Anti-vaxxers are tearing families apart.

Most anti-vaxxers are also subject to conspiracy ideation, which is in itself a reason to limit contact with them. Communication with someone who has lost contact with reality, outside of purely practical topics, is sure to feel like pressure to tolerate the delusion.

The US is not to blame for the PIS attack at Kabul airport, but it is to blame for being so slow to evacuate Afghans who were in danger because of working with the US.

The main consequence of that failure is that tens of thousands (at least) are now unable to get out. If indeed the Taliban persecute some of them, that could be fatal. It could be fatal for far more people than the bombing.

Houses in parts of California are becoming uninsurable.

For the people who own and live in those houses, that is a disaster; most Americans don't have money to put a down payment on a new house if they can't sell the old one. However, insuring those houses so that they get repeatedly rebuilt would be unending waste, like trying to fill a leaky bathtub.

The right solution, I think, is for the US government to buy their houses for what would have been a fair price when they were insurable.

I wonder if it is feasible to build underground houses that usually won't be damaged by wildfires. The inhabitants will still have to evacuate as fire comes, but with luck the house will be unscathed after the fire passes.

Controlled burns are clearly a good thing to do, but there is a lot of political opposition to that, partly because there is never a safe time for it nowadays. When people see the danger of not doing them exceeds the danger of doing them, they will start.

*Unvaccinated teacher infected half her students with Covid.* She went to work despite having symptoms, and read to the students without a mask on.

This was triple disregard for the safety of others.

(satire) *Humanitarian Organization "Doctors Without Dimensions" Phases Into War-Torn Nonlinear Universe.*

I wonder whether a "doctor without dimensions" is a single mathematical point, or a nonmeasurable set.