Families of the five teenage victims from a Halloween shooting incident console each other following a press conference at Santa Fe Park in Topeka, Kan., on April 12, 2021. Photo: Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal/Imagn Two white men in Kansas shot into a car of Latino teenagers and went home. Almost a year later, neither shooter is in […]
The blockade or boycott of Cuba by the United States for 60 years has done what for freedom and prosperity of people in Cuba? Has the government fallen? No. Are Cubans in Cuba freer now than when their revolution succeeded? No.
Ummm… Is tightening the blockade now going to change things anymore than in the past 60 years? Not likely.
If former Cubans here in the US could send money to and visit relatives in Cuba, could that encourage change? Could be.
If Cubans could import US health related products at lower costs than from elsewhere, could that encourage change? Could be.
If American citizens were allowed to visit Cuba for research or vacations, could that encourage change? Possibly.
Time for changes in US approach to Cuba to improve life for Cubans? Could be.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a snarky snippets post, though in truth almost all of my posts contain an element of snark! Anyway … I have just a couple of short ones for you this afternoon …
Killing us softly with …
The big news yesterday was that the U.S. has seen a significant drop in life expectancy … the biggest decrease since WWII. My first thought was … “Well duh. 625,000+ people dead in the U.S. from the pandemic – what do you expect?” And certainly, the pandemic has played a role in the decline in life expectancy, but it isn’t the only culprit. Turns out that the ever-expanding income disparity is one of the biggest culprits, and it has been bringing down life expectancy rates for a few years now, even before the pandemic.
During the second half of the 2010s, life expectancy fell on a…
From 5 August, entry to stadiums, museums, theatres, cinemas, exhibition centres, swimming pools and gyms will only be allowed upon presentation of a “green pass”.
The pass, which is an extension of the EU’s digital Covid certificate, will also be required in order to be served indoors at restaurants.
Argentina’s gamble on Sputnik V vaccine has left it in a “very critical situation” because of Russia’s failure to fulfill delivery commitments, according to an official letter to Moscow leaked on Thursday.
Russia owes Argentina 18.5m doses of its Sputnik V jab, over two-thirds of them vital second-component doses.
Only 12% of Argentinians are fully vaccinated so far, partly due to failed Sputnik deliveries of its second component. Another 37% have received only a single dose.
This compares disastrously with double-dose vaccination rates of over 60% in neighbouring Chile and Uruguay, countries that did not bet so heavily on the Russian vaccine.
Its low two-dose vaccination rate leaves Argentina particularly exposed to the arrival of the Delta variant. Neighbouring Uruguay, meanwhile, has already approved moving to a three-dose regimen.
Director of fisheries and seafood at Ocean Wise, Sophika Kostyniuk, explained there are a number of complex factors that contribute to the current decrease in salmon populations. This includes, but is not limited to, warming waters from climate change, industrial pollution, agricultural runoff, barriers to salmon migration such as dams, predator-prey interactions and potential overfishing.
Ocean Wise currently rates only two Pacific salmon species from very specific locations as sustainable: coho and chinook caught with gillnets in the Stikine and Taku rivers.
However, there currently is not an Ocean Wise recommendation for the other three species: pink, sockeye and chum.
Kostyniuk explained that this is due to a lack of data from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Ocean Wise is currently waiting on this data to make a recommendation.
More recently, I realized that my problem was never with my diagnosis — it was with the impossible-to-achieve norms I had set for myself, trying so hard to be normal in a social setting and just ending up even more lost than I was before. If you try to be normal when you’re not, it will simply not work. It’s like a fish trying to walk on dry land. It’s literally impossible.
But I have been obsessed, my entire life, with being normal. I didn’t want to stand out and get any unwanted trouble or attention that I would not know how to deal with.
But how is that any way to live my life?
I’m learning now that restricting and defining myself based on the actions of others around me just leaves me unsatisfied and unhappy. The space in myself I used to fill with others’ personalities and quirks is now empty. I yearn to fill that gaping hole, but I do not know how.
But I am sure of some things.
I have values that have stuck with me because of my upbringing: honesty, compassion for others, empathy (sometimes too much), growth, love, creativity, equality and justice.
And I don’t think I could go a day without acquiring knowledge, it is too crucial for me. What I want is a space in which I have complete control to pursue whatever I desire.
I’m not sure what’s next, but I know I will keep learning.
More recently, I realized that my problem was never with my diagnosis — it was with the impossible-to-achieve norms I had set for myself, trying so hard to be normal in a social setting and just ending up even more lost than I was before.
Mathilde says that after high school she knows she’ll keep up her pursuit of acquiring knowledge. (Submitted by Mathilde Brunet-Mercier)
If you try to be normal when you’re not, it will simply not work. It’s like a fish trying to walk on dry land. It’s literally impossible.
But I have been obsessed, my entire life, with being normal. I didn’t want to stand out and get any unwanted trouble or attention that I would not know how to deal with.
But how is that any way to live my life?
I’m learning now that restricting and defining myself based on the actions of others around me just leaves me unsatisfied and unhappy. The space in myself I used to fill with others’ personalities and quirks is now empty. I yearn to fill that gaping hole, but I do not know how.
But I am sure of some things.
I have values that have stuck with me because of my upbringing: honesty, compassion for others, empathy (sometimes too much), growth, love, creativity, equality and justice.
And I don’t think I could go a day without acquiring knowledge, it is too crucial for me. What I want is a space in which I have complete control to pursue whatever I desire.
I’m not sure what’s next, but I know I will keep learning.
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