Urban heat islands: making #ClimateChange worse in certain cities and areas. Hey, #Florida, you have a problem. https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2024-07-15/an-urban-heat-islands-analysis-shows-four-florida-cities-are-hot-spots

The political Right has had a long term goal of defunding college education and making it more difficult to create an educated public. Once again, Reagan was the pivotal point for many of today's far right political platform including bringing in southern baptists into the fold. #religion #politics #studentdebt https://archive.ph/Yzkn6

You would think that NASA would want to tap frozen ice on the moon for lunar posts rather than bringing water from Earth. Yet, the VIPER moon rover has been grounded. This rover is built for the sole purpose of drilling for ice on the far side of the Moon. #NASA is now looking for anyone to test and fly it to the #Moon. #space https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02361-1

I've never been able to tell a joke because I can't remember the punch line or intricately weave a story. Listen to this guy keep an old timer entertained and deliver the punch line at the end. #CoSoHumor #humor https://youtube.com/shorts/Lm6_xOXndfk?si=UFbHg0yNbOBFuF-l

@q00w2 after all these years the "cop killer" lyrics still hurt their feelings?

@nevikjames looks like Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Midway...have joined the Union and become US States.

It looks like #CrowdStrike's ineptitude in its updates is not just a Microsoft issue. Linux variants have also had issues. https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

@MarcoJustMarco hopefully they get this right...like the Vesuvius skeletons found embracing and initially named "The Two Maidens". It turns out they were unrelated males. https://www.pompeiitours.it/blog/who-were-the-people-of-pompeii/#:~:text=They%20were%20originally%20thought%20to,male%20aged%2020%20years%20older.

@preclude Wondering why he had not been in the news lately. According to Google, facial plastic surgery recovery typically takes 4-6 weeks for swelling to go down and 6 months or more for face to completely heal.

@TheLegend_AZ CrowdStrike?

@Armchaircouch water dripping

@nevikjames Is the 13th stripe on flag missing or cannot be seen?

@cwithav Looks like your local library will be the only place to "checkout" physical media...though the selection will be limited to old movies.

#InNewsoftheAbsurd It looks like Crowdstrike's latest update did not go through sufficient quality checks. #QA #QC #computers
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/crowdstrike-update-caused-global-outage-likely-skipped-checks-experts-rcna162839

Putting some perspective on wildfires. Here's a map of active fires in #Canada. #climatechange https://www.ciffc.ca/

@XOshiloh Prefer this one...

Fascinating YouTube video of how parts of Southern California get their water to reservoirs and ultimately to its customers through various feeder lines and interconnected through various cities and counties. #infrastructure #water https://youtu.be/Uh8L7Hf69UE