This article is a year old, but even in the US farmers are taking advantage of the shortages caused by the war.
Local (Ohio) farmers near us have planted wheat for the first time in at least 20 years instead of the usually soy/corn yearly summer rotation. It's weird enough to see wheat in the fields that something must be driving it.
I found out last year my parents have no pension or savings. They are both over 60. It really stressed me out but my siblings seemed to have no issues. I was so glad that my mum pulled me aside a month later to tell me she had secrets saving stashed for them but it’s bizarre that up until then I heard no complaints from anyone else in my family.
Have to think, these people don’t have moral codes like you or I, so trying to find the logic in morality isn’t going to get you anywhere.
Now that we’re past the obstacle of morality, we can get to the meat of it:
Hospitals have valuable data and a lot of essential systems. The users of those systems would pay a lot to keep it functional and accessible.
They have massive attack surface. There’s so many vulnerable points in a hospital that one could imagine, with a few insights, a few attack vectors just walking around one and being observant.
The staff often aren’t educated in proper practices, the dos and don’ts of infosec, and are also often overworked and very tired. This leaves them vulnerable to phishing attacks, tailgating, you name it. Trained about tailgating? A lot of them use RFID cards to access specific areas, and cloning those is trivial.
TL;DR hospitals are valuable and (sadly) easy targets.
Information to ransom, among other things that sebinspace said.
HIV diagnosis? STD diagnosis? Someone on hormones for gender-affirmijg purposes? Abortions? In places where these may or may not be legal or safe for such knowledge to be public, victims aren’t likely to think twice before panicking and paying up to not have their data leaked.
As a frequent customer of CFA, I’ve quite often seen teens and young adults with various “unatural” colors in their hair. But it looks like the policy was “misinterpreted by the operator” and she was able to come back without changing her hair color.
While it is the southern hemisphere, almost all of the heat zone area shown here is within the tropics. The tropics do not have winter and summer as seasons.
There are four seasons in most of the country: summer (December to February), autumn (March to May), winter (June to August), and spring (September to November).
The tropics and the rain forest are not thw same thing.
Chile, Argentina, and the southern portion of Brazil are not in the tropics of anything. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and the Guyanas are partly in the tropics.
Yes, they fucking are. For reference, here’s a picture of where the tropics end, note how the Tropic of Capricorn is south of the vast majority of the high heat area in the image.
Not usually. It happens every year! And also, that’s true only in the center and north. In the southeast and south it gets also way colder in winter. Not snow cold, but like 5°C or a bit less in some extreme occasions.
The Moon thing does make sense. But I genuinely thought Earth’s orbit had more eccentricity than that, and didn’t know the rotational axis was that skewed.
Space is cool shit. Want to really get a new perspective?
So, obviously we’re on earth. The moon goes around the earth, and earth goes around the sun, right?
All the planets and the astroid belts, all moving around the sun. That’s our solar system.
Pretty cut and dry. But it goes further than that. Our solar system doesn’t stay in one place. The entire thing, us the planets moons the sun, everything is going around the center of the galaxy too. We’re blasting through space right now.
So you’re standing/sitting on a planet that’s spinning. While it’s spinning it’s traveling around the sun. While we’re traveling around the sun the sun itself is traveling around the galaxy dragging us with it.
And then of course the galaxy isn’t stationary either. Other galaxies and clusters of galaxies are pulling it along too.
Yeah, and on top of that, our galaxy is probably yeeting through space at some ungodly velocities around the Local Group.
And on top of that, the Local Group is getting yeeted away from all the other galactic clusters in the (observable) universe at a speed that is, technically, faster than light.
I used to work in social services and a suburban Philly county got attacked. I had to delay services to people with disabilities because funding couldn’t come through. These people are disgusting.
Not saying these hackers are good in the least. But the sheer lack of basic security in a lot of hospitals and health services is enough to piss you off. Maybe THIS incident will encourage them to make some improvements.
I feel bad for the poor nerd who draws the short straw and has to teach a class of doctors basic IT security practices. Going to have to rent out a football stadium in order to make room for their egos.
This is in part due to the fact that regulating pollutants put out by cargo ships (who in the past used the cheapest, dirtiest fuels) has led to a decrease in clouds known as ‘ship tracks’. These are real clouds seeded by pollutants from cargo ship emissions, and now that we’ve cut down on their dirty, toxic emissions (which is a good thing!), we’ve also cut down on those ship track clouds that were helping keep light and heat from hitting the ocean and warming it up.
We’ve been geo-engineering with carbon emissions, we were unknowingly geo-engineering by seeding clouds with cargo ships, and now we need to figure out how to engineer our way out of this mess. Generating clouds with inert seed material like salt from the ocean might be part of that solution.
It’s the middle of winter in South America, but that hasn’t kept the heat away in Chile, Argentina and surrounding locations. Multiple spells of oddly hot weather have roasted the region in recent weeks. The latest spell early this week has become the most intense, pushing the mercury above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while setting an August record for Chile.
In Buenos Aires, where the average high on Aug. 1 is 58 degrees (14 Celsius), it surpassed 86 (30 Celsius) on Tuesday.
“South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen,” weather historian Maximiliano Herrera tweeted, adding, “This event is rewriting all climatic books.”
The most extreme conditions have occurred in the southern half of the continent, and particularly in the Andes Mountains region.
Temperatures Tuesday rose past 95 degrees (35 Celsius) in numerous locations, including at elevations of about 3,500 to 4,500 feet in the Andes foothills. In some cases, the temperature crested above 100 degrees (38 Celsius) after leaping from morning lows in the 30s and 40s (single-digits Celsius).
Some places have even reached all-time maximums — surpassing summer temperatures, even though it is winter. This has occurred in locations with 20 to 30 years of climate data available, showing how exceptional this heat is compared with recent decades.
Like many other portions of the globe, record heat has visited parts of South America repeatedly in recent weeks. The big difference from its northern neighbors is that it’s winter there.
Parts of Brazil began to bake in mid-July, establishing record highs for the month as temperatures rose to at least 100 degrees (upper 30s Celsius). There was another spell of unusual heat during the third week of the month, which brought a slew of July records to Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
A powerful zone of high pressure, or heat dome, centered over Paraguay is dominating the weather. It extends east to west across the south-central part of the continent.
August in the Southern Hemisphere is equivalent to February in the Northern Hemisphere. It shouldn’t be hot, let alone scorching.
Weather historian Thierry Goose tweeted that this was an “extraordinary winter heatwave” for Chile as the temperature climbed to 101.7 degrees (38.7 Celsius), a national record for August.
Vicuña and Chiguinto in the central part of Chile, about 230 and 320 miles north of Santiago, respectively, both reached that mark Tuesday.
Temperatures in the afternoon reached 4o to 45 degrees above normal (22 to 25 Celsius) for the date, and in some cases a bit more. Overnight lows have been exceptionally warm as well, ranging from above freezing in the mountains to as high as the 70s (mid-20s Celsius) in lower elevations.
The Prospect hack is the 157th cyberattack on a U.S. health care organization this year, said Allan Liska, a ransomware analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Liska said it is also the largest since October 2021, when a ransomware attack prompted CommonSpirit Health, a chain of more than 140 hospitals, to temporarily halt computer operations across the country.
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