sunflowerstupid.bsky.social
Former GIS analyst, current water resources nerd. Water/wastewater engineer (EIT). Doing PFAS research currently.
I'm from the square states in the middle.
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Yes but the government didn't buy HIS EVs
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It's a cool idea, especially to expand beyond a personal project. I worked with a group that did air quality and asthma studies a few years back, but never heard of a connection between pressure and migraines. Seriously cool idea.
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Are you just tracking this for personal use? It would be cool to get a large study group of people with migraines, maybe set up some kind of self reporting for migraine symptoms and track it against a variety of air pressure & quality indicators.
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The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.
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I think about states like New Mexico with a lot of federal employees and wonder what it'll be like there once even more people are unemployed. Most people in the research side of my field work at universities or national labs, there's not nearly enough non-government industry jobs.
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It drives me insane, especially because what the US does best as a military is logistics. The actual "mainly men fighting & rucking through mud" stuff is such a small percentage of the military.
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This is a fun idea until you get to the government research jobs in which anything you've published/who you work with points a big neon sign to wherever you went
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I used to love stumbleupon, just finding random cool stuff that existed.
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This is so stupid. I've driven more than this for years in a car that didn't even have cruise control. It sounds like this person picked the largest car available so they could get a tax break?
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I started to answer with my own definition of a map and then nerd sniped myself.
Sure you could say "graphic displaying geospatial information" but then you get into some weird charts, engineering drawings, imagery analysis pieces etc.
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I always say it's being in the military as a hobby lol
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On top of the million other reasons she isn't someone serious, the national guard is the military.
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Also it's multiple complex structure fires, at many points in the city, as domestic users are trying to wet down their roofs and tamp down sparks from winds, which adds additional stress. This is a nightmare scenario for a water utility.
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I've spent a decent amount of time doing water distribution modeling, and planning for fire flow events is hard! Planning distribution for large fires is going to run into this problem eventually, no system is robust enough for fighting multiple fires all day.
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Every time I see one of these "actually delivery is cheaper" posts I flash back to being 19 & cooking every meal in my tiny apartment kitchen with dented cans from the nearby discount grocery. I ate so much rice and cheap pasta. Eating out anywhere, especially delivery, was a luxury.
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Second best biblical musical, the best obviously being Jesus Christ Superstar
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The theme sounds like South Pacific (the musical)
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It's used constantly in civil engineering applications. Everything built around you at some point used basic algebra and trig in the design process.
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Seeing that animal collective album always reminds me of this. A total callout for me in highschool.
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Yeah if it can say I listened to "pink pilates princess strut pop" or "goblin core folk pink" or whatever how hard can it be to say queer music. My running playlist is basically screaming "these bitches gay!"
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Although personally I think "large geospatial model" is partially soft rebranding of the "geospatial big data" that was popular ten years ago, with a bit more computer vision and "AI" sprinkled in.
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This is an interesting connection especially considering how Niantic is using customer data from pokemon go to create their large geospatial model. It's the kind of consumer surveillance culture that became accepted in the mainstream post 9/11.
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I had a jacket in highschool with a hole in the pocket that dropped directly into the lining. I used it to smuggle in an entire two liter of soda, more candy than is reasonable, and large bags of popcorn. I am willing to be that isn't anything near the real record though.
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Saltwater intrusion into groundwater in coastal areas is a major problem in waiting! Some places are doing injection wells in the coast to keep intrusion at bay, some are ignoring the problem and telling folks with private wells "oh well!"