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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0e485wwwo Florida is aiming to become the first US state to cancel all of its vaccine mandates, many of which require children to get jabs against diseases like polio in order to attend public schools. The state's top health official, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, likened the mandates to "slavery", in announcing the plans. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body?" he said. "I don't have that right. Your body is a gift from God." Florida officials did not give a timeline or details on ending the mandates. Several may only be repealed through a vote by the Republican-led state legislature, while others can be scrapped by the state health department. Ladapo, though, pledged several times during Wednesday's news conference to end "all of them, every last one of them". MTDDGA - Make Transmissible (and) Debilitating Diseases Great Again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0x2kx08wdo Quite apart from being met by five armed fuzz coming off a plane, here's some more enlightening stuff Mr Linehan has been up to.

One of the late weekday kickoffs from when I was working in the Far East (4am kickoff over there). Only got to know there had been a game on when I woke up the following morning.

Six years and plenty of events later, is this still unpopular?

The legal definition and prosecutable range of a crime against humanity should be expanded to include acts that destroy or lead to the destruction of resources that are vitally important to humans of any nation, like crops and potable water. At the moment, it only appears to include much more direct acts.

You're absolutely right, and therein lies a key, damaging weakness.

Addendum: this is happening already and has done for a long time. Social media has helped accelerate it.

That sounds ideal in principle. Given attitudes at the moment, I do wonder how it would work in practice, though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwyvyqkx9yo One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time. The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to reach the South Pole more than a century ago. The British party lost the race to the pole, and died on their return journey in 1912. The footage shows the Terra Nova colonised with sea life, but key features of the wooden ship are still visible including its wheel, winch and mast. Interesting piece. The more you look at what happened though, Scott really didn't stand a chance. Amundsen was better prepared, better equipped and a better leader.

I think this is a tricky one with few good options - there's too many people who simply do not think that the way things are being expressed right now isn't (at least from some areas) blatantly bigoted. So calling them out directly won't work, and neither appears to be the approach they've taken with "legitimate concerns". Third option?

It's been interesting reading all of this over the past day or so. Lots of parallels when complaining on the main forum section about the LCFC manager - criticism, some of it warranted based on results, but precious little discussion of which viable alternative would be better and why.

Anti future of the biosphere, with all that entails.

It's their reporting on matters of science policy that could and in all likelihood will lead to the most damage IMO.

There's a lot of things that really shouldn't be a debate, tbh. Unfortunately, in this era, it appears that even established fact is up for the talking shop. Not a good thing in a lot of circumstances of course.

Fair enough, if someone thinks it's zero tolerance then it's zero tolerance. That's an entirely legit viewpoint to take. Just to be clear though, I don't have a horse in this particular race, and I'm going to appeal to much bigger problems as my area of focus. If she goes, she goes, if she stays, she stays.

Guess it depends if a person thinks the involvement of more money makes them think it's a bigger problem that deserves a greater level of attention. I think that's reasonably self-evident, but each to their own. NB. Still curious about linking more conservative viewpoints with self-interest and towards the future, if anyone wants to voice an opinion rather than tactfully avoiding the topic.

Don't worry, I'm sure his friend Felon#47 will offer him another favour or two for being his man in the UK while he's there.

Love how the UK apparently nicked the Arc d'Triomphe without the French noticing.

And, funnily enough, that attitude to governance can be a little negatively consequential when the problems involve consequences that aren't subject to human control. In short, nature abhors ostriches as much as Big Nige does.

You can want that, sure. But it's clear from their platform and what Tice has said that you can't have it. People should know what they're voting for in terms of policy when they pick a party and own all of it - not just the bits that they wanted to vote for. And that's my point - too often people disingenuously look to disavow horrible things with "that's not what I voted for". Yes, as long as it is quoted policy, when you put vote in, you did. Own the responsibility.

Again, "collateral damage" to "stop the boats", apparently.

Yes. And yet, apparently a statistically significant proportion of people in the UK are willing to write off decent lads like your grandson as collateral damage in order to make a point about another issue.

And we come back again to the definition of life skills and how they are applied. There's so many wooly words, I wish people would define what they mean when they use them a bit more.

In other news, Tice choosing SEN kids as the next Reform target. Well, it was either that or the LGBT community as a whole, I guess.

And to add to this, such incitement can now easily become a matter of political policy, by virtue of digital media bringing enough people together to form a significant voting bloc on an issue. That lets the extremism described above not only become normalised, but politically acceptable.