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xcheopis posted:Before the 2004 disaster, I had assumed everyone knew what "ocean rapidly receding a long way out" foretold. I then also learned that not all tsunami have this behaviour! well, poo poo
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May 9, 2020 18:17
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A huge percentage of tourists do not live anywhere near an ocean capable of getting tsunamis, or even anywhere near a coastline of any kind. It's just not something most people have had to think about.
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May 9, 2020 18:44
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One of the few comforts of living in the Midwest is that the inevitable super tsunamis probably won't reach this far.
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May 9, 2020 18:56
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Admiral Joeslop posted:One of the few comforts of living in the Midwest is that the inevitable super tsunamis probably won't reach this far. Sure, wouldn't want anything to interrupt your enjoyment of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
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May 9, 2020 18:59
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Living in the midwest is like a slow-moving, never-ending man-made disaster, though.
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May 9, 2020 19:20
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ZeusCannon posted:But still if the loving ocean is leaving you should be too This right here. I don't know poo poo about Tsunamis but I feel like if I saw that I would run. Do these people not get weird and terrible feelings when nature starts acting loving bonkers, regardless if you know anything about it? Then again the amount of times I've had to explain what to look for with regards to Tornadoes blows my mind. You really don't think its weird the pressure drastically changes, the wind COMPLETELY stops, and the sky turns a weird green color in the middle of the day is concerning? People are loving dumb. I guess another example is being in Germany in the middle of winter with a Texan who had never seen snow before. We had to explain things to him like "Snow is cold so don't run out there in short sleeves and shorts. Why the gently caress are you out there in your underwear now?" and "Yellow snow should not be eaten." Then again the yellow show thing was him pissing on a snowball in his hand and taking a bite out of it. People are loving dumb.
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May 9, 2020 19:29
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TotalLossBrain posted:Living in the midwest is like a slow-moving, never-ending man-made disaster, though. True, but that's a small price to pay for the satisfaction of having the Last Place Lions in our division.
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May 9, 2020 19:30
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Admiral Joeslop posted:One of the few comforts of living in the Midwest is that the inevitable super tsunamis probably won't reach this far. Unless by inevitable you mean "enormous meteorite impact", of which the one that struck the coast of central Mexico 66 million years ago caused a tsunami of sufficient height and energy that it likely struck as far inland as modern-day Kansas. e: since it landed on the coast the tsunami was only about 680 feet high, if it had landed in deep water it would've been nearly three miles McSpanky fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 9, 2020 |
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May 9, 2020 19:37
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah I think this belongs here. The loving irony of this one just boggles the mind. Monopoly was originally invented by a woman and had it stolen and marketed by a man.
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May 9, 2020 19:56
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xcheopis posted:I read Pearl Buck's The Big Wave as a child, plus learning some ocean stuff in geography in junior high, plus living on the coast of California. Before the 2004 disaster, I had assumed everyone knew what "ocean rapidly receding a long way out" foretold. I then also learned that not all tsunami have this behaviour!
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May 9, 2020 20:11
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https://i.imgur.com/5UcgK1T.mp4
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May 9, 2020 20:52
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lmao that’s perfect
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May 9, 2020 20:56
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https://twitter.com/elbusyo/status/1259162516598345728
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May 9, 2020 21:27
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May 9, 2020 21:29
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limp_cheese posted:I guess another example is being in Germany in the middle of winter with a Texan who had never seen snow before. We had to explain things to him like "Snow is cold so don't run out there in short sleeves and shorts. Why the gently caress are you out there in your underwear now?" and "Yellow snow should not be eaten." Then again the yellow show thing was him pissing on a snowball in his hand and taking a bite out of it. People are loving dumb. As a fellow Texan I can assure you even we know at least that much. it wasn't ignorance, this man was just living his best life 
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May 9, 2020 22:24
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https://i.imgur.com/KFE0QWH.mp4
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May 9, 2020 22:34
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TACD posted:I liked the part where some dipshit American said she thought the tsunami must have been a terrorist attack Could have just said American, the dipshit is implied.
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May 9, 2020 22:52
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xcheopis posted:I read Pearl Buck's The Big Wave as a child, plus learning some ocean stuff in geography in junior high, plus living on the coast of California. Before the 2004 disaster, I had assumed everyone knew what "ocean rapidly receding a long way out" foretold. I then also learned that not all tsunami have this behaviour!
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May 9, 2020 23:21
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limp_cheese posted:This right here. I don't know poo poo about Tsunamis but I feel like if I saw that I would run. Do these people not get weird and terrible feelings when nature starts acting loving bonkers, regardless if you know anything about it? The ocean leaves every day. It's called the tide. And if you are a tourist with absolutely no knowledge about the local sea patterns (which vary drastically from place to place), and possibly from a landlocked place with no practical experience with the sea at all, there is no reason to necessarily suspect anything when the sea recedes.
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May 9, 2020 23:37
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https://i.imgur.com/eVBoPlb.mp4
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May 9, 2020 23:41
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D. Ebdrup posted:Home automation used to be custom systems that cost millions and would be implemented and serviced by a German engineering team (at least here in Denmark), on a contract. 
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May 9, 2020 23:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm33KB2Th9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5lzHtxdW4
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May 10, 2020 00:00
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The C64 was used for everything back in the day.
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May 10, 2020 00:34
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Darth Brooks posted:The C64 was used for everything back in the day. The observatory still had a couple of VIC-20s in a lab when I was there in the early 90s.
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May 10, 2020 00:39
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My dad worked in a neodymium magnet factory owned by GM up until 2002 and they still had equipment that still ran off C64s.
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May 10, 2020 00:46
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I would say about 100% of stuff that's useful and works out better or even only with a computer, requires very little computing power from today's perspective. Supercomputer stuff fits in a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.
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May 10, 2020 00:53
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https://i.imgur.com/8AueZ9g.mp4 So close!
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May 10, 2020 02:27
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Is that a prop or a prosthetic?
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May 10, 2020 02:30
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Hedenius posted:I'm from Sweden and Thailand is an incredibly popular tourist destination for swedes. I remeber reading articles describing how people from sweden and other countries in northern europe actually went out to get a closer look when the water started receding. Very few european tourists understood what was really happening until it was too late.. I didn't know that was a thing specifically for the Swiss. Frontman for the excellent Swedish grindcore band Nasum died there  e: Sweden Swiss Switzerland what's the diff yo? 
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May 10, 2020 02:33
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Hedenius posted:I'm from Sweden and Thailand is an incredibly popular tourist destination for swedes. I remeber reading articles describing how people from sweden and other countries in northern europe actually went out to get a closer look when the water started receding. Very few european tourists understood what was really happening until it was too late.. The president of the Republic of Finland survived by hanging on to a utility pole. But on the plus side, we got the joke "what is green and brown and can't sing?" "[insert name of singer who died in the tsunami]"
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May 10, 2020 02:36
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Takes No Damage posted:I didn't know that was a thing specifically for the Swiss. Frontman for the excellent Swedish grindcore band Nasum died there Sweden!=Swiss
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May 10, 2020 02:50
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TACD posted:I liked the part where some dipshit American said she thought the tsunami must have been a terrorist attack People have been calling this woman out for that phrasing for decades now. Don't think you're suddenly caught onto something new. I'm reasonably sure she meant; the tsunami was as terrifying as a terrorist attack, not literally a terrorist attack. Of course her phrasing makes no sense but she just went through the trauma of an actual tsunami and people she knew died. Being unable to express yourself logically after sometime like that isn't being a dipshit American. Chomp8645 posted:Is that a prop or a prosthetic? It's a prosthetic, and she's still out of your league Sjs00 fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 10, 2020 |
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May 10, 2020 02:57
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The audio on this is choice.  quote:Woman 1: Excuse me?
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May 10, 2020 02:57
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I can dig that inland people might not be taught about tsunamis, but where exactly do they think the ocean is going when it all of a sudden pulls back a mile offshore? That should be one of those natural "oh gently caress" things like when you see a giant wind tube come down from the sky and start turning houses into tiny splinters of wood. Or if a mountaintop blows up and generates a shockwave and a bunch of glowing red stuff comes out. Why are you running toward it? Don't do that thing.
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May 10, 2020 03:03
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May 10, 2020 03:08
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The Butcher posted:I can dig that inland people might not be taught about tsunamis, but where exactly do they think the ocean is going when it all of a sudden pulls back a mile offshore? Lots of folks that live near the ocean don't know about tsunamis either. They only tend to happen once every few generations, so knowledge of them is dependent on good education or oral tradition. I've heard stories of people going out to pick up fish and stuff when the water pulls out and then getting washed away when the tsunami comes.
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May 10, 2020 03:09
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The Butcher posted:I can dig that inland people might not be taught about tsunamis, but where exactly do they think the ocean is going when it all of a sudden pulls back a mile offshore? People aren't rational and most people's reaction to seeing some wild poo poo you've never seen before, if it doesn't seem immediately threatening (in a way you can relate to), is to keep looking to see what happens. I met a girl from e: misremembered the state Nastyman fucked around with this message at 03:17 on May 10, 2020 |
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May 10, 2020 03:13
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Sjs00 posted:People have been calling this woman out for that phrasing for decades now. Don't think you're suddenly caught onto something new. People mention that woman all the time when that video pops up... but for me the best part is her tiny faced boyfriend
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May 10, 2020 03:14
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Sjs00 posted:It's a prosthetic, and she's still out of your league *sigh* aren't they all. 
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Mr. Fix It posted:Lots of folks that live near the ocean don't know about tsunamis either. They only tend to happen once every few generations, so knowledge of them is dependent on good education or oral tradition. I've heard stories of people going out to pick up fish and stuff when the water pulls out and then getting washed away when the tsunami comes. In the PNW at least I think it's pretty nailed in these days. We teach the kids in school what the sirens mean, do drills, and have signed routes set up to get to the high ground.
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