All of the clay gets compressed which means the water can’t drain into the ground anymore and the underground drainage canals get damaged. And then the city turns back into a fucking lake after it goes between drought and flooding because the only way to create a surface water reservoir is to turn the now sunken city back into a goddamn toxic and polluted lake/marsh. That or attempt to geoengineer it into a desert which also defeats the purpose of human habitation. Eventually “fixing” the problems will become more expensive than what they’re worth for more development but nobody really knows where that inflection point lies for the valley of Mexico.

You wouldn’t expect more (or less) primary causes if more secondary causes were reported in multifactorial deaths. I’d imagine the fact that in the US CMS adopted ICD-10 in 2015 and the rapid rise after would make that obvious enough. Unless you believe there’s some pre-COVID etiology for malnutrition that explains the jump I’m not seeing.

Dunno. I’m a US nurse. I don’t know how France does their death certificates. Wouldn’t surprise me that they’re more granular though.

Be aware, very old people die from this as a secondary cause from a primary of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. They just stop eating. It’s a misleading statistic to use to identify poverty based malnutrition. It’s a very common diagnosis in terminal patients. And the way US billing works, getting the most diagnosis codes recorded is important for reimbursement. It’s likely the cause for this disparity.

Edit: yeah 2015 is when ICD-10 adoption and cms billing changes went into play. And then the rate quadrupled. This is an artifact of the US’s dumb private/public insurance model for end of life as more people gamed the system for reimbursement. The spread of billing practices over time.

At least the AP offers the perspective that this is likely just state terrorism even if it’s understated.

Seriously folks, tossing aside potential liberation theology allies is not praxis.

Because the US cannot both declare freedom of navigation as the most important part of the straight while also blockading non-US allies which they’ve explicitly threatened to do. If you approach it from a realpolitik angle like you are right now, then it justifies Iran’s actions in closing the straight from that very perspective. The US will not get to have it both ways. Either Iran was justified in closing the straight in response to US aggression or the US is violating international law and general principles of trade.

Jesus Christ. I certainly didn’t have this on my rapidly flailing bingo card of the US punching itself in the face.

Smell your own cooking.

In the end it’s hard to argue for the so called liberal democracy that was often extremely corrupt compared to Thomas Sankara style populism there.

Didn’t stop the guy who did win from sucking off Trump anyway even though he didn’t get the endorsement:

A passionate supporter of President Trump, Sam led Sheriffs for Trump in 2016 and was the President’s N.C. Campaign Chair in 2020.

https://www.sampagenc.com/

How much of what? Which ruling class?

Ex: healthcare and childcare is unaffordable and collapsing everywhere(though obviously not to the level of the US) because patriarchy refuses to accept that it’s something that once employed half of the population to do and is obviously going to be extremely expensive to maintain so they just expect free social labor to fill the gaps. This is true even in China. But the “ruling class” when we talk about patriarchy is hard to draw lines on.

You guys aren’t quite as turnkey as, say, Japan. They’ve got reprocessing and rocket production from JAXA and really would have to just put together an implosion device.

I wish LNG was that simple. Most of qatar LNG production comes from dedicated natural gas fields(the North field) but they also have quite a bit co-extracted with oil. That requires big facilities to compress it. Without them they’ll just flare it like they did in the past and dump the CO2 right into the atmosphere with no gain.

I do not I just can’t believe these neolibs are that fucking bold faced about it. Like I get sacrificing one manufacturing industry for another. That’s industrial policy, even if it’s often corrupt. But this is sacrificing a manufacturing industry for its owners. It’s just… stupid. The British crown subsidizing East India company adventuring level stupid.

Germany’s need to support the car industry, one of the country’s biggest employers, has made its approach to barriers to Chinese imports less black and white.

It voted against an EU decision to introduce tariffs on Chinese EVs in 2024 and this month was spared EU tariffs on imports of the Chinese-built Volkswagen Cupra Tavascan SUV in exchange for undertakings on the minimum price of the vehicle.

I’m having a hard time parsing this. It’s supporting the car industry offshoring as an economic boon for one of its biggest employers?

To your cat, these actions are as incomprehensible as putting on pants.