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Cake day: June 4th, 2023
  • notfromhere@lemmy.mltoScience@lemmy.ml•USC Study Confirms the Rotation of Earth’s Inner Core has Slowed
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    5 months ago

    In the early days, humanity was in awe of the Earth’s bounty. They tapped into its veins, extracting oil and gas to power their machines and fuel their progress. The planet’s crust was mined for minerals, its forests felled for lumber, and its oceans ravaged for fish.

    As time passed, the pace of extraction accelerated. The once-pristine air grew thick with pollutants, the waters became choked with waste, and the land was scorched by wildfires. But humanity couldn’t resist the allure of growth and profit.

    They dug deeper, piercing the Earth’s mantle, releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere. The planet’s temperature began to rise, but still they drilled, pumped, and mined. The warnings of scientists were ignored, their cries of “peak oil” and “climate change” drowned out by the din of progress.

    One day, the Earth’s core began to slow its rotation. The magnetic field that protected the planet from the solar winds started to weaken. The once-stable atmosphere grew thin, allowing the harsh radiation to seep in.

    As the planet’s lifeblood dwindled, the consequences became impossible to ignore. Weather patterns turned extreme, storms intensified, and droughts lengthened. The oceans, once teeming with life, began to boil away, their waters evaporating into the dry air.

    The manetosphere, the delicate balance of gases that sustained life, grew weaker by the day. The solar winds howled through the gaps, stripping away the atmosphere’s protective layers. The surface temperature soared, baking the remaining life forms into extinction.

    In the end, it was as if humanity had sucked the very essence out of the Earth. The once-blue skies turned a sickly yellow, and the air reeked of ozone and death. The planet’s final breaths were labored, its core now still, its magnetic field a faint whisper.

    The last remnants of humanity huddled in underground bunkers, awaiting an end that was both inevitable and agonizingly slow. As the atmosphere dissipated, the solar winds ravaged what remained, scorching the barren landscape until it resembled the desolate wasteland of Mars.

    In the silence, the Earth’s corpse lay still, a testament to humanity’s unrelenting greed. The once-thriving planet was now a husk, drained of its lifeblood, its beauty lost forever.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Amazon just walked out on its self-checkout technology
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    7 months ago

    I thought so, top, at least initially. However, it sounds like the out sourced cashiers essentially tallied up the orders after the customer left and sent the bill. How much correction had to be applied to the automation remains to be seen. The biggest issue with systems like this is tracking between scenes and angles. It could be the humans in the loop were there to resync the metadata of each tracked object (i.e., customer) as they moved isle to isle or they removed a jacket or whatever.