The fact that there is a real and well studied association between major football matches and an increase in reported domestic abuse is so heartbreaking. 💔
It's 9 days to the 3rd edition of the #ChaptersOverJava bookclub meeting....
Which of these are you and who do you know? (Tag them 🤣)
...missed the late comer who didn't read💀
Excited to see you all on 25th at @JavaHouseUG Naguru.
Living in a world where Nature is dying at a rapid pace, leading the extinction of all life on Earth because humans are completely detached from our humanity and have no respect for life... this is incredibly grotesque.
I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.
They raised me to be one of those mute and timid children who eventually became a mute and timid adult, yet everyone is surprised that I’m failing job interviews. I’m scared to speak freely with most of the adults in my life.
Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.
when we say “crime is a social construct”.
what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.
A country’s vitality is deeply tied to the value it affords to human life in every form and condition, acknowledging the dignity endowed upon every human person by virtue of their very existence. The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to support, protect and cherish the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned.
Most families in Uganda don't know palliative care services exist, or that some are free.
Here's a thread on every major source of palliative support in Uganda 🧵👇
#PalliativeCare#Uganda
If technology becomes the ultimate criterion, the human person risks being reduced to data, a cog in a machine or a commodity. If, however, technology is integrated with a wise perspective, it can become an instrument of growth, justice and fraternity. #MagnificaHumanitas
Take any population on earth.
For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.
Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.
Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.
Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.
When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.
Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.
Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.
Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.
Put the results on a map.
Call the map a "nature documentary."
Tell yourself the scores show something biological.
Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.
Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.
You did not follow the evidence.
You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.
And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.
… Russian here.
When a woman finds out she’s pregnant, here’s what happens:
She registers with her local women’s clinic or doctor.
Appointment usually within days or weeks.
Regular check-ups throughout pregnancy as needed.
Three routine ultrasound screenings included.
All antenatal care is covered through the state health system.
The birth itself is also free.
After the birth: parents receive a one-time birth payment of around 28,450 rubles for each child.
Families are also eligible for maternity capital:
728,922 rubles for a first child, or up to 963,243 rubles for families who become eligible with a second child.
Paid maternity leave is provided for 140 days, with payments based on the mother’s salary.
Parents can then take parental leave, with state benefits available for up to three years.
Public healthcare for children is free.
Subsidized daycare and preschool are widely available.
No insurance.
No denied claims.
No bill.
Hi... Norwegian here.
When a woman finds out she’s pregnant, here’s what happens:
She calls her GP or midwife.
Appointment within a week.
7 check-ups across the pregnancy.
Two ultrasounds included.
All antenatal care is 100% free.
The birth itself is also free.
After the birth: A year of paid leave.
Then daycare at $124/month.
No insurance.
No denied claims.
No bill.
Just a system that says: we’ve got you..