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by timschmidt 5mo ago
It's a problem anywhere that temperatures reach that high . Higher latitudes have colder climates. Hence, not a problem. If it becomes a problem, people move toward the poles. No longer a problem. Earth would have to experience &g
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> Our bodies won't be able to handle a temperature regime that hot overall. The factor to research is Wet Bulb Temperature Effect. That's a problem at the Equator, but not at the higher latitudes.
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Certain investment firms purchased cold-weather ports which were iced in 8 months a year, 20 years ago, which now operate nearly year-round.
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No doubt the transition period would likely involve more death than most catastrophes in history. In part because there are simply more people. Available sunlight is also less nearer the poles, which already affects agriculture in places
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
No reason not. It would push human habitable zones into the high mid-latitudes and subpolar regions though. 55–65° N/S would be closest to comfortable temperatures. So, northern Canada and Russia, Greenland, Antarctica. The mad rush
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
You're right, and here's a graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Pos... It's possible the sea level rise could have initiated the cooling. But there is much disagreem
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The Cambrian and Eocene reached around +14C compared to today[1]. Two of the warmest periods in Earth's history, granted. But life thrived. Governments, private property ownership, civilization, not as battle tested. 1: https:&#x2F
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
> look up any random day and see a meteor streaking across the sky That's happened rather more times in Earth's history than most folks are comfortable admitting. Tunguska would have leveled any major metropolitan city on the
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Global cooling could be worse. But the danger from either comes from the speed with which it happens, and inflexible sociopolitical structures, more than the absolute difference in temperature. Rapid change doesn't permit gradual ada
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It hits different when the bureaucracy's job is to collect and exploit secrets, and act in the shadows.
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I would push back against the idea that intelligence agency behavior changes administration to administration. Looking through history, it's the intelligence agencies which have superior continuity of leadership. Which suggests thing
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People need to know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction as well. The technique is used to shield these secret programs by laundering the information they collect through plausible evidentiary cha
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There's a reason J. Edgar Hoover held power for 48 years. Kennedy wanted to "break the CIA into a thousand pieces"[1] and had a trusted brother as Attorney General to help with the task. And we learn 70 years later that Oswa
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
Rumors of their exit from dGPU predate Battlemage. So I wouldn't put a ton of credence to them. But Intel's is quite talented at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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He just told you. Because overwhelming public evidence supports the claim. Especially the pricing of open weight model inference. Why do you allow a prejudice to overshadow evidence?
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There's always an XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/
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> The wealthy have been manufacturing these issues for decades now by buying up the entire media apparatus and gutting systems to the bone so that they can squeeze out a bit more blood to drink. This is the stronger part of that statemen
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
The undercurrent of dissatisfaction which led to his popularity was already there. And has been for decades. Do you blame the drought, the dry kindling, or the match? You don't get the wildfire without all three, and anyone paying at
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
I think we're coming at this from different directions. The OP I responded to originally said: "Warming will kill off most of the systems these animals depend on within 30 years." which isn't what you're talking ab
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Algae are the bottom of the ocean food chain. Everything interacts with it. But algae's happy to grow in a bowl of water left in the sun. Lots of things eat krill and small fish. They're near the bottom of the foodchain too. I
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Humpbacks will switch between Krill (their staple in many regions) and small schooling fish (herring, sand lance, anchovies, etc.). But they don’t eat large fish, squid regularly, or anything like seals - so they’re not “generalists” in the
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Humpbacks have a highly specialized feeding mechanism. They only prey on krill and small fish. The food chain really is sun -> algae -> krill (and sometimes small fish) -> humpback whale
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Evolution of small things like algae and the krill which feed on it and feed the whale is quite fast. Single celled organisms reproduce on the scale of 20 minutes and hold immense amounts of genetic diversity in their populations to facili
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by timschmidt 5mo ago
> No, which is why I’m not being insufferable At this point you're interpreting genuine care and empathy for your brother's condition and appreciation for a hard-fought safety measure as chide. I remember when it was enacted.
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by timschmidt 6mo ago
BTW, it's cool that your brother at least gets safety labeling on commercial food items. I hope that helps him stay safe.
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I think you'll find that's as true for animals who don't shed proteins evolved to elicit severe allergic reactions as it is for those that do. Your reference begins with: "The presence of pets has been associated with re
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So that's 1 in 200 at mortal risk. Roughly 1,744,000 people in the US. 1 in 5 to 10 in discomfort. Roughly 69,760,000 people in the US. Good to know. Given Dunbar's number it's likely that most people in the US know someone
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by timschmidt 6mo ago
If you can't suffer some words, then your brother and I have a much higher pain tolerance than you do. lol Will you DIE from words like your brother and I from our allergens? If not you can calm down about it. Unlike us you can just
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by timschmidt 6mo ago
Yes, they are, objectively. The minimal amount of labor involved in setting and clearing a trap (literally 30 seconds) is significantly less than the time spent tending to a cat. Even if you only pet it occasionally. I own traps I don&#x

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