August 2019 Current Events Thread: It's Hot and Everything Sucks

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Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

BigDave posted:

The way things keep going, this might actually happen.

I'm at the point where I read stuff like that and feel like it already happened

# ? Aug 22, 2019 23:41

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 18:24

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

GoGoGadget posted:

As the dementia gets worse, this may become a reality.

That slow, round big boy is never catching a pigeon, but I bet he'll try

# ? Aug 22, 2019 23:43

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Fallom posted:

I'm at the point where I read stuff like that and feel like it already happened

I mean, if you read the pigeon as a metaphor for Americas foreign policy, it's happening every day.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 23:58

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1164668358467313664

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:08

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

So did people gloss over what I last posted re: greenland because it was so stupid it didn't warrant comment or because I was right on the money and it was self evident to everyone with 2 braincells to rub together? Because it really feels like it's an attempt to shift the rhetoric to "the good consequences of global warming!" namely that there is money to be made via shipping over the pole and resource extraction and attendant development above the arctic circle so sayeth the chosen one so don't fret you little libs.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1164668358467313664

Holy poo poo that's way more than I expected. gently caress you Brazil.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:09

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

The Brazilian government won�t do poo poo because it�s his base doing the burning. So incredibly short sighted.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:20

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

They also hate the natives and are actively genociding them. Again: gently caress Brazil

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:22

Bell_: Sep 3, 2006; Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us

Fister Roboto posted:

Yeah I've become accustomed to a lot of stupid poo poo over the last three years, but American Christians literally (LITERALLY) following the antichrist really takes the cake.

Taking the cake? I'd say they're just coming back for a second serving

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:23

Crakkerjakk: Mar 14, 2016

LingcodKilla posted:

So incredibly short sighted.

Humanity's epitaph.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:31

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Bell_ posted:

Taking the cake? I'd say they're just coming back for a second serving

Are they....preying and blessing the bull on Wall Street? :stare:

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:32

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Literally worshiping a golden calf.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:45

Stravag: Jun 7, 2009

The GOLDEN cow on wall street

# ? Aug 23, 2019 00:47

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

Wasabi the J posted:

I literally had a panic dream about Trump chasing and eating a pigeon.on live TV. Is this how crazy political cartoons get made? Where I put a bunch of labels on my anxieties on different pieces of the scene?

gently caress I need to sleep.

i swear to god if you lathe of heaven this poo poo on us...

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:09

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

hosed up if true:

Dark Off posted:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/22/there-s-no-danger-get-to-work So much osha in that nuclear incident.

quote:

When conducting any work like this [with the missile], the soldiers should have deployed decontamination checkpoints at the testing site — there should have been at least three. The first decontamination point should be at the border between the clean and contaminated zones. Even in the absence of a major accident, individuals leaving the danger zone must pass through this checkpoint with any equipment they touched, and they have to be processed and decontaminated of any radiation. At the next checkpoint, these people have to remove all their clothing (which needs to be destroyed), before they’re cleaned and decontaminated again. After this, they’re checked again for radiation levels. People who come up “clean” are released, but anyone with abnormal readings has to be taken to a military hospital. Before they’re loaded into an ambulance, they need to be washed again and then yet again, when they arrive at the hospital. Before any surgeries, patients should be decontaminated once again at the hospital. Only after all this should doctors treat the patients.

And what happened with the accident at the test site in the Arkhangelsk region? I wasn’t on duty that day, but I know about what took place from my colleagues. Six victims were taken to Vaskovo Airport, not on military helicopters, but on two civilian helicopters operated by air-medical service. These workers weren’t warned that they were carrying radiation-contaminated patients, and they certainly didn’t sign any consent-to-assist documents. Because they weren’t told whom they were transporting, the air-medical responders didn’t even take basic safety measures. They flew into a hotbed of isotope radiation without respirators or protective gear, and took away the victims.

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And the most absurd thing in all this (though I struggle to single out what I think is “the most”) is that they didn’t leave our vehicle (a mobile radiation-chemistry laboratory) at Vaskovo Airport, where they brought the victims. Instead, they sent it to Severodvinsk to measure its radiation levels. At that time, there were reports that sensors there were showing heightened radiation levels. So our car went there, and an additional team drove to the airport with a gamma-ray sensor and nothing else. This was on orders from senior officials (not the managers at our rescue service).

Just so you understand: I’m saying that the rescue workers were in protective gear, but they had absolutely nothing to help the radiation victims. To make matters worse, our vehicle, which had everything needed to decontaminate radioactive people, had just left for Severodvinsk, on orders from management. I’ll note separately that the “Zvezdochka” and “Sevmash” factories in Severodvinsk also have their own equipment that could have been used to measure the radiation levels there.

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On August 8, at 4:35 p.m., three people injured at a military testing site were brought to our hospital. We doctors directly asked if any of the patients had been exposed to radiation. The patients’ escorts told us that they’d all been decontaminated. They said, “They’re no danger to you. Get to work.”

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Some time later, when we were already in surgery with the patients, the dosimetrists showed up and started measuring beta-radiation levels. They ran out of the operating room in terror. Doctors caught them in the hallway, and they confessed that the beta radiation was off the scale.

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And another important thing: we risked the lives of the other patients who were in the emergency room at that time. We closed the area only after we realized that we’d admitted three patients who’d been exposed to radiation. The whole time up until this, literally steps from our victims, there were teenagers, pregnant women, and people who needed medical attention, all just walking by.

The next day, on Monday, staff from the Health Ministry arrived. After spending several hours with the patients (about whom the doctors themselves knew only that they’d been exposed to radiation, and not the type of radiation or doses), the physicians started asking the Health Ministry officials: “We’ve likely been irradiated. Who’s responsible for this? Whose decision was it? And how will we be compensated for this?” The acting minister said the doctors would get overtime pay, which is roughly 100 rubles ($1.50) an hour. In other words, the Health Ministry officials didn’t deny that the staff had been irradiated. So these people spent five to six hours with the infected, performed operations on them, and got 500 rubles ($7.60) for it.

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The medics from the military came to our hospital only later. When we started telling them about the victims’ exposure, their diagnoses, and invited them into the patients’ rooms, the medics said, “No. We have children,” and “I’ve got so many kids and I’m not going in there.” Well that’s just great. Meanwhile, without any warning, the doctors at our hospital spent a bunch of time with these patients, the anesthesiologists each spent six hours with them, and these military medics don’t want to go inside for a single minute.

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At Burnazyan, they found cesium in one of my colleagues. He’s a young man, and his wife is currently pregnant. At the medical center, they asked him where he’s gone on vacation in the past few years. He started listing all the places, and said he’d been to Thailand at some point. When they heard this, they said where there’s Thailand, there’s Japan: “You must have eaten some Fukushima crabs!” The man had been in contact with cesium for several hours, he’d participated in surgeries [with irradiated patients], and he’d stood over the patients without a respirator mask. Then he goes in for an examination, and they tell him: “Oops, well, it’s your own fault. You brought it home from Thailand.”

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:38

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

We're working on background checks. There are things we can do. But we already have very serious background checks. We have strong background checks. We can close up the gaps. We can do things that are very good and things that, frankly, gun owners want to have done. But we also have to remember the gun doesn't pull the trigger, a person does. And we have great mental illness.

I'm just gonna post a trump quote wholesale, can someone parse the brainworms

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:41

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Its just one chest x-ray.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:45

MA-Horus: Dec 3, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

CommieGIR posted:

Its just one chest x-ray.

3.6 roentgen

Not great, not terrible.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:22

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Why was there graphite on the deck of that ship

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:28

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1164668358467313664

I think in a sane rational world this would be a declaration of war. I mean holy poo poo the knock on effects from doing this have got to be enormous for the rest of the world.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:47

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

In a sane world, sure. But these far right pieces of poo poo are looking at this with hard ons wishing they thought of it first.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:54

Old Boot: May 9, 2012; Buglord

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1164668358467313664

Yeah, I no-poo poo don't even know what to say to this.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:58

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

I'm sure they can find some forests in the US to burn to "trigger the libs"

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:58

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

orange juche posted:

We're working on background checks. There are things we can do. But we already have very serious background checks. We have strong background checks. We can close up the gaps. We can do things that are very good and things that, frankly, gun owners want to have done. But we also have to remember the gun doesn't pull the trigger, a person does. And we have great mental illness.

I'm just gonna post a trump quote wholesale, can someone parse the brainworms

I see one 100% true statement-sentence.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:58

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Old Boot posted:

Yeah, I no-poo poo don't even know what to say to this.

Interesting side effect I think. Next couple years all this burnt land will turn into grassland and they will overproduce cattle and tank the market.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:00

psydude: Apr 1, 2008

LingcodKilla posted:

Interesting side effect I think. Next couple years all this burnt land will turn into grassland and they will overproduce cattle and tank the market.

Nah. China will absorb whatever excess meat is on the market, just like everything else.

But we can take solace in that Brazilians will have to put up with Chinese tourists inundating their farms and buying all of their baby formula.

psydude fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Aug 23, 2019

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:06

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

orange juche posted:

Why was there graphite on the deck of that ship

None of your loving business and I'll thank you to stay out of my personal affairs

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:17

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

Old Boot posted:

Yeah, I no-poo poo don't even know what to say to this.

i say Free Lula

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:23

Woodchip: Mar 28, 2010

orange juche posted:

Why was there graphite on the deck of that ship

Pencils don�t whip themselves.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:23

Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

orange juche posted:

We're working on background checks. There are things we can do. But we already have very serious background checks. We have strong background checks. We can close up the gaps. We can do things that are very good and things that, frankly, gun owners want to have done. But we also have to remember the gun doesn't pull the trigger, a person does. And we have great mental illness.

I'm just gonna post a trump quote wholesale, can someone parse the brainworms

Finally something I can explain. Most of my work over the last 15 years has been signal processing, AI or reverse engineering, but my love (and I'd be a post doc in it if weird poo poo didn't happen) is being a logician, which is basically my poo poo.

When you're solving a maths problem and you aren't a kid, your basic go-to is constructing a new calculus or algebra, it's your basic tool, you do it trying to understand new things. Listening to Trump does my head in because he sounds like he makes up a new illogic every time he talks. He sounds like a total mental. Graphically:

This is most of you, and me, totally normal:

{ some clause in a sentence { about this } that maybe { references this } cleanly. Now there's a bit of outside context { about this } }.

This is Trump:

{ { I { Don't { Know { What the gently caress } } Then-there's-all-of-this-poo poo-here-that-is-just-plain-confusing } ~Slight sigh~ } more-bullshit-with-no-structure--no-brackets-here-it's-gone-freeform

He makes my head hurt, and I'm good at dealing with this poo poo.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:39

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

That�s it. We�ve killed the Amazon rainforest. I can�t believe it.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:12

Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

holocaust bloopers posted:

That�s it. We�ve killed the Amazon rainforest. I can�t believe it.

It ain't gone, there's just a lot of it that's hosed. That map isn't showing you the heat distribution of every fire globally, else that'd be a loving continent wide firestorm, it's a lot of individual fires. There's a Brazilian dude it'd be really useful if someone had a spare JDAM for right now.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:18

Duzzy Funlop: Jan 13, 2010; Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1164668358467313664

It's Terrible Maps, surely that is a joke

Welp

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:20

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Duzzy Funlop posted:

It's Terrible Maps, surely that is a joke

Welp

Its ok though! The false alarm rate in areas with >75% tree cover is as high as 25%. https://landval.gsfc.nasa.gov/ProductStatus.php?ProductID=MOD14
Its also about 1km resolution on the pixels and is based on raw intensity at 10/14 micron wavelength, so a lot can go wrong there.

(yeah no we're hosed)

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:31

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Milo and POTUS posted:

Holy poo poo that's way more than I expected. gently caress you Brazil.

Can y'all find some good fire maps of where we were last year around this time? I'm not sure how bad this whole thing truly is compared to yearly amounts. It's obviously bad, but I don't know how bad the non-Brazil areas are.

From NASA:

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It is not unusual to see fires in Brazil at this time of year due to high temperatures and low humidity. Time will tell if this year is a record breaking or just within normal limits.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/wildfires-in-the-brazilian-rainforest-creating-cross-country-smoke

While from CNN:

quote:

The country's space research center (INPE) said this week that the number of fires in Brazil are 80% higher than last year. More than half are in the Amazon region, spelling disaster for the local environment and ecology.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:34

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Sure wish we didn't have an demented idiot running things. Brazil needs the gently caress sanctioned out of it.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:50

Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

Okay, try this - this is the integral of fire power output over the last 24 hours (that website is a bitch to get understandable scientific pictures out of):

This is a week:

I know there's no scales or measures but I think that puts it into perspective. It's 7 days

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:51

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Hexyflexy posted:

Okay, try this - this is the integral of fire power output over the last 24 hours (that website is a bitch to get understandable scientific pictures out of):

This is a week:

I know there's no scales or measures but I think that puts it into perspective. It's 7 days

What windowing did you use? Integrating like that will greatly multiply the uncertainty in each measurement. The amount of information available there is "welp theres a lot of fires in Brazil right now"

I mean, that level of information is enough to know the amazon is hosed.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:56

Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

hobbesmaster posted:

What windowing did you use? Integrating like that will greatly multiply the uncertainty in each measurement. The amount of information available there is "welp theres a lot of fires in Brazil right now"

I mean, that level of information is enough to know the amazon is hosed.

I just went for radiative power output over the time window. It's not that intuitive, but the smaller time window shows you where the big fires are, and the longer time base shows you there's a hell of a lot of small ones being lit all the time.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:58

Crakkerjakk: Mar 14, 2016

IIRC there's a paper out there that puts up to half of the temperature drop during the post-medeival little ice age due to reforestation occuring in the americas when a bunch of the natives got killed by European diseases (particularly in the Amazon).

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Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Great die-off/nuclear winter 2020

# ? Aug 23, 2019 05:02

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