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I understand how it happens

@HebrideanHecate wtf? A piece of wood? Can you copy the full text?

@HebrideanHecate I understand how it happens, but I hate that the women are so complicit in perpetuating this stuff. It was the same with foot binding in China.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ed-milibands-net-zero-rush-is-dooming-britains-economy/

The Macroeconomic Impacts of the Net Zero Transition, prepared by the Economic and Strategic Analysis team at the Department for Business and Trade in November 2023, warns that net zero targets could provoke an economic shock on the scale of the 1973 oil crisis, which led to global recession and a decade of high inflation. A rapid transition, it forecasts, could take 10 per cent off UK GDP by 2030. It goes on to warn ministers that an abrupt transition ‘creates the potential risk of destabilising the financial system’, thanks to industrial plants and other assets being forcibly retired before their time. ‘The overall impact of the transition to net zero on public finances is likely to be negative,’ it states – coming on a day with yet another dire set of figures on public borrowing.

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@LostInCalifornia @stephagain I have no idea who that is. Did he have a plot-significant physical trait that it’s impossible for the actor to share?

(If they wanted a non-white actor, why not —say— an Indian one who could get the hair right?)

@stephagain How are they going to give him long, greasy hair?

@KeepTakingTheSoma @polarisera @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain I suspect it’s a riff on the old joke about lesbians going on one date and then renting a U-Haul truck so that they can move in together, ie he’s saying they want a woman who will move in with them straight away.

This could be bad: collision between two ships, one an oil tanker, both on fire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t

Oh ffs.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14461483/Possessing-photos-Muslim-woman-without-hijab-criminal-offence-MPs-say.html

The Commons' women and equalities committee said pictures of a Muslim woman without her headscarf – taken without her consent – should be considered 'non-consensual intimate images'.

Such photographs should be treated the same as child sex abuse images, possession of which can carry long prison sentences, the MPs said.

@KeepTakingTheSoma So many utterly surprising news stories on so many topics lately! Truly, we are in an age of historic investigative journalism!

No shit, Sherlock.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14456643/Britains-Net-Zero-drive-families-poorer-Experts-say-decarbonisation-bid-blame-UKs-productivity-crisis-despite-business-chiefs-claim-83bn-boost-economy-year.html

A new report, by researchers at investment bank Peel Hunt, questioned whether Britain's decarbonisation efforts were to blame for the country's productivity crisis.

They found a 'clear link' between falling energy capacity and weak productivity in the UK, which has 'hurt economic performance and growth in living standards'.

A decline in UK electricity supply, which began in 2006, coincided with the start of structural weakness in productivity growth, the research added.

The economists said their analysis challenges the Government's claim that there is no trade-off between Net Zero and economic growth.

3/6. Think this may be my favourite so far, it might well end up in the centre position.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @Lady_Penelope @HebrideanHecate It’s practical, too: the cows are dry, the chickens are off lay, we’ve eaten most of the meat that was slaughtered before winter (and that we haven’t will soon be rotten as the temperatures increase), hunting is out if you want decent stocks for the future, the vegetable stores are nearly bare: let’s make a virtue of necessity and call it a religious fast. That way the peasants won’t complain so much that they only have bread and thin gruel.

Here we go again… :(

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/03/mannheim-germany-suspected-attack-live/

A major police operation is taking place in the German city of Mannheim amid reports of a suspected car ramming. A car reportedly drove into a parade ground and hit a group of people, according to witnesses.

There are reports of multiple casualties.

Local police said a large-scale police operation was under way in the city centre, without giving further details.

https://archive.ph/qSPKr

(Long)

https://newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/witches-and-babies-and-dei-oh-my

During the witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries birth control and non-procreative sex were literally demonised, and this took place in the context not only of population decline, but also a philosophical and political fixation on the connection between a country’s population size and its wealth. At the same time as witches were being hunted down, states also redefined what constituted a reproductive crime, with abortion and contraception now becoming officially criminalised. Meanwhile childbirth, previously almost exclusively the domain of women, now required a surveillance of a male doctor. By the beginning of the 17th century in France and England, writes Federici, “the first male midwives began to appear and, within a century, obstetrics has come almost entirely under state control.”

Alongside this state-sponsored reproductive terrorism came the increasing relegation of women to the home “in a way unknown in previous societies”, alongside the systematic devaluation of their labour. Reproductive work which previously had not been separated out from productive work, all of it being recognised as essential to the maintenance of family life, became officially non-work. Indeed, even when women did engage in market work at home, it was argued by public authorities that this too was not work.

@KeepTakingTheSoma I doubt the all-powerful ECHR would approve.

Believe it when I see it….

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/27/france-migrant-boats-bruno-retailleau-police-yvette-cooper/

Bruno Retailleau, the French interior minister, announced on Thursday that he is seeking a law change to allow migrants to be tackled out of boats in shallow water.

The rule change will also allow police to use their own boats for the first time to take on people smugglers carrying migrants to the UK in overloaded vessels.

French law currently prohibits police from tackling a migrant boat once it has entered the water, leaving officers only able to launch a rescue operation.

People smuggling gangs have begun using “taxi boats”, which remain in the water and collect migrants from beaches in Northern France, without setting foot on land.

The tactic allows smugglers to evade capture, forcing police to conduct rescue operations rather than arresting the perpetrators.

https://archive.ph/lYpqy

@HebrideanHecate This and the maternal mortality rate, it seems like there won’t be any women in the country in a decade or two.

“This latest awful incident is a continuation of the escalating threat posed by ADF militants in the country’s north east region. In 2014, the group intensified attacks in Beni territory in North Kivu province, and since then attacks have spread to the territories of Irumu and Mambasa in Ituri province, and now it’s affecting Lubero. In the last month alone, the group have killed more than 200 people in Baswagha chiefdom,” the charity said, citing a local news website.

They said that, in 2024, 355 people had been killed in DRC for their faith whilst an estimated 10,000 were internally displaced, which is ten times more than 2023.

“Houses have been looted and burnt, schools relocated, churches and health facilities closed, and several Christian villages have been abandoned altogether,” Open Door said.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-70-missing-people-found-34682991

At least 70 bodies have been found beheaded in a church with most having been held hostage.

The horrific discovery was made in an abandoned village in the DR Congo this Friday. The victims, reported to be hostages of the ADF rebels, were found in a Protestant church in Kasanga, where people had left after repeated attacks. […]

The ADF - Allied Defence Forces - are affiliated to ISIS and they are seen as the most deadly armed group in the region. […]

The dead in the church massacre are understood to be among the dozens of people who have been reported missing since last Wednesday in the village. Horrific details from local media have revealed that they were decapitated using machetes.