Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
I looked for a graph of the nino/a events over the past few decades and literally just grabbed the first result
It seems like some of what you said doesn't check out with this chart, like there was a four year Nina in '98-'02, and were currently in a very strong Nino.
Not trying to be contradictory and like maybe this isn't the best source, but can you give context on how what you said meshes with this?
how reliable do you think herbs-info.com is?
(the answer is probably: not very)
that is pretty metal and sick, you're right
the tradeoff is that the ring of fire means you can't look directly at it even at peak totality...
but either is so friggin hype
pictures cannot capture the ephemeral, indescribable beauty of the moments of totality
total eclipse wins every time
get effin HYPE
"if you can't afford to leave, or you or your family have medical needs and can't relocate, or if all your friends and family and social spheres are here, or if your job is context dependent, or if you're undocumented, or if your spouse or family disagrees with your desire to move, or if you're enrolled in in-state college, or if you're elderly and have lived here your whole life, or if you have a farm, or if your ancestral home is nearby, or if you're homeless, or if you have a strong sense of duty to your community, or if you're a military service member, or if you're a kid...
...that's on you!"
edit: also, many marginalized people know and will tell you-- there isn't a place on this earth for people like us with 100% safety from violence
I know you're at least partially talking about labels in general, but since this is in reply to a poll about queer identities, I am taking your comment to be related to LGBTQ+ labels.
I don't think most individuals with an LGBTQ+ identity think of themselves as only that identity. Race, class, religion, ability, and other dimensions of identity ultimately combine to create the whole person. In fact, most discourse surrounding identities involves some analysis of intersectionality, as coined by Kimberle Crenshaw. In essence, she illustrated how being both black and a woman brings different experiences and struggles than being a white woman or black man. As an extension, the queer identity a person has and the other identities a person has interact to inform their experiences in ways that are different than having any one of those identities alone.
If some people externally equate a queer person's whole self and their queer identity, that isn't the fault of the queer person. In fact, this is another reason why having a label (as inadequate as it might objectively be) can be useful. Queer people need those labels so they can maneuver in society to build coalition and obtain equal rights. If we squabbled over the differences between subjective experiences of queerness, our groups would be smaller and have less bargaining power.
I might be way off about what you meant in your statement, but i figured it was worth throwing this out here anyway!
The original article mentions these layoffs as distinct from the relocation of a separate third of the workforce away from Texas.
You can read how they are mentioned in the last paragraph of the article, and then see how Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, discusses the relocations as related to the heartbeat bill in the rest of the article body.
I think you probably just missed that part of the article. Still, consider editing what you wrote, because it is misleading and implies that this is an attempt to use the layoffs for political aims.
I think each of the "35 slots" costs $1.5M
WHERE'S THE ICE VOLCANO
this is amazing content
10/10 cute lil guys eating their lil snacks
10/10 entertaining watching you happily watch the cute lil guys eating their lil snacks
perfect
Yeah, you're objectively correct for encouraging people to vote for Biden instead of sit at home in November. Just please, please, please... I deal with offline average joes all the time. If we make one to one comparisons of our situation with that of Palestinians, most people will be disgusted and think we're incredibly off base.
We are in agreement across the board. I just want to caution you to be mindful of the comparison, is all.
hey I see and appreciate you, I'm also trans, I literally research justice initiatives for LGBTQ+ and specifically trans* individuals in the USA
but my friend, can we please not compare what's happening to us to what is happening to Palestinians? This makes us look like ignorant assholes
Trans people might be next in line for literal genocide, but right now we're experiencing ideological violence more than physical violence
In fact, when we closely examine violence against trans people, the rates of murder and physical violence are only elevated for trans individuals who are poor and people of color. White, middle class trans people are actually less likely to experience physical violence than non-trans poor POCs. That could change depending on political winds, but...
Right now, people in Palestine are experiencing something horrific and unprecedented that eclipses trans suffering in the USA. I am right there with you, afraid of the march of fascism, afraid of what another Trump presidency might bring for our community. But I am not getting airstriked, starved, and war crimed right now. My children are not being shot in the head. I can write about these issues online and in my professional life and not get hung for it. It's just not the same.
I feel like I'm usually choosing between three options.
For almost all my clothes, I'm buying from a thrift shop. Cheap, least harmful for the environment, can be in-person trying stuff on. Perfect. I can even get business-appropriate clothing (I work at a university) but obviously it'd be hard to find specific or very nice fitting stuff.
If I need an outfit for a special occasion (for me this is one or two outfits at a time, max), I'll go to a specialty store. Sometimes these are online "slow fashion" shops, sometimes they are boutiques or tailors. This obviously costs a ton more, but for one or two outfits, it's worth it.
Lastly, occasionally I will see a stupid, trendy, specific thing I want to wear. I'll usually buy this online from a fast fashion shop. I'm not a saint, and we're talking like <2% of the clothes I buy... Idk, I know it's not the best, but I think my other clothing habits make up for it... and I'm not going to find a cow print crop top or e-boy outfit at the thrift store, ya know?
I'm not sure how I feel about department stores going under since it's such a complicated issue (don't care about losing them but maybe they're dying because they're being replaced with something worse?), but I have not felt like department stores fill a niche for me for more than a decade now. I don't feel a practical issue with their loss, more just a sense of foreboding, lol.
That's valid! I agree. I think in this case it would be reasonable for the model to give multiple (or like, at least one, jeez) images with white queens. I don't disagree with anyone in that sense. I just also don't think it's worth pitching a fit when the dumbass model that has been trained to show more racial diversity produces (frankly comical) hallucinations.
The ethos of the trainers is a good one. Attempting to counter the (demonstrated, measurable) bias of many models toward whiteness is a good choice. I prefer that the trainers choose to address the bias even if it (sometimes, in early versions) makes the model make silly mistakes like this. That's all.
- it's true that this would mislead children, but the model could hallucinate about literally anything. Especially at this stage, no one-- children or adults-- should be uncritically accepting what the model states as fact. That said, I agree LLMs need to improve their factual accuracy
- Although it is highly debated, some scholars suggest Queen Charlotte might have had African ancestry, or that she would be considered a POC by today's standards. Of course, she reigned in the 17-1800s, but it isn't entirely outlandish to have a "Queen of Color", if we aren't requesting a specific queen or a specific race
- People of color did live in England in the middle ages? Like not diverse in the way we conceive now, but here are a few papers discussing the racial diversity at the time. It was surely less intermingled than today, but it's not like these images are impossible
- Other things are anachronistic or fantastical about these images, such as clothing. Are we worried about children getting the wrong impression of history in that sense?
- Of course increasing visibility and representation of all kinds of marginalized people is important. I, myself, am disabled, so I care about that representation too-- thanks for pointing out how we could improve the model further. I do kinda feel like people would be groaning if the model had produced a Queen with a visible disability, though... I would be delighted to be wrong on this front :)
It's also like, I guess I would prefer it to make mistakes like this if it means it is less biased towards whiteness in other, less specific areas?
Like, we know these models are dumb as rocks. We know that they are imperfect and that they mirror the biases of their trainers and training data, and that in American society that means bias towards whiteness. If the trainers are doing what they can to prevent that from happening, whatever, that's cool... even if the result is some dumb stuff like this sometimes.
I also don't think it's a problem for the user to specify race if it matters? Like "a white queen of England" is a fine thing to ask for, and if it isn't specified, the model will include diverse options even if they aren't historically accurate. No one gets bent out of shape if the outfits aren't quite historically accurate, for example
You say you don't like poetry, yet you write a lovely free-form poem. Suspicious...
Oooh it's even cooler than that!! You're spot on, acid is the problem. And acid from food, candy, coffee, etc. is harmful for enamel for sure.
But sugary stuff that isn't acidic also rots teeth. Why? Because the bacteria in your mouth do what's called lactic acid fermentation. Basically, when they take a sugar molecule and want to make "usable" energy out of it (in the form of something called ATP, or adenosine triphosphate), they end up creating lactic acid as a byproduct. In essence, the stuff living in your mouth makes acid out of sugar.
We also need to break sugar down into ATP, but we do something called cellular respiration instead. It uses oxygen and creates CO2 as a byproduct! That's why we need oxygen to breathe, and why we breathe out carbon dioxide. But, when you work your muscles hard (lifting weights, sprinting), you might use the ATP in your muscles faster than your body can make it with cellular respiration. In that case, your cells will also do lactic acid fermentation! That's what we're feeling when we "feel the burn" (well, that and micro-tears in the muscle, in some cases).
Source: I'm a biologist! And I love sharing weird facts like this! Thank you for the excuse to write this out :-)
Other commenters have good suggestions also, but one option I haven't seen mentioned would be to buy a powdered acid and make your own dilutions
It's easy to get citric acid in a dry form (like the crystal coating on sour candy), you can get 10 lbs (enough to make many gallons) of it for like $30-50 online. I put a small scoop in my dishwasher to keep my cups from getting foggy from our hard water, and I use it to descale our kettle and in our laundry, too.
Just be careful, acid dilutions are no joke. Whether you get the cleaning vinegar or make a citric acid solution for yourself:
- use nitrile or latex gloves when working with the acid solutions
- wear something to protect your eyes, glasses are probably good enough but goggles are better
- if you have an acid solution and want to dilute it, pour the acid into the water, not the water into the acid!!!
- flush your skin or eyes with water immediately if the acid gets on you or your clothes
These rules might seem like overkill but better safe than sorry!
Citric acid is slightly stronger than acetic acid so if I were you I'd make like a 20% solution to have a similar effect to the cleaning vinegar (so like 100 g powdered acid to 400 mL water). You might have to mix it on the stove so that the water is simmering to get the acid to dissolve.
Again, be careful! But as long as you're smart about it, take your time, and prioritize safety, you can definitely use this for descaling and cleaning (and cooking!)
Thanks :)