The heatwave changes people very quickly.
The French are now fighting each other for discounted air conditioners and fans in Lidl stores.
Where has all the civility gone?
@serlesnik Я однажды перестала звонить или текстить друзьям, что-то подозревая, и никто из них обо мне так и не вспомнил.
грустно? не очень, просто факт. Но так неловко чувствовать себя навязчивой.😳
Утомилась удалять из фоловеров всяких сладких цыпочек.😭
Ну, условных цыпочек, кто знает с какими коварными мыслями о любви и прочих мечтах они (любвеобильные боты?) меня преследуют.
🚨 BREAKING: Hazmat teams are responding to a train derailment near Feasterville, Pennsylvania
A shelter-in-place order is in place
Pray for the people in the area. It's currently unknown what the train was carrying 🙏🏻
Data centers vent immense waste heat into neighboring communities, and they are raising local temperatures by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit.
During a record-breaking summer heatwave, residents living near Europe’s largest data center hub in Slough, UK, are experiencing a brutal new environmental hazard.
The massive facility—which provides essential computing power for tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—must continuously dump extreme heat to prevent its computer chips from melting.
Weather station data revealed that temperatures immediately surrounding the facility climbed nearly to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which was several degrees hotter than nearby areas. Local residents described the intense, localized heat as a physical sensation of having their skin pinched and burned.
While traditional urban heat islands occur when concrete and asphalt absorb solar heat, heat-expelling data centers are creating a distinct 'data heat island effect.' A recent study by Cambridge University researchers indicates that these sprawling server farms can raise local temperatures by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, and up to 16 degrees in extreme cases, potentially impacting more than 340 million people globally.
As tech companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into scaling up AI and cloud infrastructure, local communities are growing increasingly resistant to these facilities appearing in their backyards, citing soaring electricity costs, water depletion, and relentless noise.
source: Tangermann, V. (2026). Massive Data Center Cooks Nearby Residents Alive Amidst Deadly Heatwave. Futurism.
конечно! если поливать поля нечем, поскольку всю воду выжрали датацентры, которые, при этом усиленнно охлаждаясь, выпускают в окружающую среду добавочное тепло, то можно утверждать о climate change.
ни воды, ни еды, один низкочастотный шум и вся планета заселена ханжами.
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well, humanity is not cooked but evolves.
это свидетельство о том, что поскольку человек ленив, то он нашел кратчайший путь для нахождения ответа на интересуещий его вопрос - сразу в своей голове, без траты энергии на обращение к стороннему мыслителю.😇
🧐 канализация вредит окружающей среде не меньше зонтиков: мега тонны говна скапливаются в одном месте, как-то обрабатываются за счет потребления энергии, или просто выбрасываются в куда-то. намного прогрессивнее, если бы люди испражнялись свободно, удобряя почву.
“The danger of umbrellas is that they turn rain into a matter of private comfort. Those who can pay escape getting wet, while the public world becomes soggier, more unequal, and less livable. Moral thinking must begin outside the dry zone.”
The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.
Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.
The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.
A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.
This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.
Whenever I get meat from the deli, the workers seem annoyed at my audacity for asking them to do their job.
This attitude is prevalent in the service industry. I don’t expect anyone to be chipper, but could they try not resenting the customer.
🇲🇨🇺🇦 Who is Vadym Yermolaiev — the target of the Monaco terrorist attack?
Yermolaiev is a Dnepropetrovsk oligarch and founder of the Alef Corporation, which controlled major landmarks in the city including Most-City, Cascade Plaza, and the Bosphorus complex, as well as agribusiness and alcohol distilleries. He was also one of four main sponsors of the Golden Rose Synagogue in Dnepropetrovsk, one of the largest in Europe, built with support from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
After 2014, his Crimean wineries producing Villa Krim wine and Jacques Jacques cognac kept operating and paying taxes into the Russian budget before eventually being nationalized. In 2019 he renounced Ukrainian citizenship for a Cypriot passport. He then began funding Zelensky's political competitors, after which the Presidential Office made clear it was time to share assets. He refused.
On December 23, 2023, Zelensky signed a decree imposing a ten-year asset freeze and full economic sanctions on Yermolaiev. Yermolaiev then quietly transferred his Cypriot holding company to his daughter Sofia Kononenko, backdating the paperwork to just before the sanctions kicked in. He also sued Zelensky's government in Ukraine's Supreme Court to have the sanctions overturned. He lost, twice — in February 2025 and again on appeal in June 2025, just over a year before the Monaco bombing.
His son Artur, former president of Ukraine's Esports Federation, was arrested in Cyprus in December 2025 on an Interpol warrant for running fraudulent call centers targeting victims in Russia and the European Union, with over 150 centers and up to 15,000 operators allegedly under Yermolaiev family control. He walked out of an Estonian prison in April 2026 on €8 million bail.
Monaco just recorded its first ever terrorist attack. We told you the war wouldn't stay in Ukraine. The oligarchs fled west, and the methods they used to settle scores back home came with them. Europe wanted to play patron to this conflict — now it's getting a taste of what that looks like up close.
In Monaco, Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Yermolaev was blown up in a terrorist attack. His wife and child were injured.
Yermolaev had a conflict with Zelensky’s team. In 2023, Zelensky imposed sanctions against him, leading to attempts to seize his business in Ukraine.
He owned significant real estate in Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s largest cities.
The Yermolaev family controls around 150 fraudulent call centers in Ukraine that scam pensioners in the EU, the US, and Russia. Profits from these operations amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.
In December 2025, his son was detained in Cyprus at Interpol’s request for organizing scam call centers. The charges were extremely serious, but in April 2026 Artur was released from an Estonian prison on €8 million bail.
Yermolaev was also involved in the production of construction materials and fuel supplies - very profitable businesses in wartime conditions. Zelensky’s team tried to take them away for a long time, but Yermolaev resisted.
As a result, there was an attempt to assassinate his entire family.
Reminder: A year ago in Spain, former head of the Ukrainian President’s administration Andrey Portnov was killed. In Ukraine, this murder is also linked to his conflict with Zelensky.
THIS IS INSANE! 130 MPH winds destroyed windmills in South Dakota this morning.
This is very rare. We hardly ever see windmills take this much damage from straight-line damaging winds. But when you push over 110 MPH winds, it becomes a lot easier for the windmills to crumble.
Photos via Storm Chaser Jakob McMillin
NEW - Paris morgues ARE OVERFLOWING from heat-related deaths
morgues are now seeking permission for refrigerated containers
The mayor of Paris has also authorized additional body storage units at City morgues.
In Europe, you only get A/C once you're dead.