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With at least 16 cases being spread in a church, and a founding principle of the US being "providence", presumably God doesn't think Americans have been good people ...

in Spain, you just get a lump of coal for Christmas if you've been an arse ...

As I was saying ... following a train of thought today I found what I've copied here, an AI result that is not only completely wrong, but which is also contradicted by the very first, and relatively authoritative, result it provides below its "overview" ...

AI is not just useless, it is dangerous.

Here is the official notice from Aemet about Borrasca Emilia. Stay away from the coast if you value your life ... and I don't care how hyperbolic that sounds after 8 deaths in the sea here in the last few weeks alone.

It's a borrasca that will cause these wild seas, coming into the area between the mainland and the Canaries tomorrow. It's a significant storm that Aemet has named Emillia.

Unprepared people, and fools, die in these conditions. Don't be either.

Tres comunidades autónomas imponen la mascarilla obligatoria en plena ola de gripe La nueva variante del virus A(H3N2) fuerza a tres regiones a recuperar restricciones mientras Sanidad lidia con la huelga médica nacional

Health in Spain is a devolved regional power, and three regions - Aragón, Murcia and Cataluña - now require masks to be worn in health centres, care homes, and hospitals because of a national flu surge. Other regions may well follow shortly as flu rages.

www.larazon.es/salud/tres-c...

and now naranja, people will die unless they are cautious.

Wild wild seas this weekend. Orange alert everywhere. Conditions that have killed repeatedly. Avoid the sea in the Canaries, and the coast really, over the next few days if you don't want to be swept away, that is. With an alert in place, the regional Government charges for rescue or body recovery.

Only 5 days left but the annual Guía de Isora social services campaign is well underway to give presents to local children who might otherwise be without anything. Just contact the council and you'll get a letter from a child asking for a dream ...

Info here 👇

www.guiadeisora.org/corp/areas-m...

BREAKING: Iceland will not take part in Eurovision 2026 - RÚV.is RÚV will not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest in the spring. This became clear after a meeting of the board of RÚV today. It has not been decided whether Söngvakeppnin will be held next year.

Looks like I'll be watching Will Ferrell's Fire Saga on 16 May about Iceland in Eurovision ... ❤️‍🔥🧊🐳🌋🎙️

Well done, Iceland 💙

www.ruv.is/english/2025...

8 dead in a month because people go in the water when they shouldn't, most when alerts are in place. See these links and the alert image for the next few days if you want to survive the sea here. If not, fine, they charge for body recoveries.

efe.com/canarias/202...

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A problem "of" France, perhaps, but a problem "for" the whole of Europe, and wider afield.

Today's fascinating read. Do have a look! 👇

I've increasingly been finding even pretty basic google searches returning information that is simply wrong, and evidently it is because it also sifts and includes AI content, and that's just a site scraper without discernment and so full of errors. What a shitshow!

Tell you one thing, it might be nuts for kids with sensory issues to wear noise cancelling headphones in school but it's not as nuts as forcing a child to tolerate noise it can't bear, and then punishing it for its overwhelmed reaction, likely to be somewhat wild ...

That's what's "insane".

I read yesterday that the loss of trust is irrevocable because even if someone else were to be voted in, the population that voted Trump in twice is still there ready to exercise their madness again at any point. I fear it's right. We can't ever trust the US again.

It's universal and universally appalling. Even a neighbour of ours in the middle of nowhere is now 3 years waiting for a stmp on a licence already officially approved but the funcionario responsible is off sick, and has been for 18 months, and god forbid anyone else can stamp it. Dire bureaucracy.👇

I think, unlike the case of your replies, the evidence will almost inevitably be anecdotal, but anecdotally my own inbox backs it up strongly. It was taken as a menu of options for the UK to pick and choose from, and pretty freely.

My immediate reaction even before reading Phil's comment in full. It's all about maximising the advertising dosh. Crappissimo commercialism.

The language is one problem. Many (eg Churchill, Dickens etc) have seen the confusion caused by sharing a language underpinned by completely different values, concepts, symbols, ideas from British European roots of Vikings, Norman rule, Germanic royalty etc compared with prurient puritanism ...

Given the climate, there can't be a "next" renaissance. We boomers, especially in the west, have lived the best of times in human history - analgesia, anaesthesia, personal autonomy, sexual liberty, relative wealth. And here to see its end, window seat at the restaurant at the end of the universe.

Same, despite forgetting the homeopathy, my bad ...

Navarro, Santiago del Teide mayor, confirmed today that the area, a known danger point with many fatalities over the years, had indeed been cordoned off because of the alert for rough seas. Victims have again deliberately ignored warnings and barriers, and risked emergency rescue services' lives.

Three drowned, one who was resuscitated at the scene from cardiac arrest died later in hospital, as I said yesterday, but today they're having still to look for a fifth who remains missing from the group of around 7 separate tourists. And Emilio ...
diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2025/12/pers...

They need to learn Latin, they're in Italy after all. Residere, Latin for remain, a word that has more than one relevant meaning to Brits in the EU concerned with their residency ...

To the battlements of Fortress Europe!

Never expected to be where the USA joins the fascistic "post-Enlightenment promoters of injustice, destructiveness, and war".

Like most people ecause of the climate, though they don't see it, Europe too must prep now for a post-friendly-America world.

For whatever good it might do, please read the thread in this link before going into the sea in the Canary Islands, or ideally before even going near the coast.

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Agreed. Often, as now, councils have taken preliminary measures, tapes and barriers and the like, but they're ignored. I find I'm increasingly angered by the victims who endanger the emergency services!

How many times do we have to say it?

Appalling news of four deaths today after people were swept from a rockpool near Los Gigantes. There were wild waves. There was an alert. What more can we do to save people from themselves?

A tragic accident that did not need to happen. One wave. Four dead.

Gosh, yes, good example!

William Hamleigh in Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth is like this, an early type of Back to the Future's Biff Tannen, said to be modelled on Trump. They are of a type, fat bullies who love to see the fear of others, and public violence carried out, but who wet themselves when facing the same.

I think it's because they're not the politicians (or the politics) we're used to. It's gangsters now, the strong-boys club ... strong and proud boys ...

As such, Trump and Putin are cast from the same mould.