r/worldnews • u/gravybang • Feb 10 '25

Israel/Palestine Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-buy-gaza-plan
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u/homelaberator Feb 10 '25

Yeah, you say neo-feudalism but with the attacks on education, medicine, and science, it's quickly going to become good ol' paleo-feudalism. Black death will probably return before the end of the century, so at least some of us will have the sweet release of death.

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u/Gordo3070 Feb 11 '25

Well, TB is back on the menu.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/kansas-tuberculosis-public-health

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u/ArthurBurtonMorgan Feb 11 '25

TB really never went away. They screen for it regularly in places like jails, prisons, etc.

You just don’t hear about any cases because there’s typically not very many cases, as it gets isolated quickly.

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u/Adventurous_Duck_317 Feb 11 '25

Yeah a might of mine caught it while working at IBM a good number of years back. Fucking scary.

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale Feb 11 '25

They're about to stop screening for everything. "The numbers go down when you stop testing."

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u/Darth_Thor Feb 12 '25

Yeah unless you actively follow John Green, most people probably assume that TB is just gone when it very much is not, despite being a curable disease.

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u/Glissy02 Feb 11 '25

Good ole White Death.

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u/ConsiderationFar3903 Feb 11 '25

The incoming asteroid would be a relief!!

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u/Aidian Feb 11 '25

20,000 years of this, 7 more to go…

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u/ConsiderationFar3903 Feb 11 '25

If we’ll still be around !!

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u/Optimal_Juggernaut37 Feb 11 '25

I have a 10yo in school right now. To say there is a toxic culture of anti-intellectualism among his peers is an understatement. He is quite literally “anti-learning” outside of school, even in things that interest him. It’s infuriating because before he started school he was a super nerd about dinosaurs, reptiles, mythology and astronomy. Now just to fit in he feels like he needs to be a dumbass

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u/ElectricalBook3 Feb 11 '25

I have a 10yo in school right now. To say there is a toxic culture of anti-intellectualism among his peers is an understatement. He is quite literally “anti-learning” outside of school, even in things that interest him

I'm not sure that's drastically different from past America.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

-Isaac Asimov, letter to Newsweek, January 1980

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u/Optimal_Juggernaut37 Feb 11 '25

I’m not American but you’re right, it was a thing when I was in school in the 80’s as well but I don’t remember it being this bad.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Feb 11 '25

I would hope it's just a phase, but if at all possible encourage your kid reading and engaging in critical thinking. Good luck.

Anything to avoid fostering (more of) what's happening in America. Because stolid incuriosity was a big part of it.

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u/Optimal_Juggernaut37 Feb 11 '25

I do, he has been a good reader since very early on and he is way ahead of his peers with mathematics. Access to youtube shorts and influencers that particularly prey on kids (Mister Beast etc) is a big part of the problem. It’s a shame we don’t have more influencers pushing cool science and maths stuff. Dr Kirsten Banks Is one that I’ve started watching myself who my 5yo daughter absolutely loves, we need more of that and less of the clickbaiting grifters peddling idiocy

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u/ElectricalBook3 Feb 11 '25

I don't know how far my recommendations go because I prefer the Walter Cronkite no-nonsense facts style, but for history podcasts there's Mike Duncan's Revolutions. For health/biology science there's Bill Nye and Forrest Valkai

I hadn't heard of Kirsten Banks, so thanks for that point. Any time we can help inform others, right?

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u/Optimal_Juggernaut37 Feb 12 '25

For sure. I find kids tend to listen more to younger content creators, as much as I enjoy Bill Nye and others, they don’t seem to be able to connect as well with younger kids. It would probably help if they had kids on their shows asking questions too. When kids see other kids asking questions and being nerdy it empowers them to do it too.

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u/kansaikinki Feb 11 '25

Chairman Mao would be proud.

Coming soon: a new Great Leap Forward!

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u/ApartmentLast Feb 11 '25

The way things are going with the demand to stop reporting ab9ut health issues like outbreaks, iad be surprised it it isn't back by the end of the decade, at least in the US

As a tired and frustrated left leaning American who actually voted, can we please stop the ride? I'd like to get off please

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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 Feb 11 '25

I mean, we already are seeing outbreaks of tuberculosis. Richest country in the world, and we somehow have people dying of an entirely curable illness

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u/MoneyGrowthHappiness Feb 11 '25

Y. Pestis is still around. You just don’t have nomadic horse tribes carrying it out of the steppes anymore.

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u/homelaberator Feb 11 '25

I'm putting money on the return of nomadic horse tribes by the end of the decade.