Consistent inactivity was the third most important risk factor for COVID-19 death, behind only age older than 60 years and previous organ transplant. It was more important than even smoking, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease... cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspect…

I am horrified by last night's act of terrorism against Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez, who is running for Congress as an independent socialist. The devices were exploded outside his residence when his three children were asleep indoors. The political establishment and the right wing are threatened by independent socialist candidates like Byron, who is calling for an end to funding for the Israeli state's genocide in Gaza, to abolish ICE, for universal public healthcare, and for taxes on billionaires to fund green jobs. Working people and socialists must stand in solidarity against such acts of terror. @ByronSigcho @BSLForCongress

You see these scenes from Belfast? That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way. Except this will be on a much bigger scale. We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

Remember to thank Elon for inciting this destruction.

This Greek restaurant has no AC. It stays cool all summer on sea breezes alone, via fabric panels that scatter sunlight and move air around. Ancient Persians took the same principle so far they produced ice in 45°C (113°F) desert heat, without electricity. The Persian wind catcher, known as a badgir (literally "wind catcher" in Persian), is one of the oldest cooling systems on earth. Archaeologists found evidence at Tappeh Chackmaq, a site near Shahrood, Iran, dated to roughly 3,000 years ago. They work on simple physics: a tower rises above the roofline, catches prevailing winds through angled openings, and funnels cooled air down into rooms below. Yazd, Iran still has 700 of them. UNESCO added the city to its World Heritage list in 2017, calling it "a living testimony to intelligent use of limited available resources in the desert." The Egyptians had their own version, the malqaf, shown in 1300 BCE artwork near Luxor. Persians combined wind catchers with underground chambers to create the yakhchal, an ancient refrigerator. During cold desert nights, shallow pools of water froze solid. Badgirs then kept the chambers cold enough to store that ice through summer, in a desert regularly hitting 45°C. Inside, temperatures ran 15-20°C below the outdoor air, held there by thick insulating walls, steady airflow from the wind towers, and the cool ground beneath. This is how Persians made faloodeh, a frozen dessert, in a climate with no business producing frozen anything. Willis Carrier designed the first modern air conditioning system on July 17, 1902, at a printing plant in Brooklyn. AC spread fast. Passive cooling vanished from new construction. Air conditioning and fans now consume 20% of global building electricity. K-Studio, an Athens-based architecture firm, designed the Barbouni beach restaurant at Costa Navarino, Messinia. The fabric ceiling does two things at once: it breaks up direct sunlight before it heats the floor below, and its wave motion keeps air moving on top of basic convection (warm air rises, cooler outdoor air rushes in). K-Studio principal Dimitris Karampatakis: "We didn't want to have a static structure right in front of this dynamic landscape." Afternoon sea breezes at the Navarino coast arrive reliably each day, generated by land heating faster than the sea and drawing cooler air in from the water. The ceiling was designed around that daily rhythm. Wind towers drop indoor temperatures by up to 22°F (12°C) with zero electricity and no maintenance. Yazd's badgirs have been running continuously for 700 years. A Greek restaurant just did a simpler version, and 324,000 people acted like it was a new idea.

"They're not hostages. They're in prison for crimes." the crimes

Mayor Mamdani criticizes Trump admin for handling of the World Cup, travel restrictions & visa denials for teams & others. “The World Cup is supposed to be a celebration of the world as a whole… this is anathema to what this tournament is supposed to be about.”

Mamdani on World Cup US visa restrictions: "This is anathema to what this tournament is supposed to be about. If we can't even allow players, teams, journalists covering them to come to this country, it begs a larger question about our commitment to the spirit of this tournament"

Remember how the USA cut this program last year, and now it has a screw worm outbreak in its cows. Brilliance in politics.

Great reminder that government is frequently engaged in really important work that you probably don't understand.

This AI generated post is crap writing but has good information about the study.

4/ Even saving some real data does not fix it. The researchers tried preserving 10% of the original human data in every generation. The collapse still happened. It was slower. But it still happened. "Major degradation happens within just a few iterations, even when some of the original data is preserved." The only thing that fully prevents collapse is training exclusively on human-generated data. The thing AI companies are running out of.

Morocco is the first country in the world to recognize Americas independence in 1776. Due to that, every July 4th in the Moroccan embassy in the USA and in the USA embasssy in Morocco there is a special ceremony recognizing our centuries old relationship. Go look it up. Morocco also joins the Abram’s Accords. This is the slap in their face they get for being our longest standing allied nation.

Another one for the corrupt @FIFAcom Gianni Infantino regime that takes favours bribes from the Trump admin to keep quiet about the disaster of a racist World Cup that should’ve been pulled from the U.S.

USA is a shit hole country.

Zionists can no longer get away with their lies, and it terrifies them.

So under full AIPAC control, the AIPAC controlled Senate can’t pass the Save America Act for election integrity. AIPAC needs to be able to steal seats, like Thomas Massie's, ensuring they keep the super majority in Congress.

Israel controls 331 out of 435 seats in the US House of Representatives as part of its Israel First Uniparty. That's why they are voting to merge America's and Israel's defense industries and military technological base in the 2027 NDAA. They want us to keep fighting Israel's wars in perpetuity instead of using our arned forces to defend the US.

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

The exact opposite. I wasn’t on a private island smoking crack. I was at the Super 8 off I95 in West Haven. Very different class of people, and with more integrity than any of those people.

Jerk clown robot brutally kicks little boy in the stomach The future is here, and apparently it's beefing with children