VicSaidThat2🇨🇦🍁🌻

re-considering my views on the merits of press releases

the power of recuperation,
agnotology in education,
too often critique just becomes instructions

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

A beaver standing by a scoreboard tabulating 51st state and Governor of Canada saying, "And every time he says one, another Canadian stays home."

Today's editorial cartoon from the Winnipeg Free Press.

#never51 #itspmtoyouasshole #truenorth #strongandfree

The Billionaires’ War The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the price

Always and forever - "Cui bono?" - Who benefits? @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

This is why I say a military draft is likely to be based off of voter information that was surrendered to the Trump regime by each state.

Several RW forums are already framing a military draft as being a potential solution to the "male loneliness epidemic".

No, I'm not kidding.

Donate today to protect the environment! Give a gift for the environment.

Say NO to water privatization.
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Finland considers ending religious teaching in schools Finnish education ministry working group proposes ending religious instruction in primary schools and replacing it with a single shared worldview subject for all pupils.

www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/theme...

JFC!
- It was gone!

Almost completely eradicated

Wild Polio Types 2 & 3 were eradicated, and type 1 was down to isolated cases, confined to a couple of regions

Canada has (had?) been Polio free since the early 1990's

... and people wonder why I foam at the mouth when discussing Antivaxxors

Canada issues travel advisory update for Germany and the U.K. | National Canada has issued a travel advisory update, warning travellers heading to the U.K. or Germany of a potential health risk.

Updated travel advisory for Canadians heading to Germany and the U.K. due to the risk of polio.

Get your vaccines, why, because you didn’t see what we saw when people got sick, their lives were destroyed. 🤬

This vaccine has proven effectiveness to save lives!

dailyhive.com/canada/uk-ge...

His kind of financial literacy seems to consist of “can I make money off it”
without a single thought to ethics or long term-sustainability, which, honestly, seems financially illiterate to me. Because there are actual costs for not gaming out the long term effects of your business decisions.

This is far from over.

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

-- Jack Kerouac, born #OTD 1922

Are anti-vaxxers aware that if we stop vaccinating, and these preventable diseases come back, then Big Pharma will become Bigger Pharma?

- Sci-gasm Podcast

Never play chess with a pigeon.

The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over.

Then shits all over the board.

Then struts around like it won.

Bombs Iran 9 days later…

So someone with measles can spread it before they have symptoms, it can float in the air for hours and years later, they can develop new health complications?

Frontiers | Dysregulated NK-cell gene expression defines the enduring symptoms of long COVID-19 IntroductionLong-term COVID-19 syndrome (LTCS) or “long COVID” is a debilitating post-viral condition affecting approximately 2%–8% of individuals after SARS...

The #Leonardi_Effect are strong.

Up your nose and away it goes.

It would seem the depletion of NK Cells contributes to Long Cövid 🙏🏻

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Hmmmm....

I wonder if the:

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
Applies here:

CMAJ 2026 March 9;198:E313-25. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.251065

Inquiring Minds 03: Mark Ungrin - Science, Pseudoscience and Public Policy YouTube video by Deep River Public Library

Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around.

Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.

Money troubles, parent and carer health issues… exams…

These are just the big system issues going on. There’ll be personal stuff on top of that…

Shocker. (Not shocker.)

Antidepressant use in teenagers is going up.

Honestly, I can’t think of a reason why…/s

(War, disease that affects mood on the loose, terrible role modelling going on, beeping climate change…)

@jonathanstea.bsky.social

“Professionals” healing trauma with rocks, sounds or energy enters the chat.

Honestly, I still don’t understand how people can fall for this nonsense.

We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say If regime holds, control of enriched uranium may be ultimate measure of US-Israeli success, insiders say * Middle East crisis – live updates Israel did not have a realistic plan for regime change when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could drive a popular uprising driven by “wishful thinking” rather than hard intelligence. Iran has now survived nearly two weeks of bombing raids and the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Trump is publicly contemplating ending an increasingly costly war. Continue reading...

We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say

globalnews.ca/news/1168779...

Cybertruck Tried to Drive 'Straight Off an Overpass' Attorney Claims ‘Elon Musk is an aggressive and irresponsible salesman, who has a long history of making dangerous design choices, and over-promising the features of his products.’

Any other car manufacturer with these kind of lawsuits against them probably would have been shut down already.

Brent crude hits $100 a barrel as reserve release plans fail to ease Iran war-led supply worries The IEA said Wednesday that its 32 member countries would release 400 million barrels of oil from emergency reserves.

Right now, thanks to Trump's war:

Brent crude hits $100 a barrel as reserve release plans fail to ease Iran war-led supply worries

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/12/o...

Reposting with a couple of shots dainty little alcoholic snowflake queen, #PeteHegseth got so upset about (but he’s totally ok with bombing kids).