Getting work outside of my role assigned to me. A part of it makes me wonder if I am ever going to be acknowledged for the work I have already done?
Time will tell. Certainly the next five weeks will.
... I remind myself to never underestimate the destructive power of stupidity.
| Developer | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Source model | |
| Released to manufacturing | August 24, 2001[2] |
| General availability | October 25, 2001[2] |
| Latest release | Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600) / April 21, 2008[3] |
And so far involves a BSNF train on the Sounder line.
At one point in his speech, Sanders spoke about the significance of his upset presidential primary victory in Michigan in 2016: “That victory, and in 21 other states, told the entire world we are not satisfied with status quo politics. Many ideas which I talked about were considered radical, but you know what’s happened in the past three years? Those ideas are now supported by millions!”
Sanders neglected to remind his audience that he immediately threw his support behind the epitome of “status quo politics,” the militarist and right-wing candidate Hillary Clinton, within a month after winning Michigan. Nor did he mention that he has now become a leading figure in this right-wing political party, which has shifted even further to the right since 2016.
The other revealing aspect of the evening was the marked decline in enthusiasm. In February 2016, just ten miles down the road, Sanders drew an overflow crowd of 10,000 people to his rally at Eastern Michigan University. In contrast, the 1,000-person capacity auditorium on Friday was about 90 percent full. The audience was dominated by professionals and party-connected young people, with very few workers.
Also notable was what did not come up even once all night: any opposition to or even mention of the unending wars being waged by US imperialism around the world. After over a dozen speeches from leading Democrats in the state and Sanders, one would have no idea that over 80 percent of the most recent federal budget bill was earmarked for military spending, or that the US is threatening was against Russia and China, with incalculable consequences.
... I am reminded that:
A good person always remembers their friends' intent.
A wise person never forgets their enemies' actions.
Everyone agreed our coverage was “lousy,” and got worse throughout the province, the further away from the city you were. Most gave me the usual excuses: We didn’t have enough time or people to do better, given tight deadlines; didn’t have adequate resources or people, given tighter budgets; and we worried about accusations of racism if we did a story about the problems, and accusations about racism if we painted over the problems.
One producer in TV news said something different. She didn’t agree with what she called easy excuses. She said it was about money—advertising. Poor people in poor neighborhoods didn’t buy advertising, as a rule. Indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, not only didn’t buy ads, but didn’t pay attention to ads or buy newspapers, a major source of stories and ideas for local broadcasting newsrooms. To her, Indigenous peoples got the coverage they paid for: no money, no coverage.
Put simply—we weren’t considered part of the audience or readership.
Given accumulated emissions, the report says, “Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052.”
It warns that overshooting 1.5°C will be disastrous. For example, with 1.5°C of warming, sea levels are projected to rise 26 to 77 centimeters by 2100; going to 2°C adds another 10 centimeters, which would affect an additional 10 million people living in coastal regions. Plants, insects, animals, and marine life will all be pushed farther out of current geographic ranges with 2°C of warming. Coral reefs are projected to decline 70% to 90% at 1.5°C, but at 2°C, 99% of reefs would be ravaged. Storms, flooding, and drought would exact an even higher toll. “Every bit of extra warming makes a difference,” said Abdalah Mokssit, director of Morocco’s National Meteorological Department in Casablanca and IPCC secretary.
The panel says keeping warming to 1.5°C is technically feasible, but the emissions cuts pledged so far by the nations that signed the Paris agreement fall far short of what’s needed. To hit and keep that 1.5°C target, net anthropogenic CO2 emissions must come down 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 and reach net zero around 2050.
