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from the article in the OP:

The global warmth is linked to human-caused climate change and a powerful El Niño event, which ended in June.

do give it a read. it also refers to this abnormal set of temperatures being more of a trend over the past twenty years rather than a one-off event like sunspot activities.

i don't quite see the point of ostriching ourselves into denying our part in climate change. all that does is absolve the large corporations that have accelerated it of any blame.

nice try, Tim Cook.

to add an interesting anecdote, there is an archer in indian mythology called Ekalavya who apparently showed great promise. he practiced his craft in honour of a legendary warrior called Dronā(chārya), assuming him to be his teacher, imagining how he would teach, and learning thus on his own.

Dronā himself was semi-retired by then and was teaching the princes of Hastināpur (5 of whom form the principle protagonists and 100 more of whom are the primary antagonists of the indian epic poem "Mahābhārata") and, when he saw Ekalavya, he was afraid that this untitled prodigy would upstage his more royal proteges.

so he invoked an indian custom which states that a student must give a teacher whatever is asked of them and asked Ekalavya for his right thumb. his aim was to not let Ekalavya overshadow his charges since an archer needs his thumb to grip an arrow properly. Ekalavya cut his thumb off without hesitation and presented it to the teacher. Dronā was deeply touched by the willingness to undergo this sacrifice, as the story goes.

the relevance to this news article is that Ekalavya went on to practice drawing the bow with his feet instead and achieving aimilar levels of accuracy. this story in the OP is more than an archer overcoming her difficult circumstances; it's also about her reliving a celebrated legend.

(although, separately, why Ekalavya just didn't switch to being a southpaw, i don't know.)

steve davis! the six-time world snooker champion?

How is there beauty in the lack of life

i never said that there's beauty in the lack of life. i said that there's no beauty in life.

these are two very different statements.

life is beautiful.

no, it's not. it's an ugly, parasitic process that accelerates resource consumption merely for its own pointless existence. the heat death of the universe will come all that faster only because of the presence of life.

and, for sure, humankind is the pinnacle of this selfish and greedy outcome of biological evolution.

She said Bishop was identified from footage afterwards...

also, he wouldn't stop walking diagonally.

they should have just made the air marshalls carry rocks. or stones for flights going to the UK.

either way, just avoid paper.

the core benefit was in adoption. it was easy to get parents, for example, saying that they jist have to bother with one app for all of their messaging.

the minute they have to contend with sms and signal, they don't mind adding whatsapp in the mix as well.

but wouldn't his research be tainted because bears thrive on the extremes of variety?

i remember reading somewhere, for example, that some bears like their porridge too hot and others like it too cold.

very amusing grads, improper naming action.

she thought she was Hermione. turns out she was just Malfoy.

they should aim for "cunning" instead of "terrible".

as per wikipedia:

The virus enters the body through broken skin, or mucosal surfaces such as the mouth, respiratory tract, or genitals.

it would be very difficult to ensure every cut and scrape is covered up. there's also the fact that animal bites can transmit the virus.

the best we can do, maybe, is try and limit human-to-human transmissions. diluted social distancing practices can help, perhaps?

for anyone else that felt they were left hanging by this 👆 person's story:

have you tried riding a roller coaster?

seriously

separately, imdb itself has been enshittified enough that, most times, i don't want the imdb page as a search result.

i may be OOTL on this, but hasn't ECT always had a reputation of not achieving what it set out to do with the added bonus of irreversible damage to the patient?

the data from india is incomplete and not fit for the analysis you're attempting. the actual problem lies in misogyny; rape is more of a symptom of that than a series of unrelated incidents.

misogyny, also, is a symptom by itself of indians making categories and preference tables for virtually every fucking thing. we discriminate on gender, skin colour (it's legal to advertise and sell "skin whitening creams" here!), religion, caste, sect, language (we have about 530 active dialects), state, height, weight, food preferences (india has the highest percentage and, therefore, the highest population of native vegetarians), occupations, the list is endless.

heck, cows live a better life than most women in this country. unless we start seeing each other as fellow human beings, the situation here is simply not going to improve. ever.

i'm still waiting for the first rock from the sun!