The fires in Canada are actually the MOST IMPORTANT NEWS in the world right now. They are signals of an accelerating Rate of Warming and harbingers of the “Climate Apocalypse” that's unfolding RIGHT NOW.
I got a popup from my browser saying i might lose some functionality on slrpnk.net unless I clear the data. Then it brought me to the cookie settings. I’ve never seen this behavior from a browser before.
Are there any benefits, in terms of performance or security in 'wiping' or overwriting an SSD before reinstalling Linux? And if so, what is the best way of doing it?
In the popular Japanese anime One Piece, black flags bearing a skull with a straw hat are carried by a rowdy crew of pirates who have made it their mission to challenge a draconian regime and fight for freedom.
When Kathy Hochul is talking about going to “war” in a nationwide, brass-knuckle political fight and Chuck Schumer is going quasi-edge-lord on social media taunting Donald Trump, you know it’s a sea change moment. It’s not because even now you expect the most from these two. It’s because even these two — the most conventional and old school of politicians — clearly see what’s being demanded of them and are trying to get ahead of that wave that is transforming the assumptions about power and political action within the Democratic party.
The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.
I'll note that given that in almost all cases, it's cheaper to not produce CO2 in the first place, but the NYT doesn't want to talk about that kind of approach.
Many of us know of the brutality of life under empire, although we perhaps underestimate just how bad it could be. Armed men rounding up women to sell them into slavery or public crucifixions are today seen with dismay when done by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq but, as the historian Walter Scheidel observed, these were a normal sight in Rome during its peak.