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we live in a very silly world

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in Kenya people are at present protesting their government for acceding to brutal IMF- and WB-imposed tax increases on essential commodities. since we have been talking about the benevolence of US-run international development institutions today....

al jazeera / wiki / eastleigh voice

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The American consumer doesn’t actually want trucks and cars that are huge enough that you can’t see a six foot tall person over the hood. They make vehicles that big now to avoid environmental regulations related to engine efficiency

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liara t’soni in 2025… it’s more likely than you think (im replaying mass effect)

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On [June 24, 2025], the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.

The announcement was formalized on Wednesday when NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave data collected aboard three weather satellites jointly run by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense.

The permanent discontinuation of data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) will severely impede and degrade hurricane forecasts for this season and beyond, affecting tens of millions of Americans who live along its hurricane-prone shorelines.

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Officials at the National Hurricane Center were also caught off guard by the announcement and are preparing their team for the loss of critical forecast data for the rest of the hurricane season.

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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and its constellation of three weather satellites provide roughly half of all microwave satellite scans to forecasters. Those go dark beginning next Monday.

“Their loss is a big deal,” says retired National Hurricane Center branch chief James Franklin, who oversaw all NHC hurricane forecasters until his retirement in 2017. “Without this imagery, there will be increased risk of a ‘sunrise surprise,’ the realization from first-light images that a system had become much better organized overnight, but it wasn’t recognized because structural details are so hard to discern from [infrared satellite].”

Uh…. So if you live in a hurricane-prone area it might be a good idea to stockpile now in case you need to evacuate or board up in a hurry. Maybe start flooding the phonelines of your local reps and sic the insurance companies on this administration. People are going to die. Microwave sensors are a key tool in forecasting hurricane intensity and rapid intensification. It’s likely you could go to sleep thinking that a Category 1 hurricane will hit you and the next day it could be a Category 5. Without warning. This is how serious this situation is.

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Everyone else in Death Note: My God! There’s a serial killer on the loose! Or is he some kind of avenging angel of death? We have to stop him.

Misa Amane for some reason:

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I love corporate memphis art ❤️❤️

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one of the most annoying feelings in ADHD is the can't-get-started-with-anything feeling. like, your ADHD is screaming you have to do something. you can't just rest, resting isn't a thing. even if you are resting, it's by doing something.

but nothing works. you try to watch something, it's not right. you can't. read? can't read right now play? nah none of these games seem fun make something? ehh, you're not feeling any of these projects right now social media? it's boring or worse right now, so... find something else it's like you're not moving but it's because you're too tense to do anything, just vibrating in place

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high elves are so silly

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we did it

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So when are we gonna see the first threat to revoke Mamdani's citizenship?

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a comic i started in november 2023, then didn't know how to finish as the numbers kept growing higher and higher. then they grew too high not to finish it

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i'm so happy that the worst people in the world are so, so, so mad tonight