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Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surprise (edition.cnn.com)

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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 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That thumbnail fucking looks like Mars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

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

[+] aeronmelon -14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

There are people who believe we moved from Mars to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago because we made it the dusty, uninhabitable planet it is today.

It seems really far-fetched, and the theory is full of obvious problems. But then you see news like this and can't help but wonder...

(My heart goes out to all of you who became so terribly offended by this.)

[–] Tyfud 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's far fetched because there's literally no evidence of this anywhere other than someone's imagination.

[–] EdibleFriend 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've never understood these 'We had amazing technology but then just kind of forgot' conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I get it. I once spent half an hour looking for the remote which I had left in the fridge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well we did. We only in the past few years realized how the Romans made cement, which was a far more advanced building material than we had again until the industrial revolution. The Bronze Age collapse is an older example, but we’ve had stories of great civilizations along with the technology they control dying and leaving mysteries for those who came next for as long as we have a cultural record.

The leap to space travel level technology is a big one, but I could see it being a really cool sci-fi novel. I think that’s basically the only requirement for a conspiracy theory: does it sound cool.

[–] Fedizen 8 points 7 months ago

...wonder if those people are dumbasses? Yes. They are.

[–] zecg 1 points 7 months ago

I can help but wonder apparently?

[–] victorz 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] aeronmelon 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

3.6 sand per hour.

[–] RizzRustbolt 1 points 7 months ago

There's burning sand in the courtyard.

[–] UckyBon 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

https://www.tiktok.com/@panpapaioannou/video/7361117397736017184

https://www.tiktok.com/@hara_nik/video/7361093019724008736

Videos from Greece. Or Arrakis. Or Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

God i hate how tiktok covers the video with text

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Proxitok thankfully gets rid of that mess:

https://tok.habedieeh.re/%40panpapaioannou/video/7361117397736017184

https://tok.habedieeh.re/@hara_nik/video/7361093019724008736

https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok

There are browser extensions to deal with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

LibRedirect

[–] Wizard_Pope 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any alternative videos these ones don't load for me

[–] NIB 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

privacy features

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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$/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 7 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 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] crushyerbones 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Helsinki yes, Finland no.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Carrolade 3 points 7 months ago

I got a chuckle from the line:

While snowfall is not uncommon in Finland’s winter months

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] june 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Harbinger01173430 2 points 7 months ago

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