Deme
@Deme@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Big booty meteorologists are best meteorologists 1 month ago:
Private weather station?
It’s pretty much impossible to make reliable forecasts based on the data of a singular weather station. The initial data comes in from a variety of sources including satellites, radars, surface observation stations (weather stations) and upper air soundings around the globe. All of the above are maintained by public sector organizations who collaborate and share the data because the weather is an inescapably global thing. During WW2 the Germans actually set foot in Canada to set up a weather station in an attempt to spread the coverage of their observation network.
Nowadays all that data is used as inputs for numerical weather prediction models, running on supercomputers in the basements of meteorological institutes and agencies. Big global ones like ECMWF and GFS are used pretty much by all meteorologists around the world, who look at those and other smaller, more local models. They compare the different forecasts and critically evaluate the probabilities of different outcomes. They apply their own judgement selecting the most credible raw forecast and then edit that if needed. All in all, it’s a very global effort.
At least where myself and @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee are from, meteorologists at the public broadcasting company (where that title is a requirement for getting the job) collaborate closely with their colleagues at the national meteorological institute. Their job is to comprehend the situation, decide which bits of it are important, and then boil that down into a smooth and easy to understand presentation.
If a weather reporter isn’t an actual meteorologist, then there is an actual meteorologist behind the scenes who made the presentation for the reporter to present.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 month ago:
Nah anarchists also fall within the “capitalism is working as intended and must be destroyed” camp. They just have different ways of doing it.
- Comment on when you realize 💀💀💀 1 month ago:
It’s nukes. An environmental catastrophe doesn’t happen at those timescales :D
- Comment on I wouldn't ever run into this situation because I would never leave my basement 2 months ago:
Our societies aren’t the only things dying.
- Comment on So cool! 2 months ago:
This was me on friday except that instead of moss there were fantastic snowbanks sculpted into exquisite shapes by wind.
- Comment on That was a close one 3 months ago:
Usually when there’s a headline, yes. But 545 million miles equals over 5.6 AU, which is a very large distance even in this context.
- Comment on Male Loneliness 5 months ago:
Sorry for the late reply. I admit I haven’t read the book and thus can’t comment on it, but the movie is a great commentary on fascism, because it surprises us by making us notice that “Wait a second, I’m rooting for the fascists. How did that happen?!”. The visual messaging is pretty clear with the giant eagles, Hugo Boss leather uniforms and overall militarlism and xenophobia.
Everyone gets free healthcare and education, as long as you’re part of ‘us’ instead of them. We’re used to the fascism where ‘us’ is some ethnic or religious group of humans and ‘them’ is all the other humans. In starship troopers however, the fascism gets to fly under the radar by making the entirety of humanity the in-group. The aliens don’t need to be dehumanized because they’re quite clearly not human. Yet they feel fear and are only reacting to the spread of humans into their neighbourhood, while humans are outright shouting for genocide. “The only good bug is a dead bug!”
- Comment on Male Loneliness 5 months ago:
I don’t disagree, but this context is a bit weird given that starship troopers depicts a rosy vision of the future but with fascism.
- Comment on plaine 8 months ago:
Of the 976 ever produced, only 22 DC-9’s remain in operation (as of last February). Not exactly a common plane to come across.
- Comment on We are all made of carbon 10 months ago:
I didn’t bring it up. The meme posted by OP did because it’s a schizopost implying that the evil lizard people want to genocide the common people to preserve the climate.
Your comment was talking about the fact that humans exhale CO2 as an unfortunate fact. I agree with that in and of itself, but in the context of the post one could definitely get the idea that you’re propagating the malthusian and exaggerated assumption that the meme is built on.
If there’s no people exhaling CO2, then who would be left to enjoy the infinitessimally better state of the climate?
- Comment on We are all made of carbon 10 months ago:
Nice schizopost
- Comment on We are all made of carbon 10 months ago:
The CO2 we breathe out is a rounding error compared to the emissions from our fossil fuel use. It’s frankly laughable to even compare the two.