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And depending on one's amount of cynicism towards the future, that word could mean any one of a range of things in this context.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crljn5046epo A US-funded flight carrying the first group of 59 white South Africans has landed in Washington where the Trump administration is to grant them refugee status. President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country's Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of "racial discrimination". ...Asked directly on Monday why Afrikaners' refugee applications had been expedited compared with other groups, Trump said a "genocide" was taking place and that "white farmers" specifically were being targeted. "Farmers are being killed, they happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me." As Trump whoppers go, that one is a pretty decent-sized one.

More on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwynl8jv4gjo Apparently, people of colour don't deserve due process. Saying the quiet part rather loudly now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3q5xl9wqwo A top general who failed to report evidence of alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan later oversaw the rejection of hundreds of UK resettlement applications from Afghan commandos who served with the elite regiment, BBC Panorama can reveal. Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins led UK Special Forces (UKSF) in Afghanistan at a time when alleged war crimes were committed. He later appointed a UKSF officer under his command, who had also served in Afghanistan, to assess the Afghan commando applications after special forces headquarters was given a controversial veto over them. Thousands of applications from individuals with credible evidence of service with Afghan Special Forces, including the units known as the Triples, were then rejected, leaving many of the former commandos at the mercy of the Taliban. The rejections are controversial because they came at a time when a judge-led public inquiry in the UK had begun investigating the SAS for alleged war crimes on operations on which the Triples were present. If the Afghan commandos were in the UK, they could be called as witnesses - but the inquiry has no power to compel testimony from foreign nationals who are overseas. Some of those denied visas were subsequently tortured and killed by the Taliban, according to former colleagues, family members and lawyers. Not exactly cricket from the UK military establishment, that.

Most likely, yes. Destroying the civilisational future of our species to "own the libs" (including that rather mythical ideal of "Western civilisation" that they like to go on about).

"Presenting the Cyberlife ST200, the very latest in home care solutions..." (BTW, Detroit: Become Human is an awesome game and lots of folks should play it.)

... why isn't Alex Jones bankrupt and begging on the street for the money he has to give to the relatives of Sandy Hook victims yet?

... anyone seeing the resemblance to Goebbels here?

I think a lot of the powers that be are relying on automation to take over a lot of manual labour jobs rather soon. Can't see it filling the gap that is needed in any way near a satisfactory fashion, but that appears to be the path being taken.

Frozen Planet II. "Here's the awe inspiring beauty of the poles and the life within it... and here's how our species is categorically fvcking it all up for them." Absolutely worth the watch.

It's been talked about for years that potable water - and all the uses it has, including growing crops - will become a vital strategic resource in the future as the world changes. The people that have the power to do something about it (and tbf a lot of the people that vote for them) just haven't listened enough and considered it not a problem in their time, or have listened and let it happen anyway because being top dog in a broken world is better than actually being one human being among many in a more equitable one.

Remember folks - a hug is always less costly than a bullet.

If this is the case, then I reckon there are two options: - Sit down and talk and come to an amicable agreement about differences - Let things escalate until the obvious outcome occurs (lots and lots of death and suffering of innocent people regardless of demographic) and when enough blood has been spilled, then talk. Always thought the second option seemed rather pointless and redundant but it seems that others think differently.

I reckon there's a whole load of horrible about the 90s-2000s music/showbiz industry that we don't know about yet.

Pretty much. And that is the real problem - it's that the extremes of weather are showing up more frequently. Those extremes are only going to become more pronounced as global average temperatures increase.

... and it seems that trend is alive and kicking into May, too.

Par for the course for the Heil.

Yeah. Even if the latter will, in the end, be responsible for a toll of misery orders of magnitude higher than the former. Edit: and that's the true art of science communication; you can't sidestep that lack of rationality, so you have to account for it and make things work in spite of it.

It's remarkable how inability to learn from the past appears to be buried into the human psyche, isn't it?

And the problem is that there are people in high places that know this and are encouraging the social deprivation because firstly it's good for business in of itself, and also because a good race/religion/ideological divide keeps the attention away from them, as well as (for some of them) being exactly what they want in terms of their own ideology.

If he is, then I think the final part of that sentence will become pretty much a certainty. Here's hoping the UK follows the recent Canada/Australia route instead.

I totally agree that things appear to be being pushed to 11. I also think folks like Farage are doing a lot of the pushing, and it is worrying because logically I only see it ending one way.

If these are both true, then all we can really do is preserve what we can for the record to ensure that whatever intelligent species succeeds us doesn't repeat our short-sighted and self-interested mistakes. But speaking personally, I'm not giving up just yet.

It was ever thus, mon ami. The real trick of SciComm is to use the one to get people to care - and act - about both.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyglw20lg2o Trump's sycophants not happy that the new Pope sees a large chunk of in need human beings as exactly that rather than something that they found on the bottom of their shoe... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2q937wlqgo ... but these in need human beings are apparently deserving of their help. I wonder why?