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The current event is that it's December and we're almost free of the stupid year.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 05:46 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 09:35 |
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This accursed hell year will never end, December makes no difference.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 05:50 |
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I saw Obama was arrested, and this is clearly important news.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 05:50 |
I'm EST and there's still 10 minutes left you power hungry clown
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 05:50 |
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Is it still infrastructure week?
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 05:53 |
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 05:57 |
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31 days left in 2020, anyone want to make bets on what other stupid things will happen this year? Already covered: Record shattering hurricane season in the Atlantic (one town got in 2 warning cones at the same time!) Leads to my favorite experience of the year, evacuating from the NC Outer Banks during a pandemic (I called it the “coronacaine clusterfuck”) Record breaking wildfires (US and Aus, at the very least) Mentioned earlier, but bears repeating: COVID Kobe Bryant’s helo crash (that was January!) We came close to war with Iran, repeatedly US started aiding Taliban vs ISIL Deaths of Chadwick Bozeman, John Lewis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg CAROL loving BASKIN George Floyd (and many others ) Election clusterfuck (senate control is still up in the air!) What else have I missed? Obligatory “John Oliver blows up 2020” video for everyone’s enjoyment: https://youtu.be/w405p8GeTps
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:02 |
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November lasted almost as long as marchLeavemywife posted:I saw Obama was arrested, and this is clearly important news. Hard to believe it was the same month as the election....
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:02 |
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sharknado slashfic posted:I'm EST and there's still 10 minutes left you power hungry clown I live in the middle of the Atlantic.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:08 |
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lousy smarch weather
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:10 |
Icon Of Sin posted:31 days left in 2020, anyone want to make bets on what other stupid things will happen this year? Don't forget Luca winning the election in Nz by unanimous vote
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:26 |
Comrade Blyatlov posted:Don't forget Luca winning the election in Nz by unanimous vote RIGGED ELECTION!!!
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:52 |
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I think I'm ok with that rigging.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:54 |
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I wanted frigging in the rigging and there has been none.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 06:58 |
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Sweet! I got a phishing email that got past the regular gmail screening. AT&T Thanking me for my 'order' with an email of att-services.cn.597067815@genericdl.att-mail.com
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 07:03 |
ded posted:Sweet! I got a phishing email that got past the regular gmail screening. AT&T Thanking me for my 'order' with an email of att-services.cn.597067815@genericdl.att-mail.com I get so many phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from Paypal and Apple. Most of them are super obvious and they send like 3-4 in a day to make sure you don't fall for it. I want to contact them and tell them to gently caress off but I'm afraid they'd just put me on the list of addresses to focus on or something Almost never get any other spam though. Occasionally I'll get a really good phishing email and I actually kind of like those because at least they're interesting.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 07:18 |
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Tiger King was released three years ago and you can't convince me otherwise.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 07:21 |
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my kinda ape posted:I get so many phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from Paypal and Apple. Most of them are super obvious and they send like 3-4 in a day to make sure you don't fall for it. I want to contact them and tell them to gently caress off but I'm afraid they'd just put me on the list of addresses to focus on or something This one looked very good actually. Except for the email address and the fact when you hovered over an image in the email it changed to 'download now'. Oh and thinking about that OBAMA WAS ARRESTED bs, Obama is like the only black man on the planet who doesn't have to worry about getting killed by a cop. But that is only because of his secret service detail.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 08:42 |
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This is what a leap second looks like on most clocks that support them, in the UTC timezone. We’re not getting one this December because the discrepancy created by Earth’s slow rotation, relative to the reference period circa 1900, hasn’t built up to the point where adding a second would help synchronise things. In fact, Earth’s rotation has lately been faster than it was in twentieth century, and we’re not entirely sure why. The general trend is that it slows because the Moon’s stealing our momentum. The speedup we are now experiencing must be due to changing mass distribution in one way or another, but degrees to which Earth’s interior layers, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are involved is an open question. There are many variables, we don’t have a good understanding of all of them, and we don’t have good historical measurements. This is a graph of the difference in the length of the day versus the ideal of eighty‐six thousand four hundred SI seconds, as measured by atomic clocks. Units are seconds. Ditto, but only the last five years For a comparison of the magnitudes involved, the complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet would bring that water closer to the Earth’s axis by an amount that would result in a speedup of two milliseconds. tl;dr: Earth is spinning faster and we don’t know why. But the changes are tiny and it’s probably not foreshadowing catastrophe. For all we know, the same weird things were going on in the time of Julius Cæsar; he just didn’t have cæsium atomic clocks to compare against.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 08:43 |
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Hotter planet = less dense = more speed Might be something that simple.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:05 |
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Seconds are getting longer.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:14 |
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The Monolith is a giant troll. https://abcnews.go.com/US/monolith-discovered-utah-desert-mysteriously-disappears-overnight/story?id=74465679 quote:The monolith that mysteriously appeared out of nowhere in the Utah desert was removed from its location in the middle of the night over the weekend while a similar structure showed up in Europe, according to officials and witnesses. It's now in Romania.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:19 |
Woofer posted:RIGGED ELECTION!!! Not at all, we just threw out every vote that wasn't for him per standard practice
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:36 |
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The "obelisk" looked errantly like one of the stands that used to hold up those "futuristic" AT&T phones with the dot matrix screens that you'd see at larger airports back in the 80s and early 90s. Top marks go to clickbait headlines that started with "mystery metal" to imply they were something other than garden variety stainless steel, too.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:39 |
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Don't worry, guys. We'll have the 'rona under control in no time. Just gotta drop those pesky constitutional barriers between church and state. Oklahoma Governor Stitt declares Dec. 3 as statewide day of prayer and fasting for Oklahomans affected by COVID-19 quote:Governor Kevin Stitt announced today he is declaring Thursday, Dec. 3 as a statewide day of prayer and fasting for all Oklahomans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Verbatim from the executive proclamation, dated 30 November: quote:Whereas, when we unite in prayer, we are reminded that there is no burden too heavy for God to lift or for the state to bear with His help. 2 Chronicles 7:14 proclaims that, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land;" A statewide mask mandate? No, that would be ridiculous. As of 30 November, a mere 1,743 people have died of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. They presumably didn't pray hard enough.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:41 |
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Platystemon posted:But the changes are tiny and it’s probably not foreshadowing catastrophe. For all we know, the same weird things were going on in the time of Julius Cæsar; he just didn’t have cæsium atomic clocks to compare against. seems like a fuckup on his part e: oh wow it's not based on that. Neato
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 09:53 |
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Current clocks are two generations of 20 beryllium decay.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 10:02 |
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ded posted:The Monolith is a giant troll. wait did anyone think otherwise
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 11:50 |
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I expected it was just some locals (broadly speaking) having fun, not that it was a worldwide campaign.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 11:53 |
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Platystemon posted:I expected it was just some locals (broadly speaking) having fun, not that it was a worldwide campaign. Judging by the finish on the Romanian one, they're not related except that someone took advantage to make it interesting.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 12:16 |
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https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...nown-study-says This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, but covid had likely been circulating around the US in December, weeks before the first reported cases in China, and nearly a month before the first official case in the US. Covid antibodies were detected during an analysis of blood donations made near the start of the year. quote:Researchers found coronavirus antibodies in 39 samples from California, Oregon, and Washington as early as Dec. 13 to Dec. 16. They also discovered antibodies in 67 samples from Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin in early January — before widespread outbreaks in those states. EDIT: The link to the study in the NPR article doesn't work, so here's a working link if anyone wants to check it out. https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472 Spoggerific fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Dec 1, 2020 |
# ? Dec 1, 2020 13:02 |
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This year's felt like a decade. God I hope 2021 is boring, whoever said "may you live in interesting times" is an rear end in a top hat. What's left on the natural disaster checklist, volcano?
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:08 |
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As Nero Danced posted:This year's felt like a decade. God I hope 2021 is boring, whoever said "may you live in interesting times" is an rear end in a top hat. Were coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the March 11 tsunami. Seems like the right time for the Cascadia fault to go.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:11 |
My thoughts on 2020
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:11 |
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Spoggerific posted:https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...nown-study-says That's interesting cause I was the sickest I've ever been in my life for the last two weeks of December, but have always written off any possibility it was COVID because of the date. Still probably wasn't but it is crazy how much it hits all the right marks: got better for a couple days before getting way way worse, really hard time breathing at the worst point, and the worst fatigue I've ever felt. I even called my parents in a panic at one point and made them drive half-way across the state because I was alone with my 2 year old and thought I was going to lose consciousness or need to call 911. It was the first time being sick ever made me feel scared. Like I've been on a 4-man SKT running a 102 fever with the medic freaking out about whether he had to call in a bird or if I'd be able to walk out before the sun came up and this was on a whole other level (see also: why you don't take someone running a 100 degree fever on a loving SKT in late November just because an E6 is too important to fill in for a specialist machine gunner) Also where I live/work/go to school and my family situation if there was any virus in MA in Dec it's not implausible for me to have been exposed. Still probably not but it feels nuts.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:14 |
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As Nero Danced posted:This year's felt like a decade. God I hope 2021 is boring, whoever said "may you live in interesting times" is an rear end in a top hat. Volcano, tsunami, and meteor (which has been threatened this year a few times). There have been some decent earthquakes around the world this year, last one being ~7.0 and hitting Turkey right before our Election Day.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:17 |
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I still have hope that 2020 can claim Kissinger and Queen Liz.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:30 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:Volcano, tsunami, and meteor (which has been threatened this year a few times). There have been some decent earthquakes around the world this year, last one being ~7.0 and hitting Turkey right before our Election Day. gently caress it, go big. Yellowstone do your thing.
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:37 |
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Arecibo fell https://twitter.com/PlanetTreky/status/1333746729603182593?s=19
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:38 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 09:35 |
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Legal Eagle has been helpful to understand these trump "lawsuits" better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-nblE8ps2M that sucks
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# ? Dec 1, 2020 14:40 |