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- Newest Sierra Update is a huge increase in speed. And the 'beach ball' is non-existent. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/62uilq/newest_sierra_update_is_a_huge_increase_in_speed/ 23 comments apple
- [Andrew McCutchen] Ppl out here on the beach like Covid-19 doesn’t exist https://twitter.com/thecutch22/status/1239309195599544323?s=21 43 comments baseball
- Japanese Protest American Occupation Base On Okinawa - The new base would likely require bulldozing beaches near an existing Marine facility, Camp Schwab. "We are not going to let them destroy our ocean to build another military base," said Hiroshi Aratomi. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/a/as_japan_moving_the_marines?site=dcsas&section=home&template=default&ctime=2009-12-29-09-14-39 53 comments politics
- ... "Companies will be able to pay for Urthecast to train its cameras on certain locations at designated times and then, for example, organize logs on a beach to spell out a real-time advertisement streamed from space." ... because that's why space exploration exists ...grrrrr ... http://mashable.com/2012/04/24/urthecast-earth-live-streamed/ 3 comments space
- Using a newly-developed computer model scientists predict that with limited human intervention, 31% to 67% of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded (up to existing coastal infrastructure or sea-cliffs) by the year 2100 under scenarios of sea-level rise of one to two meters. https://www.usgs.gov/news/disappearing-beaches-modeling-shoreline-change-southern-california 4 comments science