TIL Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world (94.5% overweight, 71.7% obese), caused by the rapid adoption of Western diets after the phosphate mining boom. Traditional diets of fresh fish and vegetables were replaced by processed foods—with devastating health effects. [source, comments]

Mysterious ‘Hotspots’ Are Appearing in US and Around the World. The study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches. In recent years heat waves have killed tens of thousands of people

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#Hotspots #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EnvironmentalImpact #HeatWaves

🧠🤖AI neurotech: boosting mental health or altering the brain?

Neurotechnologies that use artificial intelligence (AI) can help treat conditions like Parkinson's and depression, and even boost mental well-being. But they can also alter the brain and read the mind.

From Switzerland, there's a worldwide call to regulate these technologies, especially when they're in the hands of private companies like Elon Musk's Neuralink. 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/ai-powered-neurotechnologies-raise-hopes-and-fears-for-health-and-privacy-in-geneva/88262654

Song of the day 🪺🪽: https://open.spotify.com/track/4d0aNV4HTwT976e6MgaYAF

Der Rubel rollt – so stark profitieren die Waffenhersteller von den weltweiten Kriegen https://www.watson.ch/!620225263

Im Sommer kam der prominente Menschenrechtler Oleg Orlow bei einem Gefangenenaustausch frei, nun lebt er in Deutschland. Ein Gespräch über kafkaeske Verfahren, militärische Hilfe für die Ukraine – und Roadmaps für Russlands Zukunft. https://www.woz.ch/!58RDNM46XA37

Amazon workers in over 2 dozen countries around the world are striking because Amazon is the fucking worst

Do your part and don't buy shit from Amazon or its subsidiaries from today through the next week

Also if you really wanna do your part, go support a local small business. They can't *afford* to drop their prices for black friday, they already sell with as razor thin margins as they can afford

#Senegal, parliamentary election:

100% votes counted

PASTEF (left-wing): 130 (new)
Takku Wallu Senegal (centre): 16
Jamm ak Ndjarin (centre-left): 7
Sam sa Kaddu (*): 3
Andu Nawle (*) : 2
Others (*) : 7

➤ https://africaelects.com/senegal/

"Merry Genocide, Ecocide. Time 2 decide + stop buying Amazon."

Unauthorized bus stop poster in Liverpool, UK for Black Friday

#Iceland, national parliament election results (100% counted):

S-S&D: 21% (+11)
D-EPP: 20% (-4)
C-RE: 16% (+8)
F~RE: 14% (+5)
M~EPP|RE: 12% (+6)
B~RE: 8% (-9)
J-*: 4%
P-G/EFA: 3% (-6)
V~LEFT: 2% (-11)
L-*: 1% (new)
…

+/- vs. 2021 election

➤ https://europeelects.eu/iceland/

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On this day, 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks, a Black civil rights activist, refused her bus driver’s order that she give up her seat in the "coloured" section to a white passenger after the white section was filled in Montgomery, Alabama. Contrary to the popular myth that Parks was simply a woman who was tired at the end of the work day and so refused to stand up, she was actually an activist dedicated to fighting segregation, had attended direct action training and had undertaken fundraising work to support other Black women who had previously been arrested for refusing to vacate their seats for white people, like 15 year old Claudette Colvin. Parks later declared "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." Parks' act triggered a widespread bus boycott across the city, which successfully desegregated public transport in the area. The protest also gave added impetus to the civil rights movement across the US. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8058/rosa-parks-arrested To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio # 1 then click this photo

TIL studies have found that in Africa and parts of Asia, people with schizophrenia typically report hearing kind and playful voices as opposed to the violent and cruel voices heard by those in Western societies... [source, comments]