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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 17th to July 23rd, 2023 - Heatwaves Everywhere All At Once

Image is of the drying Canelon Grande Reservoir in Uruguay as the country battles three consecutive years of drought, its worst in nearly a century.

Quoting every country and region that is currently suffering under unprecedented climatic conditions and posting every graph showing extremely concerning things happening would make this preamble way too long, so I'm gonna keep it short and merely say that, holy shit, the consequences of fossil fuel executives' actions are looking real fucking bad.

Hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, are currently enduring higher than average temperatures sometimes reaching up 48 degrees Celsius or 120 degrees Fahrenheit or even beyond. Drought is putting pressure on water supplies basically everywhere around the world. And El Nino is activating, which will only do further damage.

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.

This week's first update is here in the comments.

This week's second and third update have done the Dragonball Z fusion dance and created this long-ass thing that took me... a while to get done.

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  • Update for July 19th and July 21st

    It's a long one.

    • I checked that WSWS on German military recruiting and compared this to the original Frankfurter Rundschau article.

      Compared with previous quarters - our editors have the Ministry of Defense's data going back to January 2022 - however, there is no significant increase in Bundeswehr advertising at schools. There were more presentations about a year earlier, for example, and by far the most events were held at the beginning of 2022 (see table).

      Then there's a table which totally contradicts this sentence! The most events were actually held at the beginning of 2023. But there's a note right under it:

      Note: Since 2023, the Ministry of Defense has also reported followup information on lectures that were not previously scheduled and therefore not listed in the ministry's information. This is why the first quarter numbers are so high. Accordingly, the events planned up to September could become more.

      What does this mean? Was the table in the article updated with new information at some point and now it contradicts the text? Is the information not comparable and therefore useless for the question at hand? Why is it there then and why do you conclude things from it? Maybe the 2022 data already contained all the unplanned events because those were already counted last year, so this actually is comparable? If so, why do you conclude the opposite of what the data says?

      Fucking useless. Hey "journalists": Link your sources and learn to write clearly! I have no idea what's right and I can't find the real numbers, so 🤷.

      • Speaking of shitty journalism. There was a big

        in German news yesterday:

        There were videos that supposedly show a lion at the southern outskirts of Berlin. The authorities conducted a huge operation trying to find it. Someone supposedly saw it running after a boar, which then meant it was reported to have slain a boar.

        There was no lion, it's boars all the way down.

        I looked for the videos on YT and so I found a video from WELT were they had a guy on that said the video just shows a boar. But then the news anchor goes "couldn't they just look at the dead boar to figure out what killed it?" There was no dead boar.

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