I had to disable the body background-color with the web inspector to see any of the animal heads!

You can also drag the images. At least Firefox will put a white background on the dragged thumbnail.

The Basques were whalers. They started from the coast, using watch towers. Once the Bay of Biscay was depleted they moved further and further into the Atlantic.

Whale meat was mediocre and didn't preserve well, and while whale bone (baleen) is useful enough, but the real target was whale oil, the best lubricant and fuel for lighting.

All of this is from The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich. (Highly recommended (even to myself – I reread it within a year).

> the real target was whale oil, the best lubricant

and it was used that way until the second half of the 20th century

Right around when the decopods showed up and the whale went extinct....

Wait, sorry.....that was anchovies

Do you want to use RCS?

No, bot really. Simple sms would do.

Can it send SMS ?

Wildfire smoke will be the big question there. It's started to be bad for a week or two a year in Minneapolis, and is only worse the closer you are to the boreal forest.

And the failure of basic services like water and power.

Given it took FEMA ten days to get power restored to the super dome, how long will responses be when there are many simultaneous disasters of that size or bigger? With the current admin the answer could be “indefinite”

Wildfires only a problem until the overgrowth is burned off. When there's not enough to sustain a large spreading fire, they will stop happening.

There is a LOT of overgrowth. Expect a decade+ of fires, or an apocalyptic firestorm which burns everything to cinders. Neither is awesome.

Climate change is defined by both wet and dry extremes.

Excess rainfall creates an explosion of brush that during the now annual drought turns to tinder.

Then come the floods because the roots were holding all the soil in place and the soil was managing water movement. What used to be an all year trickle becomes an occasional deatructive deluge.

True, but disingenuous, as "over" growth implies a normative cap, but climate change just is moving the cap lower. The ceiling is falling: more and more growth, in every biome, counts as overgrowth.

Eventually only desert remains viable, and everything above it, including arability, is locked away forever.

canada's forest is growing, not shrinking. the overgrowth will keep growing year over year

Next gen of the Razr Ultra at least, according to another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363702

And related to what happened in Ceuta recently. "The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali, whose nation Morocco claims for itself, into the country for medical treatment." https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ceuta-spain-morocco-...

Oh, I forgot about that, but had seen that in the news as well.

It’s kind of weird that this area that I was only aware of because I like studying maps has popped up a whole bunch in the last few weeks.

Agreed. If they really want to get ahold of me they'll leave a voicemail.

But I feel like I have to answer when my son is at school/camp.

The scams do leave voicemails now, and they use voice genAI per the parent comment.

If someone really wants to get a hold of you, they can knock on your door.

Like I ever answer my door lol. But they can leave something in the mailbox, and I'll at least see the envelope in 1-30 days.

Last week I finally had an onslaught of spam voicemails, several in an hour, that caused me to disable voicemail notifications altogether. I'll just check them when I'm expecting something now, similar to mail. My phone app was successfully filtering the calls so I wouldn't see them, but it still got routed to voicemail which then created a notification.

Disable! Voicemails are nothing. If something is important it's delivered via text/app or email.

Voice stuff is just narcissists trying to get their way.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-a...

I prefer the Firefox PDF viewer personally, and now that it can do all this I uninstalled the default Ubuntu PDF reader recently. It made me think and I uninstalled the image viewer app too. For both I'd rather use Firefox.

Was your bookshelf stained from sliding them out? Ours was all red on the bottom edge.

Maybe! I'm red-green colorblind and the shelf was stained dark, so I wouldn't have noticed. :)