Totally insane thunderstorms last night.
I was woken up at 4.30am. It sounded like atomic bombs going off!
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- Thu May 02, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Energy & the Environment
- Topic: Tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding rain, hail and severe watch thread
- Replies: 127
- Views: 83438
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: UK News and Discussions
- Replies: 1079
- Views: 575404
Re: UK News and Discussions
Local elections in the UK today. Should be an interesting bellwether for the General Election later this year (we still don't know when that is, but seems likely it'll be October/November. By law, the latest it can be held is January 2025). Mayoral elections are also being held today. Sadiq Khan (La...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: The History Forum
- Topic: Human Prehistory (3.3 million years BC – 3500 BC)
- Replies: 160
- Views: 177179
Re: Human Prehistory (3.3 million years BC – 3500 BC)
Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed 9 hours ago What would it be like to meet one of our closest human relatives from 75,000 years ago in the flesh? Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have looked like when she was alive. It is based...
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: Fascism watch thread/news and discussions
- Replies: 219
- Views: 187185
Re: Fascism watch thread/news and discussions
Trump says ‘a lot of people like it’ when he floats the idea of being a dictator April 30, 2024 at 7:01 p.m. People don’t seem to mind the idea of former President Donald Trump acting as a dictator, he told Time magazine in an interview that drew swift rebuke from the Biden-Harris campaign. In a wi...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: Post-Brexit News and Discussions
- Replies: 205
- Views: 190582
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: Spain News and Discussions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2748
Re: Spain News and Discussions
Spain will need 24 million migrant workers until 2053 to shore up pension system, warns central bank 1 May, 2024 The Bank of Spain has warned that the country’s economy will need around 24 million migrant workers until 2053 if the pension system is to remain sustainable. The stark warning came in i...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: What are you watching?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 82961
Re: What are you watching?
Trailer looks good, but only 4.5 on IMDB!
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: Scumbags
- Replies: 96
- Views: 87359
Re: Scumbags
Hacker jailed for blackmailing therapy patients 30 April 2024, 13:26 BST One of Europe's most wanted cyber criminals has been jailed for attempting to blackmail 33,000 people whose confidential therapy notes he stole. Julius Kivimäki obtained them after breaking into the databases of Finland's larg...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Feedback & Suggestions
- Topic: New predictions for the timeline
- Replies: 266
- Views: 598094
Re: New predictions for the timeline
I think I'll be adding this one next.
2029 – Large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-30/ ... /103781352
2029 – Large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-30/ ... /103781352
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Biology & Medicine
- Topic: Biology & Medicine News and Discussions
- Replies: 627
- Views: 494929