Yours is my favourite. I’ve witnessed several grease fires, but never one that geysered out of the sinkhole. Nice job, lol.

You’re not wrong, but now that I’ve read this article I’m pretty sure I can feel the microplastics inflaming my brain.

Well that’s absolutely horrifying.

Holy shit. That one lady was just walking around the New York subway and her eye implant went dark. That’s wild. Imagine if that happened to a wheelchair user, or someone with a prosthetic leg. Or an artificial internal organ! The company just shuts down and so do your body parts? Truly terrifying.

“In August, high-end tourism continues to grow, unlike normal tourism,” Antonio Coviello, a researcher with Italy’s National Research Center wrote in a report on luxury travel issued this week, adding that the risk of over-tourism in the luxury sector is a concern because it could drive up prices in the mid-range travel sector to accommodate the bigger spenders.

Says a lot, doesn’t it? Specifically: The peasants can get fucked.

You’re right. The ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) cycle can take up to 7 years, but that’s the entire cycle (El Niño, La Niña, and neutral). El Niño conditions may only last months. La Niña typically lasts longer.
This year, they expect El Niño conditions to continue at least til the end of the year.
Also, this past La Niña was unusually long, about three years long. I’m not sure what that signifies but it seems like it might be important.

From climate.gov:

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The jellyfish, mosquitoes, mold, sea urchins, flies, algae, fungi and cockroaches will probably thrive. That’s a good foundation for evolution to start a new ecosystem, isn’t it?
This is the kind of hope I am clinging to this year.

Oh, that makes more sense. Poor guy, they don’t say what he was on the run from the cops for, but I can’t imagine he deserved such an awful way to go.

120°F is 48.8°C. Holy forking shirtballs that is hot.

I feel bad for assuming he was a sex tourist. He was an immigrant to Thailand, with a job there and a wife. Sorry, man. RIP.

Found here:

Police described the freezer as an “older model with a latching mechanism on the outside.” When closed, it is not capable of being pushed open from inside. The unit was not running when Buschman’s body was found, as Techar said the residence had no utilities since April 2022.

…“Investigators located a metal lawn ornament rod that was inserted from inside of the freezer towards the latching mechanism,” Techar reported. “The rod was jammed between the gasket and manufactured edge, preventing the rod from being able to manipulate the latching mechanism from the inside.”

Kind of weird… so it did have a latch that could be opened from the inside, but he stuck something in it from inside the freezer in order to lock himself in? Not sure if I read that right.