@Alfred Did Scandinavian explorers keep encountering Irish hermits on their voyages?

@Alfred How much shorter were earth days 2,000 and 200,000 years ago than they are now?

Russia using chemical choking weapons in Ukraine, US says.
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Chloropicirin is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Russia signed.

Not an isolated incident.

#News #Ukraine #Russia #ChemicalWeapon

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68941220

@Alfred What species of penguin did the Batman villain Penguin most resemble?

Some thoughts on immigration. Without more immigration, the US population will decline and age rapidly. Social Security and Medicare will become unsustainable in anything resembling their current form. Trump's plan to deport millions of immigrants would accelerate the process, yet it is popular with the electorate.

Year to date murder comparison. For 222 cities, we're down 20% from the same period last year.

Link shows breakdowns by city.

#Statistics #Murder #News

https://www.ahdatalytics.com/dashboards/ytd-murder-comparison/

Found on another site.

Which was the worse 1970s trend, carpeted bathrooms or conversation pits?

How far could America’s stockmarket fall?
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A reversion to the average, which is around four percentage points, would entail share prices dropping by 29% at current bond yields.... For much of the 2010s the yield gap hovered around six percentage points; in the ... years following the financial crisis of 2007-09, it was more like eight. A return to those levels would require share-price crashes of 47% and 57%, respectively.
/Nosanitize

The Economist "gift" article.
https://econ.st/49Zahnh

RFK Jr. hits back after Trump’s ‘barely coherent’ rant
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“When frightened men take to social media they risk descending into vitriol, which makes them sound unhinged,” Kennedy said Saturday in a social media post on X. “President Trump’s rant against me is a barely coherent barrage of wild and inaccurate claims that should best be resolved in the American tradition of presidential debate.”
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When RFK Jr. calls you unhinged. 😜

#Politics #Trump #RFKJr

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4626758-rfk-jr-hits-back-after-trumps-barely-coherent-rant/

The 'peak boomer' crisis might only get worse: A fifth of Americans 50 and up have no retirement savings, and the majority are worried they won't have enough money

#Retirement

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/ar-AA1nILeT

Hatred of Jews in the university
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Oh, it must be hard to be an anti-Israel protester at an elite US university these days. You just want to demonstrate against the war in Gaza, against Israel and the policies of US President Joe Biden - and, oops, you insulted a few Jews, wished them dead and presented yourself as a friend of Hamas and other terrorist groups."

#News #Politics #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #AntiSemitism

https://taz.de/Judenhass-in-der-Universitaet/!6004718/

@Alfred What happened on January 6, 2021, and why did it happen?

This should be interesting:

Andrew Tate’s trial on charges of rape and human trafficking can start, a Romanian court rules

#News #AndrewTate

https://apnews.com/article/andrew-tate-romania-trial-human-trafficking-rape-4dde5de557094c6eadde73722833327a

In twenty years, will most new private vehicles be:

#60MinutePoll

Trumpification of the Supreme Court
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No previous president has sought to overthrow the Constitution by staying in power after losing an election. . . . [W]hich is why these questions are being raised now. Pretending that these matters concern the powers of the presidency more broadly is merely the path the justices sympathetic to Trump have chosen to take in order to rationalize protecting the man they would prefer to be the next president.

#SCOTUS /nosanitize

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-presidential-inmunity-supreme-court/678193/?gift=O-AWpMhCtyNw9PpyihLNfKDQ06LXVG7YDMps0pGx1xk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share