There’s history in Switzerland of creating accidental earthquakes by attempting to harness geothermal energy in 2006

https://www.wired.com/story/swiss-rock-lab/

I read that they closed the store for the stunt. So it was all charade. The photos of him serving food to a customer walking up to the drive thru window when the site was closed for business are even more laughable in that context.

Second that recommendation for Tildes. Not all posts are long but most posters tend to contribute well thought out opinions and the discussion I have seen is uniformly civil.

This summary sounds deranged because none of it has anything to do with the title, but that is a problem with the article itself being badly titled. It is rather about the effect of El Nino worldwide.

Yeah it wasn’t so long ago that hard drive storage was more expensive than spindles of CD-Rs and that was around the time that internet and torrenting were taking off. People used to burn CDs full of movies to share and make room to download more. In that use case a unit of 700 MB on write once read many storage was useful if cheap.