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Started by K-Dog, Mar 09, 2026, 06:47 PM

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BBC.COM 2026-06-24

Heat adaptation event cancelled as heatwave grips

An event due to be held in central London about how the world can adapt to extreme heat has been cancelled due to soaring temperatures.


Makes sense, young people who could take the heat are busy living their lives, and basically they do not give a shit.  Out having their days in the sun.  Their affluent elders would be the ones going to the event, and heat kills old people.

WIRED.COM 2026-06-24

London Climate Action Week Foiled by Climate Change

As record-breaking heat crushes Europe, organizers are moving events online to avoid exposing people to dangerously high temperatures.

K-Dog

Here is a prediction that sure was off.


theatlantic.com 2024-12-02

The Hunter Biden Pardon Is a Strategic Mistake

The blunder will haunt Democrats during the next Trump administration.



Hunter got his shit together.

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K-Dog

#3
Not only is it ironic, it is also really fucked up considering the source.  Somebody like this you would think be knowing.

Tom Nichols

Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a contributor to the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. He has served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House and the U.S. Senate. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world—along with occasional contrarian views on popular culture. His books include The Death of Expertise and Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy champion.

Goes to show there are different kinds of intelligence.  And bias.  Many kinds of that, everybody has a bias.