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Smith might have nightmares about that one, but I really don't think it's going to matter all that much.

Hottest June day on record, twice in a row. And that, oddly enough, includes 1976.

A couple of months ago I was thinking of getting tickets to this one, as well. Bullet dodged there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/south-africa-refugees-welcome-bags.html In the coming weeks, the United States plans to provide a welcome gift to white South Africans entering the United States as refugees. They will get an Android tablet, an American flag and copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history, one that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws and promotes claims of discrimination against white people. The welcome bags include a report commissioned by Mr. Trump during his first term that downplays the role of slavery in the country’s founding, and a children’s book accusing South Africa’s government of “favoring the Black population.” Some "refugees" are clearly acceptable, then.

Well, it's either do what we can or be held responsible for all the consequences that come by those who are left alive. They won't be discerning about who they hold accountable, not given the world we would leave to them.

And in 1976 they would likely have been in the best health of their lives. Survivorship bias.

There's no need for such quotas on individuals (thankfully for the time being), more legislation regarding power generation itself and actually getting the infrastructure in place, as well as being at the forefront of global initiatives for everyone else to do the same.

I think the UK governments and a lot of other ones do this, but quite frankly some people choose not to listen and some don't even think there's a problem at all in spite of the copious evidence. TBH, I think more direct legislation that is enforced, rather than simple advice, is called for.

Yeah, this is an absolute road. I'd lump on the draw.

A new equilibrium will be established - that's a certainty, and it's happened multiple times before. It will however cost a toll of lives, human and otherwise, that will be...pretty high. I think that getting off reliance for any combustion related power generation, as a matter of urgency, could at least buy time. Renewables have shown that they can at least partly help there, but as for the remainder the only logical choice is fission, at least for the time being. Fusion would of course be the miracle deliverance, but the problems getting it to actually work in a way that is useful are well-documented.

I've got France to have a very tricky run, and Spain to play the USA in the QF's (if both win their groups)? England's run doesn't actually look that hard at first glance.

Yeah, this is going to be a long day.

Well, shit. Presume the draw just jumped in result odds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cly81w5g1qwo Burnham causing ire to the kind of shitty people who deserve to be annoyed all the time already - and he's not even PM yet. Good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwev2x4jw9o More good news. "Conversion therapy", pretty much no matter what form it takes, is coercive and has no place in a decent modern society.

2040's, Faro Automated Solutions repairing a lot of the damage that climate change had done. Shame about what happened next, really.

Also interesting that Japan and Venezuela are not far off being antipodal to each other (on the exact other side of the world).

Nah, I have to believe that there is time for a "Claw-Back" (perhaps @Trav Le Bleu might get that reference), because if you're right then the death, suffering and displacement of a great deal of life is inevitable, rather than merely likely, and what's the point of it all then?

Brook in particular is due a monster after a few good starts.

Think winning the toss and batting first will be critical for whichever team, here.

It's deeply unfortunate that even something so cut and dried as the scientific laws of thermodynamics and their clearly traceable consequences have somehow become political... but such is the world we apparently live in right now.

I think perhaps three of those are really plausible? So in classical Scottish fashion it looks like it'll be missing out by a whisker.

Pretty poor showing from the Koreans in the last two games.

It's been scary for the last two decades. That being said, there is still time to both limit and mitigate the worst possible effects that are on the way.

The poles in particular are bearing the first brunt. Soon, a lot of other places will.

https://spacenews.com/chinese-spaceplane-releases-object-into-orbit-according-to-commercial-space-surveillance/ Both big spacefaring nations going on with their TSTO (two stage to orbit) reusable spaceplane plans, then. Didn't know either of them were that far along the development course.