Gun violence in Chicago tends to rise over holiday weekends as the hot weather sends people outdoors. In 2021, more than 100 people were shot and 17 killed over the Fourth of July weekend in the city of Chicago.
-- BBC News websiteIt will cost the UK taxpayer £132bn to decommission all the UK’s civil nuclear sites and the work will not be completed for another 120 years, according to latest estimates. Report -- May 2022:
The crackle is continuous right now, as it has been for a couple of days.花火。
Two things generally tend to happen here in the summer:
(1) The path of least resistance is zombification, and the zombies generally take over
(2) The bosses are away and don’t very care much what is happening back on the plantation (provided anyone trying to damage it is killed), since all the important other people (i.e competitors etc.) are generally away also.
Combustible combination really: Pent up tensions rise to the surface, and people have time and opportunity to work them out. But turning on each other is acceptable.
Things get whacked back into shape (for the survivors) after Labor day.
Welcome to the Mad Max/Elysium/late stage capitalism.
on July 4, 2022, 10:04 pm