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SHOCKING: Canada Euthanizes a Young & Healthy 26-Year-Old for 'Depression'

After one physician refused to administer the lethal injection saying he was “too young and healthy” to die, the state ultimately approved his euthanasia anyway.

Canada’s assisted-death regime has crossed another disturbing line.

According to his mother, a 26-year-old man previously rejected for euthanasia by a doctor who deemed him “young and healthy” was later killed through the government’s MAiD program for depression despite family pleas, prior safeguards, and an official ban on euthanasia for mental illness.

Her account raises urgent questions about medical ethics, legal loopholes, and whether vulnerability in modern Canada is now met with care, or with death.

Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades
By Nafeez Ahmed
July 28, 2020

Two theoretical physicists specializing in complex systems conclude that global deforestation due to human activities is on track to trigger the “irreversible collapse” of human civilization within the next two to four decades.

The paper is written by Dr Gerardo Aquino, a research associate at the Alan Turing Institute in London currently working on political, economic and cultural complex system modelling to predict conflicts; along with Professor Mauro Bologna of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Tarapacá in Chile.
Both scientists are career physicists. Aquino has previously conducted research at the Biological Physics Groups at Imperial College, the Max Planck Institute of Complex Systems and the Mathematical Biology group at the University of Surrey.

dominant milankovitch cycle

AI Overview

The dominant Milankovitch cycle driving ice ages has shifted over time, with the ~41,000-year obliquity (axial tilt) cycle dominant for much of the last 2.5 million years, but the ~100,000-year eccentricity (orbital shape) cycle became dominant in the last 800,000 years, influencing glacial periods.

While all three cycles (eccentricity, obliquity, precession) affect incoming solar radiation, the 100,000-year eccentricity cycle, linked with precession (~20,000 years), now paces major ice ages, despite the 41,000-year tilt cycle still playing a role.

Key Milankovitch Cycles

Eccentricity (Orbit Shape): Changes Earth's orbit from nearly circular to slightly elliptical over ~100,000 and ~400,000-year cycles, affecting total solar energy received.
Obliquity (Axial Tilt): Varies Earth's axial tilt (related to seasons) every ~41,000 years, altering summer/winter intensity.
Precession (Axial Wobble): Earth's slow wobble changes the timing of seasons relative to its orbit, with cycles around ~19,000-26,000 years (often simplified to ~20,000 years).

Dominance Over Time

Before ~800,000 years ago: The ~41,000-year obliquity cycle seemed to pace ice ages.
Last 800,000 years: The ~100,000-year eccentricity cycle became the primary driver for glacial-interglacial cycles, often working with precession.

Why the Shift? (The 100,000-Year Problem)

While the 41,000-year tilt cycle is strong, the ~100,000-year eccentricity cycle's dominance for the last million years, despite its weaker direct effect, is known as the "100,000-year problem".
The interplay of these cycles, particularly how eccentricity modulates precession's influence on high-latitude summer insolation, drives the larger ice age patterns, notes Skeptical Science.

Unpacking the Epidemic of Parental Estrangement
The generation that was scared of their parents is now scared of their children.
Posted May 19, 2024

Experts are reporting that we may be in an epidemic of adult children cutting off contact with their parents. In one recent study, researchers found that 26 percent of young adults are estranged from their fathers, and six percent are estranged from their mothers. The parents report that these estrangements often happen without notice or explanation, leaving them feeling deeply hurt and in the dark.

The Disturbingly Common Reason So Many Adult Kids Are Choosing To Become Estranged From Their Parents
I was ahead of the trend when I decided to go “low contact” with my mother 20 years ago.
McKenna Meyers
Written on Oct 27, 2024

I recently had a disturbing experience that many others will undoubtedly face in years to come. Two of my co-workers came to me on separate occasions, needing to unburden themselves after their adult children decided to disconnect from them. Their grownup kids, like an increasing number of millennials and Gen-Z chose the nuclear option and went “no contact” with their parents.

One study found that 7 percent of adult children were estranged from their mothers while a whopping 27 percent were alienated from their fathers. In recent years, though, these unsettling numbers have surely grown as it’s become more socially acceptable for millennials and Gen-Z to cut parents out of their lives.

the ten commandments honor thy father and mother

AI Overview

"Honor your father and your mother" is the fifth commandment, found in Exodus 20:12 and Deuteronomy 5:16, instructing children to show respect, obedience, and care for their parents, with a promise of long life and well-being. It's the first commandment with a promise, signifying that honoring parents reflects honoring God and builds stable families and societies.

Key Aspects of Honoring Parents:
Respect & Esteem: Treating parents as important ("heavy" or weighty in Hebrew).
Obedience: Children should obey parents, though this is balanced with honoring God above all.
Care: Providing for parents, especially as they age, and showing gratitude.
Communication: Being honest and avoiding disrespect, interruption, or contradiction.
Promise: The blessing of a long life and prosperity in the land, representing God's favor and a stable community.

Biblical Context:
New Testament: The Apostle Paul reiterates this in Ephesians 6:1-3, calling it the "first commandment with a promise".
Jewish Law: Emphasizes duties like not sitting in a father's place or contradicting him, applying equally to mothers.

In essence, honoring parents is a foundational principle for a righteous life, linking respect for earthly parents to reverence for God, our Heavenly Father.

Harvard Professor Calls Out University’s ‘Exclusion Of White Males’ In Scathing Public Resignation

A history professor who has taught at Harvard for 40 years is publicly calling out the Ivy League school over race-based hiring and admissions policies, a “shocking indifference” to antisemitism, and for its eroding commitment to teaching students about Western history.

“In reviewing graduate student applicants in the fall of 2020 I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that ‘that’ (meaning admitting a white male) was ‘not happening this year.'” Hankins said such treatment was not confined to Harvard. After making inquiries with colleagues, he determined that the same “unspoken protocol” was being followed all across the nation.

“When late liberal pedagogy replaced Western civilization courses with global history, serious harm was done to the socialization of young Americans. When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized,” Hankins wrote.

“It should by now be evident why Harvard and its ‘peer’ institutions in the Ivy-Plus category do not offer fertile ground for a new flowering of courses in the Western tradition,” Hankins wrote. “Many now believe that our civilization is on the point of collapse, but few seem willing to take the steps necessary to preserve it.”

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:58 pm She asked me what I thought of AI. I said the first thing that comes to mind with regard to any new technology is whether you believe the civilization is on the ascent or the decline. If you believe the civilization is on the ascent, and you are right about that, then AI will probably on net be a positive and force for good. However, if you believe that the civilization is on the decline...at which point she interjected, "Oh, definitely!"...and then I finished my thought.

If they really believe that, they really believe they wanted to distinguish their videos that are fake from ours that are genuine, then they would leave that up in the corner. But they don’t. They’re just doing that because they think it gives them some legal pretension and that they can fall back and say, well, we warn people legally, and then you can’t sue them.

The other thing is they try to exploit our video. So, they will put headlines with the F-U-word, the F-bomb, and they’ll put it as the headline. Or they’ll say Hanson attacks JD Vance or Hanson does this when we don’t do that. We don’t try to get clicks by being controversial. We try to get audiences by trying to inform them and bring history, politics, sociology, literature, all within a unique package for the erudition and entertainment of our audience.

The final thing is there’s no laws against us that I can tell. I’ve had legal counsel and they’re doing their best, but X won’t take them down. And YouTube argues and Google argues. So, apparently, the Silicon Valley brotherhood feels that these people who must have learned their skills out of that nexus, they’re not doing anything wrong. They’re just taking a product.

But whoever they are, they’re doing things that are bad and wrong, and they should be stopped.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 3:23 pm The problem if the wise were to somehow get control of decision making at this time is that the position industrial civilization currently finds itself in is not a good one for the wise to grapple with. People with wisdom are good at keeping a civilization on the correct path but not so good at knowing what to do with it once it has deviated from that path for a long time. An example of that might be the question of whether the world should have gone down the path of R&D and manufacturing of synthetic chemicals. The wise probably would have determined not go down that path, but in this industrial civilization they weren’t in any position of authority to determine whether that was going to be done; the intelligent (at the approximate level of the 97th Percentile, but not the highest level) were. Now that we have gone down that path, the wise probably can’t help us.

Chemical production outpacing world’s ability to understand the risk, study warns
Feb 16, 2022

With global chemical production increasing 50-fold since 1950 — and projected to triple again by 2050 compared to 2010 — its aggressive pace may outstrip society’s ability to adequately assess and monitor the risk, pushing the planet to the brink, a new study suggests.

There are an estimated 350,000 chemicals or mixtures on the global market, with nearly 70,000 registered in the past decade, and another 30,000 that have only been registered in emerging economies where chemical production has jumped beyond adequate disposal capacity, warns a team of 14 international researchers in the study published by the American Chemical Society.

The emergence of more and more new chemicals that aren’t fully understood puts humanity out of a “safe operating space,” the authors say.

“Chemical pollution has the potential to cause severe ecosystem and human health problems at different scales, (but also to alter vital Earth system processes on which human life depends),” begins the study’s introduction in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Plastic production alone increased 79% between 2000 and 2015, the team found.

The range of manufactured chemicals, from plastics to pesticides, industrial chemicals, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals, has pushed Earth beyond one of what scientists interpret as nine planetary boundaries that act as markers for the Earth’s health. These boundaries include greenhouse gas emissions, the ozone layer, forests, freshwater and biodiversity. However, chemical pollution may have breached the boundary referred to as “novel entities,” or things made by humans and introduced into the environment.

The new study, in part, reviews the evolution of the scientific discussion related to the planetary boundary for novel entities. The scientists acknowledged the data was sparse in many areas, but said the weight of evidence indicated a breach of the planetary boundary.

Higgenbotham wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:59 am I would put it as, "The weight of the evidence seems to suggest to me..." I read the book in 1996 when it first came out. In the 28 years since, the weight of the evidence seems to suggest to me that the premise of the book is correct. The fact that it can't be proven is a poor argument for anybody (as in a scientist) to make because that's self-evident. That's pretty much like everything else that I bring up in this Dark Age Hovel, or don't bring up if the weight of the evidence does not seem to suggest to me...

The weight of the evidence falls into 3 main categories - all of which have been mentioned at various times: increase in sexual confusion, increase in fertility problems, and increasing weight across all species - all of which can be attributed to other causes.

"Legally Clean" Water: How Modern Water Treatment Actually Works

Safety defined by threshold is safety defined by tolerance, not by health. What we measure determines what we protect. What we ignore determines what we live with.

The Realities Of Modern Drinking Water Treatment
Contemporary water treatment is designed to meet regulatory thresholds by stabilizing chemistry and suppressing visibility, not by restoring biological or mineral integrity.

Modern municipal water treatment is often assumed to be a process that “cleans” water in a comprehensive sense. In practice, it is a system designed to make water compliant with regulatory standards and safe from acute infectious disease, not to restore water to a biologically intact or mineral-complete state.

The primary goals of conventional drinking-water treatment are to remove visible particulates, reduce microbial pathogens, and ensure that finished water meets maximum contaminant levels established by regulation.

These goals emerged historically in response to cholera, typhoid, and other waterborne epidemics, and they remain the foundation of treatment design today.

Treatment trains are therefore built to “manage turbidity” (water treatment language for keeping the water clear looking), disinfect against bacteria and viruses, and stabilize water chemistry so that it can be distributed safely through pipes without excessive corrosion or scale formation.

Thus, modern drinking water systems are engineered to meet concentration-based regulatory thresholds, not to resolve the total chemical burden that modern water now carries.

Modern water treatment is literally designed to keep water’s content invisible, dissolved, dispersed, and diluted below perception. It is almost like saying, “let’s employ methods so that they can’t see what is in their water.” If you think I am being alarmist or don’t understand water treatment, unfortunately you would be wrong.

If you think that delivering water of the highest purity possible is the main goal of municipal water treatment, that would be as ridiculous as thinking the pharmaceutical industry’s main goal is to keep you healthy (sorry not sorry).

Here I will argue that their main goals are twofold: keep the water clear, and keep it from messing up the pipes (Ok, fine, they also want it free of microbes too).

Pollutants / Toxins Not Routinely Tested For
Despite water safety laws, thousands of chemicals found in the water supply are not routinely monitored or regulated. These include:

Pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, hormones, antidepressants)

Endocrine disruptors (phthalates, bisphenol A)

Industrial byproducts (PCBs, volatile organics)

Microplastics and nanoplastics

PFAS and related fluorinated compounds (many remain unregulated)

Newly identified “contaminants of emerging concern” (e.g., flame retardants, illicit drugs, new pesticides)

Natural toxins (algal toxins, mycotoxins)

Resistant pathogens and genetic material (viruses, antimicrobial gene fragments)

Uncharacterized Organic/Chemical Pollutants from Agriculture/Fracking/Mining

Disinfection byproducts (THMs, HAAs) — currently discussed elsewhere

Cyanotoxins (microcystins) — partially covered under algal toxins

Transformation products (chlorinated pesticide metabolites)