Agree, and it does seem like it's an unpopular opinion. I was just talking with someone the other day that I miss people looking like human beings in movies and TV. I forget what we were watching but it was something from the 80s and we remarked how the entire fantastic cast could not get hired today.
So...a COVID variant or something else? The article seemed like it was intentionally avoiding addressing what the illness is. They only mention that the community was ravaged by COVID in 2022 and it was somewhat awkwardly placed in the article.
I've never been there but it was the project location for my remote sensing class. There are some massive alluvial fans, I think it is the area for a lot of seminal papers on alluvial fan behavior and morphology. In our class we used satellite multi spectral images to map based on element composition, like how they do on other planets which was cool.
In both undergrad and grad school there were courses other people took that had field trips across the country to visit there. IIRC one was Neotectonics and the other was I think some Structure-based elective? Meaning it has faults and maybe folds (dunno, never been) that make it a seismically interesting area.
Man I've gone my whole career without ever dealing with this BS. We use USCS. One time my boss had to deal with it because of some permitting shenanigans with an agency (USDA?) and he said it was stupid.
Yes. There isn't much coal where I'm at but I've stumbled over it a few times while mucking around in the woods, streams, or whatever. I've even seen anthracite on the beach that either came from nearby or fell off a ship.
Fiberglass insulation is not inflammable (which means the same thing as flammable), it is fire-resistant. But yeah if you've got the money mineral wool is really good.
If we're bagging on fashion trends can I throw in the aviator glasses resurrection? Combined with the porn 'staches and mullets it looks like the young people are cosplaying as my Dad in the 80s.
Like Gen Z/Alpha are trolling Millennials/Xennials/Late Xers by dressing like middle-aged Boomers.
I came in here ready to defend delicious aspartame from people who aren't science literate and was surprised to see many really good arguments and comments already posted. Lemmy, you're pretty cool as a community right now.
Or any enforcement whatsoever. It happens so regularly all they would have to do is, like, try. Show up on a Friday at midnight and they'd get a guaranteed ticket if not arrest.
They put in some roundabouts to try to stop it but the street racers just keep destroying the center island. It's brand new and covered with tire marks and plastic debris from them bashing up their kits.
Trigonometry. My high school math teacher was a literal math genius and would always go deep into proofs and theory, sometimes not even getting to our homework stuff until the last 5 minutes of our 50 minute class. As a result I went from the "gifted" math group to nearly failing.
When I went to college I had to take a math placement test and ended up in Math 99 (below college level math).
It was there I was finally taught SohCahToa and everything clicked. I actually use simple trig a lot in my job now.
Agree, and it does seem like it's an unpopular opinion. I was just talking with someone the other day that I miss people looking like human beings in movies and TV. I forget what we were watching but it was something from the 80s and we remarked how the entire fantastic cast could not get hired today.