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The Māori monarchy dates back to the 19th Century, when different Māori tribes decided to create a unifying figure similar to that of a European monarch in order to try to prevent the widespread loss of land to New Zealand’s British colonisers and to preserve Māori culture. The role is largely ceremonial.
AuDHD and completely caffeine free (and stimulant/meds/drugs free too). Caffeine definitely doesn’t work for me like it does for other people - makes me sleepy and headachey. I’d rather just work with what I’ve got, (noise cancelling headphones + being inflexible) even if it has limitations
sorry, my mistake, I totally meant to say I value “community” not “communism” ;)
(also, I’m not North American!)
when talking to my parents, if I say “community” instead of “communism,” or “nobody deserves to starve” instead of “free food”, and “help vulnerable people” instead of “benefits” and “everyone deserves to feel safe from harm” instead of XYZ - everyone wholeheartedly agrees!
But if I let them go off on a tangent without guiding them, then they’re “anti woke” even though they don’t know what woke means
that makes a lot of sense! I’m very grateful to be part of an academic community that seems to value open access, as well of part of a university that pays for access and submission to most of the journals I need to use
I’ve only ever published in open access journals (partially because I’ve only got 3 papers out, but also out of preference) is it just prestige that makes people go with pay-to-view journals? or are there other factors?
Nausicaa is my favourite film :)! the soundtrack is so bizarre in the best way
(the last film I watched was Kiki’s delivery service, also recommend that to everyone! it’s a lot more relaxing and kid-friendly than Nausicaa though)
Using “,” as ellipses here is a pretty interesting tone indication feature!
On Tumblr, “…” ended up having connotations of judgement or anger, so to avoid that, people evolved to use “,” as a softer version (often implying a more silly/amused tone) instead !
video of secretary bird with a fake snake
It’s only really fine if someone calls me an appearance-based compliment if they’re my partner or a woman that I’m close to.
not to be confused with Potoooooooos !
For reference, 1 litre of ice cream has about 180g of sugar in it. This milkshake is approx 0.95L and 263g, so 1.54x more sugar than straight ice cream.
(I wouldn’t recommend eating a litre of ice cream all in one go either)
good question!! I actually might have been mistaken by saying sea salt was an INP (whoops).
Sea salt is a great condensation nuclei (CCN). CCN allow cloud droplets to form instead of ice crystals.
For cloud seeding to work well, it’s better to seed with INP instead of CCN because if you encourage lots of droplets to form, all you get is a bunch of really tiny droplets, making a really bright white cloud (no rain!). (Side note: that’s why rain clouds look dark: they’re made of fewer really big droplets.)
Adding sea salt to clouds is a thing though! It’s been proposed as Marine Cloud Brightening - adding lots of sea salt to the air over the ocean, making the earth more reflective to combat further global warming.
As far as I know, most inorganic salts are good INP or CCN, but have varying efficiencies. Sea salt dissolves in liquid water whereas silver iodide doesn’t, and silver iodide has the right sort of hexagonal crystal lattice for ice to start sticking to. So silver iodide is a great INP whereas sea salt is a great CCN.
Even longer (and reasonably silly) explanation here: https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/09/01/why-are-clouds-seeded-silver-does-it-work-16538
If you mean climate change, then yeah, obviously humans do influence the climate. In terms of individual scale events (weather, big storms) there’s not any existing technology that exists that can cause a single targeted big storm event.
This article isn’t perfectly scientifically accurate but it’s better than most! For those interested, here’s a better (detailed) explanation of the science:
Cloud seeding works best in supercooled liquid clouds, which start with barely any ice in. For ice to form in clouds, you need INP (ice nucleating particles), aerosols such as sea salt, or dust, for the ice to grow onto. INP can be pretty rare, depending on where you are in the world.
By adding silver iodide (an efficient INP) ice crystals can form. This means the cloud has both ice and liquid water in (a “mixed phase” cloud).
For multiple reasons, ice grows better and faster than liquid cloud droplets (the “Wegener Bergeron Findeisen effect” for one). Because there’s only so much water in the cloud, these ice crystals then grow at the expense of water droplets in the air, allowing for big snowflakes to grow, but droplets evaporate.
This turns it from a cloud with many tiny droplets, into one with big heavy snowflakes, which fall out of the cloud. Before the snowflakes reach the ground, they melt, turning into rain.
TLDR; cloud seeding takes the water already in the cloud, and makes it precipitate slightly more efficiently, but only if you improve the balance of aerosols in the air just right
There is no technology on earth that can make storms of this scale. Cloud seeding doesn’t add any water to the cloud. At most, it causes a very slight increase in rain. If you accidentally cloud seed “too much” you nucleate lots of ice crystals within the cloud, making many tiny ice crystals (which don’t precipitate at all).
They didn’t seed this cloud - but it wouldn’t have done anything if they had.
it’s a feminist movement, in backlash to misogyny and pro-natalism in South Korea (it’s becoming more widespread, though). The 4Bs are the “four no’s”:
It gets a lot of pushback and is called selfish etc. but women are very angry & upset that the government only sees them for their reproductive use, and it’s reasonable to not want to date someone who doesn’t view you as human.
So much beautiful snow photography (stock footage etc) comes from Wisconsin. It’s well known for snow and snow research. Sad to see the landscape changing over there
Surprised to see none of the comments mentioning the 4B movement
the wet bulb temperature1 is just the temperature of a wet thermometer, and varies with humidity and temperature. Wet bulb temp is never higher than the dry bulb temp, so (entertainingly) you’re proposing that the meaning of 100° varies wildly and is always lower than the true temperature, effectively making the air temperature always ≥100°, and increases when the air is drier, like some sort of inverse relative humidity.
1(I’m aware you probably didn’t mean wet bulb temperature here, but let’s have fun with the idea) :)