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• Post #4434282

  "Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm. Crops chase sunlight, so roofing a field with panels ought to starve them. Yet plot after plot came in with more fruit, not less, and the plants looked healthier than the ones baking in the open. Stranger still, the shaded rows did it while drinking far less water. (...) Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown un...

• Post #3000383

  "Israel is privately lobbying the Department of War to assassinate Iran’s lead negotiator, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and restart the war with a new round of strikes targeting the country’s oil infrastructure, according to a classified report circulating within the U.S. intelligence community this week." Well well well, if it isn't the usual terrorist state doing terrorist things... https://capitalandempire.com/p/exclusive-israel-privately-pressing-a...

• Post #3000382

  "During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker." Good news folks! The rich will kill each other as soon as collapse hits :) https://futurism.com/future-society/apocalypse-compound-fails-wealthy-residents-turn-on-each-other

• Post #3000381

  "The Italian government wants to change the name of the international unit of electrical potential from "volt" to "volta," to pay tribute to Italian electricity pioneer Alessandro Volta two centuries after his death." Brava Giorgia, questi si che sono i veri traguardi, la gente morirà di fame ma almeno avrà la certezza che quando andrà a protestare in piazza e si prenderà il taser, saranno 50.000 VOLTA a colpirla, che grandissima conquista p...

• Post #3000380

  "Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” (...) Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. (...) It would fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors in...

• Post #2683630

  "Kenyan President William Ruto put the scale of the project's power requirements into clear terms at a recent state event in Nairobi, saying the country would need to "switch off half the country" to keep the facility running. (...) President Ruto isn’t exaggerating about shutting off half the country’s power. Kenya’s total installed electricity capacity sits between 3,000 and 3,200 megawatts, and peak demand reached a record 2,444 megawatts in January, accordi...

• Post #2683629

  "Il programma di Objection funziona così: il cliente paga da un minimo di 2 mila a un massimo di 10 mila dollari per caricare l’articolo o il servizio che non gradisce, aggiunge le proprie obiezioni, dopodiché una squadra di “investigatori” (dietro cui si celano, si dice, ex agenti Cia, Fbi e Nsa, strutture con cui Palantir, fra parentesi, è legata a filo doppio) raccoglie ulteriori elementi, e infine il tutto confluisce in un panel di modelli algoritmici di OpenaAI, xAI, Google, Anthro...

• Post #2683628

  Liberali: "con la IA potremo diventare tutti super produttivi e goderci la vita" I padroni: *letteralmente finanziano startup il cui business model è: la Stasi, ma privata*

• Post #2574618

  Boomers at 40: "yeah we're almost done with working, a few more years and we'll get to enjoy that early retirement" Millennials at 40: "ok it's time to stock up on rice and dried beans so maybe we can survive the next winter"

• Post #2088273

  Shit got so bad I'm seeing STEM/tech folks taking a political stance

• Post #2086175

  "(...) a systematic evaluation of 26 carbon offset projects that claim to slow the rate of potential deforestation in six countries on three continents found that the vast majority of projects did not actually slow deforestation, and those that did were significantly less effective than they claimed. (...) Researchers found that only eight of the 26 projects selling offsets showed any evidence of reducing deforestation, and even those that did failed to achieve the extent of reductions...

• Post #1777703

  "The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said. The force will secure production, ensure traceable transport of minerals, and replace “defense forces currently deployed in mining zones,” according to the statement. (...) The guards will begin work in the southeastern copper-and-cobalt-rich Katanga region, which also has large deposits of zinc, li...

• Post #847318

  Una sola parola: leggetevelo.

• Post #780867

  You can't make this shit up. The double standard is unreal.

• Post #598530

  "Una studentessa 17enne è stata segnalata ai servizi sociali dopo aver preso parte a una manifestazione in piazza del Duomo a Firenze, promossa dal sindacato Sudd Cobas, in difesa degli operai della ditta L’Alba di Montemurlo. (...) recentemente la ragazza è stata convocata dai servizi sociali allertati dalla procura dei minori dopo una segnalazione delle forze dell’ordine. Il colloquio però è stato "quasi un interrogatorio". I servizi sociali, è stato riferito, hanno...