Its really not. Masks have been proven not to work, except in the case of "community masks" wearing, has some evidence to show that it allows the build up of bacteria that can cause pneumonia. So masks may even be making it worse - even the WHOI (that was pressured to change its guidelines that masks don't work) still couched its new guidance in terms oo "may" "could" "in certain circumstances" and still says incorrect mask wearing (ie how pretty much every ordinary person out there is wearing them) is counter productive.

As one study showed, surgeons didn't wear medical masks for 6 months in an operating theatre, with no increase in post-surgical infections. That was done in 1981 and guidance for surgeons since has been to say masks are optional (most wear them to ward off 'fluid splashes' only)

That would be Joe Biden, who has also said section 230 should be removed from the social media boys.

https://www.politico.com/news/...

Yes, I guess either all the stuff about reigning in tech giants will soon be forgotten though, or the media will suddenly find an interest in Trump winning after all. That'll be fun to watch :-D

and of course the irony is that there is enough substantiated evidence for the lawyers to get involved (and I saw one county that checked its tallies and found their computer system was wrong, ended up changing their results for Trump after the lawyers prodded them enough)

But Facebook, in the interests of ensuring truth, will tell you that all such allegations are unsubstantiated and are fake, false, nothing to see here.

Any allegation of voting irregularities should be taken very seriously, not hand-waved away becuase FB likes the vote, this time round. In 4 years time, Trump might stand again, win, and I guarantee FB will not be closing down any group making the exact same allegations as they are today.

FB needs to just delete itself.

projection much? I mean, you've been told that Trump#'s a racist so much that everyone knows it as a fact, so its literally impossible that minorites would vote for him.

But as an intelligent person you should be considering if its true. Biden was chosen specifically as a person who would appeal more to the white voter, the dem party knew this would turn away some minority voters but figured that enough would stay that the few who voted Trump would be more than matched by old white guys voting for the old white guy.

As always, the reality doesn't fit the propaganda. Trump made an effort to appeal more to blacks, Biden made the effort to appeal to whites.It really wouldn't surprise me if that's reflected in votes.

I know Israel are building them - but they do tend to require a great deal of energy, much more than you think, which is why they're not as prevalent already.

they may become a necessaity very soon in some areas, but even then, a lot of the water issues is financial - the Nile is being sucked dry to grow cash crops like Avocados so people in the west can sit and complain over climate change while eating them on their toast.

So you're very much right we've given up on trying to make the world a better place.

Ps. reduced growth rates is still growth.

I do think a welath tax of 100% imposed on all who own more than $1bn would be a very good thing.

An economy isn't based on money, but the circulation of money. Its nothing but financial blood pumping through society.

Too bad the people sitting on all that money will never let our paid-for political classes implement such a thing.

what about water?

Conflict over water is kicking off already - just look at the Nile.

We don't have infinite resources, sop assuming that "we can feed the planet" today will also apply to another 3 or 4 billion mouths is stupid at best. Climate-change-caused-by-Bill-Gates denier scale stupid (and I say that as someone who is very sceptical of much of the overly politicised climate change theories, but still thinks we need to manage the planet much better)

And where will we build them - the tired old apologists will say "but we only have 7% (or 3%, or similar numbers) built on" - forgetting that the vast majority of the "unbuilt on" land is Scotland and the wildernesses of Cumbria and Northumbria, and the Wesh mountains. Places nobody lives and so are not suitable for mass housing - build a million homes outside Fort William and see how many people will rush to buy them.

If you take just London and surrounding areas, you'll see its packed.

My estimate is that building wil continue along the M4 motorway until there is an unbroken line of suburban boxes stretching all the way to Bristol. How wonderful.

Next: go the Tolkien's shire (around Hall Green in the west midlands) and see the beautiful hills, valleys and meadows that are today... covered with miles and miles of terraces and 3-bed semis.

You forgot:

economic downturn -> migrants return home, landlords go bankrupt because they took on excessive mortgages and now nobody pays for.

(The notorious landlords the Wilsons admitted this last downturn, their property empire was wafer thin to collapse, and then the gov stepped in)

Brexit means immigration from eastern europe will stop, and jobs in sectors filled by European migrants have been devastated already, so the chance they will return home (where employers are crying out for workers, 1 guess why) could very easily happen.

and we can fund this via the welfare system - we scrap welfare as it stands right now, and replace it with UBI.

We could fund £500 a month if we did that.

But of course, this call for UBI simply wants UBI on top of welfare payments. That won't be sustainable in any form.

I don't worry about her (and she joined in with the hate already, so fuck her) - but I worry about all the others who aren't multi millionaires who also get hit with this crap.

Those children have been going on witchhunts for a while now, not to burn them at the stake, but to burn their books (eg Harry Potter ones) because they don't like those they disagree with - people they want to make homeless beggars of.

So not as violent as the past, but the attitude is still there. And maybe one mob will end up murdering someone, after all, we've seen videos of peaceful antifa protestors kicking unconscious people's heads like they were footballs.

We can learn, but its a slow cultureal problem that absolutely requires the inclusivity of those you hate. Quite the opposite of what we have today, which is simply more monkey-brained tribal violence for dominance over others.

The power output of this thing is some kilowats? We're supposed to take this and think "OMG renewable energy is finally here" and even then its mainy solar and wind turbines on a floaty platform.

The Meygen project in Scotland is running at an output of 6MW - so far having produced 17GWh - from 4 underwater turbines in a tidal stream, with plans to phase in more to generate 400MW.

You won't find articles about this on slashdot though, too mainstream and established, not sensational hype enough.

Indeed, and to think that every mobile phone todayt is marketed as having IPxx protection you'd think even a millenial /. editor would know something about the term.

Or there again, they could consider ads that say "today is election day" as not being political, simply spending their last campaign cash on reminders to people to go vote.

TFS says "The Trump campaign produced a number of ads that said "Election Day is Today.".

They don't link to the ads, so I don't know if they have "and vote Trump" all over them or not.