Well no, the article is about weird happenings in the research into this. You have to read actual research to see the evidence.
I apologize for not providing it here. I'm uncomfortably aware that I sound like one of those annoying trollish people who say Do yOuR oWn ResEarch instead of presenting evidence.
I read a bunch of research papers on depleted uranium years ago and found it very convincing, and that's what my opinion is based on, but unfortunately I'm finding google and duckduckgo kind of useless these days (any recs welcome), it's late at night and I'm tired. @Holden_Fartzen@beehaw.org if you have anything handy?
I get where you're coming from too. Especially since the Russians appear to have added that to their list of crimes. Fight uranium with uranium.
I'm very wary of the argument that people can use whatever weapons they like in their own country. War crimes are a thing in international law for good reason.
I'm a strong supporter of the "court of last resort" the ICC, and I firmly believe that it's the duty of all the world's citizens to oppose war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity wherever they occur.
Fighting war crimes with war crimes happens a lot - we have seen it in the past year in Ethiopia as well - but a line has to be drawn somewhere or attrocities keep escalating and everyone becomes monsters.
For me, that line is here. I appreciate that for you the line might be further along though.
The Ukrainian leadership is. But they are not the ones about to be born wirh painful defects.
To clarify, I am on Ukraine's side in this war.
But being on the right side of a war of invasion doesn't magically turn the Ukrainian military leadership into omniscient saints.
Depleted Uranium should not be used in any war. Period. If Ukraine is firing it at invaders on Ukrainian soil - and the Russians will be using it too I expect - the legacy is going to be horrendous.
I think you and @Steve@communick.news (and @downpunxx@kbin.social ) might have missed the part where the woman is Australian and this whole thing took place in Australia, where there is universal healthcare.
Great, so Ukraine can look to a future of massive increase in birth defects, stillborn children, cancer, and heart defects.
It's expedient for people in Western Europe and the US that this war be carried out with poisonous weapons - but they are not the ones who will live with the ecological damage in the aftermath.
And although it has been rather heavily suppressed in some quarters, that is what this means.
For years, medical doctors in Iraq have reported "a high level of birth defects." Other peer-reviewed studies have documented a dramatic increase in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the aftermath of US military bombardment. In Fallujah, doctors are witnessing a "massive unprecedented number" of heart defects, and an increase in the number of nervous system defects. Analysis of pre-2003 data compared to now showed that "the rate of congenital heart defects was 95 per 1,000 births - 13 times the rate found in Europe."
The US was imposing sanctions on Ethiopia for its human rights abuses at the same time. Many of these refugees were fleeing Ethiopia so they are literally the exact same people.
The articles I read made it sound like the mother had always been a bit of a loner, so it reminded me more of the deaths of Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man) or Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild).
Things over there seem really polarized, even worse than here.
I don't think the 13 year old was in any position to make an informed choice. Many people grow up to hold very different beliefs to those of their parents.
I'm not buying the family's claim that there was no mental illness involved with the mother, either.
Tangential observation: if people weren't fast enough to dodge an out of control bus or not strong enough to escape an attacker, that doesn't somehow make it less tragic to most people. It's strange to me that it's somehow different when it comes to death stemming from low innate intelligence.
But that inspired me to put the call back out on Twitter (now known as X) for women to share their stories.
Seems like a pretty strong selection bias.
I say this as a woman who a) is bad at plants and b) has only had plants killed by another woman. There is an element of seeing my things as forgettable/less valuable so I can see how the author sees the whole thing as gendered, but I'm not convinced.
Ha ha! Not because I haven't heard of him, I meant the article's description of him is that he dated a trans woman and is supportive of transwomen.
The thing he did that's phobic, according to this article, is he called James Charles a f****, which is homophobic, not transphobic.
Ironically when I googled this I found James Charles seems to have said some transphobic things about not being 100% gay because he is attracted to transgender men. Maybe he could take this list slot.
Well no, the article is about weird happenings in the research into this. You have to read actual research to see the evidence.
I apologize for not providing it here. I'm uncomfortably aware that I sound like one of those annoying trollish people who say Do yOuR oWn ResEarch instead of presenting evidence.
I read a bunch of research papers on depleted uranium years ago and found it very convincing, and that's what my opinion is based on, but unfortunately I'm finding google and duckduckgo kind of useless these days (any recs welcome), it's late at night and I'm tired. @Holden_Fartzen@beehaw.org if you have anything handy?