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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

submitted 9 hours ago • 283 comments

Secondo Copernicus, Marzo 2025 a livello globale è risultato il secondo più caldo dall'inizio delle osservazioni con un'anomala di +0.65 °C rispetto alla media 1991-2020 e uno scarto di +1.6 °C rispetto al periodo pre-industriale (1850-1900). In Europa è stato il marzo più caldo con +1.47 °C.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 1 day ago • 310 comments

25,8 °C a Parigi il 5 aprile. Un valore simile sarebbe normale nel mese di luglio (media 1991-2020) e risulta 10 °C al di sopra dei valori tipici di aprile.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

submitted 4 days ago • 691 comments

Mite, freddo e poi ancora mite. L'aria di origine artica che affluirà sull'Europa centro-orientale, sui Balcani e sulla Turchia lambirà anche l'Italia portando un netto calo delle temperature da domenica. Caratteristiche dell'evento, almeno per la nostra penisola, saranno: brevità e secchezza. 1/5

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Vatican was excluded from the tariff list and Italy is at the 20% EU rate. I hope some scheming cardinal sees the opportunity here.

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask

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Reminder that Congress could undo this if it wanted to

submitted 6 days ago • 132 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 201 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 7 days ago • 966 comments

One of the most insidious arguments about renewable energy is that it is expensive because "it needs backup". This post from Electrotech Revolution explains in detail how adding renewable power to the grid *saves* money. open.substack.com/pub/electrot...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

#Greenland 🇬🇱

submitted 9 days ago • 638 comments

Did you know that 2/3 of all energy we use ends up as waste heat because of how inefficient our energy system is? Yet we pay for 100% of the energy inputs. Here’s the US as an example.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

DOGE preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, this is a wild finding. Source: buff.ly/2vBLXx2

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

You know that ‘never a truer word was said in jest’ thing… This cartoon.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The @esa.int Gaia spacecraft was moved out to a graveyard orbit and decommissioned today — but much of its discoveries are yet to come. Here is a 🧵 to recall milestones in the (still ongoing, but still with no Bluesky account?!) project

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The fact that we are still having this conversation 🙄 It is an indisputable fact that burning oil, gas, and coal has released a massive amount of CO2 which is increasing Earth's temperature at an existentially dangerous speed. Anyone who says otherwise is a) wrong and b) ignorant or getting paid.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

A really nice explanation and overview of Apache Arrow arrow.apache.org/blo... #dataBS

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

One of the shortcomings of fiction is that they never depict overtly stupid overlords

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

What troubles me about Columbia, an institution I was associated with for 34 years, is that the actions of the Trump administration serve as a test case for future pressure on other universities, many of which lack the resources to fight. Things are gonna suck for academia in the US.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”

submitted 17 days ago • 583 comments