merlinsbeers
merlinsbeers t1_jc74b6n wrote
Reply to comment by OmegaLiar in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions
If you're old enough to write that you're ducking your part in it.
merlinsbeers t1_jc746ev wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions
They didn't stall. They counterattacked by turning government ignorant and anti-science, from the education system up. It will take generations to fix that.
merlinsbeers t1_jc73vc7 wrote
Reply to comment by MamaMiaPizzaFina in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions
A few trillion would be overkill. A hundred billion would get water into the right watersheds and create a few trillion in value. And pulling that water from flooded rivers would reduce flooding. Win-win-win.
merlinsbeers t1_jc72uud wrote
Hypothesis: more heat, more atmospheric water capacity, more evaporation, more precipitation, and in places unaccustomed to it, where people have rationalized building structures in flood plains, and flood insurance is inadequate.
merlinsbeers t1_jbn6z7b wrote
Reply to comment by madzterdam in Socotrian dragonblood trees on a overcast morning [1282x1920, OC, Socotra Island, Yemen] by sebikern_photography
I blame shrinkage.
merlinsbeers t1_j9sgg0q wrote
Reply to comment by yblame in What's the official name for "Breaking the seal" on a bogey/booger? I need to know. by CuriousFunnyDog
You know what happens when you sniffle?
merlinsbeers t1_j9sgc8y wrote
Reply to comment by gNormol in What's the official name for "Breaking the seal" on a bogey/booger? I need to know. by CuriousFunnyDog
You have been made a moderator of r/funny.
merlinsbeers t1_j9sg9ty wrote
Reply to What's the official name for "Breaking the seal" on a bogey/booger? I need to know. by CuriousFunnyDog
The Aristocrats! Grade 3 version.
merlinsbeers t1_j9n1yf8 wrote
Reply to comment by dingo1018 in Australian and UK researchers have developed a proof-of-concept display technology that is 100-times thinner than liquid crystal cells and offers a tenfold greater resolution. by unswsydney
Yeah. It was a big thing in the 80s. If you could piggyback a CMOS manufacturer's process you could bootstrap a product line easily.
Now it's not that big a deal because the fab equipment manufacturers can deal with exotic processes, and leading edge processes are themselves extremely exotic compared to something generically CMOS.
It's like plugging a full-color display or automatic transmission. Kind of sad.
merlinsbeers t1_j9mjcwv wrote
Reply to Australian and UK researchers have developed a proof-of-concept display technology that is 100-times thinner than liquid crystal cells and offers a tenfold greater resolution. by unswsydney
What's "100X thinner?" The switching layer or the whole panel?
Because we have OLED display panels so thin they can be rolled and folded, already.
And this doesn't say they eliminated backlighting, just polarization, which is only needed because liquid crystal layers don't block light they just twist its polarization axis so it's 90 degrees from the polarized sheet in the next layer.
Also, calling something "CMOS compatible" is like calling it "IBM PC compatible." Not the flex it's meant to appear a to be.
merlinsbeers t1_j8e5hau wrote
Reply to comment by dojoteef in [D] Quality of posts in this sub going down by MurlocXYZ
Reddit's labor model is broken.
merlinsbeers t1_j87ksbd wrote
Topping differences shouldn't be mixed up with morphological ones.
merlinsbeers t1_j7oi37t wrote
Reply to comment by bigdogxxl in Interactive Weather Forecast Maps by immediatecat12
Which has a way better UI.
merlinsbeers t1_j7kt49m wrote
Reply to comment by singbowl1 in Sedona landscape illuminated by the setting sun, Arizona [OC] [1366x910] @itk.jpeg by itk_jpeg
Maybe the older, richer hippies were more skilled at hinting you shouldn't quit your day job.
merlinsbeers t1_j7jm0yt wrote
Reply to comment by singbowl1 in Sedona landscape illuminated by the setting sun, Arizona [OC] [1366x910] @itk.jpeg by itk_jpeg
You're confusing Sedona for Scottsdale.
merlinsbeers t1_j6c3vdz wrote
Reply to comment by Anarchistcowboy420 in What Google would have looked like in the 1980s by Gnurx
"Don't be Elvis."
merlinsbeers t1_j6bzixu wrote
Reply to comment by djfraggle in What Google would have looked like in the 1980s by Gnurx
merlinsbeers t1_j6bazuf wrote
Reply to comment by Anarchistcowboy420 in What Google would have looked like in the 1980s by Gnurx
Google is evil. They've broken rule 1.
merlinsbeers t1_j6b1pyu wrote
Reply to comment by RedtheGamer100 in What Google would have looked like in the 1980s by Gnurx
Bulletin
Board
System
Think Reddit, but downloading a picture took 45 minutes.
merlinsbeers t1_j6b1jtn wrote
Reply to What Google would have looked like in the 1980s by Gnurx
I tried it and it says Google shut down in 2016.
merlinsbeers t1_j5xhkiz wrote
Reply to comment by Hot_Egg5840 in Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. by PNNL
Or build a house.
merlinsbeers t1_j5xhih7 wrote
Reply to comment by Kioskwar in Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. by PNNL
So the remaining ones are incellulose?
merlinsbeers t1_iy3lal0 wrote
Reply to The deepest ocean trenches of Earth function as island-like habitats, with distinct fauna on separate evolutionary trajectories by marketrent
Same as on land. Huh. Anyway...
merlinsbeers t1_ixv2gzm wrote
Reply to comment by Moont1de in For most Americans, housing was a key component in personal wealth accumulation. However, racist housing policies eroded black wealth in pre-WWII American cities. Black families paid a 28% premium to buy a home on a majority white block, after which their homes lost 10% of their value. by smurfyjenkins
I just told you what racism's defining quality is.
merlinsbeers t1_jc7mqgl wrote
Reply to comment by thekux in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions
Nothing you said is true.
The only "they" you should be worrying about are the ones who have convinced you to viscerally reject science.