One of those projects is a pair of datacenters valued at A$120 million ($79 million) that Vanuatu’s government announced last year as part of a strategy to develop an e-commerce industry and ensure the nation can connect to the global digital economy.
… Not a fan of that. Hate that capitalism has been forced upon the people of Vanuatu.
I hate to be this sort of guy. But if you had read the article it mentions a study that found exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Researchers have also found that even in most cold North American climates, the energy savings from cool roofs during warmer months outweigh any added heating costs in the winter.
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Children were forbidden to speak Ukrainian or display Ukrainian symbols while being forced to participate in pro-Russian events and sing Russian anthem.
The package includes geographical maps intended to justify Russia's territorial claims and ongoing military aggression, Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation claimed.
I genuinely don't understand it. We had years and years of brutal public services cuts and them being ground to the bone, where's the money gone? People around me just say "tax cuts/payoffs for billionaires" but idk if that's verified
I did a deep dive into this. The worst is gonna be in a couple hundred years. Even if we magically stop emitting CO2. large ice masses take a long time to adapt to new temperatures
“It’s so sad, so I’m just devastated. It shouldn’t have happened, and I heard an e-bike was involved. Those e-bikes are out of control. They spook me all the time,” said Cathy Murray of Burlingame.
The success rate in humans for something discovered in mice is about 1 in 100.
So a lot of the scientific journalism presenting a mouse model as a major discovery that will revolutionise [X disease] is straight up bad faith clickbait.
“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”
I have great news for you, There’s a documentary series narrated by David Attenbrough called prehistoric planet. And is does exactly this. The next season will be on the most recent period (ie. ice age), so possible we will see these great auks that look like penguins.
As of June 30, 2025, approximately 4.31 million people who left Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion have temporary protection status in EU countries.
These data were published on August 11 by Eurostat, according to Ukrinform.
Among EU countries, the largest number of temporary protection status recipients from Ukraine were accepted by Germany (1,196,645 people; 27.8% of the total), Poland (992,505; 23%), and the Czech Republic (378,420; 8.8%).
Yes. This is often true. But Flemish and Dutch are far far closer in linguistic distance than dutch and german.
And they are completely mutually intelligeble. Unlike Dutch and German, (which I prefer to call hochdeutsch, since german is a nationalist contruct that erases many other languages spoken by peoples living in Germany-Switzerland-Austria.)
Like here we get a distance between Flemish and Dutch of 5.6, that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen with this tool.
While 13.5 with Dutch and German.
Compare that to French and Occitan, Occitan is a Romance language in southern France, which got erased and often claimed it’s just “part of french”. The distance between them is 20.
Edit: Playing round a bit more with the tool, Your point is proven. The distance between Dutch and Afrikaans is lower. Only 2. Yet that’s considered different languages.
The tool measures distance with vocabulary. Afrikaans may be closer in vocabulary but pronounced very differently (since there’s way less cross talking since it’s so isolated), which would make it harder to understand to a Dutch speaker?
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Herpie Gang Rise Up
U.S. Becomes First Country To Recognize Mega-Israel ( theonion.com )
Lord Butter
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns to keep China at bay ( www.theregister.com )
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Lavon Affair ( en.wikipedia.org )
How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter ( www.theguardian.com )
Is there a maintained bypass-paywalls Firefox extension out there?
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My experience June 2023
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Oklahoma Senator says he doesn’t wear seatbelt in DC ‘because of carjacking' ( www.theguardian.com )
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Port Chicago disaster ( en.wikipedia.org )
Russian war crimes: Ukraine has evidence occupiers forcibly deported 15 children from special school to Russia ( euromaidanpress.com )
Putin to present Trump with 'historical materials' framing Ukraine as artificial state, Kyiv claims ( kyivindependent.com )
The package includes geographical maps intended to justify Russia's territorial claims and ongoing military aggression, Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation claimed.
Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way?
Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone?
I genuinely don't understand it. We had years and years of brutal public services cuts and them being ground to the bone, where's the money gone? People around me just say "tax cuts/payoffs for billionaires" but idk if that's verified
Byeeeeeee
Nice argument, now fetch me some cocaine.
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US and Russia suggest ‘West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’ ( www.independent.co.uk )
The U.S. and Russia are set to suggest a “West Bank-style” occupation of Ukraine as a way of ending the war, according to The London Times.
[OC] My cat is overheated by the hot weather
New research: Parked Cars Significantly Intensify Urban Warming ( carboncopy.info )
TIL about the Concorde aircraft that flew at twice the speed of sound, and thad passenger flights from NY to London in three hours (versus 7 hours) ( airandspace.si.edu )
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Archeology LFG!!
The media blames the e-bike!: "Car crash that killed young boy started when e-bike hit car" ( www.nbcbayarea.com )
“It’s so sad, so I’m just devastated. It shouldn’t have happened, and I heard an e-bike was involved. Those e-bikes are out of control. They spook me all the time,” said Cathy Murray of Burlingame.
Every damn time.
The teachings of Christ!
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Great Tip
Today I learned: Epstein Island had an area of 28 ha ( en.wikipedia.org )
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This seems applicable to quite a few things
What's up with everyone using this "þ" character instead of "th"?
Le Penguini
Reddit will block the Internet Archive ( www.theverge.com )
How many Ukrainians have temporary protection in EU - Eurostat data ( www.ukrinform.net )
In my country, the three official languages write the name of "pilipili" pepper in three different ways