AceClown posted:

Central Europe is turbo hosed, it's been under severe drought conditions for what 2? 3? years now with no sign whatsoever of it easing up. Northern Italy is 8ft under water because they had something like an entire year of rain in 3 days and the alps are nearly barren of snow. it's not a good time this side of the Pacific.

Oh and in the last 6 months Germany has closed down its last remaining nuclear plants and gone all in on coal stations....

Acelerion posted:

Fluid dynamics is stupidly math intensive and sensitive to boundary conditions, phase transitions, etc...I feel for you atmospheric modeling folks because on top of existential horror you picked fun with greens functions

reddit posted:

Does anyone else get mentally stressed from the rain knowing this just isn’t normal anymore when will this madness stop?
Rant
The past 6 months is far beyond any record rainfall in Aucklands history when will it stop?! Anyone else feel anxious like me?

When I hear the rain while I’m trying to sleep or get awoken from it I feel like I get a mild form of PTSD since it has made me sleep deprived and mentally stressed at work for months. Room is a sleep out so it just amplifys the sound of the rain even louder, I wake up from it and it’s hard to get any sleep to the point I get extremely angry and mentally stressed since I know I need some sleep for work. I also get scared since I have a fear that it might be flooding outside while I’m sleeping….

antipattern posted:

lmao jfc

sure, I'm dying of heatstroke and my crops and farm animals are dead but I'm glad all these financial products are there to make it better

Ihmemies posted:

I recommend northern europe, it probably won’t be as hosed as central europe will be.

Hubbert posted:

I'm just gonna keep living in the cursed lands of Canada and ride out biosphere collapse there until the Americans invade us a la Fallout.

Pants Donkey posted:

This one needs some context. I was going to make an effort post earlier, but I got busy with stuff.

So back before the car, the streets belonged to pedestrians. Horses top out around 30 MPH, and that’s assuming a single rider and not a wagon or anything else hitched to them. Even the earliest cars weren’t much faster if faster at all, and they were a luxury so not all that common on streets. So mixed traffic on the street was very common: a mix of pedestrians, horses, and cars. It was not uncommon to have kids playing or people chatting in the streets. It was a public place, and the impetus was upon the rider/driver to avoid pedestrians.

That changes after the turn of the century: cars get significantly faster. Whereas the Model T topped out at around 40mph, you had newer models getting faster and faster.

And people loving hated them.

They were loud, produced pollution, and disrupted street traffic, often lethally. People were not fans of these new, speedy vehicles, and that was a problem for the auto makers. How do you change public perception of these noisy death machines?

The answer was to portray the pedestrian as the enemy. The pedestrian is an invader of the street, which was a subtle implication that the street belonged to cars. Automakers had aggressive lobbying, ad campaigns, and even offered to write news articles for the papers about any auto accident which obviously were slanted to make it the fault of the pedestrian.

It worked: laws designed to limit car speeds or other common-sense regulation were quashed and jaywalking became a new crime. While jaywalking wasn’t all that respected at first, the media blitz did its work of demonizing the pedestrian.

And that’s how we lost our streets to cars. Emboldened, automakers would continue to use their influence to shape our infrastructure around their product, make cars a necessity to live, undermine public transportation, and loosen regulations to unleash the unholy creation that is the SUV.

While I can’t say for sure if cartoonist were outright paid to produce jaywalking propaganda or just bought into the lies themselves, there are a decent amount of jaywalking cartoons around that period.

Ihmemies posted:

I recommend northern europe, it probably won’t be as hosed as central europe will be.

silicone thrills posted:

I got a dna confirmation test that i have a nasty cancer gene and no poo poo 3 days later i got a thing in the mail from mutual of omaha for cancer insurance.

Capital is ready to cash in on all ailments.

Cold on a Cob posted:

if i still played games i'd play the gently caress out of a reboot of fallout centered around a climate apocalypse where the usa and china go nuts with crispr instead of atomic energy + weaponry

Stereotype posted:

there is no speed that is too fast for me. i think most people in this thread are the same. everything is actually happening a lot slower than i expected. poo poo should be so much worse by now

Eraflure posted:

Not apocalyptic enough. Have them waddle across the Pacific Puddle

Brendan Rodgers posted:

The Pacific will be bigger, wider, more acidic, everything will be dead, etc. Also apparently loving diagonal or some poo poo according to that El Nino stuff. That's apocalyptic.

silicone thrills posted:

I got a dna confirmation test that i have a nasty cancer gene and no poo poo 3 days later i got a thing in the mail from mutual of omaha for cancer insurance.

Capital is ready to cash in on all ailments.

The Oldest Man posted:

cancer insurance?

actionjackson posted:

Knitting Beetles posted:

No idea if this is true but tire manufacturers designing their products to disintegrate as fast as possible seems obvious, big lol if this could've been largely avoided if it weren't for $

Cold on a Cob posted:

if i still played games i'd play the gently caress out of a reboot of fallout centered around a climate apocalypse where the usa and china go nuts with crispr instead of atomic energy + weaponry

Trainee PornStar posted:

I dont think that is true, tyres are not lightbubs..
Tyre's need to be either hard for long wearing or soft for good grip, manufacturers offer a range of tyre's that suit the purpose.

They are pretty much going to have to invent hover cars to avoid tyre particles.

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Cold on a Cob posted:

i've banged this drum more than once but broad strokes of the ending of oryx and crake feels more and more likely all the time, except that was a happy ending compared to what will probably happen

Serfer posted:

Hubbert posted:

it's called FEV and it's canon