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submitted 10 months ago by NIB@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, creating spectacular scenes and prompting authorities to issue health warnings.

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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

That thumbnail fucking looks like Mars

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

As someone in BC it honestly just looks like they've got a nearby forest fire, it gets absolutely insane here in fire season.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

What does BC mean? I highly doubt it stands for Before Christ in this case.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

British Columbia - sorry, I realize Canadian Provencal codes aren't that well understood outside of Canada.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Desert is spreading. Not terrible, not great...

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

About the same amount of sand as a chest x-ray.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
[-] UckyBon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I've got more sand than pie between my teeth.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There's burning sand in the courtyard.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it's terrible. It's not terrible for the overall ecosystem of the world but if major Europran cities suffer desertification as well we're going to have a huge infrastructure and migrant crisis on our hands. But don't fret Americans, please keep trying to destroy the EPA and ensure you can burn the dirtiest of coals... and Germany, don't forget to transition off nuclear and back to coal and gas for the uh.... environment?

[-] JayObey711@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The german energy mix is pretty good actually. About 60% is renewable. And a lot the infrastructure was build during our last legislation period. The early transition off nuclear was definitely a mistake but nothing we can reverse now. But even if we count nuclear as renewable, Germany is still way ahead of most big countries.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Yea, I think Germany is doing well to make up for that transition but it's still something that hurts me to the core - especially since it was so strongly pushed for by the Greens.

[-] JayObey711@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

All the left parties still push for it and are not willing to admit that it was a mistake. Our general secretary visited my local branch of my party to talk about the upcoming elections. Everything went extremely well until he made remarks about how going back to nuclear would be like devolving back into to a past era. I fear that fusion energy will be held back by the bad image of nuclear.

[-] NIB@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

God i hate how tiktok covers the video with text

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Any alternative videos these ones don't load for me

[-] NIB@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Tiktok probably doesnt like some privacy features/extensions you use. Try using incognito in another browser that doesnt have those(like edge).

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 13 points 10 months ago

privacy features

Like my network-wide *.tiktok.com DNS blackhole?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I don't think that would cover their CDN, since they're usually on different domains.

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, I oversimplified a bit. Using blocky:

blocking:
  blackLists:
    fuckTiktok:
      - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/mischosts/master/social/tiktok-block
      - |
        /(\.|^)bytecdn\.cn$/
        /(\.|^)bytedance\.com$/
        /(\.|^)bytedance\.net$/
        /(\.|^)bytedns\.net$/
        /(\.|^)byteicdn\.com$/
        /(\.|^)byteimg\.com$/
        /(\.|^)byteoversea\.com$/
        /(\.|^)byteoversea\.net$/
        /(\.|^)bytetcdn\.com$/
        /(\.|^)hypstarcdn\.com$/
        /(\.|^)ibytedtos\.com$/
        /(\.|^)ibyteimg\.com$/
        /(\.|^)ipstatp\.com$/
        /(\.|^)isnssdk\.com$/
        /(\.|^)muscdn\.com$/
        /(\.|^)musemuse\.cn$/
        /(\.|^)musical\.ly$/
        /(\.|^)pstatp\.com$/
        /(\.|^)sgpstatp\.com$/
        /(\.|^)sgsnssdk\.com$/
        /(\.|^)snssdk\.com$/
        /(\.|^)tiktok\.com$/
        /(\.|^)tiktokcdn\.com$/
        /(\.|^)tiktokv\.com$/
        /(\.|^)toutiao\.com$/
        /(\.|^)worldfcdn\.com$/
        /(\.|^)wsdvs\.com$/
[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago

Waking up and finding out that it's snowing in April was super fun. It snowed for two days almost straight and all tram traffic stopped because their power line thingies froze. Isn't climate change awesome?

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I keep forgetting to take my car in and have the snow tires swapped…but it keeps fucking randomly snowing and the Easter bunny froze to death in a flash hailstorm

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I'm actually surprised snow is unusual in the spring in Helsinki.

[-] crushyerbones@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Fair enough. I associate Finland with snow like it's some sort of European Hoth.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I got a chuckle from the line:

While snowfall is not uncommon in Finland’s winter months

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

We've also got snow in Montreal today... it's nearly fucking May.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

A takatalvi (literally "backwinter", it means that when you think it's spring but then winter weather comes back because fuck you) or two is common, but they usually don't last as long, occur in March or early April, and ddon't have nearly as much snow.

[-] june@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of some of the worst smoke seasons we’ve had in the PNW

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I remember a few years back when the skies turned red in SF. It looked so surreal.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I thought it was mars before the humans had to colonize Earth

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