habe you ever created a character specifically to go through the horrors and then realized that you don't want him to go through the horrors anymore

i changed my mind i want him safe at home before 6 sober and content ready for dinner

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:

With Spain and Portugal saying that hundreds of people have died from the heat waves sweeping through Europe this month, the longer-term view might come as a surprise. Over the past 50 years, the number of deaths attributed to weather-related disasters has actually fallen. Yes, you heard that right. The World Meteorological Organization says that the number of disasters has increased five times over the past 50 years, but the number of fatalities has fallen by two-thirds. Vox climate writer Umair Irfan has delved into this paradox and joins us now. Welcome to the program, Umair.

UMAIR IRFAN: Thanks for having me, Ayesha.

RASCOE: So how can this be? Like, how can the number of deaths be falling even though we hear the news, we see the disasters? You know, seas are rising, summers are hotter, hurricanes seem to be getting stronger. So how is it possible that deaths can be down?

IRFAN: Well, there are two main factors here. One is better forecasting - basically being able to get ahead of these disasters and then hopefully being able to get people out of harm's way. So that's really prominent with things like hurricanes and heat waves. We can actually see those things days in advance. The other side of the equation is how well we can cope with things like storms, fires and heat waves when they do occur. So we have better tools - things like sea walls. We have better building codes. We have firefighting teams that can get people out of fire zones. And so between those two aspects - you know, the better forecasting and the better tools - we've been able to avert a lot of deaths, even though the global population has grown about fourfold since the start of the 20th century.

RASCOE: Are the technological advances that you're talking about available even in less-developed areas?

IRFAN: It's not, unfortunately. And you're hitting on a very important point. You know, the WMO pointed out that about 90% of disaster-related fatalities that occur today are occurring in developing countries. And there's a huge gap in terms of being able to anticipate these disasters before they occur and being able to respond to them and being able to rebuild in their aftermath. And that really is a big shortfall that a lot of world leaders are starting to get concerned about...

You know, the World Meteorological Organization, they launched this initiative to basically say that they want the whole world covered by disaster early warning systems over the next five years. And they think that this is something that's going to be taking a big bite out of the fatalities and the casualties caused by these disasters. So I think it's worth highlighting the progress that's made, but also the progress that we still need to make.

-via NPR, July 17, 2022

Thanks so much to @gardening-tea-lesbian for the link!

Lucifer after God throws him out of Heaven.

ALT

HGUH ??????,,,, @lokaarc

I feel like if a vampire feeds on you without killing you, they should give you a lil cookie and cup of juice afterwards, like the blood donation center does.

vampire that wears a lil fanny pack with snacks and juice boxes in it everywhere they go

RPG where the shopkeeper doesn't give a shit if you pick something up off the shelves and walk out the door because they don't get paid enough to stick their neck out, but aggros immediately if you pick an item up and then put it back down on the wrong shelf.

“Excuse me, the dagger section is over there.”
“Pardon?”
“You put a dagger in the gauntlet section. Please put it back. Where it belongs.”
“It’s just a dagger....”
*Sound of War Axe being drawn* “WHERE. IT. BELONGS!”

#hiya! #hurg! #gah! #*sound of a dude wearing a boxing glove punching a bowl of macaroni* (via OP)

i think they should make it illegal for anxiety

y'all are misunderstanding this, dw, it's not illegal to have anxiety, it's illegal for the anxiety to bother you, they'd arrest the anxiety

but how can I do this five minute task if I'm leaving in thirty minutes