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That thumbnail fucking looks like Mars
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As someone in BC it honestly just looks like they've got a nearby forest fire, it gets absolutely insane here in fire season.
What does BC mean? I highly doubt it stands for Before Christ in this case.
British Columbia - sorry, I realize Canadian Provencal codes aren't that well understood outside of Canada.
Desert is spreading. Not terrible, not great...
About the same amount of sand as a chest x-ray.
3.6 sand per hour.
I've got more sand than pie between my teeth.
There's burning sand in the courtyard.
Pretty sure it's terrible. It's not terrible for the overall ecosystem of the world but if major Europran cities suffer desertification as well we're going to have a huge infrastructure and migrant crisis on our hands. But don't fret Americans, please keep trying to destroy the EPA and ensure you can burn the dirtiest of coals... and Germany, don't forget to transition off nuclear and back to coal and gas for the uh.... environment?
The german energy mix is pretty good actually. About 60% is renewable. And a lot the infrastructure was build during our last legislation period. The early transition off nuclear was definitely a mistake but nothing we can reverse now. But even if we count nuclear as renewable, Germany is still way ahead of most big countries.
Yea, I think Germany is doing well to make up for that transition but it's still something that hurts me to the core - especially since it was so strongly pushed for by the Greens.
All the left parties still push for it and are not willing to admit that it was a mistake. Our general secretary visited my local branch of my party to talk about the upcoming elections. Everything went extremely well until he made remarks about how going back to nuclear would be like devolving back into to a past era. I fear that fusion energy will be held back by the bad image of nuclear.
https://www.tiktok.com/@panpapaioannou/video/7361117397736017184
https://www.tiktok.com/@hara_nik/video/7361093019724008736
Videos from Greece. Or Arrakis. Or Mexico.
God i hate how tiktok covers the video with text
Proxitok thankfully gets rid of that mess:
https://tok.habedieeh.re/%40panpapaioannou/video/7361117397736017184
https://tok.habedieeh.re/@hara_nik/video/7361093019724008736
https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok
There are browser extensions to deal with it
Any alternative videos these ones don't load for me
Tiktok probably doesnt like some privacy features/extensions you use. Try using incognito in another browser that doesnt have those(like edge).
privacy features
Like my network-wide *.tiktok.com DNS blackhole?
I don't think that would cover their CDN, since they're usually on different domains.
Yes, I oversimplified a bit. Using blocky:
blocking:
blackLists:
fuckTiktok:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/mischosts/master/social/tiktok-block
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/(\.|^)bytecdn\.cn$/
/(\.|^)bytedance\.com$/
/(\.|^)bytedance\.net$/
/(\.|^)bytedns\.net$/
/(\.|^)byteicdn\.com$/
/(\.|^)byteimg\.com$/
/(\.|^)byteoversea\.com$/
/(\.|^)byteoversea\.net$/
/(\.|^)bytetcdn\.com$/
/(\.|^)hypstarcdn\.com$/
/(\.|^)ibytedtos\.com$/
/(\.|^)ibyteimg\.com$/
/(\.|^)ipstatp\.com$/
/(\.|^)isnssdk\.com$/
/(\.|^)muscdn\.com$/
/(\.|^)musemuse\.cn$/
/(\.|^)musical\.ly$/
/(\.|^)pstatp\.com$/
/(\.|^)sgpstatp\.com$/
/(\.|^)sgsnssdk\.com$/
/(\.|^)snssdk\.com$/
/(\.|^)tiktok\.com$/
/(\.|^)tiktokcdn\.com$/
/(\.|^)tiktokv\.com$/
/(\.|^)toutiao\.com$/
/(\.|^)worldfcdn\.com$/
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Waking up and finding out that it's snowing in April was super fun. It snowed for two days almost straight and all tram traffic stopped because their power line thingies froze. Isn't climate change awesome?
I keep forgetting to take my car in and have the snow tires swapped…but it keeps fucking randomly snowing and the Easter bunny froze to death in a flash hailstorm
I'm actually surprised snow is unusual in the spring in Helsinki.
Helsinki yes, Finland no.
Fair enough. I associate Finland with snow like it's some sort of European Hoth.
I got a chuckle from the line:
While snowfall is not uncommon in Finland’s winter months
We've also got snow in Montreal today... it's nearly fucking May.
A takatalvi (literally "backwinter", it means that when you think it's spring but then winter weather comes back because fuck you) or two is common, but they usually don't last as long, occur in March or early April, and ddon't have nearly as much snow.
Reminds me of some of the worst smoke seasons we’ve had in the PNW
I remember a few years back when the skies turned red in SF. It looked so surreal.
I thought it was mars before the humans had to colonize Earth