No!

I mean Yes!

well yes No I am not under an illusion spell but yes I missed an important no!

double post but what post could be more important to double post than this post?

Congratulations!!!

pours entire large bucket of Adult Grizzly Bears on your head.

It should alarm you how incompetent they are at obscuring their evil.

The ButterFry Effect

I hope that when a really bad CME event that happens that we previously would not have been able to forecast without this… that this work is celebrated for saving so many lives pre-emptively.

I want it quantified in terms of dollars spent on the project per life saved, I bet it will be a damn good deal.

shrugs The nice thing about open access papers is I can (and always do) link to them when available so you can just go read the introduction and conclusion/discussion of paper for yourself, or read the “popular science” article take on it, or both! Your choice! While I would say this headline is definitely clickbait grabby, there is fascinating science behind it so I find it hard to get upset at in this case.

Also not to be obnoxiously semantic about the physics, but the only thing that isn’t just a question of perspective here is acceleration not velocity. It is valid from a perspective of constant rotation to observe an object slowing down in its rotation with respect to you and conclude it is changing directions, the only absolute thing that can be said here is to quantify the degree and orientation of acceleration… but I get the spirit of your point and focusing on this detail is kind of missing the broader point of what you are saying I realize that.

I editorialized the headline a tiny bit to add some context to reduce the “THE EARTH HAS CHANGED DIRECTIONS” headline grabby feel because you are right.

I don’t really know the specifics but yes, it does occasionally change, you can see evidence of this in minerals that formed in rocks that were sensitive to magnetic fields resulting in orientations that using geological context could be used to established the direction of the magnetic field.

This is about the specific granular flows of magma near the surface though, we aren’t talking about a global unified shift but rather a study that reveals that magma flows beneath the crust are much more localized, dynamic and unique to their idiosyncrasies within a human lifetime scale than the picture had suggested before.

how is this not the meme yet, i mean come on people!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

Even less intelligent than a GAN

paywalled?

Police are generally terrified of everything they enter including their spouses, that is like saying “that hanging plastic sheet is so scary even horses get spooked by it!”.

The city will die nothing can stop that, the people and communities don’t have to however, what determines that is a willingness to talk about this NOW not when the really bad months of hardly livable conditions get worse and worse.

ha! those stupid Ukrainians, they think their drones will win them the war!!! Well we are developing this special mystery missile in a secret buil---- oh nvm a drone just blew it up…

looks down at big foldout flowchart on how to beat Ukraine

where are we are on the Great Patriotic Leader’s Flowchart now…?

To be as clear as possible, I am not upset if people think my assessment here that this strategic situation where Ukraine has no interceptors and has to sit and take every antique ballistic missile russia lobs at them isn’t really the unfortunate mistake it is being presented as is wrong…

…what I find alarming is that it has been labelled as being antisemitic as if my interest here was to promote some wild antisemitic conspiracy instead of pointing out direct obvious changes in geopolitical power and what the motivations behind them likely might be…?

My argument is simple here, the system is what the system does and yet people keep talking about the system as continually “accidentally” creating a set of conditions that are advantageous for those in power.

No conclusive nor even compelling evidence has been put forward that the Iran War was necessary to launch when Israel and the US launched it, and there is zero room here to argue that it was not forseeable that the US and Israel would deplete their interceptor stocks and their allies stocks if they undertook a war with Iran. All of this was CRYSTAL clear beforehand and well established in US military analyst circles as a reality.

Virtually nobody high up in the US military industrial complex who was a professional believed the US could seriously wrestle control of the Straight Of Hormuz from Iran, this was wildly recognized long before drones became so demonstrably effective at hitting geographically dispersed and lightly defended permanent installations.

What it achieved was to apply a tourniquet to the hemoraghing artery of artillery pressure on Ukraine’s frontlines that Ukraine had let flow red by chopping off russia’s effective use of ground artillery with adept counter battery work.

Now all that is left is to apply a pair of scissors to the tourniquet and the land war is over for good.

No, and the US has a pretty fucked up history…

Don’t know why you bring up ‘conservatives’ Japan, the threat comes from somewhere else.

No, it doesn’t, they are one in the same that is precisely my point.

Can you stop hyperfocusing on that? I am not saying Japan shouldn’t take a sober look at defense and focus on rationally deterring Chinese military power with intelligent buildup of military capability, I am saying handing power to conservative ideologies will make Japan radically less safe and more vulnerable to attack no matter how much Japan appears to be strengthing itself in the process, it will end up hastening whatever nightmare the conservatives in charge point to as a rationalization for closing down the vibrancy of society.

Not only are conservatives obsessed with war for the aesthetics of it, for the way it makes them feel, and thus they are uninterested in learning the professional parts of it (a distastrous choice in modern war), conservatives are also as a rule incompetent as hell.

What is the point of having a miraculous, dynamic human brain if you use it for such unchanging, bigoted, pathetic and base ends?