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I'm surprised I haven't come across conspiracy theories that use this as confirmation that "they" control the weather...

bheadmaster 4y ago
I'll admit it has passed my mind several times. I never said it out loud (until now), but the coincidence that the very year EU loses its main gas supply we get sunny winter without snow at all... I know it's probably a coincidence, but my mind doesn't like coincidences. There's always this "what if" voice inside my head.
- robbiep 4y ago
  The mind boggles
- theCrowing 4y ago
  I admit it I am working at a secret European agency with the purpose of climate control. We can only make it warmer right now but there is a commit open that could fix our issues with the overheating. They fired the guy who wrote it for cost saving measures, his LOC over year was a bit low but I bet the junior refactoring some legacy code can do it. His LOCs are of the fucking chart. /s
- birracerveza 4y ago
  It's actually the opposite, you have a pattern-seeking brain that likes coincidences. It's why we notice patterns, because some are not coincidences but outright consequences, however indirect they may be! But there's a lot of coincidences in the world, some being so unlikely and so unfortunate, our mind can refuse to accept that, well.. it can be just a coincidence. The longest-reigning UK monarch dies at the start of the shortest term PM's tenure ... it's incredibly unlikely, yet it happened. Should there be an explanation behind it? Or maybe it's just a coincidence? You decide.
  - bheadmaster 4y ago
    From a deeply cynical perspective, everything in the world is a coincidence, it's just that some coincidences happen so often that betting on them becomes useful, so we give them a name: "cause-effect relationship".
    - birracerveza 4y ago
      Well yeah, you could say there's no coincidences, but simply an universe where the cause-effect relationships are so incomprehensibly, mysteriously complex that you are forced to dismiss them as just a coincidence ... but now you have coincidences!
      - bheadmaster 4y ago
        So in conclusion - cause-effect relationships can be modeled as coincidences, and coincidences can be modeled as cause-effect relationships... Making them mathematically equivalent.
    - alwayslikethis 4y ago
      This is basically a two sentence restatement of David Hume's view on causality.
- tpm 4y ago
  We do have a mostly sunny warm autumn, but winter begins in December and runs until March, so let's wait a few months with the verdicts.
- pasquinelli 4y ago
  the american pacific northwest had a summer that ran into mid-october, so the warmer than usual weather is not just in europe.
nerdponx 4y ago
I literally know someone who believes global warming is a hoax to cover up the fact that "they" control the weather. That belief is so entrenched that this is more like passive confirmation of an obvious fact than an evidentiary bombshell.
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bheadmaster 4y ago

I'll admit it has passed my mind several times. I never said it out loud (until now), but the coincidence that the very year EU loses its main gas supply we get sunny winter without snow at all... I know it's probably a coincidence, but my mind doesn't like coincidences. There's always this "what if" voice inside my head.

robbiep 4y ago
The mind boggles
theCrowing 4y ago
I admit it I am working at a secret European agency with the purpose of climate control. We can only make it warmer right now but there is a commit open that could fix our issues with the overheating. They fired the guy who wrote it for cost saving measures, his LOC over year was a bit low but I bet the junior refactoring some legacy code can do it. His LOCs are of the fucking chart. /s
birracerveza 4y ago
It's actually the opposite, you have a pattern-seeking brain that likes coincidences. It's why we notice patterns, because some are not coincidences but outright consequences, however indirect they may be! But there's a lot of coincidences in the world, some being so unlikely and so unfortunate, our mind can refuse to accept that, well.. it can be just a coincidence. The longest-reigning UK monarch dies at the start of the shortest term PM's tenure ... it's incredibly unlikely, yet it happened. Should there be an explanation behind it? Or maybe it's just a coincidence? You decide.
- bheadmaster 4y ago
  From a deeply cynical perspective, everything in the world is a coincidence, it's just that some coincidences happen so often that betting on them becomes useful, so we give them a name: "cause-effect relationship".
  - birracerveza 4y ago
    Well yeah, you could say there's no coincidences, but simply an universe where the cause-effect relationships are so incomprehensibly, mysteriously complex that you are forced to dismiss them as just a coincidence ... but now you have coincidences!
    - bheadmaster 4y ago
      So in conclusion - cause-effect relationships can be modeled as coincidences, and coincidences can be modeled as cause-effect relationships... Making them mathematically equivalent.
  - alwayslikethis 4y ago
    This is basically a two sentence restatement of David Hume's view on causality.
tpm 4y ago
We do have a mostly sunny warm autumn, but winter begins in December and runs until March, so let's wait a few months with the verdicts.
pasquinelli 4y ago
the american pacific northwest had a summer that ran into mid-october, so the warmer than usual weather is not just in europe.

nerdponx 4y ago

I literally know someone who believes global warming is a hoax to cover up the fact that "they" control the weather. That belief is so entrenched that this is more like passive confirmation of an obvious fact than an evidentiary bombshell.

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