Sold-out Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.Breakfast Link
Stories
- Dungeons & Dragons Proving an Effective Form of Group Therapy, Experts Say - Extremetech.
- Richmond is now home to the world's largest indoor vertical berry farm - Axios Richmond.
- Man steals vehicle to make it to court over another stolen vehicle - KOCO News. The double-down era in full effect. Thanks Boing Boing.
Science
- Tiny brain, big deal- fruit fly diagram could transform neuroscience - Neuroscience - The Guardian.
- Will Water Save You From a Hangover? Science Says Probably Not. - ScienceAlert.
- NASA is working on a plan to replace its space station, but time is running out - Ars Technica.
Media
Follow-ups
- Hurricane Helene death toll rises to 189, making it deadliest storm to hit mainland US since Katrina - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham.
- Bird Flu Fears Stoke the Race for an mRNA Flu Vaccine - WIRED (may require registration or subscription).
- Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Sets World Premiere at Camerimage Festival - Variety.
The Funnies
- Rings of Power - Sheldon Comic Strip. Thanks The Flying Penguin.
The Flying Penguin wrote on Oct 4, 2024, 13:18:Blasphemy! Not at the top?!
... with a list of links to all my daily news sites (Blues being near the top)...
Cutter wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 16:04:
Those guys are already hella rich I'm always curious as to why they would do something like that when sales over the life of their copyright would likely make them - and their descendants - far more money in the long run. Elvis made way more money dead than alive.
bjack wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 21:36:Right. But when you live in a valley between mountains, where do you think the water is going to go? I find it difficult to believe places like this haven't always been trouble spots for flooding. Hence my confusion as to why more people don't have insurance. This certainly isn't the first time hearing about bad flooding in the eastern mountainous part of the US. The big difference here is how wide spread it is simply due to the size of the storm. But a good rain storm in any of these places will cause a problem.
Yeah this area is not near the coast, and is next to mountains. Believed to be a "climate haven" but that has now changed.
1badmf wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 22:20:
a miracle that a cell tower survived that wet hell. your sister is a hero (i hate using that word but she is) for going out to help her community. a lot of people would nail the doors shut and just look after their own.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 19:39:
My sister was able to get some video to me today of the devastation in her small mountain town in NC. There are no words. Places I have been to, sat down and ate in, or walked around in are just gone as if they had never been. Like the earth had been scraped clean. My parents' little town here in Texas dealt with Harvey parking over the top of them and dumping feet of rain, flooding out their town, and causing massive flooding but nothing like the devastation that my sister is living through. It's surreal.
My nephew's biggest complaint? He can't connect to my Plex server. Outside of that, he's having a ball. No school for at least another week at the earliest.
She's been volunteering with a local SnR group because she knows those mountains like the back of her hands. The things they've been finding are both grotesque and enormously tragic. She's like me in that she's level and stoic and even she was getting choked up describing them to me.
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 19:49:
I was just reading that something like only 2%-6% of the people affected by the floods from Helene have flood insurance. Apparently it was a consensus opinion it wasn't needed in those locations. So, if your house washed away and you don't have flood insurance. Tough luck. The max you can get from FEMA for home damage is just over $42k, and not many people manage to get that much.
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 19:49:
I was just reading that something like only 2%-6% of the people affected by the floods from Helene have flood insurance. Apparently it was a consensus opinion it wasn't needed in those locations. So, if your house washed away and you don't have flood insurance. Tough luck. The max you can get from FEMA for home damage is just over $42k, and not many people manage to get that much.
Jivaro wrote on Oct 3, 2024, 12:47:I solved that problem a couple of decades ago by making my home page "about:blank" -- seriously been that for at least 20 years.
I am making Blue's News the homepage for my browser at least until the election is over.