Michael Francis

This compares raw death totals while ignoring population growth and ageing. More people live into old age than in the 1990s, so more people develop cancer. The relevant measure is age-adjusted mortality, which has fallen substantially in many countries. Cancer research has helped cut mortality rates and dramatically improved survival for many cancers.

Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?

@ItakGol All of the above as they have the Internet

USA has Claude USA has ChatGPT USA has Gemini USA has Grok China has Qwen China has DeepSeek China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

What does a trillion dollars even look like?

@Cynthia43259532 @koshercockney How many videos of maimed or killed children must you see to count them as human?

@mdf_michael @koshercockney Pallywood.

He speaks for all of us. People are sick to death of “Palestine” bullshit.

@HeidiBachram Nobody of merit dismisses a long Jewish presence in the region - what we object to is weaponising this to try and condone ethnic cleansing of Palestinians who have as much history in the region - this is also their history.

Remember the Jewish history event at the British Museum that was postponed for security reasons. Antizionists had been planning to disrupt it. Well it happened today and I went along to see what all the trouble was about. Apparently they hate history and facts.

@SaulStaniforth This is ridiculous fear-mongering. Russia is not a threat to the UK in any meaningful way.

Lord Alan West: "Its all very well having nice spending for breakfast for children at school.. but if that means.. you have Russians stomping down your streets shooting the children who would have been having breakfast.." Russians killing your kids. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?

@Emilyy20k Many probably do not worry about origins of life, or the universe and morality is human based and innate in humans.

If atheists don’t believe in God, what do they believe in when it comes to the origin of life, morality, purpose, and the universe? What guides their values and decisions?

A brilliant article that details the long term and ongoing colonial abuses against the Palestinians. middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-n…

@PutneyFleur The settlers are supported by the Israeli state - the attention on settlers needs to be directed at the Israeli state as that is the only entity that can stop the settlements.

I’ve signed this letter. I have seen for myself the rapid expansion of illegal settlements - whole towns of occupation - in the West Bank forcing out Palestinians. Tough words haven’t worked. Trade with illegal Israeli settlements must be banned.

@sciencegirl When I was a child large grocery stores had parking lot attendants who helped put them away, occasionally packed groceries into cars, kept it clean, etc - so it used to be a job for someone that was then stripped away by making people put coins in as a deposit.

The older I get, the more I realise that returning a shopping trolley is a personality test.

@N0RINCO @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson What will be interesting is to watch (perhaps my hobbies need a revamp) Chinese housing prices in the next decade as older generations had affordable homes while the younger generation will struggle if that ratio does not shift.

@JohnRad15 @mdf_michael @BigMoperson It keep it in context. The average house in China is roughly the same price as the average house in the US in nominal value. Their currency is just so much weaker than ours that it's far less affordable than housing is here. To claim housing is more affordable China is silly

Reposting because I think this is an important point. Capitalism enforces its specific land regime, making land a commodity. It does so using police with guns. That is profound state interfence in the economy.

@N0RINCO @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson This conflates many unrelated things as well as making a claim about what was said - nobody has said homes are more affordable - just that ownership is higher. Also a weaker currency is largely irrelevant because Chinese buyers are paid in yuan and buy homes in yuan.

@ThrillaRilla369 I have done this a few times and when I was a university student had someone add a few dollars to my count as I dug around for change to pay for groceries.

Would you help a person at the checkout if you noticed they were a couple dollars short on their groceries? 🥖 🥛 🥚

@NikkiHaley Yet they have cleared 20% of the population from the South, seized lands and destroyed whole villages. This is clearly a lie.

This needs to be said loud and clear. Israel is not attacking Lebanon. They are targeting Hezbollah. An Iranian funded terror proxy that has struck Israel 2,000 times since the April ceasefire. Israel has every right to defend itself. Don’t fall for the Iranian regime’s distraction.

When Obama bombed Libya, the justification was "humanitarian intervention." "Protection of civilians." "Responsibility to protect." The language of international law and moral obligation. Libya was subsequently destroyed. It has open slave markets today. The humanitarian outcome was catastrophic. But the language was immaculate. The syntax was perfect. The suits were pressed and the speeches were moving and the Nobel Peace Prize sat on the shelf while the drones flew. Trump bombs things and says it's about the oil. In terms of honesty, pure, raw, unmediated honesty about what American power actually does, Trump is more accurate than any of his predecessors. This is not a defense of Trump. This is an indictment of everyone who made the polished version seem acceptable. The lie was always more dangerous than the liar currently in office. Because the lie had good manners.

@Marlayna29 Great Grandma was born in 1895, walked across Canada with her parents to settle in a sod house in 1900 when 5. Saw the railway come when she was 7, age of flight and air travel, space age, 2 World Wars, start of the computer age, before her death in the 1990s.

@N0RINCO @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson Yet 90% of families do this while only 64% of Americans own property.

@mdf_michael @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson It's not much lower cost. The average home in China is way less "affordable".

@N0RINCO @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson It offers security of tenure, true they do not own the land but the lease is long-term often 70 years. And it is much lower cost than the USA.

@mdf_michael @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson Their homeownership is like saying I own a camper. They have no ownership or equity in the land. They have leased baked into their mortgages, monthly fees, the SMF etc. It's not comparable to US homeownership

@N0RINCO @JohnRad15 @BigMoperson China has one of the highest homeownership rates in the world, with roughly 90% of households owning their homes.

@JohnRad15 @BigMoperson Hint, mortgages can be paid off. Or just buy cash. Even in China where the state owns all land, "homeownership" is more expensive than it is here. You can't just "use" someone's land, private or state controlled