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This year, an extraordinary amount of warm water has built up in the equatorial Pacific and beyond, driving what promises to be the most intense El Niño ever recorded. When Snodgrass and I talked on Tuesday, the water temperature at the pier was 75 degrees, 11 degrees warmer than the daily average and the warmest November 3 ever recorded. This would have surprised him more if daily records hadn’t already been broken 65 times this year. ... For some of California’s more familiar life forms, the conditions this year have been deeply alarming. April Ridlon, the director of science at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in Monterey, has deployed extra divers to monitor kelp forests that can suffer in warmer temperatures, deprived of nutrients from cold upwelling waters. Just over a decade ago, amid the marine heat wave known as “the blob,” which coincided with another El Niño, Central California lost more than half of its kelp forests, she says, and Northern California lost even more. In some areas, the kelp has still not returned. She expects to lose kelp now, too, which means potentially losing populations of hundreds of other species that rely on them for habitat and nursery grounds.

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    Why? For example, there are niche performing arts that are recorded on video and hosted on the video platforms because it's convenient. There's way more than low quality influencers and marketing in there.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    In particular, if it is a niche where you are a specialist, so you can judge the importance, and you know the general public does not know much about it. Those are most likely to become lost forever if your saved link fails you one day.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    It is year 2126, one third of the human population directly died of climate change and another third died in wars to control the last resources.
    Somehow, Nintendo still managed to publish Zelda 151, Pokemon 202 and Mario 303.

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    Thank you for your hard work. I bet it comes with some degree of harassment from those people. I think for the genocide point, it would be useful to specify it's the one from Chinese government over Uyghurs, since there's sadly many now.
    I guess we could include the cultural genocide of Tibet too. If we bring up the subject to them, I have little doubt they will confirm my guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet

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    I'm curious to know if there's any possible rational way to create stable rules, expect just allowing nudity, about this subject without having anyone rightfully complaining that they should be allowed to dress their own body however they want to. Some countries already have a culture of nudist beaches for exemple, so it's already happening in some places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_where_social_nudity_is_practised

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