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On the Third Sunday of Advent, we light three candles - a perfect occasion to share the oldest preserved candles found north of the Alps.
The candles were made from beeswax around 1,400 years ago. They were found in the early #medieval burial site in Oberflacht. The damp environment preserved them in good condition.
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On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

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weather forecast that says “frostbite in minutes” is not helping me get out of bed


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Ein Bild zeigt den Inhalt eines orangefarbenen Plastikeinkaufskorbs. Der Korb enthält mehrere Verpackungen und ein weißes Küchengerät. Auf der linken Seite befindet sich ein violetter Zylinderbehälter mit einem abnehmbaren Deckel und einer braunen Verpackung. Drei rechteckige orangefarbene Kartons mit der Aufschrift "Knödel" sind auf der rechten Seite aufgereiht. Rechts davon befindet sich ein weißer Wasserkocher. Im unteren Bereich des Korbs befinden sich mehrere braune rechteckige Verpackungen. Die Aufschrift auf den orangefarbenen Kartons lautet "Knödel".

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🌱 Energieverbrauch: 0.101 Wh



PSV, crazy match in the Netherlands with Dennis Man as a starter. The coach of the Romanian player shows indignation byteseu.com/1626627/ #Netherlands


California "still has limited visibility into what data centers are doing. Attempts to require more transparency stalled this year amid tech industry opposition. The only measure that became law gives regulators the authority to determine whether data centers are driving up costs — but stops short of requiring environmental reporting."

latimes.com/california/story/2…

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I wouldn’t say that attempts to require transparency “stalled” - they were vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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@Gerry McGovern It could, and it might make fusion possible and San Jose's energy use trivial, it might solve a protein folding problem that saves you from cancer. It might discover a new profound truth in physics that gives us a way to profoundly alter our reality for the better. But whatever it does in the way of power use, it most likely will do temporarily because there are new faster lower energy technologies such as optical computers just around the corner. The human brain consumes 25% of the bodies calories on average. Why do you suppose that is? It is because the value that intelligence provides more than justifies the energy potential. The same will prove true in society.


#ScribesAndMakers 12/14 Shameless someone else promotion day.

Right now, I'm reading a lot by Kai Butler. (Who is not on Mastodon, alas.)

She writes MM romance, but while there is some spice, it's mostly about the adventure and problems the MCs have to solve.

If you want to start with a stand-alone, I can recommend Smoke and Mirrors. I even wrote a Bookwyrm review for it.

bookwyrm.social/book/2172731/s…

#WritingCommunity
#Reading
#Paranormal




Ritter Sport warnt vor einer „Schokoladenkrise“: Der Kakaopreis hat sich fast verdoppelt, Klimafolgen treffen Tropenprodukte hart – die 100g-Tafel wird teurer, billiger wird’s wohl nicht mehr 🍫📈

Mehr dazu: n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Ritter-Spor…

#RitterSport #Schokolade #Inflation
#Newz

Kaffee, Matcha auch…



Amber warning of rain affecting Wales

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EAM Jaishankar meets Belgium Deputy PM Prevot on sidelines of Sir Bani Yas Forum byteseu.com/1626625/ #Belgium #IndiaBelgiumRelations #India–UAEDiplomacy #InternationalDiplomacy #SJaishankar #SirBaniYasForum


Yellow warning of rain affecting South West England

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RE: mastodon.online/@L0wKey/115717…

perhaps the answer is not an either/or issue but both?

Regulate Big Tech & regulate use?


A social media ban on children is an awful idea that is impossible to implement without dramatically reducing online safety for those same children.

You will never stop people finding ways to communicate, just drive them to less visible, less secure, and less safe ways of doing so.

Regulate the companies, not the users. Castigate billionaires, not teenagers.


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Regulating companies is a horrible idea! It will drive small ones out of business, and fortify the position of american and chinese social media companies, completely wiping out any future european ones.

On top of that, age verification, is just a slippery slope towards more authoritarianism and control of EU and australian citizens.

It amazes me that we're heading towards a soviet style society, and only competent technologists and libertarians see it.

The solution here is twofold:

1. Put the responsibility on the parents.

2. Don't sell smartphones and data enabled cell phone plans two anyone under the age of 16.

In fact, 2 is already the law in most EU countries, so if that law was followed, and if parents were not so stupid as to buy smartphones with data plans to their children, the problem would not even exist.

But there is hope. Very few parents buy cigarettes and alcohol for their childrne, and if they do, there are heavy fines.

So adopting the same measures for parents who buy smartphones to their children should solve the problem pretty quick.

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@h4890

yes, 2. (with the parents' compliance) would be an elegant & easy solution

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Please propose it in your mainstream news column! It would make me feel joy if the UK adopted that solution, successfully, and as a result, it would spread! =)
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What a shame! You are one of the few on the left side of the ideological chasm, I'm actually listening to! That means you have a gift here for bringing people together!
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knowing my teenage grandchildren if such a ban happened here they would develop a local social page running on their PC. It will happen . Just think how Facebook started



CFL to launch direct Luxembourg-Libramont service from 14 December byteseu.com/1626623/ #Luxembourg



Zu #vergänglich in der #52wochenfotochallenge von @norberteder@graz.social passt ein #LostPlace, das direkt hinter dem Elbdeich bei uns in der Nähe steht. Der Deich soll in den nächsten Jahrzehnten um circa einen Meter wachsen, weswegen sich die Stadt durch Vorkaufsrecht viele Häuser sichert. Dieses muss wohl auch bald weichen...