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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Facebook launched an anonymous chat room app this week, which allows you to talk about just about anything and no one will ever know it’s you.
Spotify’s announced a new service which lets premium users add five separate accounts to their monthly bill so they can split it between friends or family. Thousands of future family arguments avoided.
If your dog suffers from anxiety (don’t scoff, pet skeptics it’s a real thing), this iPod for dogs is just the thing. According to Mashable, the device plays music that is specifically designed to soothe nervous pooches.
If this actually works, we have to have one. Chinese designers have invented an umbrella which uses a”force field of air” to keep rain off you, Buzzfeed reports. The people walking beside you probably wouldn’t be too happy about it though…
Internet security is everything now, especially in light of recent high profile leaks of user data. With that in mind, this week Google introduced a new tool to be used in two-step verification for Gmail – an actual physical key.
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“To put it mildly, neither event inspires confidence for the future of our planet, or our species.”
What young Carl here fails to realise is that the planet will be just fine. It will adapt to whatever happens. It was around long before us and will be around long after us.
It’s us as a species which is endangered, not the planet. Millions of years ago, the planet was covered mostly in water save for a few volcanoes and had an atmosphere of mostly methane. But it was still earth, and it will still be earth when we’re gone.
@JedBartlett: yep, the planet will be just fine, we’re banjaxed at our own hands. The Planet and its biodiversity will do much better without us….
Man- made Climate change poses as much of an existential threat to us as Covid. Keep the fear and hyperbole going . After you drink your soya latte, you should look at the actual data and spend a day in the bog.
@Alan O’ Reilly: do you get your ‘data’ from Fox News or do you so your ‘research’ on YouTube? Clown.
@Bríann O Connor: Fair play to you Briann, you’ve put me in my place with your extremely witty response. I’m going to get a BLM tattoo on my way back from getting my booster. #followthe science
@Alan O’ Reilly: well it’s clear you tick a few very unsavoury boxes of thinking.
@Alan O’ Reilly: The bogs are nearly gone now
@Alan O’ Reilly: The actual data is pretty grim for both of those threats. But I’m sure you’ll prefer some comforting fable that they aren’t.
noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/climate/climate-change-impacts
ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Absolute non-article.
People made climate change is partially responsible for the state of affairs we are in. Wildfires have always existed. Glacial melt has always existed. All we have done is just speed up the process a little.
Sure didn’t they find camp fires in parts of the North Sea known as Doggerland which was submerged thousands of years ago.
Who’s gonna tell you when it’s too late
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
What are ye on about?
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Absolute non-article, written by someone who was born yesterday.
No argument with the overall tenor of the piece, but if you watched the mass burials on Hart Island in March 2020 you might think this was equally apocalyptic.
What about Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic?
Sorry to be pedantic but Reeling in the Years 2023 will never have “everybodys gotta learn sometime” played. The playlist is compiled from music released in said year. Pick a song from this year so far matching your narrative and edit!
@gary Merring please delete the repeats of the comments…nothing worse.
As for the article, I agree with @jedbartlett
Great article
Insane stuff altogether, even Greta in her wildest tantrum wouldn’t come up with something as deranged as this.
“entirely pointless and bloodthirsty invasion of Ukraine in February of last year”, this is just crude blatant propaganda.
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
Compare this statement to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when peoples lives were lost in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Please delete this article.
Just a heads up. The housing crisis would be more apt to write about
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
What are ye on?
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Our sense of self importance withers in the face of Mother Nature’s obliviousness. If wee come to an end as a species then intelligence is an evolutionary dead end. Not entirely convinced this will happen anytime soon.
Watching way too many American movies. The world has gone crazy with fake news. No such thing as climate change. We’re going about like Muppets recycling and the like while China, America etc burn what they like into the atmosphere. Wars everywhere but yet there’s none. Who won the Syrian war?? Or is it still going on? Pure bs. Pleeeease
Sorry * @gary merrin
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Absolute non-article. Please delete.
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
Please delete this article.
Compare this article to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when peoples lives were lost in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Please delete this article.
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
What are ye on?
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Absolute non-article…
“These are the starkest, most catastrophic images to come out of New York since 9/11.”
What are ye on about?
Compare this is to Hurricane Sandy or the Covid Pandemic when people when people actually died in New York, and the images of the city were equally as shocking.
Absolute non-article…
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