When the drought comes, the crop (grain) harvest is already over.
But of course it cuts into farmers profits that would like to plant salad or similar after the grain harvest.

Also, the drought is on the surface. Very bad for forests. Not only because of the simple fact of missing water, but fires an beetles living under the bark of trees.

However we have a good ground water plate, which gets replenished every autumn/winter. So pumping water for irrigation is nearly no where a problem.

I do not know about wine, though.

Around 37C in August is normal. Especially for a city like Karlsruhe.
The problem is: it does not cool down at night.
And the real problem is: the peak temperatures are 42 - 44 and that is damn hot, and that is not normal!

I lived in Karlsruhe for ages, now I am in Frankfurt, and as soon as possible I am back in Thailand.
Frankfurt "feels" a bit colder than Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe has the drawback that everything around it used to be swamps. And you still have the humidity from it. And the river is quite a bit away.
In Frankfurt one river goes straight through the city, and the other one is at the edge.

Germany is quickly becoming unbearable for me.

several of which China controls 90-100% of WORLD supply.
That is wrong.

China has huge reserves, that is all.

China is dominating because other countries deliver their ore to China, to let it get refined there.
That most countries do not produce much rare earths: is a home made problem.

There is nothing particular costly in setting up a mine for example for Lithium.

In Germany some energy companies, working on geothermal energy, simultaneously mine Lithium from the hot water.

Gallium is a side product of Aluminium and Zinc and a few other elements (more precisely their ores/minerals),

It is not surprising that the biggest producer of Aluminum is also the biggest producer of Gallium.

If you need Gallium and can not get it, buy USB power adaptors from Lazada, Temu or Alibaba. Simple.

American dumbfuck ... was moved to CHINA where they had CHEAP labor. Not only that, the workers can't demand higher wages, unions like they did in America.
China is full with unions. They have nearly 2 million trade unions organized under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Stupid China haters ...

Arch d'Trumph. Lol

Being against China is racist. For the lack of a better word.
After all it is full with Chinese people who you hate for some idiotic reason.

Yes, list some reasons why it is not fair.
Because I have no idea. But I am interested in your oppinion.

That is nonsense.

Education of an Astronaut costs astronomical amounts of money.

This is likely the proceedings with the paper:

https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/epd...

It appears the ACM PDF reader loaded an 850MB PDF into my phone's browser and has been stuck doing a search on "beam steering" for ten minutes.

No joke, I read ACM papers on information retrieval and human computer action three decades ago and this is just hostile design.

I'll try again on my desktop at home tomorrow but maybe somebody can extract the paper before then.

And, yeah, as others have said this is old (November 2025) but it would be handy to have integrated with my Home Assistant. Much better than setting up ESP-32's with 26Ghz radars in each room.

I would bet $5 you are right.

Courts love Parallel Construction.

These missiles are known for evading Patriot PAC-3's with non-ballistic maneuvering.

That's at least part of what needs CPU. However a $6 233MHz ESP-32 could handle those calculations.

Those nVidia boards are often used for home video boxes, including transcoding. It's possible this was just a video uplink component.

Reportedly the Tomahawks used in the Minab Massacre were video-guided and did fly-arounds to time the double-tap and experimental use of thermobaric detonation of unspent fuel to incinerate the surviving girls and responding parents.

We should worry more about bringing those people to Justice than whatever Russia is doing.

Their finances have been widely covered in the news.

Their IT Lead is making ~$180K.

Their interest income alone was $500K.

They didn't have a local copy strategically, not for a lack of $5K.

Cloud backup is just another backup, not primary storage, if you care about your data.

Some of us have online, nearline, offline, offsite, and multiple cloud backups with much smaller budgets.

That's for people who care about their data (including the bean counters).

Many IT folks (most?) have had to "I told you so" after a bean counter said no to a small spend. I wouldn't assume the IT department is incompetent without evidence.

You are right, Mainz is 50 latitude. No idea why I made mistake there.
There is a bronze/brass marker on the road where the latitude goes.

You are right about Rome, too. it is 42. NYC is 48. I mixed that up.

The Summer in Sweden is much longer than in the US.
Because: it is far more north.

About the cat kills, no idea. For me the numbers seem not plausible. Not much to discuss about that. No reason to make a "who is right" game about it.

Interesting! Thank you!