The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)
I find the horseshoeing of antivaxxers and covid aware people fascinating. One side is like, “Here is where to find apple-flavoured horse paste. Viruses were never real” and the other side is, “This @StatCan_eng report shows prevalence of long-term symptoms is 34% after 3 infxns”
"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.
We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand#lawofcongestion
One of these is a work truck and one is an identity signaling device.
The service bed is actually older than the truck it’s on. That means the truck was ordered to fit the bed. The truck arguably the accessory. The utility is derived from the bed. The truck just carries it. 🤷
It would cost $650 million for the federal government to pay for all the rice that Canadians consume in a single year. Just $650 million.
That is less than Canada gave to Air Transat to bail it out of pandemic trouble.
It's a choice -- we choose -- to keep people hungry.
Americans: I use miles and pounds
Europeans: I use kilometres and kilograms
Canadians: [snorting a line of assorted measuring systems] I'm 5'3, I weigh 150lbs, horses weigh 1000kgs, my house is an hour away and I drive 80 km/h to get there, I need a cup of flour and 1L of milk