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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • On Friday, the president sat with hundreds of mining executives and Cabinet members to unveil $3 billion for mineral projects — like graphite, magnets and silicon anode material — citing national security and the nation’s reliance on countries like China for those raw materials. While the focus was often the materials needed for weapons or data centers, those same materials are needed for EV batteries.

    Not directly, and not on purpose. There’s a very good chance that it’ll be an environmental catastophe, too.






  • The effects of these mega-storms are especially challenging in a region more used to disasters caused by the absence of rain. Niger, one of the world’s 10 poorest countries, saw tens of thousands die from famine during the late 20th century droughts. Now, it sees more deaths from floods than droughts. Fierce storms during the 2024 monsoon season inundated the capital, Niamey, and in rural areas washed away more than 150,000 mud-brick homes.

    The extreme rains are causing massive floods that kill a lot of people, but overall it’s probably better to have water.




  • Really, really sounds like trying to make two works of fiction seem like they’re historical in basis.

    I’m pretty sure it’s just a movie, and isn’t trying too hard to make you think it’s historically accurate. I kind of doubt there were giants, cyclopes, witches, lotus flowers that make you forget, and sea monsters. I’m also pretty sure they didn’t speak english back then, but it’d be a little harder to enjoy the movie if you had to read subtitles, which also didn’t exist back then.