The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to lose about $1.3 billion in funds as a result of last month’s federal debt ceiling negotiation that were initially allocated through Covid-19 supplemental funding, the agency shared with CNN.
This is especially bad because climate change will increase the mutations and spreading of new deadly diseases, whether it came from melted permafrost or zoonosis from contact with livestock or wildlife. This decreases the power to fight that.
At first I was like wtf is with this author. I’m millenial/gen z and even I remember what we did. TV, books, and calling your friends on your wired phone attached to the wall.
But as I read the article, I kinda get it. There was a ton of down time and boredom. However, I disagree that the nothingness was this horrible thing. I think the “nothing ever happens” is what our brains handle much better than “there’s too much happening.”
Our brains literally can’t process the firehose of information streaming into our eyeballs 24/7 365. It starts to go in your eyes and right out your ears. My memory is shit now. I’m forgetting important stuff because it keeps getting deleted to make room for more garbage data like endless dank memes and posts. I think the nothingness, along with REM sleep (which is also disrupted by screens), is what’s needed to help process and therefore retain new information.
I’m trying to spend less time on screens because it feels like dementia and it’s freaking me out.
From 2013 to 2017, fine particle levels in Beijing and the surrounding region fell by around 35%. This is a remarkable feat and was achieved because of the state’s investment of resources and President Xi Jinping’s vision of an Ecological Civilisation. The “wars on pollution control” launched by the State Council,...
Glad they sorted out the air, but I hope that those who were affected can get help for the lung damage sustained after all those years of breathing it in.
Because when I downvote an asshole, I don't want them to know I'm doing it so they can bite me about it.
Or maybe I'm a little nervous to post something, like an unpopular opinion, but someone else said it, and I want to send them a little support (+1). But if you can just find all my upvotes then now I'm nervous about what I upvote because I don't want to get cancelled.
I’m just waiting for a friend at a place where there are only people I don’t want to interact with. And I’ve got a headache. Normally I’d browse garbage content mindlessly. Look at me fediverse, now I’m producing mindless garbage content!
I need to get into my password manager as I am transitioning browser programs. And I can’t remember my password to a site nor the password to my password manager....
If I don’t write it down on paper, it’s gone, and if I don’t have e-mail recovery, then I’m never getting back into that account lol. That’s how I fucked up my first proton mail. 🤦
CDC facing major funding cuts, with direct impact on state and local health departments | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to lose about $1.3 billion in funds as a result of last month’s federal debt ceiling negotiation that were initially allocated through Covid-19 supplemental funding, the agency shared with CNN.
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
Breathing, a sign of relief in Beijing! (www.iol.co.za)
From 2013 to 2017, fine particle levels in Beijing and the surrounding region fell by around 35%. This is a remarkable feat and was achieved because of the state’s investment of resources and President Xi Jinping’s vision of an Ecological Civilisation. The “wars on pollution control” launched by the State Council,...
Compass rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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How Your Attention Is Auctioned Off to Advertisers – The Markup (themarkup.org)
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I’m bored
I’m just waiting for a friend at a place where there are only people I don’t want to interact with. And I’ve got a headache. Normally I’d browse garbage content mindlessly. Look at me fediverse, now I’m producing mindless garbage content!
password hell
I need to get into my password manager as I am transitioning browser programs. And I can’t remember my password to a site nor the password to my password manager....