mars296

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nice touch of detail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've seen ads on TV for it. I also happened across Jack Frags streaming a campaign playthrough yesterday on YouTube. I briefly tuned in to see what the campaign was like. His game crashed a few minutes later and he mentioned it was the 4th crash so far during his stream... So I stopped watching. I haven't bought any COD since the original Black Ops and wasn't going to buy this one but that did not inspire confidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who has always been around people speaking broken English, it becomes very easy to interpret word jumbles and mistranslations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

He is trying to say that we use energy (presumably he is talking specifically about fossil fuels) for everything and in ways that people may not even realize it. He is saying that without fossil fuels society can't function.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you explain what the process is?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Assisted full self driving is an oxymoron.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The article is about North Carolina. That's where the devastating flooding outside of flood zones was. Obviously there are wider implications nationwide but it's not a Florida specific problem.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What surprised me most about Helene was the ground speed. I don't remember seeing any hurricane make landfall in the US moving at over 20mph. As a casual observer I have anyways seen 12 mph as a quick storm and 6 mph as slow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They are habitable with the correct building codes. Northern Florida historically got very few hurricanes so the buildings are not hurricane resistant. The fact that their house floated away is the red flag that the home could never survive a hurricane. Houses in South Florida are concrete block exteriors. In the Keys you can't have any living space at all on the first floor too.

It does make it much more expensive to build but I see that rule becoming necessary in all coastal areas.

The extreme damage will be when hurricanes start making regular landfall in even less historically hurricane prone areas (see Western NC getting hit by the same storm at a fraction of the strength it hit Florida with). We already had hurricane Sandy fuck up NJ. It won't be pretty when a similar storm hits Philly, NYC, DC, etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Western Carolina is a place I have thought would be ok as climate change progresses...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I would argue there are limits. An art piece being used as a suicide booth falls into the category of not being essential enough that it must remain openly accessible to the public. A bridge or train tracks being used for suicide should not be closed off.

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