Striking before-and-after images show extent of California’s snow drought
As California experiences its second-worst snow drought in 50 years,
new images show a stark comparison with last year’s snow levels.
This year, the Sierra snowpack peaked on Feb. 25.
It was only 73% of average, then rapidly dwindled from there.
Then, summerlike heat in March broke monthly records in many areas of the Western United States.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with U…
Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is a "demo" (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-laun…
Why am I happy about this?
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gen-Z-is-buying-Casio-s-cheapest-watches-and-it-s-saving-the-company.1298530.0.html
First of all, because every Casio watch is one Apple/Samsung/Google W…
„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ angespielt: Zombie-Action für B-Movie-Fans
„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ ist ein kompromissloser Koop-Zombie-Shooter mit B-Movie-Flair.
https://www.
The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely fought.
But in the end, it’s always JD Vance, isn’t it?
You would say Stephen Miller,
but Miller’s too hidden to qualify as a front-of-house henchman among the US president’s court of grotesques.
Stephen’s clearly been judged so wantonly horrifying that the administration must keep him out of public view.
If you enter the store, Miller is the only-for-the-initiated entity alluded to in a …
Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting April 19 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/912921/meta-quest-3-3s-vr-price-hike-ram-me…
Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological allies increasingly view him as a liability.
“We need to keep our distance,”
France’s Marine Le Pen told her fellow far-right National Rally lawmakers at a meeting Tuesday, according to a senior party official in attendance.
Europe’s right-wing populists had been pulling away from the U.S. president even before Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn suffered a bruising loss in Sunday’s parliame…
The United States is deploying roughly 2,500 Marines aboard up to three amphibious warships from the Indo-Pacific toward the Middle East
as fighting with Iran enters a more uncertain phase.
The move adds a mobile expeditionary force to the more than 50,000 U.S. troops already in the region
while Washington evaluates Iran’s response to nearly two weeks of joint U.S. and Israeli air and long-range strike operations.
What's Trump expecting them to do?
Capture …