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 No: Saudi Arabia remains untouchable because the world needs its oil. We continue to overheat the planet because we need the oil. Businesses and nations continue to do business with Putin because he has a lot of oil. Our addiction to oil is killing us. #oil #politics #climate 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/02/five-years-after-killing-a-journalist-in-cold-blood-saudi-arabia-is-stronger-than-ever 
 Are we still pretending extinction isn't on the table?🤔  Where are we in the denial timeline?🙄 
 @3967703f Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned. We're fiddling while the entire planet burns. 
 "‘Monstrous’ sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms" #FAFO #environment 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/16/sea-lice-jellyfish-farmed-scottish-salmon-supermarkets 
 "Honestly, the only times I have gotten COVID are from my roommates at home ... and now I wear a mask at home, too, because if I got a fourth COVID infection I don't know what would happen. 

"And then the only other time [I got COVID] was at a restaurant that I went to without a mask.

So the only times I've gotten it are cases where I wasn't wearing a mask."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/former-university-athlete-covid-stop-running-1.6966950

#covid H/t to @af2f1f05 
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 @a1d9a3a0 @06d3112a Alcohol is really bad for everyone, but especially for younger people. Same with guns. And marriage, arguably 😉