Up now on my eBay! Various American manga from 1994-1999! Galaxion by Tara Tallan and Gold Digger by Fred Perry! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
While mainstream news outlets fact-checked the many lies and misleading claims in Trump’s #SOTU address, Fox News figures are calling it “one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard in terms of reaching across the aisle,” gushing that “the president delivered, I think, a message of unity,” claiming “Trump is going to be recognized as one of the greatest presidents of our generation, if not the greatest,” and more.
2018 was the fourth hottest year since modern recordkeeping
began. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work together to track temperatures around the world and
study how they change from year to year. For decades, the overall global temperature
has been increasing.
Over the long term, world temperatures are warming, but each
individual year is affected by things like El Niño ocean patterns and specific
weather events.
1.5 degrees
Globally, Earth’s temperature was more than 1.5 degrees
Fahrenheit warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980.
The Record
139 years
Since 1880, we can put together a consistent
record of temperatures around the planet and see that it was much colder in the
late-19th century.
Before 1880, uncertainties in tracking global temperatures were too large.
Temperatures have increased even faster since the 1970s, the result of
increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Five Hottest
The last five years have been the hottest in the modern
record.
6,300 Individual
Observations
Scientists from NASA use data from 6,300 weather stations
and Antarctic research stations, together with ship- and buoy-based
observations of sea surface temperatures to track global temperatures.
The Consequences
605,830 swimming pools
As the planet warms, polar ice is melting at an accelerated
rate. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost about 605,830 Olympic
swimming pools (400 billion gallons) of water between 1993 and 2016.
8 inches
Melting ice raises sea levels around the world. While ice
melts into the ocean, heat also causes the water to expand. Since 1880, sea
levels around the world have risen approximately 8 inches.
71,189 acres burned
One symptom of the warmer climate is that fire seasons burn
hotter and longer. In 2018, wildfires burned more than 71,189 acres in the U.S.
alone.
46% increase in CO2 levels
CO2 levels have increased 46 percent since the late 19th
Century, which is a dominant factor causing global warming.
i’m fifteen minutes into this interview with a black woman who works in a verizon warehouse in tennessee and she’s already told a story about how another black woman died on the warehouse floor and the foremen set up cones around her dead body and left her there for two hours while forcing all the other employees to continue working. and the woman being interviewed said that herself and four other employees suffered miscarriages while working because the foremen refused to honour their doctor’s notes saying that they shouldn’t lift heavy objects on the job. when she began to miscarry on the warehouse floor, she asked a foreman if she could go home because she wasn’t feeling well and she was worried about jeopardizing the health of her baby, he said, “why are you pregnant? you don’t need any more kids. go have a fucking abortion.”
Why I’m no longer buying anything physical from Amazon and seriously limit even kindle purchases!
this wasn’t an amazon warehouse, this was a verizon warehouse operated by a company called XPO Logistics. work abuse is an industry-wide problem and amazon is far from the only culprit.
A lot of the smaller lesser known webshops also ship from warehouses like this. If it’s got 24 or 48 hour shipping… there’s probably shit there.
You can’t boycot your way out of a complete lack of workers rights. It’s everywhere.
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