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."
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:
Do you know that Tesla doors might not open if there's no power?
Do you know how to manually open the doors?
Have you timed how long it would take you to get your kids out?
@heathborders@mekkaokereke It’s a genuine problem for back seat passengers in all makes, including obviously every back seat passenger in every two-door car ever made. Not unique to Tesla and really a non-problem for the Tesla driver and front seat passenger unless they’re in a jaws-of-life level crash.
#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.
@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.
@StillIRise1963 I’ll have to go with Vanity Fair. The Vanity Fair bulletpoints at the minimum prove he’s a dumbass.
(On the Bloomberg link I had to give my email address to get one free article.)
@StillIRise1963 What is the best evidence (words and deeds) we have that Xitter’s owner is racist, anti-LGBTQIA, fascist? I know he promoted/endorsed an anti-Semitic tweet from a lowlife on his platform that he later claimed to regret, and his hate-fest with Eisner and Disney is ongoing. Is that all we have? I’m in a debate with a member of my family. I told him Musk is another Henry Ford and he doesn’t believe it.
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.
@mattblaze I don’t understand your argument. I gather they’re adding an alert that will tell drivers if their attempt to turn on a cruise control-type feature was unsuccessful.
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!
@design_law Three Westerns directed by John Ford. My Darling Clementine (1946), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1961) would be a good choice.
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.
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