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What do they think a collapse is supposed to look like? It seems people just cannot just cannot get past the "Zombie Apocalypse" theory of collapse. They imagine hordes of disease-ridden folks dressed in rags stumbling around and fighting over cans of petrol and stripping cans of food from shelves. That's not what collapse looks like. It never has been. In fact, there's very little evidence that a Zombie Apocalypse style collapse ever occurred in the historical record. Instead we see subtle patterns of abandonment and decay that unfold over long periods of time. Big projects stop. Population thins. Trade routes shrink and people revert to barter. Things get simpler and more local. Culture coarsens. High art stagnates. People disperse. Expectations are adjusted downward. Investments are no longer made in the future and previous investments are cannibalized just to maintain the status quo. Extend and pretend is hardly a recent invention.

In July, the city of Sacramento, California, planned to move people from shaded public spaces to Miller Park, a paved lot without any shade. Arguing that this would knowingly endanger their health and lives, the Sacramento Homeless Union filed a legal complaint, much as it did last summer and at the height of the pandemic. The complaint was successful, and U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley issued an order on Aug. 3 to halt all encampment sweeps until mid-August.

When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.

W skrócie – chodzi o „kontrolowane wypożyczanie” e-booków przez serwis Internet Archive. Założenie jest takie, że jeśli w bibliotece mamy egzemplarz papierowy, można zamiast niego wypożyczać wersję cyfrową – tyle sztuk, ile mamy egzemplarzy.

Jest to koncepcja kontrowersyjna, ale działała przez parę lat, jest również testowana w innych krajach.

Były prezydent Donald Trump po raz czwarty usłyszał zarzuty - tym razem w stanie Georgia. Chodzi o próbę odwrócenia wyniku wyborów z 2020 roku

One YouTube user has spotted this new timer in the top right corner of the popup, with the individual later sharing the screenshot on Reddit. Another user in the comments reports seeing this popup as well, so it could appear to more customers in the days ahead. While the duration of this timer isn't revealed, we expect it to be somewhere around 30 to 60 seconds. The rest of the accompanying text within the box is unchanged from YouTube's initial experiment, with bullet points listing the benefits of subscribing to Premium, while the options to Allow YouTube Ads and Try YouTube Premium are also present.

It's difficult now to remember a time when the Switch eShop wasn't rammed with low-cost, low-quality games making it laborious to find the great new releases amongst all the dross. What began as an immaculately clean, functional store back in 2017 quickly ballooned and before long Nintendo was inundated with software submissions vying for visibility on a crowded digital marketplace. Inevitably, these included titles from less-than-scrupulous developers and publishers looking to make a quick buck.

The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.

To bring Barbie Land to eye-popping life in a unique shade of pink, Gerwig and her team created a new way to implement a process that hasn't been used since the '50s.

In her notebooks, Rand makes a hero of both Hickman and the fictional Renahan, who murders a church pastor instead of a child, and extols the killers’ beautiful souls, which rise and set without a trace of “social instinct or herd feeling.” Of Hickman she writes, “A strong man can eventually trample society under his feet … That boy was not strong enough.” Meanwhile, Renahan “does not understand,” she writes quite rapturously, “because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people.”

But if “Musk says” posts are going to exist, they ought to be much more skeptical than the ones we’ve seen lately. For starters, assume that anything he says about a prospective fight with Zuckerberg isn’t true unless Zuckerberg or Meta confirm it.

Wychodząc z Unii Europejskiej Wielka Brytania chciała odbudować swoją imperialną potęgę i znów stać się jednym ze światowych mocarstw. 3,5 roku po opuszczeniu Wspólnoty po wytęsknionej świetności nie ma jednak śladu, natomiast problemy, zwłaszcza dla brytyjskiej gospodarki, piętrzą się lawinowo. - Brexit najmocniej odbił się na kosztach życia - mówi Interii Kaja, Polka mieszkająca od kilku lat w Zjednoczonym Królestwie. - Pod względem cen w Wielkiej Brytanii jest masakra - dodaje.