This still won’t be enough for them to survive without a pickup in sales, which are only set to decline further as any EU action on Chinese imports will be immediately retaliated by measures against EU OEM’s. The EU car industry is about to be completely massacred.

I don’t like the German car execs, but the economical and political ramifications of not saving the European car industry will be enormous, so it makes a lot of sense to try to save it.

You’re good, it is called the box in English.

I read an article recently that they massively upgraded their power grid after those winter outages and they should be just fine now. So probably better than you expect.

Just because it was accidental doesn’t mean it wasn’t a red card.

They’re a mediocre team at best. Mediocre teams usually don’t make it to the quarter finals without an exceptionally lucky draw and almost never make it to the semis.

To put it into a chess comparison: to win you need a 2700+ elo and the US is maybe a 2200 elo. Decent, they can beat a higher ranked opponent on a good day for them and an off day for the opponent, but they can’t beat world class opponents in succession. The class difference is too high.

Now they are up against their first higher ranked opponent, Belgium, who should win it fairly easy on paper. In a pre-tournament friendly they comfortably beat the US 5-2, which is indicative of the difference in level between the two sides. Still, it’s a knockout game in the world cup, the US has home and FIFA advantage and Belgium has played below their standards all tournament, so they probably have a decent shot at winning the tie.

Great tits could be wiped out by climate change in near future

By Ben Cost

We mean the birds, dirtbags.

The unfortunately named great tit has joined a long list of species that could soon disappear due to Earth’s rapidly warming climate.

“If the changes happen too fast, species can become extinct,” said Emily Simmonds, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s department of biology. She authored an article in the journal Ecology Letters detailing how the food supply of the great tit — a colorful songbird endemic to Europe and Asia — and other bird species can be impacted by a premature season shift caused by rising temperatures.

Simmonds argued that warmer winters and resultant early springs prompt plants to leaf earlier, causing tree-eating larvae to hatch ahead of time, Science Daily reported. This can prove problematic to birds like the great tit that depend on the spring bug bounty when they’re babies.

“When the climate changes, the interactions between different species changes [sic], too,” explained Simmonds.

Fortunately, some populations of great tits have learned to adapt to the untimely spring by simply hatching earlier — proving that the early bird does indeed get the worm. This behavior, in turn, could potentially be passed on to future generations.

However, after analyzing statistical models and different climate scenarios, researchers deduced that the songbirds wouldn’t be able to evolve in tandem with their prey forever.

“The larvae might be changing even faster than the great tits,” said Simmonds, who chalked up the evolutionary discrepancy to the “big greenhouse gas emissions.”

The report added, “We might reach a kind of threshold where the great tits aren’t keeping up. The rubber band gets stretched too far, you could say.”

In the worst-case scenario, researchers suggested, larvae hatched approximately 24 days earlier than the 2020 norm would cause the whole population of great tits to vanish by the year 2100 due to lack of food.

Fortunately, Simmonds said, “populations will be able to survive scenarios with lower or medium warming trends.”

Great tits aren’t the only fine-feathered friends feeling the heat from climate change. According to a report by Audobon, nearly two-thirds of America’s breeding avian species face extinction due to the global temperature spike.

More alarmingly, scientists speculate that global warming could wipe out one-third of all animal and plant life by 2070.

I genuinely thought about 3 years ago that Poland was going to join the war, with or without consent of Nato on the side of Ukraine. From their pov, they won’t get an opportunity to hurt Russia as much as it would now in the next 50 years at least. If this was a game and no actual lives were at stake, or if Russia had no nukes, they would have pulled that trigger already.

That being said, if sufficiently provoked, I don’t expect them to sit idly by. From a geostrategic pov it might actually be necessary for them to secure their eastern flank, given that Germany is rearming and afd is very friendly to the Kremlin.

I went to an opera a couple of days ago and was very pleasantly surprised about the extended breaks. It actually makes it so much more of an event, not to mention that nobody was rushing to the bathroom because the breaks were like 30 minutes each (between each act they redo the decor on the set). It also gave you plenty of time to grab a bite to eat and a drink.

While I understand this sentiment and do agree that we should have a high sense of climate urgency, oil companies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. A big first step is simply to stop burning oil, but even if we do that we will still require a huge amount of it. All plastics, ALL of them, are oil derivatives.

Look around you, wherever you are, and you will see things that are made with plastics. And if they aren’t made out of oil derivatives, they are made by oil derivatives either as a source of energy, or the machinery to make it has plastics. The clothes you are wearing, your shoes, your hair comb, your toaster, car, glasses, pc, t-shirt, birding binoculars, camping tent, the list is never ending because it’s everyfuckingwhere. The prints on your glass, the pen with which you write or the keyboard you type on, it is so incredibly pervasive.

So we can rant at these oil companies, but an enormous chunk of the economy depends on it and that’s a simple fact. I’m not claiming to have the answers, but we can’t just get rid of oil, which is why I say that step 1 is to simply stop burning it. That will already stop the worst, the bleeding if you will.

And sure, renewables are good and to have renewable energy is infinitely better than burning oil, but they only solve the most obvious problem. The real issue is what would we use instead of plastics? And as far as I know, there is no alternative.

Nothing will ever top GTA 2 for me. That was such an awesome game. It was just stupidly fun.

Father of the famous author Alexandre Dumas, known for “The three musketeers” and “The count of Monte Cristo”.

Also briefly shown in Ridley Scotts abomination “Napoleon”, one of the few historical accuracies of the movie.

Edit: a typo and this clarification: I am not talking about Lee, in case that wasn’t obvious.

It’s definitely a type of salad.

Haven’t seen it mentioned yet, so I’ll go ahead and give a shoutout to The Queen’s gambit. It’s easily one of the best shows of the past 20 years and it’s a limited, 7 episode (iirc) series.

Yes, that’s it I think.

The Scholar’s mate school of business.

What software are we talking about here? There is no way Acrobat takes up that much space. Photoshop might though.

It would be incredibly sad if it didn’t have such widespread consequences. He always was a dumb narcissist, but he really is deteriorating mentally quickly in the past year, and he never was that bright to begin with. He should be in an elderly home, not the oval office.

I haven’t had a microwave in a decade and have zero regrets. Every now and then it would be handy, but it’s really not a necessity.

A bit of a shame really, because now they will focus their incompetent gaze on something else.

I have 4 cats. 3 are the top one and then there is the one nicknamed little satan who absolutely is the second one.