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

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      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.)

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

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            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.

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

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      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?

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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    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?

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      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

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      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.

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