Tyrannosaurus Rex May Have Actually Been Three Separate Dinosaurs
Ever since the first Tyrannosaurus skeleton was put on display in 1905, the tyrant lizard has captivated the world. Now, researchers say that the Tyrannosaurus may have actually developed into three distinct species beyond just the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex.
A team of three researchers led by paleontologist Gregory Paul said on Monday that variations of about three dozen fossils indicated that two additional species deserved recognition. Paul and the fellow researchers dubbed these two new species Tyrannosaurus Imperator and Tyrannosaurus Regina.
“After over a century of all specimens being placed into one species without the issue being carefully examined, the first and only analysis finds that the variation in Tyrannosaurus is beyond the norms for dinosaurs, and is distributed over time in a manner that indicates that Darwinian speciation from one (species) to two new species had occurred before the final dinosaur extinction cut off further evolution,” Paul said in an abstract published to Evolutionary Biology, first reported by Reuters.
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Stop trying normalize sauropod polyamory! It was Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve and Jana when she’s ovulating!
Apple TV+ announced today that it will expand its acclaimed slate of science fiction offerings with “Neuromancer,” a new 10-episode drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by William Gibson. It will be created for television by Graham Roland (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Dark Winds”) and JD Dillard (“Devotion,” “The Outsider,” “Sleight”). A co-production between Skydance Television and Anonymous Content, “Neuromancer” will also be produced by Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment, with Roland serving as showrunner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode.
The series will follow a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.
“We’re incredibly excited to be bringing this iconic property to Apple TV+,” said creators and executive producers Roland and Dillard. “Since we became friends nearly 10 years ago, we’ve looked for something to team up on, so this collaboration marks a dream come true. ‘Neuromancer’ has inspired so much of the science fiction that’s come after it and we’re looking forward to bringing television audiences into Gibson’s definitive ‘cyberpunk’ world.”
Fuck. Off. Go ruin some other novel, you shitbags.
There have been threats to fuck up Neuromancer and Snow Crash for decades now but they keep falling through. May the nightmare never fall on us. The Expanse gave me a glimmer of hope there was a new dawn of people interested in making science fiction film and TV. The shitnado of Altered Carbon stubbed that out.
Michelle Obama’s office says the former first lady ‘will not be running for president’ in 2024
WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama has said he’s “all in” for President Joe Biden’s re-election effort. But a question nagging at many Democrats is what role his popular spouse might play.
Democrats nervously looking ahead to November say they want to see Michelle Obama playing a bigger role in the campaign. Some even whisper about the possibility that she might replace a politically hobbled incumbent on the 2024 ticket this summer — making her a fantasy candidate for members of both parties, albeit for different reasons.
Supporters of Republican front-runner Donald Trump have fixated on the notion of Obama’s swooping in to replace Biden in attempt to diminish the president’s political viability and stoke the GOP base.
In a statement to NBC News, the former first lady’s office tried to rein in imaginations on the right and the left, making it clear her 2024 plans don’t include running for office.
“As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,” said Crystal Carson, director of communications for her office. “Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
Big Mike’s not going to save you, AWFLs. You’re married to Grandpa Joe; you made your adjustable bed, so have fun being pawed at and drool on in it.
I was this years old when I learned magnets won’t stick to stainless steel.
Depending on the strength of the magnet, and what flavor of stainless (ferritic vs. austenitic), they can.
But most of the time, not enough iron.
Huh. I always thought steel was just fancy iron. Hey, y’all aren’t gonna make me pay 25$ to comment, are you, like TOS?
“Tyrannosaurus Regina”
Mean girl.
She Rex.
Hey now! We also had Ex Machina, shame that guy only did that Devs miniseries after that.
I should have specified adaptations. But still, there aren’t many good original movies either. Tender wheat in a blizzard of chaff.
Depending on the definition, I would say Alita: Battle Angel would qualify as a decent adaptation, and then there’s the Dune movies. I’ve never read the books for Children of Men, Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat), the Martian, or Ready Player One, but found them all at least moderately entertaining.
Neuromancer should be a stream that looks like an empty TV channel.
You mean a black screen with the words “NO SIGNAL?” You just made me realize that another reference from my childhood is lost on the young. They will never truly appreciate the “snow” of an analog TV on an empty channel.
I just brought that up at work (in a discussion of static). There is one thing still keeping people aware of the blast of static/snow, and that’s the transitions from Robot Chicken.
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Best opening sentence I’ve ever read. Hooked me immediately. I committed it to memory.
Although “A man, failed and unfit, moved west and north” was a definite runner-up (opener of Dickson’s Wolf and Iron).
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
“The shitnado of Altered Carbon stubbed that out.”
I liked the first season. I never finished the second.
Same.
I didn’t like the first season very much. They had a perfectly enjoyable and understandable plot and they changed it around for no real reason. (I could give you an hour-long rant on the shit they fucked up.)
I never read the book.
Not unlike the phrase “never get out of the boat”, never get out of the source material.
Yeah, that was the weird thing, they just did it for no apparent reason.
Season 1 of Game of Thrones. I feel like they only read the first novel before writing the scripts, so they made cut decisions that were totally fine for book 1/season 1.
Then they prepared for season 2 and were like, “Oh fuck, we cut out key characters, how are we going to shoehorn them back in?”
Yeah, season one was very good, even though they inexplicably reversed the roles of characters and organizations from what they were in the novel. The second season was garbage (but more liked by critics, natch). Shame, because some cool shit happens in the books that they could have used. Also, I like Anthony Mackie, but his nice guy persona was all wrong to play Kovacs.
If she runs, will she come out as trans?
T-Rexes were three spirited?
Let’s Move failed to reduce obesity. Hilary Clinton was not elected. What is she good at exactly?
She’s good at getting the chattering class to say how wonderful and beautiful she is.
That and grifting. See Netflix, Spotify, etc.
Making the 0 look straight(ish).
Supporters of Republican front-runner Donald Trump have fixated on the notion of Obama’s swooping in to replace Biden in attempt to diminish the president’s political viability and stoke the GOP base.
Yes, it’s MAGA types who are salivating over the prospect of Big Mike being the taurus ex machina that lumbers in and saves the day.
To be fair, I’ve only heard conservative talking heads bringing up the possibility.
As more of an anti-supporter of the Democrats than anything else, the thought of her “swooping in” does indeed terrify me. Because I think she would wipe the floor with any GOP opponent, real or imaginary.
I hope to hell she’s not lying.
“Shitnado”
…
*Runs to Asylum production offices waiving script idea
Yeah, I was trying to think – has a tornado ever hit a sewage plant? Is Gaia averse to that ever happening?
A guy I know was chasing tornados and got caught out on a dairy farm in the open. The tornado picked up millions of cow patties and pummeled him.
He got a wicked case of pink eye.
Man killed by flying turd, news at 11.
But enough about the Osprey…
Bam!
There was a terrible Shpip style joke in one of Spider Robinson’s Callahan’s stories that ended with someone getting hit with blue ice from a plane, proving that even in a non-strategic area, you could get hit by an ICBM.
Moi? Strange. My dog thinks I’m the apotheosis of wit.
Do trailer parks count?
“God must really hate mobile homes. Tornados always attack them first.”
-Dr. Johnny Fever
“Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
ONE THOUSAND PER CENT.
Attn TPTB, new content queued up for ya!
Grazie!
Gosh darn it all to heck. I make a comment just when the tide changes. Please forgive me for going OT so soon but:
Greetings from Vermont. At yesterday’s primary election Nikki Haley got a clear and unmistakable mandate of 50.2% proving that Donald Trump’s political career is finished! Now let me pull a number from my derriere: 99% of those in VT who voted for Haley will vote for whoever the D’s run for president in November.
Vermont has an open primary which I think is a constitutional violation of the Right of Free Association. Accordingly when asked what primary ballot I wanted I requested D. Now, as in all the elections in the last 30 years, my name again has a “D” next to it written down (on two of of the voter rolls) or circled (on the other two).
This year instead of voting for the D’s biggest nutjob I wrote in “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.” hoping that *any* mention of him will piss of the D’s. Vermont’s own Bernie Sanders is the biggest nutjob of all but I’d vote for him in the D presidential primary if he was allowed to run.
For the general election I’m going to continue my long standing policy and hold my nose and vote for whatever nutjob the L’s nominate. It’s nutjobs all the way down!
I wish the L’s were nominating nutjobs who could spread the message of libertarianism. I’ll never forget that in the most impactful election for the party you’ll probably see they put up Johnson and Bill fucking Weld.
I met Gary at one of his fundraisers. I liked him. He was liberarianish enough for me and better as a candidate than most nominated by the LP.
Unfortunately, spreading the message in any meaningful way to tens of millions of voters is going to take tens of millions of $$$. And the LP is not going to attract anyone who can do both. Or do you have somebody in mind?
How much free air time did Trump get in 2016? Being outlandish in the eyes of the mainstream media (not hard for a libertarian) and entertaining will do more than any amount of bullshit normal political messaging through conventional methods.
You need someone who can grab the public’s attention and move the overton window our way.
Maybe dance on stage naked?
Would be sound advice if the press were the ones deciding what to cover.
It’s easier to find a major-party reject with name recognition than to spread the message.
The message is out there – and the people don’t want it. Jesus, don’t be like the fucking progtards and walk around claiming you represent the majority of the people in the country (when you are a fringe in one party).
Yes, Juris. Every single person out there is already familiar with esoteric libertarian principles. How could I be so blind?
No one claimed to represent the majority of anything. But why even run a candidate for a libertarian party? What should the goal be, Juris? If it’s putting an empty suit on stage who will say things that are basically 90% in line with the mainstream Republican Party, but mildly pro-weed and pro-abortion, what the fuck is the point? Why would anyone think that’s really going to peel off voters from the mainstream parties or force any change in the status quo?
So I’ll go back to what I said. A third party candidate with no chance of winning doesn’t need experience. They don’t need be buttoned up and serious. They need to be charismatic, interesting, someone who can sell people on ideas.
What the Libertarian Party needs to do is stop the quixotic runs at the Presidency and start with school boards, city councils, state legislatures, etc.
Would be nice.
I wonder if you could more than 1 real libertarian to form a quorum
Elections are never going to solve the problems, because we are getting the govt the people vote for. It’s the people that are the problem.
Things will change when they must – because they can’t continue. Until then, it’s not going to change. I’ll be happy to check out before the day arrives that change must happen.
Badnarik is my favorite LP candidate I have voted for.
And…uh, yeah. Not so much on spreading the message. But he was awesome otherwise.
Johnson was a solid pick. Bill fucking Weld… not so much.
I’m thinking about buying Bitcoin, but hoping/waiting for it to dip a bit. It looks like it’s about to start another major boom cycle. Yea, it doubled. But I’m talking about exponential growth over the next year.
I think it could also be something more permanent than past boom cycles because, for better or most likely worse, it’s been institutionalized now.
It is more permanent. Any dip could be much smaller in the future. Definitely bitcoin and gold are things you should buy as you can. Not just for investment, but for money in the future.
I’m thinking about going all in. I contemplated it way back in 2009, but I entered a drunken stupor that lasted most of my 20’s.
Take all my savings and just say fuck it. Let it ride.
Word on the street is a potential top of $80K.
If it all crashes and you go broke, I still owe you a BBQ dinner with cobbler dessert.
So you’ve got that going for you.
I think something far greater than that is possible.
Past booms saw far more growth.
I am about as much of an expert as the people who seem to get paid to do this for a living who look at a few charts and do some bullshit speculating based on nothing.
In the period between tax day 2020 and the end of October 2021 Bitcoin went from about $6800 to a bit over $68000. I doubt it will multiply tenfold this time, but I don’t think $200-$300k is unreasonable.
I mean, what could go wrong with storing your wealth on electronic bits in a world whose infrastructure is in no way hardened against an EMP or a solar flare?
I bought MSTR at $700, was not feeling very good when it went under $200. Feeling better today.
Why should it increase in value thus? If you can’t explain why, then you’re just placing a bet.
With Victoria Nuland resigning (to avoid blame for the past unfolding disaster that she arranged in the Ukraine) who’s taking over?
Good news! It’s John Bass, the guy who masterminded the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. What’s the worst that could happen?
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-ambassador-afghanistan-withdrawal-rei-john-bass-biden-kabul-book-2023-8
Like most in Washington, he has experience. It’s all the experience of failure, but it’s experience. You can’t teach that sort of thing.
We have a whole class of people in charge who have failed up.
And there is no ceiling on their futures!
Does is stellar record of withdrawing mean they are going to try to end the war in Ukraine?
John Bass? Looks like we are getting catfished.
Some people will fall for that hook, line, and sinker.
Just the bottom feeders.
They are just playing us for suckers.
The opposite of Afghanistan? The US gets its equipment out but leaves soldiers?
Nice song selection SF. It has a stoner rock sound but a more art rock / goth performance.
I’ve been listening to a ton of Red Fang lately.
They also make some fun videos as well.
https://youtu.be/VufilzHKTqk
“$1 MILLION for gay BDSM parties, money for shark repellent studies and homes for starving artists: The most shocking taxpayer-funded earmarks agreed to in Congress’ $460B must-pass spending bill to avoid government shutdown in 3 days”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13164347/earmarks-spending-bill-millions-gay-bdsm-parties-shark-repellent-study-shocking.html
YTDAW
Never let a crisis go to waste. Notice there’s no shortage of crises these days.
NLTC
Selective quotes from the Daily Mail article:
“Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman’s office rescinded support for a $1 million earmark for an LGBTQ center in Pennsylvania that hosts BDSM parties.”
“Fetterman later told reporters it was his staff, not him, that moved to remove the funding.
‘It wasn’t my decision,’ he said. ‘I was not part of the process.'”
Fetterman later told reporters it was his staff, not him, that moved to remove the funding.
‘It wasn’t my decision,’ he said. ‘I was not part of the process'”
What function do you then perform as your office of Senator?
Your legislators don’t read bills put before Congress. Your legislators don’t write the bills put before Congress. I cannot repeat this enough.
To treat the entire body as anything less than a complete farce is giving them way too much credit.
To be clear, the Lump is for gay BDSM parties.
Are lumps the new hankies?
Asking for a friend.
He makes war against the business suit, which is obviously a symbol of the white male patriarchy.
Everyone who’s surprised that Lindsey Graham is the worst offender in Congress raise your hand.
In other news, Sen. Graham has cancelled his planned trip to Pennsylvania.
Rand Paul’s Festivus is gonna be lit this year.
Unless his next door neighbor shows up to compete in the feats of strength again.
I assume he is still in jail.
https://www.vergennesoperahouse.org/
Vergennes is a city located in the northwest quadrant of Addison County, Vermont, United States. The municipality is bordered by the towns of Ferrisburgh, Panton, and Waltham. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,553.
$500k for an opera house for 2,500 people.
“San Francisco voters pivoted away from their progressive reputation Tuesday night, as a number of ballot measures meant to rein in crime and drug use overwhelmingly won the vote of city residents.
San Franciscans voted in favor of two measures – Measures E and F – which will, respectively, expand some police powers in the city and require drug screenings for adults receiving welfare.
Proposition E will, among other things, make it easier for police officers to pursue suspects. It will also provide the force with new cameras and drones that are meant to make their daily job of fighting crime easier and more effective.
And Proposition F is designed to help adults struggling with drug addiction, by telling them that they will only remain eligible for cash welfare assistance from the city if they enroll in a treatment program. Drug testing will be required to ensure they comply. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13164321/san-Francisco-ballot-measure-rules-welfare-drug-trust.html
Without a Proposition G to force prosecutors to do their job, it’s all for nothing.
So you are saying they will need a Proposition H to get up their asses?
Prop K, you know why.
Imagine the level of delusion it takes to believe that the mainstream media is biased for Trump.
Hillary’s campaign used its connections in the media to focus in on Trump during the primaries, then whined that he got more coverage after she lost.
I’m curious to see if the media can help themselves and avoid making the entire campaign about Trump. there’s not much positive to talk about with Biden so what are they really going to do? They have to just attack Trump 24/7 like the last go around.
Didn’t Biden lose somewhere? American Samoa?
Yes, and uncommitted did well in some states.
It flipped.
Just like Guam could!
The amount of military bearing that genral or admiral had during that was god-like status.
Right?
So I turned a year older today.
Strangest part of the whole deal was the dream I had last night that I was visited by my ancestors.
I really need to lay off the absinthe nightcaps.
Happy Birthday!
I’m also a year older than I was this day last year.
HBD to you both.
You picked a hell of a day to quit heroin.
Greetings fellow Sixthian.
Happy birthday, whippersnapper!
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=happy+happy+birthday+baby+tune+weavers&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9B-mT6Bo8bg
They just keep on keeping on
Happy Birthday!
Happy Bday!!!
Absinthe before bed > chipotle > taco bell
Bon Anneversaire!
HBD 🙂
Haven’t we heard all this before? Yet they never leave (maybe because people don’t realize you can’t just move to Canada, say “eh” a lot, and call yourself a citizen).
If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves
What they’re worried about is that Trump is going to go full on Sulla if he wins, though they lack the historical knowledge to get that reference. They know they’ve used the power to go after him and his supporters, and are just worried about the power falling into the wrong hands.
Hillary wasn’t prosecuted for her corruption because people got into Trump’s ear and said it’s a bad look to go after your political opponent like that, and he probably believed it was a courtesy that would be extended to him. That may not work this time given the last four years.
Yes we’ve heard that before, if only they’d kept their word. I’m sure this time they’re serious. For their sakes, I hope Canada’s border is as open as ours.
Here’s my prediction if shitshow gets back into office.
World still revolves around Sol
We will continue to go deeper into debt
No one will leave the country other than going to their vacay homes
4 years of back to back impeachment, deep state wars and maybe a small tax break.
The Ds are probably drafting articles of impeachment already.
They are preempting the need and drafting language around the 14th Amendment that will just not allow him to be certified by the states. Every other clause of the Constitution is just about ripped to shreds, why not issue a Bill of Attainder.
Advocating for not certifying an election… why does that sound familiar…
Hey, they wanted to tamper with the electors in ’16.
I suppose everyone should have a hobby.
Meet the man who runs a moist towelette museum out of a planetarium
This was on the side:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5291428/world-s-first-vagina-museum-set-to-open-in-london-1.5291447
Vagina museum.
Speaking of moist?
I am making chicken soup tonight
Not tuna surprise ?
Topiary Representations Of The Vulvas (NSFW – From What We Do In the Shadows).
To bad, no famous busts.
Only bright spot happening outside my bubble is the Fani Willis soap opera. Absolutely exposing the underbelly of what our politics is. X1000 for Federal level and probably x10000 for more local. They are all crooks and we are just seeing a fraction of the fraud, waste and abuse our ‘betters’ enjoy.
I will not call it a bright spot until she is run out of town on a rail, covered with tar and feathers.
So you’re saying she’ll be Governor after the next election?
If she survives her fight with Stacey Abrams in ThunderthighsDome.
I’d watch that for a dollar!
Tres, better get in your application to act as referee so you can get close to the action.
Cellulite is all right!
I posted about the same thing below without seeing this.
The political defense was amazing. They had some Democrat (probably from atlanta) basically arguing that violating state and county ordinals and laws don’t matter. They are not a conflict of interest because she didn’t have a Georgia case where a DA violated all of these laws and took kickbacks from her lover.
Poor guy looked like a loon. I wonder how it played with her base. To me he sounded ridiculous and like a total hack, but I have seen bigger idiocy greeted with “hell yeah, you told her!!”
You’re married to Grandpa Joe; you made your adjustable bed, so have fun being pawed at and drool on in it.
Worse kink than ddlg?
the things I learn on this site…
I can’t catch up, let alone keep up
For some reason the Georgia legislature is holding televised hearings into the Fulton DA office.
They had the blond lady from the Rico trial who filed the motion to disqualify. Watching her for a few minutes…. that chick is sharp. Able to recall and relay minute details about a complex case over months.
They had some idiot democrat trying to discredit her. I was amazed at the way she handled him. Never got argumentative. Never hit back. And never belittled his idiotic questions.
He had a briefing (probably from Willis) about what to get her on, and even after she completely obliterated the path he was on, he kept asking about it.
No way I would have held up. I would have been like “as I just told you less than 60 seconds ago…”
Not her. Just pretended like it was a legitimate question and knocked it down again.
I wasn’t super impressed with her interrogation of witnesses (good, but not great), but dang, was she good again handling a bunch of politicians.
Mrs Merchant the lawyer…yah..Im gonna simp. Smart, quick, impressive. If you watch it, her body language during that guy’s questions was like a G leaning back in the chair. The whole Wade/Willis debacle is because of her. She did all the investigative work and had Bradley dishing her details until he was threatened not once, but twice and a suggestion of a third time to continue to lie for those two asshats.
The third shoe to drop for him is probably sexual assault charges filed by Willis. I might have developed amnesia too.
Really shocking that they went there in their drive to discredit him.
He should have realized at that point, the defense had things buttoned up and even if they dropped, it was evident. Maybe some birds-eye view opinions on that.
My read of her Bradley text convo was basically that he was just totally blown away by an attractive female texting with him and pretending to be interested in what he said, and got all chatty to try to impress her and never thought for a second about spilling the beans.
And that was her plan from the start. Guys get real dumb talking to pretty girls. She did a great job with it.
Could have been..I think he got burned in the grift and was ready to speak.
You won’t have Dean Phillips to kick around anymore
U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota ended his long-shot 2024 Democratic presidential bid on Wednesday after failing to win a primary contest against President Joe Biden.
Phillips told WCCO Radio in Minneapolis that he was endorsing Biden, saying “there is only one choice” in an expected fall matchup with Republican Donald Trump.
Attention Zoom-call drinking glibs:
Safety product.
Is it available in the president’s size?
Depends on the president. Since it seems to be an asian design, H. Ross Perot*? Sure.
William H. Taft? Not likely.
*I really would love to have seen that little lunatic get into office.
Washed away
Dozens of cities along the US coastline are sinking at alarming rates, leaving them far more exposed to devastating flooding from sea level rise than previously thought, scientists reported Wednesday.
As oceans rise and the coasts sink, up to 343,000 acres of land will be exposed to destructive flooding by 2050, from hazards such as hurricanes, coastal storms and shoreline erosion, according to the study published in the journal Nature. In a worst-case scenario, roughly 1 in 50 people in the 32 cities analyzed could be exposed to flood threats.
According to the researchers, this is the first study to combine the increasing threat of sea level rise with high-resolution measurements of sinking areas to determine which coastal locations are most at-risk of inundation. “Every single result of this research is novel,” said Manoochehr Shirzaei, a geophysicist at Virginia Tech and co-author of the study.
Dozens! Sinking! Rising! Inundation!
Saints preserve us.
“…roughly 1 in 50 people in the 32 cities analyzed could be exposed to flood threats.”
It just wouldn’t be scary if they wrote “but 98% will be fine”.
“According to the researchers, this is the first study to combine the increasing threat of sea level rise with high-resolution measurements of sinking areas to determine which coastal locations are most at-risk of inundation.”
That is definitely false, people have been studying that for decades.
How tiresome this shit becomes. It is always worse than they previously thought.
Guess what? Increasingly shrill calls for panic over things that does not make these predictions more believable.
The impact of sinking land has been overlooked, said Leonard Ohenhen, the lead author of the study and a doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech. “When you have these two different processes laid out — land sinking on the coast and sea rising on the ocean — you’re going to have a lot more areas that will be susceptible to flooding in the future,” he told CNN.
People keep poking holes in our “rising seas” claims, so we’re going to to come at this from two directions at once.
“So we’re going to to come at this from two directions at once.”
That’s how the groomers suggested they do it.
Groundwater extraction is one of the primary drivers of coastal subsidence. Cities and industries are pumping water from underground aquifers faster than it can be replenished, a situation exacerbated by climate change-fueled drought. Excessive pumping lowers the water table and causes the overlying land to sink.
The same thing happens when oil and gas are extracted from underground. On and offshore, the Gulf Coast is dotted with oil and gas facilities, which not only contribute to the climate crisis that is exacerbating sea level rise but are also one of the leading causes of land subsidence in the region.
Other causes include seismic activity and soil compaction, either naturally from the weight of accumulating sediments over time or from heavy buildings pressing down on the ground, causing land to steadily sink. This is a particular problem in areas where new coastal land has been created over the years by backfilling with sediment.
What about witches? These people sound like medieval necromancers trying to explain why Farmer Olaffson’s cow went dry.
Every bit of that save sedimentation is horseshit.
And a lot of the problems with backfill is wrong soil (Sandy) over wrong base (former landfills). Oops.
“The wise man built his house upon the rocks”?
Eh, for once they’re not totally wrong. Not sure about the relative attribution of subsidence causes, it is very location dependent.
“Other causes include seismic activity and soil compaction, either naturally from the weight of accumulating sediments over time or from heavy buildings pressing down on the ground, causing land to steadily sink.”
Someone should warn her about all the weight from the coastal cities causing the entire continent to tip over.
Otisberg?!?
Mississippi River kind of ties both halves together. One day it may split right here, Repubs on the right, demos on the left.
Having tap-danced, dazzled, and fought my way through an interview with HR, then another with an office/project manager, now I’m up for an interview tomorrow with a regional VP of GiantHugeEnvironmentalConglomerate Consulting Corp® for a project manager spot. Fingers crossed, Ill be another cog in the corporate machine.
PFAS related?
PFAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) is the new thing, specially in Cali. Partially, not totally, eclipsed Dioxins/Furans that were all the rage 10 years ago.
It’s a shitty job, but it pays the bills.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/jury-convicts-movie-armorer-of-involuntary-manslaughter-in-fatal-shooting-by-alec-baldwin/article_44a68120-1593-584c-9b3f-227aa8c69874.html
Seems just to me. Her job, her responsibility even if the final point of responsibility was the actor holding the firearm.
The only thing I don’t understand is how it took this long to throw her under the bus. Seems deserved.
Didn’t bother to check so please forgive me about the ass and drugs but Gordilocks was on Jimmy Dore today:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtf46DiVyPI
Work, shockingly, was quite smooth.
About that Current in Carmel “Tryout” for the editing gig? Well. They’re backed up cuz special editions and…Monday, March 11, the Indiana gubernatorial candidates are having a debate right here in town! I technically DO know the current Lt. Gov. I’m going to get my end sorted at the event, but tix are sold out. I’ll see what I can find out ’round town, and I’ll be there to talk to folk. Hopefully get some re-act quotes. I’m gonna take the Tryout to THEM! That is a good project. I took next Monday off. I’ll see what I can scrounge until then to get more ins.
Staying afoot and active is far better for me. Passivity: Bad. This has potential for me to rock their bell in the best way. *My expressive face and hands behave such*
Cant you just get a fedora with an index card in the band that says “Press”.
Worked for PPeter “Scoop” Brady as I recall.
“The shitnado of Altered Carbon stubbed that out.”
Seriously? I rather enjoyed the first season.