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Once upon a time, Hansel and Gretel were walking through the woods when they met a Sleeping Beauty called Snow White. As they tried to wake Beauty, a naked Emperor walked in screaming "Off with his head" before a Big Bad Wolf started huffing and puffing.

Yahoo news silently changes the URL in your address bar as you scroll.

Scroll down and the link changes to https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-humiliated-u-n-speech-172143... which is the DailyBeast page embedded on Yahoo News.

Not sure how that translated to the direct DailyBeast link, but Yahoo changing the URL as you scroll is an "unusual" user-experience choice!

Possibly meant to be this link?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/giant-helium-balloon-lifts-two-120...

The current link goes to an article about a UN speech, which is unrelated to the title.

At sea level (or more precisely, at an atmospheric pressure of 101325Pa).

The cassowary is here and alive today, but you wouldn't want of them in your backyard!

More like impotent. They attempted to take action, but were stymied by Matt's voting power.

TLDR: PEPFAR – a health initiative combatting HIV/AIDS.

He controls roughly 84% of the share-stakeholder votes.

I quit and taught outdoor activities (sailing, scuba-diving, etc) for a while.

It was a nice break. I came back to IT to be able to afford a house and a comfortable lifestyle.

I'll probably go back to outdoor activities when financial constraints are easier to let loose.

  > "Is AI a bubble?"

Exhibit A: "AI control keys for developers"

Would Dynamic DNS be an option?

TLDR: The "Cornucopia" has the least amount of splashback, however the "Nautilus" is the recommendation of choice, to accommodate ease of cleaning and variations in the height of the user.

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/80987...

  > "Actually, they all seem solely interested in THEIR future"

FTFY

  > "Can't imagine why"

"There's no point banning it, it's easy to make – let me show you. Hold my beer."

Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484912

For lower concentrations (< 50%) HF burns aren't always immediately visible (and often not immediately painful), which can delay treatment as people may assume it's not serious.

Other "sources" (using the word loosely as their provenance is unclear)

  > "based on the information available, this was a localized issue with only one student directly exposed. Their reported use of dimethyl mercury was unauthorized. MIT does not allow the purchase or synthesis of dimethyl mercury." [1]

Karen Wetterhahn's exposure and death [3] is a cautionary tale of the extreme toxicity of dimethyl mercury, and was instrumental in new safety recommendations, including strongly discouraging the use of dimethyl mercury for any purpose.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1w12gb9/dimethyl_mercu...

[2] https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/hazmat-crews-respond-to...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

In the UK, purchases made with a credit card are much more protected than a debit card.

If the supplier goes out of business / fails to deliver, the bank/credit card company is equally liable. A Section 75 claim is allowed for purchases between £100 and £30,000.

https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/consumers/complaints-...

It's already happening: Swiss and French Alps, Italian Alps, Dolomites…

Marmolada glacier collapse, Italian Dolomites (2022)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/within-five-mi...

https://www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-italy-canazei...

Village buried, Blatten, Switzerland (2025)

https://planetski.eu/2025/05/29/swiss-village-hit-by-landsli...

Evacuations after rockfall (2025)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/30/rockfalls-ital...

Evacuations, mudslides, bridge destroyed (2026 – last week)

https://italien.news/en/chronicle/severe-weather-hits-northe...

Village threatened, Kandersteg Switzerland (2026 – last week)

https://planetski.eu/2026/08/19/monitoring-continues-on-moun...