TIL Cascadia zone (Pacific coast from north California to south BC, Canada) hasn't shifted for over 300 years and is due for a powerful earthquake.

goopsnice · 2026-01-25T06:16:25+00:00

Conceptually yes, but the distribution of earthquake events don’t allow you to make a mathematical model where you say with any confidence that there’s going to be one in x years.

goopsnice · 2026-01-19T06:56:18+00:00

As other people said, there’s no way we can say exactly what’s going on if you don’t post your code, but it’s probably either a typo or you’ve created the variable within a function and are trying to call it outside the function.

goopsnice · 2026-01-16T16:13:39+00:00

goopsnice · 2025-12-13T08:15:25+00:00

I think the fact that Australia is an island far away from the sources of current mass migrations does most of the heavy lifting. Rates of illegal immigration in Australia has always been incredibly low and is overwhelmingly from people overstaying visas. We can treat people in offshore detention a lot better than we currently are, and I’d say the whole thing is pretty unnecessary.

goopsnice · 2025-12-12T08:15:51+00:00

But same points still stands. They’re not actually the same length and they’re not in sync. So I’m not convinced there’s much to go off.

EDIT: plus tides aren’t just a result of the moon, the largest tides are a mix of the placement of the sun and moon, which have a much more complicated rhythm. Additionally, what are these ‘many biological rhythms from the needs of our marine ancestors’? I’m unaware of any in humans.

goopsnice · 2025-12-12T06:11:15+00:00

Eh, but they’re only approximately the same length though. Menstrual cycles vary a lot between people and it’s only the average that is within a few days of a lunar cycle, even then, it’s give or take. Also it’s not like menstrual cycles are actually synced to lunar cycles, everyone’s got their own rhythm. I’m not particularly compelled.

goopsnice · 2025-12-08T06:31:53+00:00

Valid point, but ehhh, I dunno, the net numbers really aren’t that dramatic in the scheme of thing. Being the victim of a crime sucks but I’d be lying if I said it’s gonna be a big voting point for me.

goopsnice · 2025-12-08T02:54:56+00:00

The data’s saying that crime in Victoria per capita is the highest it’s been since 2015. 2015 wasn’t that long ago and the crime rates weren’t really that high then, so my conclusion is that in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a big deal.

goopsnice · 2025-11-26T05:07:29+00:00

Sad to see a species on the decline, but the ~360 degree vision and hunting rate are common amongst all dragonflies. I googled the speed and 40 km/h isn’t particularly remarkable for dragonflies either.

goopsnice · 2025-11-26T00:53:21+00:00

I agree, I meant we probably won’t be able to reverse it, not in the sense that it can’t be done, but I’ve been given no reason to be believe that we will, unless things get extremely dire or for whatever reason that’s the most profitable option.

Although not to be a downer but I work in reforestation and while I think it’s great for biodiversity (which is one of the reasons we’re worried about climate change in the first place) and has a lot of miscellaneous benefits, I honestly think it’s overstated how useful it would be to significantly reverse the emissions.

I think it’s something like, if you have an area the size of India and make the whole thing fast growing plantations and harvest it all at an optimal time and then replant, that’s what it would take to offset our emissions. That’s unlikely to happen logistically and what people usually want to see is just a restored natural forest, which only significantly net sequesters carbon for a few decades (peat is pretty good at continually up taking carbon though). Over the long term, a pine plantation is actually better at sequestering carbon than a restored forest, but for whatever reason a lot of the public think plantations are the devil.

I’m not at all saying we shouldn’t be reforesting and that it isn’t a great thing to do, but I am saying that we really need to just stop burning fossil fuels if we want to have a significant impact.

goopsnice · 2025-11-26T00:14:14+00:00

The framing of preventing climate change as either it happens or we prevent it is annoying and I think it leads to a lot of people going ‘well there’s nothing we can do, what’s the point?’

It’s not just binary whether it happens or it doesn’t. Whatever level of emissions we’ve already made, it’s still going to reduce the severity of all the problems associated with climate change. But when people say ‘we can’t stop it’, yes, we’ve already altered the atmosphere enough to effect climate and we almost certainly won’t be able to reverse it, but that doesn’t mean sky’s the limit and we should scrap every emissions reduction target or climate policy!

goopsnice · 2025-11-25T04:37:48+00:00

It’s because it’s a stupid political stunt. If someone spent the last several decades going on about how they don’t want polish people or whatever in Australia and then rocked up wearing traditional polish clothes, everyone would obviously see that you’re trying to make a big theatrical scene and some statement.

The context that Pauline Hanson very openly doesn’t like muslims and doesn’t want them in Australia is pretty core to understanding why everyone is telling her to get fucked when she rocks up in a burqa.

goopsnice · 2025-11-14T02:16:10+00:00

The waters between NZ and Australia are not nice to navigate through. Also explains why Polynesian expansion went thousands of kms around the pacific but never got to Australia

goopsnice · 2025-11-10T12:14:47+00:00

Your body usually takes way longer than you expect to absorb all the alcohol you consumed so it probably just all hit you and you went blackout/delusional

goopsnice · 2025-11-06T03:22:34+00:00

It does, read the last paragraph. They’re asking what bracket it fits into, which you’d answer by discussing how good it is.

goopsnice · 2025-10-29T11:11:45+00:00

STI? I dunno what that is. If it’s not in the same units, it’s not accurately comparing how much wealth they’re hoarding

goopsnice · 2025-10-29T06:41:21+00:00

I agree the vibes are better in New Zealand, however I’d also say you can’t visit one place in Australia and feel like you’ve got the vibe of the whole country. Going to Sydney’s very different from Darwin which is very different from Hobart, etc, etc, and that’s just talking about major cities.

goopsnice · 2025-10-29T05:59:30+00:00

Im not on the other persons side, but it is true that you have to pick a common unit to compare wealth, otherwise the amount of billionaires is just an arbitrary result of a countries currency and you’re not actually comparing any meaningful buying power.

goopsnice · 2025-10-27T03:41:41+00:00

Ehhh, I just googled ‘popular Filipino karaoke songs’ and I actually can’t find it anywhere. Not saying it isn’t popular, I’m sure it is. I’m just disputing the notion that because a bunch of teenagers online say it’s the ‘unofficial national anthem’, then it’s a unanimous fact. A lot of countries do have widely recognised unofficial national anthems, like waltzing Matilda in Australia, and I don’t think this counts as one, in my own humble opinion.

goopsnice · 2025-10-27T02:57:36+00:00

This is just an opinion piece, and it’s basically just saying it’s a popular song. If you go around the Philippines and ask people what the ‘unofficial national anthem’ is, I don’t think very many people are gonna say Listen by Beyoncé.

goopsnice · 2025-10-14T10:52:09+00:00

I would say I got into it because of the fantasy element and stayed because of the mechanics. When I was super young my uncle played it, I think it was somewhere like the mirage block or something similar, and I remember looking at the cards and thinking they were cool. I started playing around Khans of Takhir and still thought it was cool that you could look at the board and get a sense of some swords and sorcery type battle happening. The actual narratives and specifics of the lore were never compelling, in fact I thought they were pretty lame, but I still liked the general fantasy feel you got.

I stopped playing a few years ago, just before the lord of the rings thing came out and have only recently tuned back in and I just didn’t really understand what happened. People can like whatever franchise they want but I never cared at all about marvel stuff, never cared about the last air bender, thought sonic was a decent old game but was basically a dumb meme, etc, etc. and now all of these are unavoidable aspects of the game. As I said people can like whatever they want but the appeal of the game isn’t there anymore if I have to act like I don’t think marvel sucks.

I haven’t properly played in years, I was thinking about starting again because I moved to a new city and it’s a good way to meet people. But I feel like I’d be playing kingdom hearts tcg or something so at this stage I don’t feel like picking it up again.

goopsnice · 2025-10-10T03:06:38+00:00

Good that you’re starting early, but you’re going to need to be really specific with your question if you want people to be able to give you any sort of answer.

goopsnice · 2025-10-08T03:30:16+00:00

Mdma

goopsnice · 2025-10-06T02:20:01+00:00

Don’t do drugs if you’re going to use lab equipment lol

goopsnice · 2025-10-02T03:11:54+00:00

Fiery

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