The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. Considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, modern estimates place its age at an average of 5,000 years.[1]
Some estimates put the tree's age at between 2,000 and 3,000 years; it may also be a remnant of a post-Roman Christian site and around 1,500 years old.[2] Others have suggested an age as great as 5,000 to 9,000 years. Forestry and Land Scotland consider it to be 5,000 years old.[1] This makes it one of the oldest known trees in Europe.[3] (The root system of the Norway spruce Old Tjikko in Sweden is at least 9,500 years old.[4]) The Fortingall Yew is possibly the oldest tree in Britain.[2]
The Llangernyw Yew ([ɬanˈɡɛrnɨu] ⓘ) is an ancient yew (Taxus baccata) in the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, North Wales. The tree is fragmented and its core part has been lost, leaving several enormous offshoots. The girth of the tree at the ground level is 10.75 m (35.3 ft).[1]
This yew tree lives in the churchyard of St. Digain's Church in Llangernyw village. Although it is very hard to determine the age of yew trees,[2][3] the churchyard gate holds a certificate from the Yew Tree Campaign in 2002, signed by David Bellamy, which states that "according to all the data we have to hand" the tree is dated to between 4,000 and 5,000 years old.
I'm not sure that the aim here is actually protection against top-attack missiles.
It reminds me a little of another old Russian tank I remember seeing some months back in a video of a convoy of fighting vehicles that also had a pretty tall structure rigged up, and that one looked like it was an awning, just to provide shade from the sun (well, or maybe the rain, but when I saw it, it was sunny). If the tank commander is sticking out the top hatch, he isn't getting protection from the elements otherwise.
That's 86°F. That's certainly warm, but I do 86°F without an air conditioner, though I'll probably have a fan on. I could see someone using an air conditioner then, sure, but that's not an extreme "I must have an air conditioner" temperature, either.
especially for freaking October.
That's my point. It's warm for the season, but being warm for the season isn't what drives air conditioner use, but being warm in absolute terms.
Go back to summer a couple years ago, and that's the kind of thing that will drive air conditioner rollouts:
Temperatures reached catastrophic levels in France in 2019, when Paris saw a record 42.6° C in July. According to the French Ministry of Health, 567 people died during a heatwave between June 24 and July 7 that year. A second heatwave that summer claimed the lives of another 868 people.
That's 108°F. That's the kind of thing that'll make air conditioners important, rather than a warm fall.
If you have a human driver, it reduces labor costs to have a larger vehicle. More passengers per driver. More reason to use larger vehicles like busses.
But if you have a computer driving, car size or even smaller become more relatively-appealing.
I mean, the article even brings up the labor costs issue.
I'm not in Europe, but I understand that it's fairly common in some southern areas, but overall much less common then the US. Air conditioning is apparently more common for offices and stores than for residences.
Rolling out more air conditioning in Europe may not be a terrible thing from the standpoint of electricity providers. As things stand, unlike the US, where peak electricity demand is in the summer (due to air conditioning), Europe's peak electricity demand is in winter, due to electricity-driven heating. Having more-even seasonal demand probably makes life easier for the grid.
All that being said, I believe that the article is talking about unseasonably warm temperatures for October -- which is not that hot -- not so much extremely hot summer temperatures. This may not be a "roll out air conditioning" sort of thing.
Reddit had the ability to have a per-subreddit wiki. I never dug into it on the moderator side, but it was useful for some things like setting up pages with subreddit rules and the like. I think that moderators had some level of control over it, at least to allow non-moderator edits or not, maybe on a per-page basis.
That could be a useful option for communities; I think that in general, there is more utility for per-community than per-instance wiki spaces, though I know that you admin a server with one major community which you also moderate, so in your case, there may not be much difference.
I don't know how amenable django-wiki is to partitioning things up like that, though.
US president says he is ‘sick and tired’ of domestic political brinkmanship
I mean, the US is structured so that it's hard to get full control of all of the portions of government, and that it's easy to block things.
Right now the Democrats hold the presidency and the Senate.
If the Republicans hold the presidency and one of the houses of Congress, my guess is that having the Democrats use the house they control to block Republican initatives probably won't be criticized by the Democratic Party. Just how the system works, and has for a long time.
One notes that they were hitting what looks like a mocked-up helicopter base at White Sands Missile Range with the bomblets, so I expect that hitting concentrations of helicopters on the ground may be an application. I understand that Russia has a helicopter base at Berdiansk with Ka-52s to respond to Ukrainian armored vehicles; they can't get too far from the front lines if they want to respond in a timely fashion to vehicles.
This guy highlights the helicopters present at the base and specifically comments that a cluster ATACMS would do a lot of damage here, and that he expects the helicopters to be moved elsewhere once Ukraine has cluster ATACMS available.
You're welcome. I started doing Kofman podcast summaries back on /r/Europe because it exasperated me when people kept posting videos that I didn't want to watch and I kept complaining that there wasn't a text-form summary. I figured, well, everyone is a volunteer here. Be the change you want to see and all that.