icastorm.bsky.social
Meteorologist | TTU PhD Candidate | Predictability and Sensitivity | Moody Storm Pictures | Prog Rock
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of course the fun thing about being a conservative intellectual is no one expects you to know anything or engage in the most basic forms of analytical reasoning
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The media pretends this is somehow an anti-war stance
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President Harris said that she had no plans to call Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma after a string of tornadoes devastated the state over the weekend.
"I think the governor of Oklahoma is so whacked out, I’m not calling him," Harris told reporters.
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Looks like it's splitting
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They haven't even had that, at least not in terms of NYC mayors over the last decade!
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"The disorder of the past decade" is a weird way to describe one of the safest decades in the history of NYC
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Is Caleb Williams the guy?
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It's more about knowing how the media environment influences public perception. If you want the power to do good things then you have to convince people that good things are good. They aren't going to arrive at that on their own, especially not with a hostile media.
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Currently doing an internship, and as part of an icebreaking activity early on they had us raise our hands in answer to questions. Out of maybe 200 18 - 30 year olds:
"How many of you are on social media?"
*All hands up*
"How many of you like social media?"
*0 hands up*
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Even this is too sympathetic to right wing extremism, I'd argue that "Islamic extremism" falls into that category as well
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I get the frustration with the US because our politics have massive implications for the rest of the world and especially our neighbors but pretending like Canada doesn't have most of the same problems festering just under the surface could easily lead them down the exact same path one day...
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When these people can't get what they want where they want it, they'll get what they want by outbidding others nearby. And so on, and so on...
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Feels like a brutal combination of slight regression, mostly fantastic pitching, and bad luck. Lots of tough luck with risp especially. The luck will come around, and a couple guys will get hot and we'll forget all about this stretch soon imo
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I think this is a big part of it, people attributed those lasting negative Covid effects to economic conditions because economic conditions are normally the primary drivers of those negative effects, or at least many of the social aspects.
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That said, I do think services like this have a place. Bridging the gap between watches and warnings for a non-captive audience is a value add if done responsibly, but they aren't "beating" tornado warnings because they're different products with different goals.
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The 2020 Lakers title win was more chaotic (and had more arrests) than these protests
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Feels like the last couple of games have been pretty bad babip luck as well, the number of times pat has been surprised or disappointed by catches being made seems higher than usual. Good pitchers also sometimes appear to make their own luck, so maybe that's a part of it.
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I've always felt this way, and I explain it to people like this: everyone is looking for a letter to Hogwarts
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it’s a form of existential oppositional defiant disorder from people who hate that the world is bigger than a person can understand
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Pretending it's the "baseball balderdash" of the day when it's one of maybe 3 that loop over and over again. I'd rather listen to a real ad at this point
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15 years? Didn't Mexico liberate itself from Spain in the 1800s? Their constitution was ratified in 1917, and before that the Mexican empire would indeed lose a lot of it's territory to the US in the Mexican American war.
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60% in favor of eating cake, 60% in favor of having cake tomorrow, guess we’re gonna be in a cursed loop forever where voters elect Mom Dems to buy cake so Dad MAGA can eat it