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| CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #393 [archive] DEC. 11, 2023 |
And now the news. Most of it’s bad.Texas woman leaves state to have abortion after Texas Supreme Court paused ruling that would have allowed it
I will try to hold back too many profanities, but it’s seriously
FUCKED UP that anyone but this woman and her doctor know that she’s
pregnant, with a doomed fetus, and needs an abortion, and it’s FUCKED UP
that anyone gets to overrule her decision, and it’s FUCKED UP that she
has to flee the state during what’s obviously a traumatic time for her, and it’s
FUCKED UP that the FUCKERS will vilify her now, hell maybe even
prosecute her, and it’s FUCKED UP that making the worst days of her life much more
difficult is “good politics” in the state of Texas, which, by the way,
is an utterly FUCKED UP place.
November is the sixth straight month to set a heat record, scientists say
Meanwhile, the 28th UN Climate Change Conference is happening in the United Arab Emirates, busily accomplishing jack crap.
I’ve said all this before, sorry, but it pisses me off. Argue with me, please, ‘cuz I’d love to be wrong, but there’s no solution to the climate catastrophe that doesn’t involve reining in global capitalism and ending the use of fossil fuels, which not only won’t be allowed, it won’t even be considered.
So there’s no solution. Things are gonna get unfathomably ugly on this planet — every day a disaster, everywhere. You might be gone soon enough to die of old age, but the next generation will have lives of perpetual tragedy, and your grandkids will have nasty, brutish, and short lives you wouldn’t recognize.
We could’ve avoided it, could’ve survived, but there was money to be made.
Why I am an anarchist
by Benjamin Zephaniah How a factory city in Wisconsin fed military-grade weapons to a Mexican cartel
After hack at Seattle cancer clinic, patients receive threatening emails 23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
In 1997, Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill climbed a 1000-year-old redwood tree and lived there for two years Biden administration uses emergency authority to sell tank shells to Israel
McDonald’s plans to add about 10,000 new stores worldwide by 2027
There should be a Smallpox Eradication Day, every December 9th
University of Wisconsin regents reject Republican ‘deal with the devil’ that would’ve gutted diversity Web filters block students from reading the news
Texas Justice who voted to block woman’s emergency abortion was arrested 37 times protesting at clinics Missouri Republicans propose bills to allow murder charges for women who get abortions
Meet the woman training parents how to get books banned When moviemakers say “We didn’t use CGI effects,” they’re usually lying The making of Brazil
• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by.• The Police Problem
All about about ordinary evil cops.
Guns cops claimed were destroyed were instead dismantled and sold as ‘nearly complete’ gun kits Chicago built a new police team to rebuild community trust. It harassed drivers of color instead.
Los Angeles Police issue warning about “possible first amendment activity” NYPD imposes no discipline on cops who drove SUVs into protesters
Dude had a knife, but was putting it down, and 40 feet away from cops when they shot him 16 times Trump says he’ll indemnify “policemen, precincts, cities, and states” from any police brutality lawsuits
♫♬ MUSIC ♫ Alpha Centauri — Alan Parsons Project Don’t Fear the Reaper — Blue Oyster Cult with more cowbell Make It Rain — Tom Waits Science Fiction Double Feature — Rocky HorrorWe are Building a Religion — Cake
12/11/2023
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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