I think these rivers are also not subject to a pattern. Everything is more volatile and chaotic.
Global heating is not uniform over the planet. higher levels of temperature increase are experienced at higher latitudes. This dynamic weakens the polar jet streams. They get long and stringy and drift towards the equator and sometimes throw off artic cold air masses. These then come in contact with these atmospheric rivers supercharged with their burden of moisture.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell The jet stream impacts (see: arctic amplification) seem to make a huge difference. Stalled out jet stream pattern nails a wet pattern in one place for evern just a few days... flooding. Holds a hot dry windy pattern in place... wildfires. Do it for weeks/months? Absolute disaster (ie civilization ending droughts).
Exactly. But I think the absolute disaster is both ends of extremity.
One region is subject to flash droughts and when the air mass laden with all the water it carted away runs into something slightly cold another region is obliterated in floods.
Both of these extreme damages existing productivity. They damage existing infrastructure.
What kind of long-term infrastructure can be built, when we really don’t have an idea of its operating conditions?
@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell That the air holds more moisture as it gets warmer is only news to people who have been paying attention 🙂, but its also the basis for one potential outcome which is glaciation. Basically jet stream stops, moisture precipitates out as snow, albedo goes through the roof, creating a positive feedback loop and you get 10,000 years of ice age.
@ChuckMcManis @ai6yr The only trick in that would be that the water precipitating out as snow would have to remain snow or that it could fall out as snow in the first place.
These atmospheric rivers are dumping trillions of metric tons of water on the Greenland ice sheet. It is falling as liquid water, not snow or ice.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr Agreed, if you've read the research there is a big variable in the IPCC (and other) models about clouds. If clouds form in the troposphere you get cooling on the ground, if they form in the stratosphere you get warming. The glacial event scenario starts with tropospheric cloud cover that puts the ground below into a deep freeze and then water precipitating out as snow, which then leaves behind the high albedo.
I am a bit curmudgeonly about climate models, mostly about the climatologists who neglect global biomes with the exclusion perhaps of the Amazon forest.
That may be changing, where they come to accept again that land use is also climate change, and that if you kill the land, you kill the climate, because life just happened to have created the environment we exist in.
They should take a refresher on the great oxidation event..
Well back when I bought my 3999x Thread Ripper 128 core + 256GB "desktop" I thought I should run something challenging on this and found the IPCC model in R so I fired it up and started playing with it. It was educational to fix a dozen or so nodes in the model and run forward a decade or two.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Yes. Chaotic polar conditions are like speed wobbles, and it stops weather from staying in the “regular” tracks on which infrastructure was designed, etc. It’s also like natural terraforming and will change the landscape on a pace that humans’ haven’t experienced before. Weeee
Ragazza di 25 anni cade su un sentiero a Metato, soccorsa da Sast e vigili del fuoco L'infortunata è stata stabilizzata, quindi è stata trasportata tramite manove su corda per poi congiungersi con l'ambulanza
Some people think they can have a utopian sci-fi future, but an exclusionary one, built on a reactionary, bigoted society. That's not how it works. That's like trying to build on top of quicksand.
Fascists fundamentally don't believe in science, they don't believe in the openness and honesty needed to make it work, and they will purge society of all the brilliant people because they don't conform to their prejudices. They don't know how to build or create, only how to destroy.
Conservatism inevitably leads to dystopia, barbarism, and death.
These people are just used to taking advantage of the work done by other people to make their lives bearable. Whether that's labor, art, cuisine, science, etc.
One of the reasons they're so infatuated by "AI." They're like those guys who prefer blow up dolls to real women. "Now I don't need them for anything anymore."
reminds me of one of the most chilling lines from Humans (UK Channel 4 show about robots that gain consciousness), when the robot working in the brothel says "what they do to us is what they'd do to you if they had the chance"
There's a very good reason the champions of AI agree with Musk's line that empathy is a malfunction. That's the only way to doublethink their way out of what they're creating.
Una de las mayores mentiras que nos vienen colando desde la transición es que la convivencia de lo público con lo privado beneficia a ambas partes por igual.
Que las personas que pueden pagarse un seguro privado de salud contribuyen a descongestionar la sanidad pública y a reducir listas de espera. Que los colegios concertados permiten a las administraciones ahorrar en construir y mantener lo que serían escuelas públicas.
Es todo mentira. La única manera de dignificar la sanidad y la educación pública es obligar a los ricos a que tengan que usarlas. Porque los ricos pueden permitirse el privilegio de comprar las políticas que hacen que se deje de invertir en lo público (total, para qué, si no van a usarlo) mientras que consiguen que esos mismos fondos públicos se vayan a financiar sus chiringuitos privados dónde les curan y educan a sus hijes. Así tenemos la mafia de Quirón o las FP privadas llevándoselo gordo.
¿Pero si los ricos tuviesen que llevar a sus hijes a un colegio público? Veríais como bajaban las ratios y no faltaban recursos. Ídem con los centros de salud.
Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.
His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter should be treated as it it emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf.
Planck’s quantum hypothesis would revolutionize physics, but he initially thought it wasn’t real.
He suspected that the interaction of matter and radiation was tremendously complicated but still governed by the physics known at the time — what we now call “classical physics.”
Invoking quanta of radiation to derive the blackbody emission spectrum was, it seemed to Planck, just a mathematical trick that somehow encapsulated all that complication.
Previous efforts to derive the blackbody emission spectrum using classical physics gave nonsensical results at high frequencies. Replace continuous emission with discrete quanta and things work out perfectly.
Evidence for the reality of quanta began with Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905. The proposal that radiation of frequency f exists only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf was the first result of Einstein’s “Miracle Year.”
Many physicists remained skeptical. But Arthur Compton’s 1923 explanation of X-rays scattering off electrons was near-incontrovertible evidence that quanta were real.
This sequence of events was a not uncommon narrative in the transformative years of late 19th and early 20th century physics. It would go something like this:
1. An experimental result doesn’t make sense
2. A physicist proposes a radical solution.
3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient "trick."
4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected.
Planck’s hypothesis was in fact a deep statement about the nature of Nature. Electromagnetic adiation of frequency f comes in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. It's not an artifact of a complicated interaction with matter.
Nowadays we refer to the proportionality constant h as "Planck's constant." In the SI system it takes the value h=6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ kg*m²/s, or 4.136 x 10⁻¹⁵ eV*s.
As far as we can tell, h is a fundamental constant that is hardwired into our Universe.
The results of Planck’s December 14th lecture were submitted to Annalen der Physik a few weeks later, on January 7th, and published not long after that.
Something that isn’t as widely known is that “h” is not the only fundamental constant that was introduced during Planck’s presentation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900!
Planck was investigating emission and absorption by blackbodies, so he needed a way to relate energies and temperatures. Thus, he had to introduce what we now refer to as “Boltzmann’s constant.”
That’s right, the factor of “k” that appears in the formula “S = k log W” — the formula engraved on Boltzmann’s memorial! — was actually introduced by Max Planck. Boltzmann expressed his results in terms of the ideal gas constant R.
Remember in 2010 when Berlin archaeologists found a bunch of Degenerate Art #sculpture and the ashes of loads of burnt paintings that had fallen into the basement of a building bombed to pieces by the Allies near the end of WW2?
The tragicomical aspect here is that the people who finally destroyed all those Degenerate modernist paintings were not the Nazis. They were the Allies.
A weakness has been identified in code-projects Computer Book Store 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin_delete.php. This manipulation of
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in announcing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration over its unlawful policy imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions.
Antisemitischer Anschlag. Und ich höre wieder dieses bedrückende laute Schweigen. Ist wirklich nicht verstanden, dass diese emotional aufgepeitschten free free palestine- Schreihälse eine zweite, rechtsoffene Front aufgebaut haben? Die Tür heißt Antisemitismus.www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozea...
Am Bondi Beach im australischen Sydney sind mehrere Menschen durch Schüsse getötet und verletzt worden. Nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen haben zwei Angreifer eine jüdische Chanukka-Feier angegriffen.
"As 2025 comes to a close, I want to put together a summary of the things that went on. I’m a strong believer of building in public, and that includes talking about the goals, successes and failures."
I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it. for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article: "ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj." I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake. tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac… #Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text
yes, it's an article about scrambling text using fonts in order to prevent LLM scraping.
It's a cute idea. I'd be more at ease if the author had described it as a neat toy that shouldn't be seriously used for anything, but they don't seem to be thinking that way, only describing the accessibility problems as a "drawback".
I don't think it's a joke, more a tech demo. I can't entirely tell but I think the author is taking it seriously as a project that blog authors might want to implement, which I find really worrying.
Ein Glas mit einer Flüssigkeit darin steht auf einer hölzernen Oberfläche. Das Glas ist aus transparentem Material gefertigt und ist in Form eines breiten, stumpfen Kegels. In der Flüssigkeit ist ein großes Eisstück zu sehen. Die Flüssigkeit hat einen amberfarbenen Farbton. Das Glas befindet sich im Vordergrund auf einer strukturierten Oberfläche, die aussieht wie Holz, vor einem dunkleren Hintergrund.
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"A 26-year-old Palestinian detainee, arrested months ago in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces, has died in Israeli custody amid reports of torture and medical negligence, marking the second Palestinian death in Israeli prisons in less than a week" "There are currently more than 10,800 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, including 450 children, 87 women, and 3,629 held without charge or trial"
One Punch Man went back to poor animations, big fights behind walls and close doors, I thought the mental stair case was the absolute bottom of abandonism but this episode still delivered some solid frames.
CN Sydney "Wir wachen an einem Feiertag auf – und wieder haben einige von uns nicht überlebt." Ron Dekel, Präsident der Jüdischen Studierendenunion Deutschland.
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Dated a girl once who liked to put honey in her tea and she had one of those... She also introduced me to the tea bag squeezer, and a great way to do creamy, fluffy scrambled eggs.
Weird how you remember little things like that from your teens... But picturing her face eludes me.
I kept wondering if I should get one, but I could never figure out how they would do anything of any value whatsoever. Like what even is the point of them?
When I was a kid in the 80's, a honey door-to-door salesman (¡el mielero!) passed by our home (a flat in a small suburban town, no remote village) every now and then, with a big pot of honey and one of those things (what's the word?*), you gave him a container and he filled it very artfully.
Thanks for unlocking the memory. 😊
Edit to add: Ah, the ALT says it: "honey dipper", but it doesn't seem to have a distinct name in spanish, all I find is "palito mielero" or "cuchara mielera".
My grandparents used one, and yes they kept fresh honey from a local beekeeper. But yeah, commercial honey killed the charm with plastic bottles. Go check out your local farmers market, you can usually find fresh honey and utensils there.
This might sound snotty or obtuse, I don't mean it to, I understand the appeal of fresh honey (it's my preference) but I still can't quite grok the utensils... What's the advantage of the wand over say... A spoon or just pouring from the jar and wiping the lip of the jar when finished?
Why have a cake fork when there's the dinner fork, or the table spoon when there's the tea spoon--part tradition, part adaptation. This particular utsensil is good at keeping the honey from dripping off while you're transferring it to your mug.
I got one on sale and surprised that it turns out we love it! The one we had came with a wooden one like your photo. I ordered a glass one which works even better. I just put the clear glass pot with the honey dripper in a large saucepot and add hot water up to the level of the honey inside the glass pot. By mealtime honey is easy to drip onto toast or muffin.
For the record, all these years I thought these were a ridiculous waste of money.
![The title and introduction of the paper read:
ON A HEURISTIC POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING THE PRODUCTION
AND TRANSFORMATION
OF LIGHT
by A. Einstein
[Annalen der Physik 17 (1905):
132-148]
There exists a profound formal difference between the theoretical conceptions physicists have formed about gases and other ponderable bodies, and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic processes in so-called empty space.
While we conceive of the state of a body as being completely determined by the positions and velocities of a very large but nevertheless finite number of atoms and electrons, we use continuous spatial functions to determine the
electromagnetic state of a space. so that a finite number…](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/68226966 "The title and introduction of the paper read:
ON A HEURISTIC POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING THE PRODUCTION
AND TRANSFORMATION
OF LIGHT
by A. Einstein
[Annalen der Physik 17 (1905):
132-148]
There exists a profound formal difference between the theoretical conceptions physicists have formed about gases and other ponderable bodies, and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic processes in so-called empty space.
While we conceive of the state of a body as being completely determined by the positions and velocities of a very large but nevertheless finite number of atoms and electrons, we use continuous spatial functions to determine the
electromagnetic state of a space. so that a finite number…")
One Punch Man went back to poor animations, big fights behind walls and close doors, I thought the mental stair case was the absolute bottom of abandonism but this episode still delivered some solid frames.
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