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So, uh yesterday was reported by Yahoo! Australia to be the world’s hottest day of all time.
Friederike Otto, a German climate scientist based in Britain, was quoted (in the above news article) to say that this is a “death sentence for people and ecosystems”, and that we should expect more records to be broken in the coming months/years, in a negative way.
Well, shit. Better save up for the a/c and fans people. Hotter days lie ahead.
Edit: Clarity. Edit 2: Yestereday to yesterday.
Wtf. Must be really pissed off or petty to even do such a thing. Per the GMA report, dentist’s vision is at risk of being impaired.
What the hell happened for them to get such treatment? Allegedly, wala daw nanakawan, it was just that.
People be cray.
Not a lawyer.
But basically this is a legal way of telling someone stfu. Either because you can’t snitch on the corporate secrets, or you can’t whistleblow questionable behavior, if INC is to be considered as the context for this NDA.
You always bring a lawyer to these things to read the fine print and make sure terms are just (i.e. no one gets f*ked over).
Kind of hypocritical from a religious institution, since iirc ‘salvation’ never had paperwork like this. The only org i know that can behave in a way like this (or probably even worse) is S c 1 e n t 0 l 0 gy
DW Segment on Italy’s ghost towns.
Pentadattilo (translated as ‘five fingers’, at least based on this article’s ) is an Italian town located somewhere in Calabria.
Abandoned around the 1960s - 1970s due to earthquakes and landslides, the town remains intact, albeit in a slowly progressing state of decay. The town also has a bit of a sinister history: the slaughter of a family clan in the late 1600s (also found in above article ).
TLDR: 2 rival familes. Boy falls for girl in rival family. Said girl’s family has good ties in politics, and influential politician also falls for girl. Boy, pissed off at girl’s family, goes with clan members to girl’s family and disposes of everyone (including a 9 y.o. kid JFC) except girl. They get married (probably forced). Politician family sends military to deal with boy, who then abandons girl (lived and died in a convent, where she stayed for the rest of her life), and escapes to vienna. Becomes an officer, dies in war.
Good plot for a horror movie too I guess, as well as a good place to visit, even for just a bit. There’s also a yearly movie festival held, to presumably keep the memory/village alive. Last one was held sometime August. Youtube channel is here
Probably adding this somewhere in my bucket list.
EDIT: Pentadattilo, not Pentadatillo
Twitter removes login requirement for viewing tweets (via Ars Technica )
Quite a quick backpedal from Musk, and a quiet one too.