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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • According to Sayidina:

    66.2% of these were high school students (349), 
    30.9% middle school students (163), 
    02.8% elementary school students (15).
    

    Causes cited (multiple causes means these total to more than 100%):

    349 Academic struggles, concerns about future paths.
    284 Mental health issues, e.g. depression, 
    148 family-related problems. e.g. conflicts with parents.
    

    This is from a non-paywalled older article from 2025-01 which gives the total of school-aged children’s suicides in Japan in 2024 at an all-time high of 527 (the 2 more in the newer article probably corrects cases incorrectly classified before).

    “A notable increase was observed among female middle and high school students”

    “In 2024, the number of suicides [for all ages] in Japan totaled 20,268, marking a decrease of 1,569 from the previous year and reaching the second-lowest level since records began in 1978.”


  • “If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.” – Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social

    Can anyone post a link and the date+time? I don’t want to go to bsky because of their unethical policies like link tracking.

    (Wouldn’t it be better to copy paste the texts of things like this, instead of screen caps?)


  • In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

    “Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.






  • “Aid organizations the world over scrambled to prove their work saved lives, seeking permission from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue operating.”

    Maybe those who proved they were doing good, were the ones then to get the axe. The cruelty is the point - especially I’ve found, by the kind of people who claim to be Christians. Maybe lying by saying ghosts and souls and gods and heaven are real, it inculcates lying into all aspects of a peoples’ actions.

    Rubio’s lies, and these actions are helpful in getting Trump more support from the kind of people who voted for him. The deaths and cruelty is the point.






  • These hemorrhagic-fever like outbreaks (like Ebola and Marburg) usually don’t spread too far because of how dramatic the symptoms are and of how quickly they usually kill patients: here “death occurs within just 48 hours of the onset of symptoms”.

    “However, here, it is concerning that we have hundreds of cases and over 50 deaths, with hemorrhagic-fever like symptoms widely reported among those cases.” - Michael Head. Current estimate of a “fatality rate of 12.3 percent” is of course a major problem locally, tho that % could be completely wrong.

    If there are few or no asymptomatic carriers, and the incubation is period is short, then it’s unlikely to be like COVID-19.

    Bird flu is still big concern - and potentially the solution to omnicidal anthropogenic climate change.