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randahl , 2 days ago to random

Trump is now sharing video of Biden failing at golf.

I really wish they were running for editor of a primary school magazine, and not president of the country which controls NATO's nuclear deterrence.

rahmstorf , 28 days ago to random German

„Unbestritten ist: Starkregen wird durch die Klimaerwärmung häufiger und intensiver.“
Mehr dazu in meinem Spiegel-Interview von heute.
(Und auch in den vorherigen Posts hier in meinem Profil, falls ihr keinen Spiegel-Zugang habt!)
#Hochwasser #Starkregen
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/flutkatastrophe-in-sueddeutschland-starkregen-wird-durch-die-klimaerwaermung-haeufiger-und-intensiver-a-a9f15112-d266-4086-9166-3c38f834b2a8?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

tzimmer_history , 2 months ago to random

This is the type of comment I’ve been getting a lot for my latest piece: Always from self-regarding liberals who never want to grapple with the fact that the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 60s – the legacy of which they surely want to claim – clearly violated those principles.

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Here in Denmark the weather is always changing dramatically in April.

On April 3 we had 0 °C during the night, and on Tuesday we will have 21 °C during the day. It is like switching from summer to winter and back again multiple times before spring finally gets a hold.

It is for good reason that in Denmark the saying goes, “April, April, has its own will.”
(Danish: “April, April den gør hvad den vil”)

Which month is the chaos weather month in your country?

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Upon retiring from work at age 58 (lucky me) in 2012, I chose to leave the United States in favor of Europe, where I ended up staying in Budapest, Hungary, for six years. I rented a studio apartment near the city center, bought a used bicycle, and enjoyed a modest, inexpensive, yet comfortable lifestyle.

Since my return to the U.S. in 2018, I’ve found there are many things I miss. When I lived in Budapest, there were three different small independent bakeries within a five-minute walk from my apartment. Also in that same radius were a couple of almost literal hole-in-the-wall fruit and vegetable shops offering delicious fresh produce. And although the nearby area held no chain restaurants, it was home to several quite good local eateries.

There were clothing stores selling both new and used goods, as well as shoe stores, all of them small and independent, not necessarily carrying a wide selection, but providing high quality items at surprisingly low prices, and with friendly trustworthy service. Plus, within a five-minute walk was a practically free public transit system than made frequent stops and could take me almost anywhere I wanted to go within the city, safely, reliably, and quickly.

So I wonder, why is it that — at least in my current neighborhood in suburban Virginia — the only options for baked goods or produce or clothing or home furnishings or hardware or almost anything else are chain stores? Well, that, or freaking Amazon. Why are all other choices so limited, so few and so far between? Why does virtually everything depend upon — no, actually demand the use of a car to get there?

Most United Statesians, I suspect, have no idea that people in other countries live so differently than the way we do here. We have been sold on the idea, taught from an early age, that ours is the best way, indeed the only sensible way to do things. Anyone suggesting that a less car-centric and hyper-capitalistic culture is not only possible but desirable, that it could be much more pleasant and satisfying, not to mention safer and more friendly to the environment, well, they plainly don’t know what they’re talking about. It makes me sad and angry.

#USA #Europe

CarveHerName , 4 months ago to random

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons