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Cake day: March 28th, 2024

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  • In principle you’re quite correct

    The legal system, in most countries, was never designed to accommodate such a plan sadly.

    You’ll run into issues proving both forseeability and causation from specific acts to specific outcomes.

    There’s so many factors and an interdependent system, allocating burden is a challenge for a jury.

    It can be done, it has been done in specific cases, but a general attribution of blame is going to struggle


  • The stats show that this measurement changes a lot depending on when you take it. Excess deaths go up sharply during a heatwave, then drop below expectations in the six months afterwards.

    Unsurprisingly, this is because the heat hits the most vulnerable hardest, especially those who are otherwise ill or dying.

    Before anyone assumes this is some defence of the people responsible for this, I’d like to point out I’m making a statistical point, not a moral one.