#reconnectingconsequencestocauses — Public Fediverse posts

@tweetsjen
… safe in the knowledge that there will be no consequences for them! No negative consequences that is, because there *are* positive consequences - they’re all getting away with it! Where’s the community outrage?

#USPol #corruption #insiderTrading #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@DemocracyMattersALot

@jasjourno
Just what I was thinking: “by this stage, the pedo vulnerabilities seem increasingly systemic”. Resonates as a warning loud & clear; should *not* be happening, and why it is happening needs to be investigated & curtailed.

#pedophilia #systemic #surveillanceCameras #Flock #USPol #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@dangillmor

@jhaue
Excellent map shows clearly where buffel grass was first spread by camel driving explorers in SA, NT, Qld, & other states… Usual sad story of an invasive species: “Once buffel grass invades, it dominates plant communities, reducing the diversity of native plants.” And animals especially birds, also ants. ☹️

Glad to learn that SA & NT have already declared it a weed (in my mind I say ‘noxious weed’ but not sure that’s true & not just some lingo picked up from somewhere…). 🙂

If we act now we might be able to get on top of it. 🤞
🙏🏻 thanks for sharing this neat piece of research by Dr Ellen Ryan-Colton & associates. Glad your mention spurred me to read it!

#buffelGrass #invasiveSpecies #Australia #SouthAustralia #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://aus.social/@MarkDeasy/116337699027269847

A well-captured zeitgeist: “Australians expect large, competent, interventionist government. Not timid contract managers of publicly funded essential services run for the primary benefit of investors.

“The Party that captures and communicates this imperative the best will win elections.” 🙂

#AusPol #governance #infrastructure #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116291825495347262

Zuck looks like a rabbit in the headlights in the pic. And how’s the arrogance in this statement: “Meta said it respectfully disagreed with the verdict and was evaluating its legal options.”

Good that the article also mentions:

“In a separate case this week, a jury in New Mexico found Meta violated state law by misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms.

AP/Reuters”

#antiSocialMedia #socialMediaAddiction #USPol #Zuck #meta #addiction #mentalHealth #publicHealth #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116291825495347262

Zuck looks like a rabbit in the headlights in the pic. And how’s the arrogance in this statement: “Meta said it respectfully disagreed with the verdict and was evaluating its legal options.”

Good that the article also mentions:

“In a separate case this week, a jury in New Mexico found Meta violated state law by misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms.

AP/Reuters”

#antiSocialMedia #socialMediaAddiction #USPol #Zuck #meta #addiction #mentalHealth #publicHealth #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116291825495347262

Zuck looks like a rabbit in the headlights in the pic. And how’s the arrogance in this statement: “Meta said it respectfully disagreed with the verdict and was evaluating its legal options.”

Good that the article also mentions:

“In a separate case this week, a jury in New Mexico found Meta violated state law by misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms.

AP/Reuters”

#antiSocialMedia #socialMediaAddiction #USPol #Zuck #meta #addiction #mentalHealth #publicHealth #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116291825495347262

Zuck looks like a rabbit in the headlights in the pic. And how’s the arrogance in this statement: “Meta said it respectfully disagreed with the verdict and was evaluating its legal options.”

Good that the article also mentions:

“In a separate case this week, a jury in New Mexico found Meta violated state law by misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms.

AP/Reuters”

#antiSocialMedia #socialMediaAddiction #USPol #Zuck #meta #addiction #mentalHealth #publicHealth #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116291825495347262

Zuck looks like a rabbit in the headlights in the pic. And how’s the arrogance in this statement: “Meta said it respectfully disagreed with the verdict and was evaluating its legal options.”

Good that the article also mentions:

“In a separate case this week, a jury in New Mexico found Meta violated state law by misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms.

AP/Reuters”

#antiSocialMedia #socialMediaAddiction #USPol #Zuck #meta #addiction #mentalHealth #publicHealth #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@violetblue
🙏🏻 It’s short, it’s excellent, it has a high rate of transfer of good & useful information, & he’s wearing a great shirt! Watch it!!

#Covid19 #covid #covidIsNotOver #covidIsAirborne #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@randahl
The contrast could not be any more acute & I hate to think how far the consequences will spread. 🤔
Words fail. Can hardly comprehend this… areal Armageddon 😭

#Armegeddon #USPol #Iran #MiddleEast #consequences #reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116144724922192499

Absolutely disgusting. 😤 Your blood will boil if you read this article; stories of humble people not asking for much, being penalsed & traumatised by auto-algo-AI-slop-stupid & weasel words about ‘fine-tuning’ the system: "It's quite inhumane” is the least of it.🤬
New Minister Sam Rae does not cover himself in glory either - pathetic response. 😤
Hard to believe this is happening so recently after Robodebt & that the public service bureaucracy & the federal govt & indeed other govts have learned so little! Perhaps it’s because no one was adequately punished for Robodebt? ‘AI says No’ has become the excuse of the day. 😤

#AusPol #inhumane #AISlop #AIHarms #ComputerSaysNo #AISaysNo #Robodebt #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Iveyline/116072469891642252

Yes, well said! How long do we have to wait for answers? 🤔 “Who is accountable in the end?” - re Ai-LLM-based “tools” “hallucinating” - much to C-suite surprise; C-suite having already used them to inform Boards, make decisions, etc etc. ☹️
#AI #LLM #Business #accountability #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/116018968676269713

So true… ☹️ I was going to say something glib like ‘another one bites the dust’ but there’ve been so few… & then there’s Starmer puckering up fearfully at his sorry press conference - if only he’d known then what he knows now! [irony]
It’s the lack of consequences that’s most appalling. ☹️

#UKPol #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@stancarey @ploum @Tupp_ed

A lovely read, beautifully written, reminding us that “the European Web… conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits.” 🙂
Redefining ‘success’ as contributing to the commons (copyleft) as opposed to privatising:
“Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

“The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.”
🙏🏻 so much, for writing this, for sharing it 😁

#copyleft #Commons #commonGood #success #redefiningSuccess #EuropeanWeb #trueHeroes #contributors #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@stancarey @ploum @Tupp_ed

A lovely read, beautifully written, reminding us that “the European Web… conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits.” 🙂
Redefining ‘success’ as contributing to the commons (copyleft) as opposed to privatising:
“Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

“The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.”
🙏🏻 so much, for writing this, for sharing it 😁

#copyleft #Commons #commonGood #success #redefiningSuccess #EuropeanWeb #trueHeroes #contributors #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@stancarey @ploum @Tupp_ed

A lovely read, beautifully written, reminding us that “the European Web… conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits.” 🙂
Redefining ‘success’ as contributing to the commons (copyleft) as opposed to privatising:
“Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

“The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.”
🙏🏻 so much, for writing this, for sharing it 😁

#copyleft #Commons #commonGood #success #redefiningSuccess #EuropeanWeb #trueHeroes #contributors #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@stancarey @ploum @Tupp_ed

A lovely read, beautifully written, reminding us that “the European Web… conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits.” 🙂
Redefining ‘success’ as contributing to the commons (copyleft) as opposed to privatising:
“Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

“The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.”
🙏🏻 so much, for writing this, for sharing it 😁

#copyleft #Commons #commonGood #success #redefiningSuccess #EuropeanWeb #trueHeroes #contributors #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@stancarey @ploum @Tupp_ed

A lovely read, beautifully written, reminding us that “the European Web… conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits.” 🙂
Redefining ‘success’ as contributing to the commons (copyleft) as opposed to privatising:
“Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

“The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.”
🙏🏻 so much, for writing this, for sharing it 😁

#copyleft #Commons #commonGood #success #redefiningSuccess #EuropeanWeb #trueHeroes #contributors #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@molly0xfff
Sometimes it feels as if every business in the US is corrupt and every ‘representative’ can be bought by the corrupt. 🙀 Surely it can’t be so? 🤔 But then I look at 47… just modelling rottenness the whole livelong day. ☹️

#corruption #corrupt #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses #rotten #rottenness #rot

RE: https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/115969716823232977

Spain gets it - but their government also *explains* it. 🙂 Faced with an ageing demographic, which means a shrinking working age population, Spain can choose to be closed & poor or to open up and be better off overall. So they’re taking practical steps to better integrate migrants they already have, legally into economic as well as broader society.
🗣️ A lot is said about how previous waves of immigrants want to keep newer waves out (a truism unlikely to be universal in my view*) but isn’t it up to leaders to explain why new people coming into our countries is a good thing & the many steps we can & will take to make it work or to make it work better? 🤔

* Do the children of immigrants feel the same as their parents? Do attitudes vary with education level? Etc. 🤔

#Spain #immigration #demography #leadership #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@koosli
Nice to have such a good crisp summary! Many 🙏🏻 to you & the Grattan Institute. 😁

Gas is interesting: “Gas power generation at its lowest point since 2000. If, as the gas ads tell you, gas is needed to firm renewables, why is gas going down while renewables go up?” Good question!! 🤔

The Qld situation makes their recent actions in favour of fossil fuels (& actively against renewables) look like shutting the stable door after the horse has… All they’re doing is penalising their population. Strange behaviour. 🤔

#renewableEnergy #Queensland #SA #bigBattery #fossilFuels #Gas #Coal #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115961174452820573

Model collapse: “The owners of the right-wing press read their own media and it rotted their brains.” Ha ha, yes! The same thing happened to the (so-called) Liberal Party in Australia & they lost the last two elections, badly. ⤵️

#AUSPol #ModelCollapse #LiberalParty #AustralianElections #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@binford2k

Food for thought… thanks for sharing. 🙏🏻 So often we hear about people getting away with evil deeds without consequences…
#USPol #journalists #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/115957290327801559

So thought-provoking - in a practical way! 😁Could be studied in school, continuously: the younger we start, the more we’ll learn, the less we’ll be ‘at the mercy*’ of marketers & manipulators of any & all persuasions (see what I did there?):
“Once you see how much effort is being spent on marketing certain worldviews to you and how much of that can be studied, analyzed, and replicated - you can’t unsee it.”
* there is no mercy 😐

Thanks so much for sharing your direct experiences & how they shaped your thought & understanding. Valuable insights. 😁🙏🏻

#marketing #manipulation #persuasion #propaganda #education #semiotics #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I thought the same, if you want to know the likely damage from unchecked measles (mortality, morbidity/ death, sickness, add disability - eg deafness): just ask #publicHealth experts, epidemiologists & biostatisticians. It’s not like the world is lacking in relevant experts & knowledge. Perhaps if the US invested a little more time & effort in the World Health Organisation* they wouldn’t ask such dumb questions or show ignorance so proudly. 🤔 This person is one sick puppy. ☹️

*WHO - which the US has now left without paying the $260m it owes - a typical Thump manoeuvre to not pay your bills.

#measles #epidemiology #immunisation #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@benlockwood

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I thought the same, if you want to know the likely damage from unchecked measles (mortality, morbidity/ death, sickness, add disability - eg deafness): just ask #publicHealth experts, epidemiologists & biostatisticians. It’s not like the world is lacking in relevant experts & knowledge. Perhaps if the US invested a little more time & effort in the World Health Organisation* they wouldn’t ask such dumb questions or show ignorance so proudly. 🤔 This person is one sick puppy. ☹️

*WHO - which the US has now left without paying the $260m it owes - a typical Thump manoeuvre to not pay your bills.

#measles #epidemiology #immunisation #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@benlockwood

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I thought the same, if you want to know the likely damage from unchecked measles (mortality, morbidity/ death, sickness, add disability - eg deafness): just ask #publicHealth experts, epidemiologists & biostatisticians. It’s not like the world is lacking in relevant experts & knowledge. Perhaps if the US invested a little more time & effort in the World Health Organisation* they wouldn’t ask such dumb questions or show ignorance so proudly. 🤔 This person is one sick puppy. ☹️

*WHO - which the US has now left without paying the $260m it owes - a typical Thump manoeuvre to not pay your bills.

#measles #epidemiology #immunisation #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@benlockwood

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I thought the same, if you want to know the likely damage from unchecked measles (mortality, morbidity/ death, sickness, add disability - eg deafness): just ask #publicHealth experts, epidemiologists & biostatisticians. It’s not like the world is lacking in relevant experts & knowledge. Perhaps if the US invested a little more time & effort in the World Health Organisation* they wouldn’t ask such dumb questions or show ignorance so proudly. 🤔 This person is one sick puppy. ☹️

*WHO - which the US has now left without paying the $260m it owes - a typical Thump manoeuvre to not pay your bills.

#measles #epidemiology #immunisation #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@benlockwood

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I thought the same, if you want to know the likely damage from unchecked measles (mortality, morbidity/ death, sickness, add disability - eg deafness): just ask #publicHealth experts, epidemiologists & biostatisticians. It’s not like the world is lacking in relevant experts & knowledge. Perhaps if the US invested a little more time & effort in the World Health Organisation* they wouldn’t ask such dumb questions or show ignorance so proudly. 🤔 This person is one sick puppy. ☹️

*WHO - which the US has now left without paying the $260m it owes - a typical Thump manoeuvre to not pay your bills.

#measles #epidemiology #immunisation #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@benlockwood

@dangillmor

CNN: mealy-mouthed weasel words!

#USPol #corruption #USBusiness #conflictOfInterest #weaselWords #legacyMedia #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@McWabbit
🙏🏻 I feel this to be true: his ‘donors’ (self-selected on their propensity for corruption) want results; they want Greenland - not so far delivered. 😐

They might even be calling for their money back, or threatening to dump on him, if he doesn’t deliver.🤔

But that phrase “After this is over” feels like magical thinking, implies an imaginary hand… Maybe “in order to end this” can work better. 🤔

The trouble for us normal people (not trillionaires, not billionaires, not massively corrupt) is that it's hard to get into the mind of those others… and that can make us ineffective opponents.☹️

#USPol #corruption #magicalThinking #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@Strandjunker

@lipservant
Wow! My friend said it took 4 hours to drive north from Sydney to Umina on the Central Coast (normally no more than 2 hours) & there was water, often in waterfalls, inundating the road.

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCatastrophe #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://boriken.social/@Jdm2/115906959573194797

They're wearing the wrong masks & may need to upgrade basic hygiene like hand washing, coughing into elbow instead of hand, & so on. Needs to be part of their basic training - to protect themselves & others.

Now look at leading causes of death of their family members.

#USPol #publicHealth #leadingCauseOfDeath #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://mas.to/@kakape/115895457205354339

Very interesting indeed. 🙏🏻 for sharing this study. Critics will say oh the data’s so old & it’s only from Argentina, but I say disprove it!

From the findings & conclusion (long quote but offers some useful pointers):
“secret police service indeed paid off. Agents attained higher ranks and stayed longer in the security apparatus. These career boosting effects were most pronounced for agents with the lowest early career performance.

“Taken together, our study identifies mundane but universal career concerns as the prime motivation to engage in arduous secret police work. This has important implications. Career pressures serve as the lubricant of repressive machines in autocracies. Leaders can exploit these incentives to maximize bureaucratic compliance. Institutionalized, meritocratic bureaucracies therefore do not contradict autocratic longevity. Likewise, governments can accomplish swift autocratic turns without major bureaucratic resistance. Officials facing career pressures are likely to serve as willing executioners, while their well-placed peers remain silent bystanders. Finally, our study also points to potential problems with international sanctions and transitional justice. Looming risks of discharge or incarceration are unlikely to deter the least competent agents with the lowest career prospects. To the contrary, external threats of legal punishment might even strengthen the dominance of underachievers with doubtful consequences for the production of violence.”

#underachievers #repressiveRegimes #policing #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@tero
True & elegantly expressed, I specially like: "people don't respect the iron." The expectation is to build more data centres instead of look for more effective or better ways to do things - like what you describe. The elegance of simplicity used to be respected & sou&ht - or at least, that was the talk...

#reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@tferrer
Wow! 🙏🏻 for sharing this one, a really interesting story, event; worth reading the whole article, nicely written with a lot of information, eg: “Good Santa or bad Santa?

“The reaction to the theft has been overwhelmingly positive on social media, but in a statement to CBC News, Geneviève Grégoire, a spokesperson for Metro [the supermarket chain] said it was important to remember that theft, for any reason, is unacceptable and constitutes a criminal act.

Marc-André Cyr a lecturer in political science at Université du Québec à Montréal, pointed to "discrepancy" between the institutions that say the stunt was a crime, and the public's perception, "which ultimately finds it acceptable." “

Also noted that:
"They continue to stifle the population, siphoning off as much money as possible, simply because they can. For us, that's theft, and they are the real criminals."

“Canada's inflation rate stayed flat in November but grocery prices grew at fastest pace in nearly 2 year” [Stats Canada data]

#RobinHood #inflation #profitGouging #Canada #food #theft #Santa #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@dnorman
Yes, same, correlation is not the same as cause… in the narrow sense: it’s not only or necessarily a Covid vax that reduces all-cause mortality risk at a population level (18-59yo; ~23m vs. 6m!). On the other hand, stepping back, this study does quantify a general ‘prevention benefit’, which is of course based on many things, including socioeconomic status.

Rudd summarised (in part), quoting study authors: "Although vaccinated individuals in our study were generally older and tended to have more comorbidities -- factors that would typically bias the association toward higher mortality in the vaccinated group -- this was not observed in the crude hazard ratio," Zureik and colleagues wrote. People who were vaccinated were more socioeconomically advantaged and probably had better healthcare management, they added, factors that "may partly explain the observed negative association between vaccination and mortality, counterbalancing the effects of age and comorbidities." End quote.

WonderIng if other similar studies exist; needs a more careful read including refs.

#publicHealth #covid19 #covidisnot0ver #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

@cmconseils
Yes! Bring back Consequences! Reconnect cause and effect/s! Make consequences ‘fashionable’ again. (The catchiest form of this idea/concept has not yet been found…)

#reconnectingConsequencesToCauses #Nietsche #consequences #causeAndEffect

@shoq
Outrageous. 😤 Excuses blown out of the water (sorry for metaphor) by Horton & Nakashima, in Washington Post: “ “The idea that wreckage from one small boat in a vast ocean is a hazard to marine traffic is patently absurd, and killing survivors is blatantly illegal,” said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts), a Marine Corps veteran and vocal Trump critic who received a classified briefing from Pentagon officials on the strikes in late October with other members of the House Armed Services Committee. “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
… and
“ the Pentagon has not fulfilled a bipartisan request from lawmakers to see unedited footage — making it impossible to verify any of the administration’s claims.
“The lack of transparency is a major obstacle to government accountability for its use of force, Huntley said. “Really the only oversight,” he said, “is public and political pressure.” “

#warCrimes #USPol #Hegseth #washingtonPost #obeyingIllegalOrders #accountability #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@daedalus
And it sounds like it’s not getting any better… with organisations which overcollect but can’t secure data continuing to do the same… That’s depressing. But as you say, if there are no consequences why bother to improve? 😐
In the meantime, the most secure data is that which is not collected. I know it’s preaching to the converted, but for orgs: if you don’t need it, don’t collect it; or don’t continue to hold it. 😐

#reconnectingConsequencesToCauses #dataBreach #surveillance #dataCollection #dataRetention

@DoomsdaysCW
As if the war wasn’t enough, to then be running out of treatment options for wounded soldiers… the situation seems hopeless… but every analysis identifies one or more solutions & this is a textbook write-up of how to find hope & better responses. 🙂
So glad I read it; only concern is what is the situation in Ruzzia (have read elsewhere about rises in all sorts of infectious diseases like HIV etc in Ruzzia & in a world so interconnected can we afford a rogue country so close to many others? Rhetorical question - but facts could be helpful - before they start distributing the measles-infected blankets).

#PublicHealth #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses #InfectionControl #AntibioticsResistance #WarMedicine #Treatment

@GNUmatic
No one observes so accurately as an observer who’s an outsider. As well as the “irrational madness” quote, there’s this: “MAGA is a backlash by white, evangelical forces seeking to return the United States to its pre-1960s civil rights era. Its core supporters are low-income, low-educated whites and evangelical Protestants. Trump has channeled the anxiety of these groups, whose status has been shaken by job losses, deepening polarization, and the surge in immigration due to globalization, and has incited their anger toward the established elite and "outsiders" (people of color, undocumented immigrants, Muslims, etc.).”

And this, with wider applicability: “Declining industries are destined to be passed on to developing countries over time. Even in our case, reviving a declining industry is difficult. The situation is even more dire in the United States, where production costs are at least 30% higher than ours and the industrial ecosystem has collapsed due to over 20 years of manufacturing hollowing out. Trump is dreaming of using his imperial power to mobilize allies to reverse this trend. To make matters worse, if the empire treats allied workers, who are willing to help, as if they were vassal slaves, then nothing will work. The United States is now shooting itself in the foot with foolishness.”

#ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses #USPol #RepublicOfKorea #Editorial

@DemocracyMattersALot

@backupbear
Such a great conversation, role modelling good behaviour & how there are consequences for bad behaviour & that you *meant* it when you said it 🙂 (whereas, sadly, so much is performative these days 🙁).
I’ve read & reread it & I thank you for sharing it. Please consider: could it be first in a series? I hope so!! 🙏🏻

#ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses #Consequences #goodBehaviour #modellingGoodBehaviour #leadership