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... Looking at necessities of a livable Earth -- including the climate, freshwater systems, biodiversity and soil nutrients -- the researchers find almost all have crossed crucial thresholds. The only global system yet to breach safe limits is aerosols, even as small-particle air pollution contributes to 8 million deaths a year.

The new paper updates a scientific project that began in 2009 to assess "planetary boundaries" (since renamed "Earth-system boundaries") and how transgressing them will pose risks to human society and nature around the world.

Researchers assessed each of these systems on two factors. One was safety, or how long until the system may no longer perform in the way people have relied on it to. The other was justice, or "the risk of significant harm" to people alive today and those not yet born.

They conclude that to avoid further destabilization, countries should keep at least half of the planet's ecosystems intact, limit groundwater extraction and set hard limits on use of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers.

The new work offers a way for countries, businesses and cities to begin to define their own responsibilities, based on efforts such as the Science Based Targets initiative, which helps companies set climate goals, and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, which set down guidelines for assessing climate risk and communicating it to shareholders and others. ...

@#12 ... GOP Pollster on Fox basically says it's smart for Trump to not do another debate because ... if he has another disastrous performance ...

So, they don't seem to have a lot of confidence that fmr Pres Trump would do better in a new debate?

@#4 ... Bwaaak! Bwaaak!

Chicken-bleep fat old MF-er can f*&^ off. ...

@#1 ... Since then, the stock has nosedived by around 83% ...

If (when?) fmr Pres Trump starts selling his shares, I doubt if that will make the stock price rise.

But odder things have happened on Wall Street.

So, time will tell.

@#1 ... Trump claims victory. ...

I saw that.

But if he won by the large margin he said he won by (~best debate performance in history~) then why has be been whining incessantly about the debate since it ended?

@#2 ... How many will get lost? ...

Maybe you should ask those states that do mail-in balloting routinely.

For example... Utah, which only votes by mail (one of four, I believe).

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... Multiple city, county and school buildings around Springfield were closed Thursday after a bomb threat "to multiple facilities throughout Springfield," according to a city statement released Thursday morning. Springfield City Hall was evacuated around 8:30 a.m.

Springfield Police Chief Allison Elliott said at a Thursday afternoon press conference that City Hall, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Springfield Driver's Exam Station, Ohio License Bureau on the south side, Springfield Academy of Excellence and Fulton Elementary School were all named in the threat and cleared using explosive-detecting canines.

"I would like to stress that we are deeply committed to the safety of our entire community," Elliott said. "Safety is a shared responsibility and it takes all of us; I encourage the public, if you see something, say something." ...

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... The ruling deals a heavy blow to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and its quest to quash the growing popularity of trading elections-linked derivatives. The CFTC signaled it plans to appeal Judge Jia Cobb's decision to let Kalshi move ahead with its plans.

Spokespeople for the CFTC and Kalshi didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Kalshi had been preparing to launch the elections-themed derivatives earlier this week, extending its current offering of "event contracts" on monetary policy, lunar landings and music awards. But the company was held up after the judge granted a temporary pause Monday sought by the CFTC, which said that it would be nearly impossible to unwind the contracts once they went live. ...

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... Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that are virtually impossible to recycle.

The film that acts as a lid on Dole Sunshine fruit bowls, the rings securing jars of McCormick dried herbs, the straws attached to Juicy Juice boxes, the bags that hold Cheez-Its and Cheerios -- they're all destined for the dumpster.

Now a trade group representing those brands and hundreds more is pressuring regulators to make plastic appear more environmentally friendly, a proposal experts say could worsen a crisis that is flooding the planet and our bodies with the toxic material.

The Consumer Brands Association believes companies should be able to stamp "recyclable" on products that are technically "capable" of being recycled, even if they're all but guaranteed to end up in a landfill. As ProPublica previously reported, the group argued for a looser definition of "recyclable" in written comments to the Federal Trade Commission as the agency revises the Green Guides " guidelines for advertising products with sustainable attributes.

The association's board of directors includes officials from some of the world's richest companies, such as PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Land O'Lakes, Keurig Dr Pepper, Hormel Foods Corporation, Molson Coors Beverage Company, Campbell Soup, Kellanova, Mondelez International, Conagra Brands, J.M. Smucker and Clorox. ...

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... Officials in Alaska, Idaho, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Mississippi, Oregon and Vermont will begin sending mail ballots later this month. ...

So, this type of phlegm is what fmr Pres Trump would base his decisions upon should he return to the Oval office?

Apparently his supporters seem to lap it up.

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... And Chen, unnamed by the DOJ but identified by NBC News from business records, delivered. She connected employees of the Russian state media operation RT with unwitting right-wing content creators and their millions of followers, according to a federal indictment unsealed last week.

Chen, co-owner with her husband, producer Liam Donovan, of Tenet Media, an online collective of pro-Trump creators, negotiated a series of lucrative deals with the high-profile influencers to pump out online videos -- in what turned out to be a nearly $10 million covert Russian propaganda campaign, the DOJ alleged. The DOJ did not name Tenet Media but NBC News identified the company based on its description in the indictment. ...

... New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban is expected to resign Thursday ...

He resigned.

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... This second truck will head south on Interstate 45 toward Houston. It will move cautiously, mostly cruising in the right lane at 65 mph despite the 75 mph speed limit.

After three and a half hours, the truck will exit the freeway in Greenpoint, a neighborhood in the north of Houston. It will proceed to a second truck depot, where the trailer will again be transferred to a new rig. A different driver will get in and haul the cargo to its final destination a few miles away.

Trucks travel the 200 miles between Dallas and Houston all the time. But there will be something special about the middle leg of this trip: There will be no one in the vehicle.

A startup called Aurora has spent seven years"and hundreds of millions of dollars"preparing for this driverless trip, which it hopes to complete before the end of the year. Last month, I met with Aurora cofounder Sterling Anderson at the company's office in Mountain View, California.

The office has glass-walled conference rooms and row after row of workstations. But it also has some things you won't find at a typical Silicon Valley startup. ...

Interesting reaction to the debate by fmr Pres Trump's social media stock, DJT.

Down 10% today.

... A panelist from the Russian International Affairs Council, Alexey Naumov said, "She [Kamala Harris] managed to lure Trump into every trap she set up for him... ...

Just imagine how fmr Pres Trump does against powerful foreign autocrats and dictators?

@#27 ... I would say trump looked like he was getting beaten by Mike Tyson... ...

@#5 ... For the record, it was about health care"specifically, the long-awaited but never arriving Republican replacement for Obamacare. ...

Fmr Pres Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.

"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
-- Trump to the Daily Signal in May 2015

"We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in February 2016

So, after all these years, all fmr Pres Trump has regarding healthcare is a "concept?"

... The former president called into Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning to complain that he'd faced a "rigged deal" with the debate, with moderators "correcting everything" he said while "not correcting with her." Asked why he felt moderators hadn't corrected Harris in the same way, Trump answered: "Because they're dishonest." ...

Fmr Pres Trump is criticizing the symptom, the fact-checking (however sparse) by the moderators, and not the root cause, the stream of lies that emanate from fmr Pres Trump when he speaks.

@#2 ... Trump's body language wept defeat last night. It all started with Harris having to chase him down in his own territory for a hand shake, ...

I was wondering if there was going to be a handshake.

That VP Harris walked over to fmr Pres Trump's podium to shake his hand in the beginning shows the weak, defensive posture that fmr Pres Trump had.

... 'No One Has Ever So Thoroughly Dominated Donald Trump' ...

Well, I'd say that no one has ever done so so publicly before.

I can imagine, based upon the photos afterwards, that Pres Putin dominated fmr Pres Trump in Helsinki a few years back.

I can just imagine Pres Putin, at an important point of that meeting, starting to tease fmr Pres Trump abut crowd size ...

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... Harris has walked back a number of positions she took during her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign, when she embraced more liberal positions on issues like immigration and the economy during the Democratic primary. ...

I dunno.

At this point, I view the Trump/Vance campaign as in a need to expand their base.

So that leads me to ask, how does Sen Vance's comment pull in new voters?