Posts tagged “glaciers”

• Who doesn’t love making paper airplanes? – via cassidoo
• A “secret study” revealed that as the Florida insurance market was allegedly “failing” and companies were “losing money”, executives distributed $680M in dividends to shareholders while diverting billions more to affiliate companies, while Ron DeSantis focused on legal reforms making it harder to sue insurers.
• The world’s best chess players burn more calories during a match than NBA players like Steph Curry do in a game. – via Links You’ll Love
• Media
  • I am irrationally excited for the Andor season two premier on April 22, 2025.
  • So far White Lotus S3 has been just as great as the first two seasons.
  • I thought Kristen Bell did a fine job hosting the SAG Awards, but – as much as I love and respect Martin Short – Harrison Ford deserved the Best Actor in a Comedy Series win for his performance in Shrinking.
  • Believe the hype. Flow is a phenomenal movie.
• Good News for People Who Love Bad News:
  • Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, with 7 trillion tons lost since 2000.
  • Flu hospitalizations this year have already surpassed the last “very bad” flu season in 2017-2018.
  • There’s a real-time Project 2025 Tracker that allows you to see just how much of the nefarious plot to destroy the United States has been successful.

Newly published study says now inevitable that ~3% of Greenland ice sheet will melt due to climate change, triggering global sea-levels to rise a foot, an outcome we couldn’t avoid at this point even if world stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today.