Without looking for sources - so I could be totally wrong - I believe that it did darken proportionately and that light meters would register that. However, human eyes are not light meters and adjust to the dimmer light without you knowing.

I don’t know whether it was you, but I have responded to this same question on Lemmy before.

Yes. We had a coal fire when I was growing up - in the 60s and 70s -, so it was an everyday thing during the winters.

That links to an earlier report that mentions the warning on the Icelandic Meteorological Office website - and it is there., so it looks like part of the job of meteorologist in Iceland is indeed to issue larva warning - and I notice that earthquakes feature on that page too.

“customers weren’t willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels.” says CEO of company that made $36 billion in profits last year.

There was that time when I took my watch off and lost that - then found it behind something in the fridge a couple of weeks later.

This one is ok

Novel - Corey’s The Mercy of Gods

Movies - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Dune, part 2, Mickey 17 (this one particularly since it isn’t part of an existing franchise or a remake or whatever).

TV - Severance season 2, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, Strange New Worlds season 3 if it drops in 2024.

This article is from 2009, of course.

Yes, we covered that in English classes the UK back in the '70s.

No. Perhaps because when I get paid to write about science, I don’t use grammar like that.

If they do, it is probably to avoid grammar like ‘off of’.

Been using QBittorrent for longer than I can remember now. It certainly does everything I have ever wanted from it.

even more advanced than our own.

I don’t know what to say about that.

Maybe its time to take a jackhammer to major freeways instead.

Reclaim the streets did that on the Westway in London at a demo that I was at back in the '90s. They hid all the gear under gigantic carnival costumes and planted trees in the holes. You couldn’t hear the jackhammers due to the sound system.

It was a great party - and it wasn’t the only time - but that didn’t work either.

How about we start disrupting oil HQs and distribution centers?

It’s a bit late to start it:

Just Stop Oil protests: Terminal operations suspended and arrests made

And - although I have not been involved with JSO, I was locking on to fuel stations a couple of decades ago, with Greenpeace.

So far that hasn’t done the trick though.

There have been studies on this kind of thing. I don’t have the links to hand, but the upshot from the ones that I have seen IIRC is that it doesn’t generally cause many people to actually change their views from positive to negative or vice versa, but it does keep the issue in the news.

Of course, in the wider perspective, no protests of this kind are ever going to work alone, but then that’s not the idea. They are never going to be happening alone either: there are always going to legal challenges, political movements, consumer pressure, boycotts and so on and so on alongside. The question is, which ones drive which others? Which wouldn’t happen without the others?

It is very clearly about publicity. You can’t get any message across unless you get someone’s attention in the first place.

In this case, they are playing on the link back to the suffragettes.

It is the Federation’s we do not discuss it with outsiders thing. It confuses time travelling Klingons.

The Romans had an impact to a greater or lesser degree across the whole of the area that they controlled in Great Britain, including Cornwall and Wales, but the Brythonic (Celtic) culture seems to survive for most ordinary people throughout that time. It was really only the arrival of the Germanic peoples - the Angles and Saxons - that seemed to displace the Brythonic language and culture from much of the lands that they went on to occupy, which was largely the land that was easier to work in the majority of England, but not the more difficult land in the West and North - including Cornwall and Wales.

Around that time, there is evidence that some Brythonic speakers were moving into Wales - presumably from England - causing changes to the existing dialects there, also some Britons seem to have migrated to Brittany on the continent, and there was an outbreak of plague that affected much of the Roman lands and caused a population decline there - but less so among the Germanic people.

No matter which had more effect, it was the Germanic people and culture that displaced the existing one - not the Romans.

I am working through the Muderbot diaries - just finishing Exit Strategy at the moment. They are easy and enjoyable reading, but i might take a break before Network Effect though, since they are a little same-y, and maybe dive into the Hyperion Cantos, or perhaps back to Adrian Tchaikovsky’ and Children of Ruin. I have a week of holiday coming up, so hope to have a fair bit of reading time.