The unexpected part is the increased surface salinity. Previously it was thought that the fresh water melt would stay on top of the denser, saltier deep water trapping some heat and salt below and allowing some refreezing slowing the overall melt, but still melting. They’re finding unexpected vertical mixing bringing up saltier water from the deep, causing more melting, causing more mixing; a feedback loop.

The article doesn’t really explain why this is happening, only what is happening. It does link to a paper but I’m still trying to parse it. I think I need something a little dumbed down from the paper in plain language but with a lot more info than the original article to understand it.

It follows the normal pattern where everytime we learn more about climate change we find out it’s even worse than we thought.

They made a movie about that guy. Don’t watch it, it’s awful. It was all a misunderstanding. The Jesus is actually a good dude.

Because an entertainer/athlete gets a paycheck for doing a job. They’re not getting rich underpaying employees.

The debatable part comes in when you get more nuanced than that: The richest of them probably derive most of their wealth from investments once they’ve accumulated enough capital. Their industry requires the efforts of many underpaid people (even if they don’t directly get a say in that). Anyone that keeps (not just earns) a billion wakes up every morning and decides not to solve homelessness in their city. Etc.

But a 20mm paycheck to put asses in seats is a paycheck, not exploitation.

While I am a bit of a misanthrope, I do stop short of referring to people as cargo.

It’s always hard to judge AoA unless you’re looking side-on with a horizon for reference, but excessive nose-up attitude caused by cargo incorrectly loaded or not secured properly so it shifted aft during rotation could have caused an aerodynamic stall.

I guess it’s true, money can’t buy taste.

Fun fact: Alec Baldwin’s character was invented for the movie to provide exposition. The filmmakers didn’t trust movie-going audiences to pick up the information from the three conversations that occur at the beginning of the play.

I see a lot of these postmortems and I don’t know what combination of them is the actual truth, but I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised when she lost. As soon as she got the nomination I thought it was likely.

For what it’s worth, here is my take on her as one Californian that’s had to deal with her since before 2010 when she ran for attorney general:

• Even before she ran for attorney general, I was constantly hearing about all kinds of awful stuff the SF district attorney’s office was doing under her leadership even though I’m not from SF county.
• I was very disappointed when she got the nomination for attorney general because I didn’t want her policies applied statewide. I voted against her in the primary but of course I held my nose and voted for her over the R in the general.
• I don’t recall who I voted for in the 2016 primary for Senate but it wasn’t her, or blue dog Sanchez. I think I barely tilted toward Sanchez in the general but I honestly can’t remember. I was so disappointed in those choices that I didn’t really give a shit. I thought we could do better in California than two conserva-dems, especially with the top-2 primary system.
• Never even considered voting for that cop in a presidential primary.
• Didn’t like that she was the bottom of the ticket in 2020 especially considering Biden’s age, but the alternative was clear.
• Of course, due to the alternative I voted for her in 2024 but without one iota of enthusiasm. I think I may have been more enthused to vote for John fucking Kerry, but that was a long time ago, it’s hard to remember my feelings for a block of wood.

A small silver lining to her losing is I’ll never have to hold my nose and vote for her ever again.

She lost because she just sucks. Whether an individual’s reason for thinking she sucks and not being excited about her was based on misogyny, racism, her record of public service, her policy goals, or her personality doesn’t matter. I didn’t know anybody excited to vote for her. I knew some people excited to vote for a WOC, but not her as a person. A little enthusiasm was what was needed to turn the tide in the three states that mattered this time.

As soon as Biden dropped out too late for an actual primary, we already lost.

If I remember correctly that’s kind of what happened. The Klingons used augment genes from Earth’s eugenics wars (the ones used to make Khan and others) to try and create their own augmented Klingons. It went wrong and the result was human looking Klingons and it somehow became a transmissible virus. That’s where the TOS looking looking ones came from. All of this is retcon of course.

Edit: What I wrote was pretty close. Here is a link to the Klingon page on memory alpha. The explanation is just after the start of the “History and Politics” section.

My wife loved it too even though she didn’t play MMOs, but she had a basic understanding from hearing me talk about them.

She couldn’t get enough of the DKP minus video from around the same time, although I did have to explain DKP because none of my groups used it.

Thanks, it’s always nice to start the day off with a good laugh.

Look, I ain’t calling you a liar or anything, but that’s going on the list with balut as the second thing that I won’t try at least once.

I’m glad our fuck up in the US is inspiring others to step back from the edge. It’s at least a silver lining I can console myself with while everything crumbles around me.

I’m certainly no expert so I’d appreciate any Jane Goodall types that want to correct me, but aren’t almost all gorilla fights for dominance until someone backs down so no one gets too fucked up and rarely dies? Whereas polar bears kill to live.

Also, gorillas may have a hell of a haymaker but polar bears have big nasty fuck you claws.

Is going down to the courthouse and getting married again not an option? Not that you should have to do that, just curious.

Edit: I mean your local courthouse so you don’t have to deal with this anymore.

Letterkenny. A couple of degens fucking a, possibly sick, ostrich - Allegedly - is a running joke.

You should watch it and it’s spinoff, Shorsey.

I’ll do what I can but I can’t stop the zoomers from listening to Rogan any more than I could stop the boomers from listening to Limbaugh.

Listen, of course I want a sandwich. I always want a sandwich. I just don’t want to be the guy that tells you to make my totally-capable-of-making-my-own-damn-sandwich ass a sandwich, so I’m going to say “I’m alright”, even if I’m starving because I’ve been gaming all day without eating.

If you want to make me a sandwich, just do it. If you put it in front of me it will be eaten. But I’m never going to tell you to do it.

(After a few years she figured it out and sandwiches just appear now.)

Musk and Vivek haven’t learned the lesson yet. Trump can do whatever he wants, but he can’t say whatever he wants.

The few times Trump has been booed by the faithful is when he’s deviated from the MAGA dogma. You can import all the workers you want, but you have to say you’re deporting everyone. As long as Trump claims he’s rounding up all the immigrants and getting rid of them if you try to confront MAGATs with doubling H1B visa numbers they’ll scream “fake news”, no matter how much evidnece they’re shown.

These people are stupid, but they need to be pandered to.

I’ve only heard that applied to foreign diplomats. Because the parents have diplomatic immunity, they and their children aren’t “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

Keep fighting the good fight against the unnecessary \s. I appreciate you.