@LaylaAlexandrovna@Piss_Ant@dicey Forest fires have always existed, but something is different about what we are seeing today. Drought parches the forest. Forest fires burn hotter and longer. The fire season drags on longer compared to decades ago.
The underlying driving force for these intense devastating wild fires is climate change. Hotter temperatures dry out vegetation. Climate change is a global issue that involves governments, countries, and individuals working together to reduce greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide). It's not like people don't know what to do. It's politics.
Fuel reduction is another factor. That is, clearing out dead brush and dead trees.
@Cousin_Isobel@Piss_Ant Who cares if nerdy, creepy guys want to ejaculate into a plastic sex robot. If they are used to ejaculating into one of these things, I don't imagine they would be very good in bed with an actual woman. You have to talk to an actual female, woo her a bit, and consider her sexual pleasure.
Who is keeping track of all the $$$ going to Ukraine? I guess no one.
"An amendment introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to require audits and investigations of Ukraine aid failed in a vote of 20-78, with only Republicans supporting the measure. The Senate also rejected an amendment to establish a lead inspector general for Ukraine aid in a vote of 51-48 (the effort required a three-fifths majority)."
@Piss_Ant How can a female surgeon lop the healthy breasts off a female and whittle down her areolas and nipples, and hope they don't fall when they are sewed back on?
A female surgeon mutilating a perfectly healthy female body......ghastly
@Cousin_Isobel Lowering math standards isn't in the best interest of the state. High tech is dependent on STEM and STEM requires calculus. Provide more tutoring services to low income and minority students instead of lowering the standards for everyone.
Stanford and CalTech will just accept more out of state students. I can't see them lowering their standards. Out of state tuition is more expensive at the University of California where half the student body is Asian.
If the standards are lowered, high tech in California will just recruit more foreign workers.
"It’s most obvious in top universities like Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, and UCLA. Those schools funneled great minds into California STEM enterprises like Silicon Valley, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and aeronautical engineering. Both the Central Valley and Hollywood—America’s main providers of food and fodder, respectively—rely upon engineering to mechanize production and optimize output."
"Never mind that before California lowered its standards, the United States already ranked far behind the best-performing countries in math—places like Singapore, China, Estonia, and Slovenia. All those countries teach high school students calculus and, in some cases, more advanced linear algebra. (If we’re really in the midst of a cold war with China, we sure aren’t acting like it.)"
@Piss_Ant What evil devils decided to mix Xylazine, an animal sedative, in with Fentanyl. Xylazine is an unscheduled veterinary drug. What evil devils sell this knowing what it can do. It's not an opioid, so the Narcon doesn't work. It can cause deep necrotic wounds mostly on extremities and not necessarily at injection sites.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” said Administrator Milgram. “DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 of 50 States. The DEA Laboratory System is reporting that in 2022 approximately 23% of fentanyl powder and 7% of fentanyl pills seized by the DEA contained xylazine.”
FDA alerts health care professionals of risks to patients exposed to xylazine in illicit drugs
"Xylazine and fentanyl drug mixtures place users at a higher risk of suffering a fatal drug poisoning. Because xylazine is not an opioid, naloxone (Narcan) does not reverse its effects. Still, experts always recommend administering naloxone if someone might be suffering a drug poisoning. People who inject drug mixtures containing xylazine also can develop severe wounds, including necrosis—the rotting of human tissue—that may lead to amputation."
[11-8-2022] Health care professionals should be cautious of possible xylazine inclusion in fentanyl, heroin, and other illicit drug overdoses, as naloxone may not be able to reverse its effects. FDA is aware of increasing reports of serious side effects from individuals exposed to fentanyl, heroin, and other illicit drugs contaminated with xylazine.
Xylazine is FDA-approved for use in animals as a sedative and pain reliever. Xylazine is not safe for use in humans and may result in serious and life-threatening side effects that appear to be similar to those commonly associated with opioid use, making it difficult to distinguish opioid overdoses from xylazine exposure. However, we do not know if side effects from xylazine exposure can be reversed by naloxone. Since we do not know if reversal agents regularly used in veterinary medicine (e.g., yohimbine hydrochloride, tolazoline hydrochloride) are safe or effective in humans, they should not be used.
Routine toxicology screens do not detect xylazine, and additional analytical techniques are required to detect xylazine when it might be involved in illicit drug overdoses, particularly when there are other signs or symptoms of xylazine exposure."
@Blackgendermoderate Bernie is going to tell us about the greatest threat to humanity. Is this a joke?
The greatest threat to humanity:
1. Nuclear war
Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, and both Democrats and Republicans have shown no interest in banning nuclear weapons. Both Russia and the U.S. have enough weapons to blow up the planet. When was the last time anyone heard a Democrat talk about banning nuclear weapons? Biden has been in politics for almost fifty years. Has he ever talked about banning nuclear weapons?
The U.S. has not joined the TPNW, the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Democrats are mostly all talk on climate change. Yes, they are better than Republicans, but not by much. A shit load of methane was released into the atmosphere when the Nord Stream was blown up. Don't talk about it. The U.S. military is a big greenhouse gas emitter, but we can't talk about it either. Do you think all those fighter jets and tanks are fuel efficient? With the $100 billion that went to the proxy war in Ukraine, the U.S. could have invested in renewable energy and infrastructure. Imagine the trillions of $$$ that went to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan being used to put solar panels on every building. Imagine efficient high speed rail.
@AnungIkwe If he was arrested for voyeurism (slipping a mirror under a stall in a women's restroom to watch women while they use the toilet) and KEPT in jail this wouldn't have happened. After he was caught trying to perv on women, the police did nothing. He was questioned, and let go. I don't believe in violence, but karma can be a bitch.
The shooting suspect is an 18 year old man.
"Alexa was approached by at least two males in a car, who mocked her before several shots were fired from inside the vehicle on the side of a road. An 18-year-old suspect was arrested trying to board a flight with his mother at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan on Tuesday night.."
Look at that guy. He looks scary as hell. There isn't anything dainty about him.
What are women supposed to do if the police won't arrest perverts trying to spy on women while they are using the toilet?
Paraphilias such as voyeurism are more common in males. Voyeurism in women's restrooms has been going on since forever.
Google bathroom voyeur and porn. There are 125,000,000 hits.
FACT: Males dressed in skirts and wigs have committed all sorts of crimes inside women's restrooms from sexual assault to voyeurism.