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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 10:05:36 pm »
Seems to be, but google-fu was failing even that. Admittedly I seriously don't care enough to keep looking, because while mosquitoes are annoying they're usually not terribly debilitating (unlike death heat or killing wind), but still.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 09:59:11 pm »
For what it's worth, hurricanes have killed a bit over ten thousand in florida since some point in the 1800s, most of it happening before ~1941 (we lost like ~3k in '28, ferex, and thousand+ casualty storms weren't exactly unknown before then). About 300 total since 1950 (A bit over 5 per year, averaged out over the period), which should tell you how much better we're at dealing with them at this point.

Some numbers I've been able to find strictly detailing temperature related deaths was a bit over fifty between '05-'09, or about ten per year -- twice as deadly as the hurricanes have managed, and from what I could tell that was excluding fatalities that came about due to work-related exertion. Some better numbers, showed nearly as many heat deaths as those hurricanes in a time span about half of the above mentioned time... and again, is likely to be underreporting. Like I said, florida is not terribly worried about the storms, at least not anymore.

... oddly enough, it's apparently a complete PitA to find kill numbers on mosquitoes, especially specific to a state. They don't actually seem to be doing much death wise in the US, though.

And yes, teneb. They're all of those.

E: Though, for what it's worth, vehicle related fatalities kill more than all of those combined, fairly handily. So, uh. Yeah.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 08:31:54 pm »
Yeah yeah, call it arrogance, come live here for a few decades and see how worried you are about the occasional hurricane compared to the incessant unending low boil that is florida air. Got nothing to do with homo sapiens being worth a damn and everything to do with this goddamn swamp being the meteorological equivalent of hell on earth to the extent city destroying death storms are a relief.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 24, 2015, 08:28:12 pm »
... is that really that bad? I've had a few of those, I just made sure to go to sleep immediately after getting back and wake up at like four or five in the morning. Rough the first few times, but after a bit it gets pretty easy to stay in the habit.

Also if you're enjoying it, maybe just take an easy B and skimp on some of the reading or assignments to save time?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 08:18:55 pm »
So does the heat, and much slower.

E: Seriously though, the storms don't really worry too many people down here. The deadly ones are rare, massively telegraphed, and largely easy to avoid if you don't feel like just battening down and pretty often easily survivable even if you don't. The rest of them are just a temporary relief from the heat. The heat that basically never goes away, never stops, kills your children, your grandparents, your pets, your plants, your car exterior, more or less everything. Fuck the heat, fuck the sun, bring the rain, praise the storm.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 08:14:57 pm »
No need for the :[, the storms are about the only good thing weather wise that ever happens in this state.

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... australia really isn't what I'd call about as far right as the US, iirc. They do have a few things they're approaching par on -- you might find some comfort there if you're on the social side of the conservatives in the US -- but on several others they're pretty significantly to the left. They actually have health care that's approaching sane, ferex :P

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Canada :V

Pretty sure that's where some of the more hilarious conservative crazies have been saying they'll move to in response to stuff like improving the health care system, anyway. Think it was that or same sex marriage (legal in canada), at least.

Not really sure how much of a choice you have, though. US is about as far right as any first world country gets. Next best option would probably be something like russia or china, and those aren't exactly small government/high personal rights.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 06:54:41 pm »
I'll happily let the blame for my existence fall on the shoulders of this hellpit. Is pretty accurate.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 06:46:17 pm »
Well, I am. OW's in NZ, iirc, and they don't have nukes.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 06:41:11 pm »
No, no, OW is right. Just left out that NZ/aussie marmite is also shit. Marmite is so shit my spellchecker doesn't recognize its existence as a word.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 24, 2015, 06:39:41 pm »
Yeah, pretty much. They even hold a nice chunk of the blame for the conditions that led up to things nowadays. Best get cracking.

Alternately they can just accept that people are going to come, and actually get off their arse and do something constructive about it. Maybe go invade russia for room to put people or something, I'unno.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 24, 2015, 06:29:45 pm »
... the boats are often already sunk, without being discovered. If that's not stopping people, sinking more isn't exactly going to help.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 24, 2015, 05:56:45 pm »
... well, I can't say I don't appreciate your sense of escalation. "Don't just shoot a couple, drown several hundred!"

Not really sure if it'd work as a deterrent, anyway. Lot of the boats involved are more or less intended to sink, so sinking them early wouldn't really do all that much.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 24, 2015, 05:30:26 pm »
... good luck. Do look up a recipe or something online, maybe.

As to NJW, and on the subject of idea theft, do remember that people can come up with their own ideas, too, and are largely drawing from either the same or similar bodies of inspiration. Even if the exact same concept shows up, that doesn't mean they were inspired by you. And even if they were, that's not really a bad thing. You stole ideas from people as well, from the things you read before, the cultures you've been involved in, and so on.

And that's okay. Particularly when there's no money involved, we should be encouraging as much and as vigorous concept appropriation, use, reuse, adaptation, and so on, as possible. The free/near free trade of ideas is one of the largest contributors to the many great works of media (among other things) that's been made in the past and are continuing to be made in the present.

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