it reaches 100F regularly during summer in many temperate climates,
Not when it’s near the sea, like most of western Europe. It’s the same shit as “why don’t you have airco?” Because it was never that hot.
it reaches 100F regularly during summer in many temperate climates,
Not when it’s near the sea, like most of western Europe. It’s the same shit as “why don’t you have airco?” Because it was never that hot.
It has only been 100°F once in the last century. Nobody has any point of reference to make this intuitive. 30°C/85°F is defined as hot around here. 40°C/100°F is defined as national emergency.
But being caught in a lie would destroy your clout instantly. If they’re competing for clout there would be a big incentive to prove the competition wrong.
I’ve put a shoji screen behind my workspace for these kind of situations. One client was really paranoid like that.
And these pictures are probably taken in late autumn or winter when it’s dark before many people leave the office.
And that’s how an iPhone with an interface that even a toddler can figure out sold a few billion units.
I tried that once. Turns out they made some small changes between the different version of the same model and the parts didn’t quite fit. I don’t keep things around for spare parts anymore.
questioning government-imposed measures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
Article says they’re still mad at no parties and mask thing
And humanity collectively keeps pushing the snooze button on the alarm because fixing the issue goes against reigning ideologies.
People asked the question before. It went something like:
“You do realize that he’ll be a dictator, right?”
" We don’t care. He’ll be our dictator and that’s all that matters."
And then they’ll say they do it for freedom and democracy.
Finally very detailed climate simulations to know how hard we’re screwed
The common criminal demands respect for the war criminal.
The most important thing is what you’ll get. A few static pages and stock images with the watermark still present, sure. Beyond that the meter starts running.
They’ll be replaced with AI anyway if they keep demanding tips like that.
The tech in general just isn’t good enough to do that much more. It’s like having a coal powered steam engine and then saying you’ll build a formula 1 car with it. They thought that with throwing enough money at the wall, a few breakthroughs in tech would fall out, but it doesn’t work like that. If you’re very lucky you hit one breakthrough, but they needed a few.
Seems more general an issue with wealth distribution
The real offenders (except for some stupid rookies) move to the dark web and won’t touch the official apps while politicians use this power to scan for political and environmental activists, opponents and critics.
It reminds me more of “The Road Not Taken”, by Harry Turtledove: https://youtu.be/aXhCX7lr2tM
And as long as everything you need fits in a backpack that works great. And most people still but a car for the cases where it doesn’t work, and if you have a car anyway, why not use it more.
But those bikes in docks and the scooters do work great.
That’s probably why they new capital city of Egypt is in there middle of the desert, so the rabble can’t reach them at easily.