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There's a Category 4 Hurricane named 'Hillary' barrelling towards California right now and it will still be a Category 2 or 3 when it makes landfall on Saturday
  • looks like TJ and SD will hopefully be spared from a hurricane, at least

    but that area is basically a desert lmao, I wonder how much erosion will happen

  • Demerara Rebellion (1823) - New General Megathread for the 18th of August 2023
  • I found the lathe and I'm creating a new type of western leftist: guy who thinks laos will lead the global struggle for socialism because they're the only socialist country the US state department forgot about, and knows nothing about all other AES countries

  • Demerara Rebellion (1823) - New General Megathread for the 18th of August 2023
  • bg3 is a really good game. Still nowhere near completion but if larian takes that sweet bg3 revenue and continues making games of equal quality, that would be nice. CRPGs are my favorite genre but nobody used to know what they were before DOS2 and especially now

  • US arms sales surpasses Trump-era highs
  • lol the brief period between the afghanistan and ukraine arms deals

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    mother nature
  • :sicko-polar-bear:

  • NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880
  • "Since 1880" is misleading, as it was likely hotter than any month since the last interglacial period

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  • seems to completely ignore that lack of regulation on AI watermarks (outside of China). All future datasets will be polluted with AI output, worsening accuracy. The more "AI" (large language models) grow as a field, the worse the problem will get

  • Luigi Galleani - New General Megathread for the 12th of August 2023
  • Bookstores are either anarchist (rare) or contain the worst propaganda you have ever seen in the history section. There is no in-between

  • Kais Saied Is Building a New Dictatorship in Tunisia — With Help From the EU
  • Saied had claimed that black migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were part of a “criminal plan to change the composition of the demographic landscape in Tunisia” by making it a “purely African” country

    my brother in christ sub saharan migrants make up less than 0.5% of the country, this is neocolonialism at its worst

  • Wake up babe new fundamental force dropped
  • last just 2.2 millionths of a second

    just like me fr fr

  • Wake up babe new fundamental force dropped
  • According to IGN:

    Muons

    have a mass the equivalent to 200 times that of an electron, yet last just 2.2 millionths of a second.

    Sounds like made-up shit Big Science is using to request more money

    Muons go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

    and

    the team discovered that the Muons were wobbling faster than the Standard Model had predicted. This could indicate the presence of a new force acting on the Muon, or an as-yet unknown subatomic particle altering the nature of the quantum foam that surrounds the Muon.

  • Wake up babe new fundamental force dropped
    www.bbc.com Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature

    Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.

    Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature

    >[Fermilab scientists] have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics.

    >Scientists believe that an unknown force could be acting on the muons.

    >All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. These four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.

    >The findings have been made at a US particle accelerator facility called Fermilab. They build on results announced in 2021 in which the Fermilab team first suggested the possibility of a fifth force of nature.

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    Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - New General Megathread for the 11th of August 2023
  • how could we reach out to Miguel Díaz-Canel to ask for a hexbear AMA

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 7th to August 13th, 2023 - White Blows From A Black Hand
  • this could be Ukraine leaving NATO tactics behind for a return to Soviet/Russian doctrine

  • 'Hank the Tank,' the bear behind 21 home invasions, has been captured near Lake Tahoe

    This is fucked up, free my bears !chonky-bear

    it isn't the bears' fault that the town banned bear boxes because they were deemed 'unsightly', capture the landlords so future bears don't get desensitized to humans

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    www.bbc.co.uk Atlantic orcas 'learning from adults' to target boats

    Juvenile killer whales in the Atlantic are learning a dangerous game by copying adults.

    Atlantic orcas 'learning from adults' to target boats
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    www.businessinsider.com Orca moms fiercely protect their sons from bullying and fights — but not their daughters, study suggests

    Post-menopausal orcas are protective of their own sons well into adulthood, and stop them from getting into trouble, according to scientists.

    Orca moms fiercely protect their sons from bullying and fights — but not their daughters, study suggests
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    www.reuters.com UPS strike could be costliest in US in a century, study says

    A threatened U.S. strike at United Parcel Service could be "one of the costliest in at least a century," topping $7 billion for a 10-day work stoppage, a think tank specializing in the economic impact of labor actions said on Thursday.

    UPS strike could be costliest in US in a century, study says

    >A threatened U.S. strike at United Parcel Service (UPS.N) could be "one of the costliest in at least a century," topping $7 billion for a 10-day work stoppage, a think tank specializing in the economic impact of labor actions said on Thursday.

    >That estimate from Michigan-based Anderson Economic Group (AEG) includes UPS customer losses of $4 billion and lost direct wages of more than $1 billion. A 15-day UPS strike in 1997 disrupted the supply of goods, cost the world's biggest parcel delivery firm $850 million and sent some customers to rivals like FedEx (FDX.N).

    >Roughly 340,000 union-represented UPS workers handle about a quarter of U.S. parcel deliveries and serve virtually every city and town in the nation. A strike could delay millions of daily deliveries, including Amazon.com (AMZN.O) orders, electronic components and lifesaving prescription drugs, shipping experts warned. They added this also could reignite supply-chain snarls that stoke inflation.

    >Anderson said a UPS employee walkout would be a bigger risk to the U.S. economy than a work stoppage by UAW workers at the "Detroit Three" automakers, who started contract talks on Thursday.

    >He noted that the automaker talks cover fewer workers and have a limited geographic impact. In fiscal 2019, GM's (GM.N) fourth-quarter profit took a $3.6 billion hit from a 40-day UAW strike that shut down its profitable U.S. operations.

    >UPS faces two unappealing choices, Stifel analyst Bruce Chan said in a recent note: Risk a strike and resulting customer losses or acquiesce to Teamster demands that could worsen the company's labor cost disadvantage versus nonunion rivals in an inflationary environment.

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