What the data says about Americans’ views of climate change: Pew Research

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/

Here's a short list of diseases that were once devastating but we rarely think of anymore.

⚠️ Warning: Some gross images ahead.⚠️

(I posted a version of this thread on Twitter in 2021 about our many public-health victories of the past.

But given #Twitter, itself, is now so full of #PublicHealth #misinformation, I figured I'd repost a version of it here on #Mastodon.)

Here goes ...

Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a $3500 product designed to isolate you from your environment and strap a screen to your face so you’re constantly making money for tech companies.

When it launches next year, every rich early adopter who puts one on their face should be ridiculed. It’s not a vision for the future of computing we should accept.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves

#tech #apple #visionpro #wwdc #wwdc23 #applevisionpro

Since there is a lot of confusion about bees, and the saving thereof, a thread:

1. Honey Bees are a Eurasian/African species not native to the Americas but used here for agriculture. Their well-being is no more a conservation concern in the Americas than that of house cats or chickens.

2. Honey bees are having some problems, though, especially with high winter colony losses. Commercial beekeepers are slower to build colony numbers in the spring, which raises early-spring hive rental prices...