Ya, it was insane being there last week. All the rain created dozens of waterfalls pouring from the canyon walls. The major waterfalls that are usually tiny in summer were massive. Was an amazing contrast to the last time I went and it was all sunny.

Is worth noting that about half their workforce is part time. It’s one thing if it’s a full time employee of theirs on assistance, but if it’s someone that works there like 1 day week, that’s kinda different.

One, why not show data from those who use they/them? Two, how many people who use xe/ze use that site? If that data is from like 8 people, it shouldn’t really be used.

I’m confused, it sounds like you are suggesting taxing churches will lead to significant tax revenue? It’s always crazy this idea is so popular on Reddit when there’s so many simple reasons it’s a bad idea. Now some people that say it just want churches to be classified as regular non profits, or they don’t care about the money and just have a hate boner for churches, but those that actually want the tax revenue make the least sense as it’s so easily disprovable.

US churches revenue is about $75 billion a year. Assuming we classify them as corporations, they have a super high profit margin of 20% (that’s not the case irl), and they don’t get any tax dedications so they pay the full 21% corporate tax rate, that ridiculously liberal estimate still only means $3 billion in taxes.

With how much waste that is in the military, it’s sensible to cut funding, as much as 400 billion. If we raise corporate taxes 4%, that will bring in 480 billion. If we halve healthcare cost down to what other countries spend, that saves about 2 trillion. Putting something that even in a best case hypothetical, brings in a couple billion, in the top 3 priorities is laughable (and that’s ignoring all the other problems with it).

And, once again, if we are going for tax revenue, forcing billionaires to actually pay their income tax won’t help much either, as they almost entirely make their wealth off capital gains and/or already possess the money. Even a wealth tax on just billionaires is suboptimal. Billionaires have $12 trillion in wealth. Those worth between 10 million and a billion? $80 trillion.

So how about this

• ⁠health care

• ⁠eliminate tax loopholes

• ⁠weath tax and higher capital gains tax for those worth $10 million+

Ok, I will admit I misspoke there. Since magnitude 1 quakes are so weak, they actual affect a tiny area, so you won’t actually be on top of the epicenter for that many earthquakes unless you live on a fault line. What I meant was you are in the general area of that many quakes, like within 100-200 km. A distance that you would feel it if there was a major earthquake. Also, I wasn’t talking about earthquakes above 1, but earthquakes that were 1. But it doesn’t even really made as that was just an example.

My point is small earthquakes are way more common than the large ones. I forgot to include my sources for the frequency numbers, so here you go.

https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/fact-sheet/how_often_do_earthquakes_occur

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

For the Turkey numbers, I literally looked at the image from this post and did my best guess. Feel free to count them yourself and let me know what you counted. But I think even at a quick glance, it’s pretty clear that the lower the magnitude was, the more quakes there were, until suddenly it hits 4 and there’s 0 with a magnitude less than 4? No way. That’s just not how earthquakes work. In fact, almost nothing in nature works like that. It’s usually some kind of curve, not exponentially increasing and then suddenly 0.

Huh? That’s just… not how earthquakes work. I guarantee you you’ve lived through probably hundreds, if not thousands of magnitude 1 earthquakes. They are extremely weak, but extremely common.

Every 1 number higher on the Richter scale, that means earthquakes are 10 times as powerful, but 10 times less likely. So for every 8 magnitude earthquake (like the one in Turkey), there was probably about 10 7’s, 100 6’s, 1,000 5’s, 10,000 4’s, 100,000 3’s, 1,000,000 2’s, and 10,000,000 1’s.

So no, I don’t think there was 2 7-8s, ~10 6’s, ~20 5’s, ~100 4’s, and no 0-4 magnitude earthquakes… They just didn’t bother showing the super weak and super frequent ones.

They never explained it but I just realized there’s a note on the image saying it’s only earthquakes >2.5. I guess they are upset the smallest it shows is 4 and not the 2.5 it claims

Annoying? Maybe compared to having all screen, but I’d definitely agree with the other commenter it’s way better than the notch. It’s nothing revolutionary, but it is simultaneously smaller than the notch, and more useful, since you can click it to easily switch apps.

Google adjust results based on factors like location and what else you’ve searched recently. You’d probably get the same results as each other if you used an incognito tab. For what it’s worth, google trends shows, “Data is” is searched about 3x more often than “Data are”.

Oh and chatGPT is a chat bot, not a fact bot. It’s not for if you are trying to get factual information, it’s just for writing text that sounds human.

Question: do you have a smartphone? If so, have you ever used a feature that uses location, like maps, local weather, or photo locations? Guess what organization is in charge of that location data getting to your phone?

It’s not NASA. It’s the one you just called useless. The space force specifically. That’s just one example of the things the military does that benefits you. We can certainly debate exactly how much the military and NASA should be getting, but it’s just wrong to say the military budget I completely useless.

Honestly, probably a good thing. There is already a lot of electricity wasted nowadays, I’m sure it would only get worse if electricity was made much cheaper. Renewables are better than fossil fuels, but they are still worse than just using less electricity.

Nope, it’s definitely mostly solar decreasing. Just look at a price graph of solar over time, it looks like an exponential decay function. Just a few decades ago, solar was thousands of times more expensive than gas, Even in 2010, solar was still over 5 times the cost of gas, but it’s dropped ~90% between 2010 and 2020, and is still dropping 10%+ per year.

Nope, it’s definitely mostly solar decreasing. Just look at a price graph of solar over time, it looks like an exponential decay function. Just a few decades ago, solar was thousands of times more expensive than gas, Even in 2010, solar was still over 5 times the cost of gas, but it’s dropped ~90% between 2010 and 2020, and is still dropping 10%+ per year.

There are different types of solar panels. I believe silicon is one materials more frequently in short supply but for example, the largest US solar manufacturer doesn’t make the silicon type, but rather a thin film type of panel.

I mean, there are jobs. Sure, maybe there’s not as many, and if you have a very specific field you want it might not exist there, but many jobs do exist. The area I live in has been growing, various major companies have been moving in recently. And family literally moved to Toledo when I was a kid because that ended up being the best spot for my dads industry after all the jobs in California and Massachusetts kept falling through.

Cheap housing! It’s like a fifth the cost of major costal cities. Sure, Toledo (and Ohio in general) is more boring, but I’d rather be complaining about the lack of things to do than about downing in debt as so many are these days.

The park has a health mix of deciduous and evergreen forests (sometimes mixed in weird ways, like a strip of deciduous trees through a evergreen area). Looks like all the leaves from the deciduous trees have fallen leaving just the evergreens.

If you like hiking, Mt LeConte and Charlie’s Bunion both had decent viewpoints with less crowds. If you’re up for a challenge, visit Clingman’s Dome when the road is closed. Little to no people are there. If you are a fast hiker, you can probably hike it in one long at from Newfound Gap. Otherwise it’s 2 days (or 3 if you like from the bottom of the mountain like I did).

Also, Clingman’s Dome is best at sunrise/sunset, and in fall, although because of that, that’s when it’s most crowded :(.

I’d imagine it wouldn’t just be a normal notification. It would probably be like AMBER alerts if you’re in North America. A max volume alarm, even if the volume is turned down. Maybe some extreme scenario it wouldn’t be noticed, but what’s important is that most of the time, it will be.

The more important thing is not what you start doing, but what you stop doing. You don’t want to be going down stairs, eating, woodworking, operating on a patient, etc for obvious reasons. 10 seconds gives you enough time to stop doing anything that could be dangerous during an earthquake and brace yourself.