Saeculum

joined 2 years ago
[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

For all people like to compare it to WWI, they don't ever seem to think that it's probably going to end like it where one side eventually has its ability to maintain the front destroyed and then starts losing massive amounts of territory very quickly.

At the rate the western front was going it would have taken hundreds of years to get all of Germany, but that's not how wars of attrition work.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

No, I do get that, but the emissions from extensive fires across the region are still substantially different from what you'd see in the kind of event we have seen produce actual global cooling events like the 1815 eruption.

I'm willing to believe that it's possible, but I think the initial study suggesting it could happen makes some overly broad assumptions and I've seen subsequent studies fail to reach the same conclusion with similar analysis.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The eruption that caused the year without summer had hundreds of times the explosive force of the entire Indian and Pakistani arsenal combined and threw almost 200 cubic kilometres of ash and tephra very high into the atmosphere. It was an event on an entirely different scale.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In the case of a limited exchange I'm quite sceptical of the study that suggested the ash would cause significant global cooling for a prolonged period of time (5 years+). I think they overestimate both the amount of ash and particulates generated and the amount of time it would remain in the upper atmosphere, alongside the extent of the resulting fires.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

This is good advice, but I live near several major military installations and a major urban centre. My plan for this scenario is to bend over, place my head firmly between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Synthetic textiles full the same purpose and are considerably cheaper now than traditional textiles were then

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Optimistic of you to assume this will be in a timely fashion.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

You can absolutely vibe code a bridge, just massively overbuild it. Anyone can build a bridge, only an engineer can build a bridge that just barely stands up.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Please it would be so funny

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the neat part: trans men are banned from both restrooms!

Or rather organisions are now allowed to ban trans men from both bathrooms. The Equality Act is a badly written and conceived law in many places that labour could fix any time they want (but won't).

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy, my grandparents were one of ten, eleven, eight and six respectively. Can't imagine how my great grandparents coped.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Not enough berries to go around. Billions would die. Also, sometimes there are no berries at all.

view more: ‹ prev next ›