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Flybynite said:

A sudden marine heat wave off the coast of Florida has surprised scientists and sent water temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs, threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events the state has ever seen.

Sea surface temperatures around Florida have reached the highest levels on record since satellites began collecting ocean data. And the warming is happening much earlier than normal – yet another example of ocean heat being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis and the extreme weather it brings.

This is the highest temperature for the water since it has been recorded daily since 1985. The ocean temperatures are said to peak in August so it may even get worse.

Just more signs of the impending doom for coral reefs in oceans over the next half century. Coral reefs being wiped severely would impact marine life ecosystems near the coasts as well as likely lead to more flooding because of the protection they provide.

No shock that Farmers Insurance today announced they are ending all insurance in Florida. No more home, cars, boats, whatever. Insurance premiums in Florida are skyrocketing and more and more insurance companies continue to pull out.
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Yeah, read yesterday that water was at 97 deg in the some Keys, which is threatening coral.
 
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Flybynite said:

A sudden marine heat wave off the coast of Florida has surprised scientists and sent water temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs, threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events the state has ever seen.

Sea surface temperatures around Florida have reached the highest levels on record since satellites began collecting ocean data. And the warming is happening much earlier than normal – yet another example of ocean heat being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis and the extreme weather it brings.

This is the highest temperature for the water since it has been recorded daily since 1985. The ocean temperatures are said to peak in August so it may even get worse.

Just more signs of the impending doom for coral reefs in oceans over the next half century. Coral reefs being wiped severely would impact marine life ecosystems near the coasts as well as likely lead to more flooding because of the protection they provide.

No shock that Farmers Insurance today announced they are ending all insurance in Florida. No more home, cars, boats, whatever. Insurance premiums in Florida are skyrocketing and more and more insurance companies continue to pull out.
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The world will end in 3 years. Just our luck.
 
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Prongo said:
You know what the f*** is worse than one sick kid, two f***ing sick kids. Gonna be a zombie by tomorrow after already being up at 4am with the 8 month old and now the 3 year old is feeling shitty too.

Kids suck.
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Stay strong!
 
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Dude wtf is going on with this site on mobile? "The active user has changed"?

Is the new AdBlock popup f***ing things up? Best $12 I ever spent
 
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Chicken N Raffls said:
Are the walls breathing constantly? That happened to me earlier, but it seems to have stopped now.
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I had to open every thread and reload to stop it from doing...whatever it was doing. I'd be logged in, open up a thread, be greeted with blinding stark whiteness (i.e. my preferences erased), thedisable AdBlock pop up, then try to log in again with it not working due to "the active user has changed, please reload". Then I'd go back to the main thread list and it would be me logged in again. What

Maybe it was some disconnect between an outdated cache and the new AdBlock thing since I had to whitelist the domain. Who knows. It was annoying though. Seems to have stopped
 
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Heard a podcast on NPR that was equally disconcerting. We're really doing a number on the planet. We are in uncharted territory...


Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink

See also:
news.yahoo.com

Fires, floods, heatwaves. Is the extreme weather from coast to coast 'a new abnormal'?

Floods, fires, extreme heat, awful air quality, warming seas: As extreme weather engulfs the nation, the United States resembles a disaster movie set.
news.yahoo.com news.yahoo.com
 
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DancingPanther said:
I had to open every thread and reload to stop it from doing...whatever it was doing. I'd be logged in, open up a thread, be greeted with blinding stark whiteness (i.e. my preferences erased), thedisable AdBlock pop up, then try to log in again with it not working due to "the active user has changed, please reload". Then I'd go back to the main thread list and it would be me logged in again. What

Maybe it was some disconnect between an outdated cache and the new AdBlock thing since I had to whitelist the domain. Who knows. It was annoying though. Seems to have stopped
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Yea it wasn't that bad for me. Just got those pop ups that close in the frame of your screen going off constantly when I was on earlier tonight. And I do mean constantly.

Also, if there's an ad blocker you or anyone else would recommend I'm all ears. I don't know what half the things you said mean, but that's because I got online in like 2008 when I was 28 lol. Slowly playing catch up ever since.
 
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Chicken N Raffls said:
Yea it wasn't that bad for me. Just got those pop ups that close in the frame of your screen going off constantly when I was on earlier tonight. And I do mean constantly.

Also, if there's an ad blocker you or anyone else would recommend I'm all ears. I don't know what half the things you said mean, but that's because I got online in like 2008 when I was 28 lol. Slowly playing catch up ever since.
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I'm pretty sure I just use ublock origin on my laptop. I don't have an AdBlock on mobile. You need to use specific browsers (generally) for that. I've heard good things about brave.
 
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Embiid said:
Heard a podcast on NPR that was equally disconcerting. We're really doing a number on the planet. We are in uncharted territory...


Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink

See also:
news.yahoo.com

Fires, floods, heatwaves. Is the extreme weather from coast to coast 'a new abnormal'?

Floods, fires, extreme heat, awful air quality, warming seas: As extreme weather engulfs the nation, the United States resembles a disaster movie set.
news.yahoo.com news.yahoo.com
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Yup, we're screwed. And are children, and so on and so on...
 
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Don Nachbaur 26 said:
Yup, we're screwed. And are children, and so on and so on...
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The scary part is that apparently even if we stopped all C02 emissions right now.....we couldn't reverse the new "abnormal" we've created. We've tipped the climate for good..just a matter of limiting and mitigating the fallout going forward. Not much political will to do that as we know.
 
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Lord Defect said:
Which heartless bastards are saying they are not part of the family??
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Ahem, this guy. There is a cat freeloading in my house. I had no choice in this. He's a good looking cat, you think he'd could at least get one of those modeling jobs for cat food ads or something, but no, he just sits around the house all day sleeping.
 
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Embiid said:
The scary part is that apparently even if we stopped all C02 emissions right now.....we couldn't reverse the new "abnormal" we've created. We've tipped the climate for good..just a matter of limiting and mitigating the fallout going forward. Not much political will to do that as we know.
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It is so disconcerting how much climate change denial there is online. The human race has truly passed the point of objective truth and working together towards clear factual ways to better our lives.
 
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Beef Invictus said:
It never occurred to me that with global supply improving and crypto tanking, that Prime Day would have more than deals on SSDs and RAM. With time to budget and prepare I could have massively improved my desktop with some great deals
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That's actually par for the course with Amazon and Prime Day or Black Friday/week type deals. They usually don't have GPU, CPU, or motherboards on deals. Sometimes refurbished stuff thru Amazon Warehouse in short supply, but not really new stuff.

The computer related things that are on deals are usually peripherals, monitors, and then internal components memory and storage. Sometimes the random case as well.
 
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