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by wjfox
Thu May 02, 2024 10:37 am
Forum: Energy & the Environment
Topic: Tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding rain, hail and severe watch thread
Replies: 127
Views: 83439

Re: Tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding rain, hail and severe watch thread

Totally insane thunderstorms last night.

I was woken up at 4.30am. It sounded like atomic bombs going off!


by wjfox
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...
by wjfox
Thu May 02, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: The History Forum
Topic: Human Prehistory (3.3 million years BC – 3500 BC)
Replies: 160
Views: 177182

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...
by wjfox
Wed May 01, 2024 6:55 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: Fascism watch thread/news and discussions
Replies: 219
Views: 187187

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...
by wjfox
Wed May 01, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: Post-Brexit News and Discussions
Replies: 205
Views: 190582

Re: Post-Brexit News and Discussions

by wjfox
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...
by wjfox
Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 85
Views: 82962

Re: What are you watching?

Time_Traveller wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:18 pm I am planning on watching this over the weekend.

Trailer looks good, but only 4.5 on IMDB!
by wjfox
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...
by wjfox
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: Feedback & Suggestions
Topic: New predictions for the timeline
Replies: 266
Views: 598096

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