Notices by Wataru Tenkawa 天河航 (watarutenkawa@social.vivaldi.net), page 2

From a Mexican news source. Acapulco before and after Hurricane Otis hit, the first cat. 5 storm to directly impact a city of a million or more.
#HurricaneOtis #Acapulco #México

The Sakurajima volcano today, erupting just before 5:00 pm, as seen via webcam from Tarumizu

Found on Tumblr

#Japanese #translation #日本語

We were late to deciding on what to have for dinner tonight, but it turned out to be quite a nice feast for three.

Richard Nixon announced his resignation on this day, August 8, 1974. It was also the day my then wife and I moved from Michigan to San Francisco. The only other time she had made a major move, from Rochester NY to Michigan as a child, was the day JFK was assassinated.

The answers are all correct.

Niece lives outside Las Vegas and sister lives in Bakersfield. (But it's a **dry** heat. We could be worse off in Tokyo with the humidity factored in.)

"Spikes placed on buildings to deter birds are being used by birds to build nests in several locations around Europe....
Birds often use thorny branches as nest material, sometimes placing them as a roof to ward off predators and protect their young. In cities, however, there is a lack of prickly branches around, so a few birds have turned to anti-bird spikes."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2382030-birds-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-make-their-nests/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news #Birds

河野太郎大臣、Threadsアカウント開設　「Twitter使いにくくなった気が」 https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2307/10/news094.html

**「どうしてチンパンジーには人間にならなかったのか」という子供の質問に対し、先生が「チンパンジーの運動能力がいかにすごいか、いかにチンパンジーに素晴らしい生物か」を熱弁し「チンパンジーとしてやっていけなかった連中が人間になったのだ」と語る先生、めちゃ正しい**
https://junsakura.tumblr.com/post/187910034529/%E3%81%A9%E3%81%86%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AF%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8B%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8B%E3%81%A8%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E5%AD%90%E4%BE%9B%E3%81%AE%E8%B3%AA%E5%95%8F%E3%81%AB%E5%AF%BE%E3%81%97%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F%E3%81%8C%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AE%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95%E8%83%BD

Most of the people commenting about CNN's Trump Town Hall think CNN was wrong to host it. I on the other hand feel CNN did the world a service by showing so clearly what a vile human being he is and how vile the people in the audience who cheered him are. How is this not useful information for the electorate at large?

Virtually everywhere in the city “ended up with a covering of a rather thick, granular, sand grain that just landed on everything." A window shattered at a fitness gym.
Closer to the launch site, large pieces of debris were recorded flying through the air and smashing into an unoccupied car.
“There were bowling ball-sized pieces of concrete that came flying out of the launchpad area.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/spacex-rocket-dust-texas.html

The desert sands will soon blanket Japan, competing with the pollen for our misery.
https://tenki.jp/forecaster/r_fukutomi/2023/04/11/22647.html

"Mastodon doesn’t make a lot of money, and Eugen is figuring out how to build a structure that scales past just a handful of people. This tiny and mostly volunteer labor of love might very well be the future of social networking and, if you believe the hype about ActivityPub, might have some part in the future of the web. That’s pretty exciting, even if things seem a little messy in the moment." https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter

"But you know who does still have lizard brains? Humans. The real danger of AI is not that it will spontaneously or mistakenly destroy us all. The real danger is that humans will deliberately deploy them for our favorite activity: killing each other. If you're really concerned about the safety of AI, this is what to focus on. I'd say it's about 99% of the real danger."
https://jabberwocking.com/the-real-danger-of-artificial-intelligence-is-natural-intelligence/

People who often use laxatives to clear up conditions like constipation are more likely to develop dementia, a new study warns. Regular use of these common medications sends the risk of dementia skyrocketing by more than 50 percent compared to those who avoid taking laxatives.
The findings, published in the journal Neurology, also show that people who only use osmotic laxatives experience even greater risks of cognitive decline. https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiOGh0dHBzOi8vc3R1ZHlmaW5kcy5vcmcvbGF4YXRpdmVzLWluY3JlYXNlLWRlbWVudGlhLXJpc2sv0gEA?oc=5

Nice work, Yomiuri

A pretty good day today.
- New decent-sized translation job arrives just as others are completed
- Wife and son did our taxes and we are in line for a big refund this year
- Bought a new OLED Regza TV with Time Shift for my wife, due to arrive tomorrow morning
- Last nabe + buri shabu of the season
- Mastodon continues to be a comfortable place for us all

“Evaluating acute or short-term responses to weather, I would give the nod to heat-related deaths. But if you are considering the seasonal differences in daily mortality, I can see why one can argue that winter (or cold-related) mortality is greater.” That was certainly the conclusion of a 2015 epidemiological study of deaths in 13 countries in The Lancet, which found that cold-related deaths in the U.S. were about a factor of fifteen higher than heat-related deaths.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Extreme-Heat-or-Extreme-Cold

Article says it's become a fad among Japan's crows to chew on the rubber part of windshield wipers, apparently for the chewing pleasure, but causing problems for car owners.
カラスにワイパーのゴムが噛まれる被害相次ぐ 食感が気持ちいいから？ https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23625817/