In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

“Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

“All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

If you value your time, then maybe only watch finished shows with excellent word-of-mouth/ratings? If it declines instead of ending while still good, then stopping where people suggest? Possibly also skip the initial seasons if it only gets good later.

If you want to talk around the water cooler about the most popular zeitgeist shows, then maybe make exceptions for those that are the buzz after their 1st few episodes like Game of thrones, tho you should be prepared to quit the show after a few consecutive poorer episodes indicating its almost certain decline. (PS: I’d recommend stopping before Game of thrones’ 6th season).

Released in 2011. I’m not sure the USA will withdraw from NATO until just before Russia invades a NATO country, instead using their membership in it to sabotage Europe and to provide information to Russia.

While the temperature forecast is for 33 ºC, the heat index in the capital yesterday was up to 41. Forecasts for the next 2 days, are up to 40 on the heat index in the capital. Yesterday the heat index was over 40 in several other areas, with a maximum of 45. https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/weather/heat-index

If you don’t want to be complicit in causing a mass extinction event by making the biosphere unlivable, then by far the most important thing to do is to not contribute to human overpopulation which is the biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change as well as the biggest other atrocities.

“Aid organizations the world over scrambled to prove their work saved lives, seeking permission from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue operating.”

Maybe those who proved they were doing good, were the ones then to get the axe. The cruelty is the point - especially I’ve found, by the kind of people who claim to be Christians. Maybe lying by saying ghosts and souls and gods and heaven are real, it inculcates lying into all aspects of a peoples’ actions.

Rubio’s lies, and these actions are helpful in getting Trump more support from the kind of people who voted for him. The deaths and cruelty is the point.

It’ll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

• Luke 16:13 “You cannot serve both God and money.”
• Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor”
• Matthew 5:39 “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.”
• Matthew 5:44 “love your enemies”

So there’s no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

“In November of 2019 Kennedy sent a letter to the prime minister, obtained by Scott Kennedy and shared with Vanity Fair, speculating that the measles outbreak might be attributed to the vaccine itself.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history

Try “to function as a society” when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

“never will” “promise”

I do not think these words mean what you think they mean.

These hemorrhagic-fever like outbreaks (like Ebola and Marburg) usually don’t spread too far because of how dramatic the symptoms are and of how quickly they usually kill patients: here “death occurs within just 48 hours of the onset of symptoms”.

“However, here, it is concerning that we have hundreds of cases and over 50 deaths, with hemorrhagic-fever like symptoms widely reported among those cases.” - Michael Head. Current estimate of a “fatality rate of 12.3 percent” is of course a major problem locally, tho that % could be completely wrong.

If there are few or no asymptomatic carriers, and the incubation is period is short, then it’s unlikely to be like COVID-19.

Bird flu is still big concern - and potentially the solution to omnicidal anthropogenic climate change.

No, obviously not.

The west did lie when they said they weren’t going to expand NATO eastwards, and Russia was scared of Ukrainians choosing to join NATO (and the EU), like the USA was scared over nuclear missiles deployed to Cuba. But it’s the Ukrainians who get to choose if they want to join NATO and the EU, not Russians; like Cubans choose to partner with the Soviets (or Chinese) in the face of Operation Mongoose.

Yes, western voters are imperialist monsters, and yes Russians are worse. Yes, Ukraine is corrupt, and Russia is more corrupt. Yes there are a small number of neo-nazis in Ukraine, but there are also some in Russia and the USA. But it’s the Ukrainians who get to choose if they want to join NATO and the EU, not Russians.

Because they blocked you? Maybe they don’t want to see posts from people who don’t summarize the articles in the subject/title?

(The current subject is from the source, “Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News”.)

Items 3-5 give about 2.3 billion deaths.

Items 1 and 2 are pre-1945.

Sources needed tho.

I haven’t seen any reliable sources say this yet.

An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country’s public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa’s minerals should be withheld from US, but I’ve seen no reports that it actually will be.

I also couldn’t find anything at the government’s website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

“1 gram of polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, derived from algae, with additive benefits from taking vitamin D (2,000 international units per day) and engaging in 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week”

According to https://www.infographicsarchive.com/united-states-ranked-by-national-and-state-parks/ NJ has the 5th highest percentage of the state covered in national and state parks: 7.28%

If someone does something psychotic a lot, does that make it ethical for someone-else to do it even once?

“should [be] emulated” or “should [have been immo]lated”?

LA county is the 2nd biggest oil producer in California, California is 12th biggest oil producer in the USA, the USA is the biggest oil producer in the world.

Face, meet leopard.