Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club)

Niall Gooch 👍🇬🇧🇻🇦🚅🏏✒ on Twitter: "The US right is descending into fascism, according to the New York Times, a paper which has spent three months encouraging, inciting and excusing street violence by political militias." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/niall_gooch/status/1299442889383186432

Niall Gooch 👍🇬🇧🇻🇦🚅🏏✒ on Twitter: "The US right is descending into fascism, according to the New York Times, a paper which has spent three months encouraging, inciting and excusing street violence by political militias." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/niall_gooch/status/1299442889383186432

Niall Gooch 👍🇬🇧🇻🇦🚅🏏✒ on Twitter: "The US right is descending into fascism, according to the New York Times, a paper which has spent three months encouraging, inciting and excusing street violence by political militias." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/niall_gooch/status/1299442889383186432

How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People

Dame Sibyl Hathaway on #Sark during #WWII

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-world-s-only-feudal-lord-outclassed-the-nazis-to-save-her-people

Ismail Royer on Twitter: "Indeed, to this day religious and political leaders in Spain see absolutely no reason to restore the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption to a mosque. And why should they? 7/ https://t.co/ubTypYIpF1" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/IsmailRoyer/status/1281699021782953984

#AyaSofya #HagiaSophia

"As we pull down controversial statues and reassess historical figures, I’ve been wondering what our great-grandchildren will find bewilderingly immoral about our own times — and about us."

Why Will Our Great-Grandchildren Scorn Us? #NicholasKristoff #NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/opinion/sunday/animal-rights-cruelty.html

Animal welfare, poverty in the developing world, climate change. No mention of abortion.

How to Regulate Pornography by Terry Schilling

The answers that would pass US constitutional muster, according to the article, are for ISPs to have filters that customers could opt out of, or to enforce some sort of zoning, e.g. a .xxx TLD.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/11/how-to-regulate-pornography

#FirstThings

Will the Banks Collapse? - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronavirus-banks-collapse/612247/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#TheAtlantic #banks #CLOs

"But those who genuinely care about public health should not conflate the factual question of how dangerous mass protest may be during this pandemic with value judgments about whether the risk is worth it. Nevertheless, such an approach is ascendant."

Protests Carry Risk Even When They’re Justified
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/protests-carry-risk-even-when-theyre-justified/612652/

#covid19
#TheAtlantic

More than 27 000 people died in Spain of #covid19, but testing indicates that only 5% of the population was infected.

(Infection fatality rate: 1.15%)

Covid-19 antibodies: Spanish study has a scary takeaway about coronavirus immunity - Vox
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/16/21259492/covid-antibodies-spain-serology-study-coronavirus-immunity

My new primary account is
https://mamot.fr/@mpjgregoire

Mon nouveau compte primaire est https://mamot.fr/@mpjgregoire

@thurloat @FssOfDeath @keithzg

I sympathise, @thurloat . I know what it's like to be busy at work, and to have important demands on your time at home; probably most of us on this instance do. We all appreciate the time and effort you've put into caring for Moosetodon and its friendly community.

That being said, in order to remain connected with the larger community, I have decided to make this a secondary account.

@FssOfDeath @keithzg

"[...] Assuming that the necessary level of support to remove a president from office for that offense will not be reached, should we prefer that more elected officials go on record that it is unacceptable — or that fewer do?"

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/31/four-tests-for-impeachment/

#uspol #NationalReview
#impeachment

The article by #RameshPonnuru in the Dec 31, 2019 issue of *National Review* has convinced me.

"Whether Trump should be removed from office over the objections of nearly half the country is not an important question. He can’t be. There are better questions. Would it be good for the country if a large majority of Americans were to be persuaded that it is unacceptable for a president to use his office to encourage foreign governments to investigate his political opponents? [...]"

#uspol

@ink_slinger @keithzg In much of Canada, measures to provide warmth safely may be the most important emergency supply.

We lost power for 24 hours a few weeks ago, and were awfully glad the previous owner had installed a propane tank after the 1998 #IceStorm.

As has been pointed out by others, this purity spiral phenomenon is a deformation of #Christianity: guilt without forgiveness, humility, or universal original sin.

I am bilingue: https://lp.ca/4RoC6Q

En fait, si c'est vrai que #PeterMacKay ne parle pas français suffisamment, on doit se demander pourquoi il n'a pas réussi à l'apprendre pendant ses années en politique.

#canpol

A good site for updates on the #coronavirus epidemic:

https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell

#2019nCoV

@ink_slinger We should always have some #EmergencySupplies, no?

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/preparedbc/build-an-emergency-kit-and-grab-and-go-bag

#emergency
#2019nCoV

How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral - UnHerd

"Lindsay pointed to the atheist movement of the mid-2000s, from which he’d come: a community that once had the wind in its sails, but had imploded into infighting by 2011, as half of its members jagged off in an social justice direction. Soon enough, the likes of the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins were being problematised as stale, male and pale."

https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a-purity-spiral/