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our midwife gave us some very solid advice to talk about with the pediatrician and ended it with "make sure to tell him you got this fror chatgpt and not a midwife, it makes doctors take you more seriously" :agony:

honestly she is such a well of information and such a kind-hearted good person and an elite expert, the stuff this woman can recall of the top of her head is mind-boggling, but gets slandered by our pediatricians boss it's fucking gut-wrenching. They keep saying that she is part of some circle of sheisters that recommend unnecessary procedures to make bank and we know the truth but there's nothing we can do...

When the state climatologist warns he’s not going to sugarcoat the drought we’re in, expect a bitter pill.

The traditional April 1 water outlook from Colorado Climate Center’s Russ Schumacher puts the water equivalent in the dismal snowpack at just 22% of the historic median for the date, far lower than any year they’ve recorded under the current system.

Did you know it was 99 degrees in Burlington, at the Kansas border, on March 25? That had escaped us, too. But Schumacher cites that shocker to underline how quickly the sun blasted out the statewide snowpack in the last two weeks of March.

The average liquid water stored in Colorado’s snow was down to 3.1 inches on April 1. That’s less than 40% of what remained on that date in the previous lowest year, 2012, when 9.1 inches of water equivalent was still left in the pack.

“It’s now safe to conclude that this has been the worst year for Colorado snowpack in recorded history,” Schumacher wrote in his blog Thursday.

There are a few snowballs of hope left, way back in the freezer behind the Bomb Pops and the chicken nuggets. While the assessment stops March 31, April is starting off fairly April-y, Schumacher noted. There was some snow in the mountains April 1, and temperature and storm forecasts for the month show a more typical spring pattern of cool periods that help preserve what’s left in the snowbanks.

Still, the Climate Center acknowledges it’s hard to look beyond the visceral impact of the red-hot maps they are showing around. The meteorologists mapped all the places in Colorado that experienced a full seven days this March that were hotter than any other March days recorded for the past 75 years.

“That’s right: a whole week’s worth,” Schumacher wrote.

The map, as you can see here, is disturbingly, deeply red.

its reddit so take it with a pinch of salt

About 2 weeks ago this doctor in India received a patient with a Staph infection that was resistant to every single antibiotic they tried, the patient died and was turned over to India's CDC. Now a second patient has turned up with the same infection and it turns out that they worked at the same factory producing antibiotics and that environment provided the ideal conditions for antibiotic resistant bacteria to develop because of the ambient amount of antibiotics in the factory.

"Snow surveys taking place across the American west this week are offering a grim prognosis, after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures left the critical snowpack at record-low levels across the region.

Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead. Though there’s still potential for more snow in the forecast, experts said it will probably be too little too late."

"California’s Sierra Nevada had just 4.9in of SWE, or 18% of average, as of Monday, ahead of the state’s official 1 April survey, according to the state’s department of water resources. In the Colorado River headwaters, an important basin that supplies more than 40 million people across several states, along with 5.5m acres of agriculture, 30 tribal nations, and parts of Mexico, had just over 4in of SWE on Monday, or 24% of average. That’s less than half what was previously considered the record low.

Schumacher said the incoming storm could slow the early melting but won’t be enough to pull the basins back from the brink. Snow water equivalent measurements going into April were at levels typically seen in May or June, after months of melt-off, according to Schumacher."

Super El Nino? Super Warming is the Main Issue. [James Hansen]

Summary. Climate science pundits who previously overlooked the possibility of an El Nino this year now seem to be jumping on a Super El Nino bandwagon. El Nino strength and frequency are important, especially the issue of whether these are being modified by global warming. However, a more important topic is the ongoing, extraordinary, acceleration of ocean surface warming.

Deny deny deny. Anyway this is a good read regarding the El Nino brewing. Have work or I'd summarize more.

Using copyright laws to take down digital archives and slopifying the internet is the modern equivalent of book burning.

Human progress slows when we lose access to the shoulders of giants and forget the lessons we've already learned as a species.

https://www.ventusky.com/snow-cover-map/total

Very cool+normal. It was 11C above what it should be today, with nature up to two months ahead of its normal patterns. This has been our warmest winter since the 1930s and driest since the 1980s at least.

The trend is becoming so pronounced, the researchers estimate, that it could start to cause serious health issues within just 50 years.

Given that humans have spent the majority of our evolutionary lifespan with a “usually stable level of atmospheric CO2,” the recent rise in airborn carbon pollution has forced our bones to compensate. As the researchers blunty explain: “human physiology has progressively and consistently altered over the last ~25 years.”

In unsurprising news - she's a fundie.

Six weeks ago, Ethan Moran Lopez was like most 7-year-olds — spending the weekend riding his new bike or playing Minecraft on his iPad on a rainy day.

“He just learned how to ride, he got the hang of it right away,” Ethan’s dad, Luis Moran Lopez, said proudly. “He wanted to go outside because he wanted to jump on his bike it was an amazing thing for him.”

Instead, since late January, the schoolboy has been confined to a hospital bed with measles encephalitis, a complication that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain. “He's pretty much as if he was paralyzed,” his devastated father, 41, told The Independent in a phone interview from his son’s hospital bedside.

Ethan’s parents decided not to immunize him against measles as they did with his three brothers. Three out of four of them contracted measles. Still, despite Ethan’s ordeal, his mom stands by their decision. “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina Moran Lopez. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

This man will kill all life on earth to make a buck. What the actual hell is happening?? I heard someone once say that the Capitalist is not the lord of capitalism, but rather that Capital itself is. I see it so clearly now. No human acting in their own best interest would do this shit, but someone acting in the interest of Capital certainly would. A human could see that this will result in the death of millions, possibly (likely) including themselves, but Capital sees nothing because it is an abstract concept that has no agency yet many agents. Everything's fucked.

Things aren't getting worse. It's all in your head. All hail our glorious capitalist empire.

Imagine hearing this and not being able to leave New Orleans. It's the closest we've come so far to the apocalyptic meteor or imminent nuclear attack announcement.

"Persons, pets, and livestock exposed to the winds will face certain death if struck. Power outages will last for weeks as most poles will be down and transformers destroyed. Water shortages will make human suffering incredible by modern standards."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_bulletin_for_Hurricane_Katrina

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one life, one body. one existence.

And this is what I get. Born wrong, deformed, mutilated. Everything forever wrong. An outsider. Stuck in pain.

People have told me I'm grieving and I have to accept this, I can't. I can't stop thinking about it. About what should have been. What never can be.

And that's it, isn't it. I get one chance at this and this is what I get. I wish I'd been aborted and someone else got to live.

If the planet's gonna die and everything on it with it, why drag it out this long? Just end it all at once and quit putting innocents through the ringer while fascist pedophiles get everything they want and live a life of luxury.

I swear if a world-ending meteor starts hurling towards the earth, I'm considering starting or joining a cult to worship that damn thing.

I'm hoping for the AI bubble to pop. I want to see Nvidia and X and Tesla and Microslop and OpenAI all crash and burn.

But there's another part of me that knows there's a good historical precedent for what happens in these situations. My brain is zapped but Larry Fink was the architect of the previous market crash that led to BlackRock profiteering wildly and becoming the immense beast that it is today.

I know that the big AI companies/AI affiliated companies are what is keeping the US economy afloat at the moment and I know the US will play the "too big to fail" card to do yet-another immense transfer of wealth from the proles directly to these companies in the form of bailouts.

I don't think AI-only companies are gonna survive this. I think OpenAI might be the first domino to fall. But Google commands a vast amount of diversified income sources, unlike OpenAI, and I wonder if almost every other big player in AI will get swept under but, with big bailouts and the power that Google commands, it feels like they will be poised to gobble up all the smaller fish and expand their monopoly to integrate themselves into every level of government administration as the government cuts back on expenditures to weather the fallout from the bubble popping plus the immense cost of bailouts, so I can see it being a Faustian bargain where money goes into Google (either directly or indirectly), Google vacuums up all the business and especially the data centers, then Google offers the insolvent US government the "solution" of selling them terminals for every citizen interfacing role that runs on AI and embedding AI in all sorts of bureaucratic processes that occur mostly behind the scenes. For a "small" fee, of course. (Or maybe Palantir or some scumfuck company like Larry Ellison's swoops in and profiteers from the fire sale as the market burns.)

(I'd explain all the fuckery with Larry Fink and BlackRock and how I anticipate the parallels to play out this time around but there's a lot of threads and I'd have to have the brain power available to brush up on the sources and weave the narrative together but that's not gonna happen for me today. Has TrueAnon covered BlackRock yet?)

Strange to think that the scenario of the AI bubble popping and causing all sorts of economic catastrophe for the working class people around the world while the US starts to crumble and descend into fascism and civil war is my optimistic take and that my doomer take is that AI collapses but it doesn't take the market with it and instead AI gets monopolized, bailed out, and forcibly integrated into all levels of society while the US descends into fascism and civil war.

It's 2026 and people still say shit like "communism is when government does a thing so the US army doing bad shit isn't capitalism actually!"

I know this probably isn't helpful to say but sometimes I wonder if it's even possible to reach people politically when peoples understanding is so warped and confused. How do we fight against such a giant flow of ignorance and propaganda?

It feels like an impossible task when people don't even know what words mean.

I really appreciate and respect people who continue to try and educate people on these things because they must have the patience of a saint to not get burnt out.

EDIT: man, you guys are giving me such detailed answers that I totally don't deserve. Thank you, and sorry for my initial defeatism.

CW: drunken ramble and depressing realities

i've been spending a lot of time reading about ww1 and ww2, maybe all of that is getting to my head but surely ww3 will be so much worse. it is inevitable right? imperialist cooperation is breaking down in front of our eyes. America is effectively becoming if not aleady a fascist state. I cannot see an outcome that is not global warfare.

those wars were awful, I mean truly violence I cannot comprehend. I read about these events through an academic lense and I am so detached from the horror of them but I am horrified by the knowledge that my future is likely worse. what can we even do? are we even capable of avoiding this fate? I wonder if global socialism will be born through rubble and famine. i do not want to starve.

I am not asking for comfort, though I am not entirely sure why I am making this post. I don't want sympathy to be clear. idk. I am just reading about China's situation before communism and holy shit it was so awful. I am so seperated from the reality they experienced that I don't think I can fully fathom it.

I am sorry if this is a meaningless ramble I decided to drink tonight bc of the winter storm and I am in a crisis mode. I don't want to see my partner suffer. they deserve a better life than we are going to get. I wish a better world was possible without having to suffer so much for it but maybe that is the priviledge speaking. I dont't know how I can look her in the eyes and tell her it is worth it. I just want to escape.

I often wonder what my life would be like without these attachments. I want to give myself fully to resistance and while I am not afraid of losing my life doing so I am terrified of my loved ones suffering because of it. I don't my partner and my family to suffer because I oppose fascism. I don't want the reality of what america is to destroy the people I love. I am terrified that there is no hope for this place. i don't want to be executed in the streets but I can't not act. the more a learn about the past the more terrified I am of the future.

I am glad I found hexbear and I am glad ti changed my perspective on the world but holy shit have I suffered for it. fascism is terrifying but I can't not act against it. I am only putting this in doomer because it feels wrong for main or chat.

CW: drunken ramble and depressing realities

i've been spending a lot of time reading about ww1 and ww2, maybe all of that is getting to my head but surely ww3 will be so much worse. it is inevitable right? imperialist cooperation is breaking down in front of our eyes. America is effectively becoming if not aleady a fascist state. I cannot see an outcome that is not global warfare.

those wars were awful, I mean truly violence I cannot comprehend. I read about these events through an academic lense and I am so detached from the horror of them but I am horrified by the knowledge that my future is likely worse. what can we even do? are we even capable of avoiding this fate? I wonder if global socialism will be born through rubble and famine. i do not want to starve.

I am not asking for comfort, though I am not entirely sure why I am making this post. I don't want sympathy to be clear. idk. I am just reading about China's situation before communism and holy shit it was so awful. I am so seperated from the reality they experienced that I don't think I can fully fathom it.

I am sorry if this is a meaningless ramble I decided to drink tonight bc of the winter storm and I am in a crisis mode. I don't want to see my partner suffer. they deserve a better life than we are going to get. I wish a better world was possible without having to suffer so much for it but maybe that is the priviledge speaking. I dont't know how I can look her in the eyes and tell her it is worth it. I just want to escape.

I often wonder what my life would be like without these attachments. I want to give myself fully to resistance and while I am not afraid of losing my life doing so I am terrified of my loved ones suffering because of it. I don't my partner and my family to suffer because I oppose fascism. I don't want the reality of what america is to destroy the people I love. I am terrified that there is no hope for this place. i don't want to be executed in the streets but I can't not act. the more a learn about the past the more terrified I am of the future.

I am glad I found hexbear and I am glad ti changed my perspective on the world but holy shit have I suffered for it. fascism is terrifying but I can't not act against it. I am only putting this in doomer because it feels wrong for main or chat. the communist of our past are so much braver than me. I am gonna burn some incense and think for a while.

I've already asked that question on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, so I had to ask it again here in this Lemmy community.