Damage the day after a deadly #tornado struck Greenfield, #Iowa, U.S., May 22. REUTERS/Scott Morgan

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Ten million new cases of dementia are reported globally each year. But a recent study suggests up to 13 percent of people diagnosed with dementia in the U.S. may have a misdiagnosis and are instead struggling with a condition called hepatic encephalopathy. The upside: it’s treatable. @ScienceAlert has more.

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#Science #Health #Humans #Neurology #Brain

A woman reflected in a mirror looks at the damage after #landslides caused by rains that buried houses and left fatalities, in Achocalla, #Bolivia, February 17. REUTERS/Claudia Morales

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A drone view shows #CocaCola boxes and bottles floating in the water outside a bottling facility amid #flooding in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, #Brazil, May 19. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

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FREE Syria!

"We have had many positive signs come out of Syria since the overthrow of the Bashar Al-Assad regime, along with his friends Russia and Iran.

Aure Free Press will be there to document and follow their new government, headed by past members of the HTS group, among others.

If not for Ukraine's degradation of Russia's military the past 3 years, none of this would have been possible."
- Aure

SLAVA UKRAINI | FREE SYRIA
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews

Nearly 70 petrochemical companies across the nation,
including 30 in Texas,
are sending millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year
due to weak or nonexistent regulations,
according to a report published by the watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project.

The report analyzed wastewater discharges from petrochemical companies that produce plastics across the U.S,
finding that a majority of the facilities had violated Clean Water Act permits
and few were punished.

In addition, only a few states are regulating some of the hazardous chemicals or substances of concern,
and there are currently no limits set from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for these contaminants in effluent water guidelines for the plastics industry.
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Daniel has a sudden realisation: "WE can have a brat summer!"

This is from our latest episode with @grammargirl.bsky.social Mignon Fogarty and all the patrons in chat. So much fun!
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A drone view shows a car driving through a flooded street after Hurricane Milton made landfall in South Daytona, #Florida, U.S., October 11. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo

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#flood

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When you order your morning coffee, you want to know that your barista is paid a fair wage. But Starbucks isn’t just short-changing their baristas — they’re also stalling negotiations and union-busting. Starbucks Workers United: We’ve got your back. …

Flames rise as a #wildfire burns next to the village of Ano Loutro, near Corinth, #Greece, September 29. REUTERS/Vassilis Psomas

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - The Making of the Classic Film is an upcoming book by @titanbooks (September 2025).

And given how great the first two books devoted to this movie series were, I'm glad these films are getting such a treatment four decades later.

Residents sift through the rubble as they recover their belongings after the Nairobi river burst its banks and destroyed their homes within the Mathare Valley settlement in Nairobi, #Kenya, April 25. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

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#flood

A drone view shows boats stranded on the Rio Negro as the river reached its lowest point in its history during the most intense and widespread #drought the country has experienced since records began in 1950, in Manaus, Amazonas state, #Brazil, October 4. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

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#rivers

HELP ME, MASTO-NERD KENOBI!

My dual-boot #Ubuntu system was running fine until, I think, the last Ubuntu update.

Normal boot: black screen on one monitor (with an occasional graphical X at the lower right), somehow even less on the other.

Safe mode ("Linux 6.8.0-51-generic"): fine, but when I try to continue to a normal boot, I just get a blinking underscore at upper left.

I've tried a few variations of "reinstall the nvidia drivers" that I found online, but nothing seems to help.

#linux

A general view of Kaweni, in the aftermath of #Cyclone Chido, in #Mayotte, France, December 18. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

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Events for the 22nd of December from Wikipedia:

• 1944: World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o…
• Birth (1957) of Peter Mortimer, Australian rugby league player en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mo…
#history #events #historical #today @histodons