Ok, this is too funny to not share.
This is today’s front-page of the most prominent “christian to the point of wacky” newspaper in the country, which, vociferously blames the Iron Maiden concert, that took place a few days ago in Athens, for the forest fires 
So, what they are essentially saying is that 50 thousand people attending an Iron Maiden live concert, is more effective that millions praying to God 
That’s the only reasonable conclusion of such a claim. 
Great game by Nakamura Sumire today.
No all that AI territorial nonsense that’s so popular these days. Just take center, let them have the corners, win.
Pretty nice looking game 
UPDATE
I doubt it. The book I referenced above, Earth Abides, does a good job of illustrating why. A certain amount of population (although it is hard to put a number to it) is needed for our civilization to function, as well as to pass on the necessary knowledge. It seems unlikely that any large die-off would leave enough people to reconstitute modern civilization. Half to three-fourths of the human race have died in several past catastrophes, but these were all in the distant past. We would be reduced to a tribal level, and human achievement would gradually sink into myth within a few generations.
In my world happiness begins with gratitude. Gratitude is a door to a life of freedom
I think some people are overly focussed on happiness. I don’t concern myself much with being happy or not. I’m feeling content most of the time, and sometimes I experience happy moments. That’s enough for me. I can’t image being happy all the time, and I don’t even think I’d want to be.
Wouldn’t you say being content is what happiness is all about? I’d think a lot of people would be happy if they had content life. When I remember content life, I’d say that was happy life. I guess some people are capable of making their life good enough to be content. But for most they would need to give up and agree that where they’re now is ok, this is normal. I can’t agree to that probably even if I wanted.
When my leg is good, I don’t concern myself much with it hurting or not. And only when I injure it, this becomes a big concern, and I start to value how great it was walking without pain. I think this is quite analogous. Being happy is of great concern to those who aren’t happy.
you can place stones randomly
Sadly I missed this event but sharing for the headline…
On “brighter” news on this topic, this is a bit of a clickbait article.
You cannot see Uranus through binoculars, especially when it is near the moon. At that position it is doubtful if you can actually see it with a very good amateur telescope.
This fellow is using a telescope capable of 250x magnification (it is a Maksutov-Cassegrain, that is why it is small) and still needs to video and stack the photos and post-process them, to actually do it.
This one has a 300x monster refractor (I do not think there are bigger refractors on the market) and still can faintly see Uranus on what seems to be very high magnification.
The best binoculars, according to the same site, get max 25x and good luck with those monsters. Funny enough even the telescopes they advertise in that article cannot see or locate Uranus in most cases, excluding the last one, the Sky-Watcher Skyliner-200P which can only do it if you upgrade the eyepices and, funny enough, is NOT the most expensive in that list.
Even funnier? Their “discount offer” of 389 pounds is actually still MORE expensive, than actually buying that telescope from a dedicated astronomy shop (proof - it costs 379 pounds).
Damn clickbait articles 
It’s a fair cop, I didn’t actually get my binoculars out to see Uranus…
meanwhile, Ukraine threatens to impose sanctions against Greece (if you click it will translate the article):
So now Greece is on the bad side of both Ukraine and Russia? Wow. 
That was a very interesting article Makes you wonder, when seeing the low price of the campaign, why, at the end of the day, people that cared about a good enviromental result, didn’t hire equally skilled people. All that super-effective global campaign for a million per year?
One of them seems to be so good that he is using those skills on himself so he can sleep better at night:
He maintains that climate science was too uncertain in the 1990s to warrant “drastic actions”, and that developing countries - particularly China and Russia - have ultimately been responsible for the decades of climate inaction, rather than American industry.
In statistics and numbers, maybe, but in global marketing and PR damage that led to a lot of countries and industries around the globe do nothing? Not by a long shot. It is funny that even now they use those skills to avoid any accountability, for what they did. Maybe the things you do, actually become a second nature after a while, as an old adage claims.
So it begins…
player
moved a piece on the chessboard earlier than he should
robot: you broke the rule, you will be EXTERMINATED
