EineKleine

CelloMomOnCars, 1 month ago to Philippines

Parched farms, cancelled classes: Extreme heat scorches South-East Asia

"Due to the unbearable heat, the [#Philippines'] Department of Education has allowed #schools to either hold remote lessons or cancel classes altogether.

The country is also in the process of shifting back to a June to March academic calendar, following complaints among students and teachers over holding classes during the peak summer season."

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2024/04/03/parched-farms-cancelled-classes-extreme-heat-scorches-south-east-asia

mekkaokereke, 2 months ago to random

PSA: How to open a Tesla door in an emergency

I have friends that happily drive their kids around strapped into child seats in Teslas. I ask them a few questions about this, and I've never had a friend of mine who is a parent answer these questions satisfactorily:

1. Do you know that Tesla doors might not open if there's no power?

2. Do you know how to manually open the doors?

3. Have you timed how long it would take you to get your kids out?

Here's how to get out
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbRBbIGnv4

CarveHerName, 3 months ago to history

#OnThisDay, 24 Jan 1901, British aid-worker and campaigner Emily Hobhouse first visits Bloemfontein concentration camp in South Africa. Her report on the conditions Boers are being held in by the British government causes uproar.

Over 26,000 people died in the camps. Hobhouse's ashes are interred in the National Women's Monument at the site of one of the camps.

#WomenInHistory #BritishHistory #History #Histodons

If searching to learn more, be aware you may find images of dead children.

Studio portrait of Emily Hobhouse. She is a white woman in a cloak and a big hat.

Litzz11, 4 months ago to random

{{ mind blown }}

GryphonSK, 4 months ago to Israel

#Israel #palestine

EineKleine, 4 months ago to random

@StillIRise1963 Believe me I’ve tried. Google leads to a closed loop that tells the same story (his “actual truth” repost and subsequent regret/apology/visit with Netanyahu).
For example, the Bloomberg headline promises much but doesn’t deliver. Bloomberg links to Media Matters as if the answer were there, but they documents what we already know—that Xitter persists in dropping Fortune 500 advertisements essential to its survival next to posts from the worst lowlifes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-01/why-elon-musk-is-accused-of-antisemitism-and-what-it-means-for-x?leadSource=uverify%20wall

ach, 4 months ago to random

The ACH is leaving Twitter. Here is our statement. https://ach.org/blog/2023/12/19/ach-leaves-twitter-commits-to-contributing-to-better-dh-social-media-elsewhere/

mattblaze, 5 months ago to random

The term "recall" seems to both overstate and understate what's going on with Tesla. It's an over-the-air software update that may not require any action on the part of the owner, so in that sense, it's different from a typical recall. But it effectively disables features that could be used for autonomous driving. Post-recall, the cars will have less capability than before, also unlike in a typical repair recall.

jeffjarvis, 6 months ago to random

Bonus points for use of "auto-da-fe." By Sam Roberts.

Vincent Asaro, Mobster Acquitted in Lufthansa Heist, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/nyregion/vincent-asaro-dead.html?smid=tw-share

design_law, 7 months ago to movies

Request for recommendations: What are three #movies that would be fun to watch together? It doesn't have to be a formal trilogy (though I'd be interested in suggestions for trilogies from outside the U.S.). Could be variations on a theme, best works of a favorite director/actor, etc. Thanks in advance!

waldoj, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Midwestern droughts have reduced the flow of the Mississippi. Groundwater depletion has caused coastal land to sink below sea level. Sea-temperature increases raised the sea level in the Gulf. The result: rising ocean waters are out-competing the Mississippi flow, pushing up the riverbed, and will reach New Orleans’ water treatment plant. The city’s water supply will be undrinkable, while the salt leaches poisons out of lead pipes. They have one month.

We did this. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/29/climate/new-orleans-saltwater-map.html?unlocked_article_code=YY1Ts4O8PDO2TJgPZYi6Tldxm_uNeKHVvgkg4EgPZmqT4AIKqK7EMYfP3LFe8RlVhSfU8mpQK75rHcnO2Ox59Lh05bgzthiJxc73KZqvQ9bJmSIMPEWOxFuAtwqukSYV0BfzL9JQrhrd6XcwQTCudtCWFwvxKfcjU1ZqEaNS9S_71QVaQ1zkdCsp7W5wZgXlJs-fyw_ZrF8HZUbLGsUL_bV8eWANJDBKOhZu4adbPjbyrVfrF91XtjEPjBABQPHd4eQGKOm-l5i2jam7pF6XnLOGPKcq3Pr7dA81OEbDs-L4o533ERGdU2XtTXAKVqULiIxb2gm94xFRCud-sCrTwfRtD6OmhBWVyHYvvoRTBWmtUA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

stux, 8 months ago to random

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

https://youtube.com/watch?si=YXUkKVrukIUk-M33&v=Wp-WiNXH6hI

gutenberg_org, 9 months ago to science

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born #OTD in 1901.

He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron, the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. via Wikipedia

#science #physics

StillIRise1963, 9 months ago to random

So, white people, what are your plans for ending your culture's racism problem here in the U.S.?

fulelo, 9 months ago to random

BBC News - Row over British Journal of Psychiatry #abortion paper saw panel quit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66249015

Alice, 9 months ago to random

I know Duolingo is garbage, but I still use it to learn the basics of a language before visiting a new country.

Since I can HEAR the words in the app and I’m decent at mimicking sounds, I can read things off a menu and order, but the problem is that my pronunciation is apparently so good that people immediately assume I’m a native speaker and start responding VERY quickly so I then have to be like “I’m sorry, I have no idea what you’re saying because I’m a dumb American and only learned a handful of super weird and useless phrases off Duolingo, but I CAN say ‘the cat thinks the sandwich is tasty’ in Dutch, if you’d like?”

jeffjarvis, 10 months ago to random

G'bless Philly https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8JVKy3c/

elduvelle, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

ct_bergstrom, 11 months ago to random

Remember that nonsense from Pamela Paul in the New York Times about how science must no longer be a meritocracy because PNAS rejected a (very poor) paper titled "In defense of merit in science"?

No? That's ok. It wasn't memorable.

In any case, my letter to editor at the Times about that nonsense was just published.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/opinion/letters/science-diversity-equity-inclusion.html?unlocked_article_code=pbg9OxKceqaZrtpOfrp3MZd6Fngb2cs7UHIR7eSkY3IKfSgpa7tqQj9_ie6bdNLtoG4v0tQZhratBmt_f6jJM0DbhCTikM0cmCGydjdLbnfTleGdBUScsO0gc4JbiDmcanMoDK-M7Z1-ig9S6NwiIcnG_b-Y_gvnH_5VefwnVjQSXsf3ZSTWUAS5Q2Jbe2ttiXAyraghGMJ4PPDIFvT1nGJsSK_JlWmZGkSaIQQW-q4lJy4lscfDSozxJVwlBabd86hx7u9Mp5PBie9cYJCO1Qm6qzjsF7ynPQfbHCWPReFB8OR6nszE7QUd-MfI1IYsVCxm3XB4Ldm01uPqleQUNrrBmnPBICs3JW91j-7mwlkHZeNR&smid=url-share