@elonmusk Does anyone have a simple answer for why it seems that the richer/more developed a country becomes, the fewer babies people have? Conversely, the countries with the highest fertility rates tend to be very poor, fragile, conflict-affected states?
Excellent geography trivia: One third of the population of Switzerland lives within 5 kilometers of the main train line crossing the country. Source: https://t.co/C5EkL08ceC
Horrifying CNN investigation into a Guantanamo-style Israeli detention center, where prisoners from Gaza are "beaten for revenge," doctors amputated limbs due to constant handcuffing, and the air is filled with the "smell of neglected wounds left to rot." https://t.co/kl6HBU2zcb
Israel has dropped almost 30,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 100 days, eight times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war.
It’s not war. It’s genocide.
“This is not a normal war. The war in Ukraine has killed 500 kids in two years and the war in Gaza has killed over 10,000 in less than five months. We have seen wars before but this is something that is a dark stain on our shared humanity.” -Dr. Fozia Alvi https://t.co/6kYj7ICWdP
In Bergen, Norway, there are no garbage trucks and no trash piling up on streets because all over town, there are receptacles that connect to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit, and then WHOOSH...it's off to the recycling center. 🤯
This is unprecedented as far as I know. It is, in fact, historic. Biden staffers organized a vigil outside the #WhiteHouse calling on their boss to call for a ceasefire.
Wow!
And to the staffers, thank you so much!