“In November of 2019 Kennedy sent a letter to the prime minister, obtained by Scott Kennedy and shared with Vanity Fair, speculating that the measles outbreak might be attributed to the vaccine itself.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history

Try “to function as a society” when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

I haven’t seen any reliable sources say this yet.

An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country’s public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa’s minerals should be withheld from US, but I’ve seen no reports that it actually will be.

I also couldn’t find anything at the government’s website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

If someone does something psychotic a lot, does that make it ethical for someone-else to do it even once?

LA county is the 2nd biggest oil producer in California, California is 12th biggest oil producer in the USA, the USA is the biggest oil producer in the world.

Face, meet leopard.

When I did a search for “what happens after death” with double quotes at google.com and at google.co.in, the 1st 2 sentences at the top of the page was a quote from an article at Psychology Today mentioning the superstitious idea of heaven:

“Key points. A common view is that after death, the soul ascends to heaven.”