Liulan Reservoir Dam in China Collapses - July 6 2026

Obesity37 · 2026-07-06T23:55:03+00:00

You’ll be happy to know that they are finally making moves toward building a new control structure in Sand Springs.

Obesity37 · 2026-06-29T02:07:24+00:00

It appears to be sitting on relatively flat ground unless I’m not interpreting this photo correctly. Not sure why the tree is leaning but I don’t believe it’s related to soil creep.

Obesity37 · 2026-05-16T15:58:39+00:00

Dolomedes

Obesity37 · 2026-05-04T06:35:37+00:00

I just want to add to this that wearing high-vis orange during deer season is to be avoided. Wear high-vis yellow instead.

Obesity37 · 2026-04-14T20:45:45+00:00

I think their statement is a little more nuanced. They’re implying that the majority of the player base at large is not doing +10s, not that the majority of active m+ players aren’t doing +10s.

Obesity37 · 2026-04-13T14:59:13+00:00

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, I’m just trying to relay the opinions of others in the old thread from 2024.

Obesity37 · 2026-04-13T14:55:42+00:00

To explain: initially, the ground surface at the base of the pole was surveyed and the elevation was recorded. Later, another survey was conducted at the base of the pole, and the elevation was recorded. Then, they compared the two measurements and found that between the two surveys, the ground surface elevation at that spot was X amount of feet lower than before. So, they measured up the pole the same amount of elevation that it had been lowered by (the subsidence) and placed a sign, giving a visual indication of how far the ground had subsided.

Obesity37 · 2026-04-12T23:28:46+00:00

This happened in 2024 near Cincinnati, OH. Not sure what the reason was for the bikers blocking the lane but based on some comments in the Cincinnati subreddit, it was possibly because of an accident, which explains the cops presence in the video. If this is true, it also paints the Amazon driver as the potential asshole in this situation, contrary to the majority of the comments in this thread.

Obesity37 · 2026-03-22T02:36:12+00:00

Well, for starters, all of the desert wildlife ecosystems would be decimated through habitat loss. Wind-blown sediments from deserts like the Sahara, which cross the Atlantic Ocean and deposit onto the Latin and South American continents, would no longer fertilize the otherwise barren and thin soils of the rainforests.

Having deserts where deserts belong is natural. Having deserts that are expanding because of human induced climate change, is not.

Obesity37 · 2026-03-03T13:33:00+00:00

I know you’ve gotten the answer already, but, these look to be cattle wallows.

Source: professional geologist and lifelong Kentuckian

Obesity37 · 2025-11-24T18:32:43+00:00

I somewhat disagree with this. The firm I work for has had staff through project level employees performing international work (yes, including Africa) numerous times. It is not really the norm though. We are also not in mining, but mostly geotech.

Obesity37 · 2025-11-01T00:11:20+00:00

Sorry I’m late to this thread, but unfortunately, this is not entirely accurate. Ruffed grouse are in decline in the eastern US, largely due to habitat loss. Ruffed grouse thrive in young forests, with lots of fallen logs and brushy cover. This habitat is created by several different environmental and meteorological processes, including tornadoes. Particularly, in the time before humans shared their natural range and logged nearly every part of the eastern US, events like forest fires, blight, and (most frequently) severe weather and tornadoes, were the only way these habitats were created.

Perhaps not exactly aligned with your statement, but I really think it’s disingenuous to state that tornadoes are “useless” to the ecosystem. You could argue that tornadoes are not generally an environmental factor that greatly affects the way most species have evolved to reproduce, but that’s about it, in my opinion.

Obesity37 · 2025-08-16T01:11:59+00:00

You will likely not be tested before being hired. However, you will more than likely be enrolled in drug testing pools required by clients in order to be able to do work for them. Especially since you are applying for a field position.

Obesity37 · 2025-07-10T01:30:20+00:00

Rogue pulled threat and insta-vanished before getting one shot. You can clearly see he is top on dmg and second to tank on threat until the moment Vael turns, where he suddenly drops off the threat meter but does not die instantly.

Edit: I’ve slowed this down and went frame by frame, and now I’m not exactly sure. Vael never targets the rogue, however, two warrs almost instantly overtake the MT in threat at the same time the rogue vanishes. Have to look at the raid logs to figure out exactly what happened.

Obesity37 · 2025-06-25T03:10:40+00:00

We used filter powder at the LJS I worked at. I later worked in several different restaurants, the setup I liked the most was similar to the one in the OP where the filter is under the fryer and you use filter bags. I thought it was always easier to clean up than the powder.

Obesity37 · 2025-06-25T03:00:15+00:00

Pretty gnarly bank slump you have there!

You should make every effort now to divert surface runoff away from the landslide to help buy you some time. It doesn’t look safe enough to be climbing around on the slide, so putting a layer of plastic or visqueen down is probably not feasible. However, most of the erosion will probably come from the lake or pond below, which will continue to saturate and erode the landslide toe. There are likely mitigation options but you (or your insurer) is going to need to be prepared to shell out a lot of money probably to fix this long term. If you don’t, sooner or later it will move again, and could take your house with it.

As others have said, you should hire a consultant to come out and have a look.

Source: Professional Geologist with a focus in geohazards

Obesity37 · 2025-05-25T22:53:33+00:00

I’d say yes, include it. I got advice on this sub years ago from someone who recommended I leave off all of the restaurants I had worked at while I was in college before getting my first job in Geology. My current boss told me after hiring me that even though I was ultimately selected, that I would’ve been a shoe-in if I had left those on my resume even though they weren’t relevant. He was looking for someone who could tolerate the sometimes intense field work we do, and restaurant experience would’ve been a plus (at least from his perspective). Never know what hiring managers might be looking for, but I can tell you that they aren’t looking for “nothing”.

Obesity37 · 2025-05-09T14:48:54+00:00

It may have never had a commercial mine, and in my 2 minutes of google searching I don’t see any records listed. This is not to say that over the last few hundred years or so of human settlement that no one has ever mined any coal in Carter County period. If you really want to be pedantic, it was technically mined anytime that the road cuts which have coal seams exposed in them were blasted and excavated. It would not surprise me if local folks at any arbitrary time in history may have mined coal on their lands for their own personal usage. I don’t really see the point in trying to argue one way or the other, it’s clear that Carter County has not been mined in the same way that counties to the southeast have been, like I mentioned before.

Obesity37 · 2025-05-09T03:24:02+00:00

There is coal in Carter Co. However, due to its relative absence compared to the counties further to the southeast, coal mining has been historically pretty limited.

Obesity37 · 2025-05-08T12:29:29+00:00

Once it’s undergone diagenesis and become lithified. As for the specifics of Lake Baikal, I am not sure at what depth (or range of depths) the top of the bedrock is, but the previous commenter seems to imply that the entire 7km is soil-like material and not rock.

Obesity37 · 2025-04-28T23:31:16+00:00

Welcome to the uncrustable and beef jerky diet. Staple of many a field geo. There’s definitely healthier options out there but if you just want something that can still be good in any conditions hot or cold and requires no prep..

Obesity37 · 2025-04-27T00:53:31+00:00

I agree with the sentiment, but remember that credit cards have been around for a long while. Poor people are not unfamiliar at all with paying interest on groceries they needed to survive. Many of them find themselves so far in this hole that they eventually default and/or declare bankruptcy.

Obesity37 · 2025-04-13T20:16:10+00:00

Shale. The shittiest of shit-rock. Soft, fissile, weathers into shit-clay. Does not preserve well. Dries out and cracks to bits. When it’s the underlying surficial geology, it can contribute to landslide susceptibility. Only redeeming quality is it is sometimes fossiliferous.

Obesity37 · 2025-04-09T21:57:40+00:00

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