American cops famously never kill anyone and the economy is great. Look at these poor venezuelans standing in line for the food bank handouts, they clearly yearn for freedom. Thank you for liberating them!
> be microplastics researcher 2015
> develop better detection method
> can see particles 10x smaller than before
> run samples
> counts 100x higher than previous estimates
> publish
> conclusion: "more research needed"
> funding expires
> be different researcher 2020
> even better detection
> same samples
> counts higher still
> publish
> grant rejected: "not novel"
> be researcher 2024
> can now detect nanoplastics
> counts astronomical
> particles in brain tissue, testes, placentas
> concentrations increasing decade over decade
> publish
> industry response: "correlation not causation"
> plastic production: up 4%
every improvement in measurement finds worse news. thats not uncertainty. thats the answer
Citizens United turned every election into an auction, and we'll never overturn it by continually electing the people who benefit from it, and rely on it, the most.
The oil companies were informed about an act of war before it happened, Congress was not.
That, my friends, is what an authoritarian regime run by oligarchs looks like.