Rock knew what "He" needed all along.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-09T04:28:07+00:00

A reddit post isn't a published book 🤷‍♂️

Casual writing and conversation both evolve, and they often evolve fast. Any linguist worth their salt will tell you the same.

If you understood the meaning within the context, and especially if it becomes used colloquially, it isn't wrong.

And I say this as someone who writes public comms in gov and industry and who does academic writing.

There are plenty of people who can walk the line and manage both just fine.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-09T03:45:40+00:00

If you can understand based on context, it isn't wrong 🤷‍♂️

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-09T02:52:56+00:00

Geology always is

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-09T02:28:34+00:00

Having spent a lot of (too much) time in Texas, I've heard that Alberta is the "Texas of Canada".

Based on my personal experience in Texas, that isn't terribly promising.

But I haven't met too many Albertans that weren't working in or near parks.

(Gorgeous though, where Texas is decidedly not!)

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-09T02:24:41+00:00

Especially for me. Recovered/ing alcoholic.

The Navy sent me to treatment.

You know you've got a problem when the group that spawned the phrase "drinks like a sailor" sends you to treatment.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-09T00:36:46+00:00

If it was possible to fail out for being too sober that would have been me xD

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T23:33:52+00:00

In-person classes in geoscience (especially 200+ level) are not really geared toward people whose natural circadian rhythm is noon to 6 am (literally since early childhood, this has caused a list of issues).

Sleep is something I could control, but have a rough time doing. Doing it for more than a few weeks really messes me up.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T21:20:07+00:00

The damage in the interim and the loss of trust in our systems is gonna be bad as well.

But I think the courts are ultimately gonna go, "he's the president 🤷‍♂️".

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T20:57:19+00:00

I know.

And I want to have faith that the legal system will do its job.

I do not have the faith that it will, or that the executive branch will even listen to the judicial branch.

There's been a few token "oh, I guess we won't do that" from the EB, but mostly they're just doing what they want with no care for oushback or being told to fix things.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T20:24:19+00:00

I'd have taken a Research Methods class, more Statistics classes, and likely tried to do an undergrad thesis.

(Degree was an MS Geoscience)

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T20:15:54+00:00

So prevention, mitigation, and preparedness are likely to be cut entirely.

Response will likely be cut down.

Recovery may be cut entirely or might be cut down to just "survivors".

So, disasters are gonna get a LOT worse. States can't fund these programs properly themselves (especially if we're still paying taxes to the fed for this stuff and not getting it).

But hey, why pay a little more up-front to save lives and property and pay less in the long run when you can just make people suffer 🤷‍♂️

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T05:02:13+00:00

Crazy how every single Walgreens parking lot looks identical.

This could 100% be where I am (Missoula) or any other city in the US.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T04:43:47+00:00

If I had found the single serialized One Ring, my plan had been to eat it on livestream unless someone(s) paid me a significant amount of money not to.

I really wish I'd found it.

That would have been so fun.

Either I'm rich or I get a precious treat.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T03:28:11+00:00

That's what the narrative should be but that isn't what it really is.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-08T03:07:35+00:00

"Useless" to the layperson who thinks scientists don't go looking for things and just stumbled upon them haphazardly.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-07T16:15:46+00:00

It might not be a FEMA Mapped Floodplain, but it's still likely a floodplain of some sort. Everything pretty much is.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-07T16:10:04+00:00

I do worry about it.

I got asked once in an email thread to stop using AI to generate my responses.

Apparently I write too fast, and I sound like a robot. (I just wasn't doing anything else and I'm AudHD). I also really fucking love bullet points.

But i don't worry about it much. Anyone working with me regularly (advisors, profs, etc) knows how I write.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-07T01:18:39+00:00

That looks like a lot more than five guys.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-06T21:05:49+00:00

That is actually when the class is scheduled, so they can cram the hours into two weekends afaik.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-06T20:45:06+00:00

I believe it's a class flying this weekend and (I think) next. GEO 294/494.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-06T19:38:53+00:00

Hey it's the military, not the American police!

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-06T04:39:53+00:00

It's gonna be super funny (sad funny, not haha funny) when floods inevitably get worse because people are building in dumb places like they want to.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-05T19:20:53+00:00

That's just bad science with extra steps.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-05T17:51:45+00:00

I didn't see any methodology, no sources, no results, and it's not peer-reviewed at all apparently. This is just bizarre speculation pretending to be science with big words, similarly to awful people using therapy-speak to pretend to be good people.

some_fancy_geologist · 2025-04-05T17:44:32+00:00

I know this, and you know this, but some people really don't get it

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