Non-IT News Thread
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Climate reporting reaches melting point
A trip to a melting glacier will shape how the BBC's new climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, reports on the story of climate change.
You cannot help but be awed by the scale of Antarctica, the great white continent. I visited just before the pandemic struck and it is impossible not to feel humbled in the presence of something that seems so much bigger and more powerful than you. But that sensation is an illusion. When we finally flew over the front of the enormous glacier after weeks of travelling, I found myself staring down at an epic vision of shattered ice. As I wrote at the time, it felt like I'd reached the frontline of climate change; a place where the equilibrium that has held our world in balance for thousands of years was slipping and crashing. -
Google’s spending $2.1 billion for even more New York City real estate
Google's Hudson Square campus adds St. John’s Terminal at 550 Washington St.
Google is once again snapping up more real estate in New York City. Tuesday the company announced it was buying one of the buildings it currently leases: Google is buying Manhattan's St. John’s Terminal at 550 Washington Street for $2.1 billion. New York City is Google's second-biggest campus after its headquarters in Mountain View, and this building will be part of the 1.7 million-square-foot "Hudson Square campus," which has expanded several times now. The Hudson Square campus includes the Chelsea Market, which Google bought for $2.4 billion, and the first-ever Google retail store, which opened earlier this year. -
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US approves Covid booster jabs for some older and at-risk Americans
US drug regulators have approved Pfizer booster vaccines for people over 65 if they had their last shot at least six months ago.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also authorised adults at higher risk of severe illness and who work in front-line jobs to get the booster jab. It means tens of millions of Americans are now eligible for their third shot. However the boosters still need approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Independent panels from the CDC are holding meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, and are expected to endorse the move quickly, US media reports. The panels' decisions will include recommendations on who qualifies as high risk, and which frontline workers should be eligible. For its part, the FDA says "health care workers, teachers and day care staff, grocery workers and those in homeless shelters or prisons" should be on that list, acting FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock said in a statement. -
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
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@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
Wha? Where - store had plenty earlier this week...
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
If we're having another shortage of **** paper, it hasn't hit my area yet.
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@gjacobse said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
Wha? Where - store had plenty earlier this week...
Essex, UK
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
If we're having another shortage of **** paper, it hasn't hit my area yet.
Same here... Maybe time to take out a hit on the SAMs stock... (you wouldn't s** me would-ya?)
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@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
@gjacobse said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
Wha? Where - store had plenty earlier this week...
Essex, UK
Sorry - Was meant as a reply to @scottalanmiller and the TP statement.
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Apparently, there is.
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La Palma volcano: Family's anguish as lava destroys 'miracle house'
A house that miraculously survived an erupting volcano on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands for days has now been consumed by lava.
The retired Danish couple who owned the house, Inge Bergedorf and Ranier Cocq, told Spanish media on Tuesday it had been swallowed by the flow. "Everything is destroyed," Mr Cocq told the El Mundo newspaper. The property became known as the "miracle house" after escaping lava flowing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano. The lava has flattened hundreds of homes and forced the evacuation of more than 6,000 people since it started pouring from the volcano on 19 September. On Tuesday night the lava reached the Atlantic Ocean, on the west coast of the island, raising fears of explosions and the release of toxic gases. -
This is just super cool...
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The secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents
Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.
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@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:
The secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents
Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.
Interesting - nothing real shaddy from my POV... just showing how the law continues to make the rich richer...
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting - nothing real shaddy from my POV... just showing how the law continues to make the rich richer...
Yeah just a load of dodgy deals lol
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@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting - nothing real shaddy from my POV... just showing how the law continues to make the rich richer...
Yeah just a load of dodgy deals lol
this is a discussion we've had here before - ages ago. Is it dodgy to use the law's loopholes to your fullest advantages?
Last I recall - it was considered a corporate requirement in the US to use these, because you're financial responsibilities is to the shareholders, not the tax payers.
and really - why would it be any different for private citizens?
What's dodgy is that the government continues to not close these loopholes.
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Squid Game subtitles 'change meaning' of Netflix show
Squid Game's "botched" subtitles have changed the show's meaning for English-speaking viewers, some Korean-speaking fans say.
The Korean-language drama is about an alternative world where people in debt compete in deadly games. But fluent Korean speaker Youngmi Mayer claims the closed-caption subtitles in English are "so bad" that the original meaning is often lost. Netflix hasn't yet responded to Newsbeat's request for a comment. The series has proved hugely popular since its release last month and is on track to beat Bridgerton to become Netflix's biggest original series. The plot sees a group of people tempted into a survival game where they have the chance to walk away with 45.6 billion Korean won (£29m) if they win a series of six games.
