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How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by stavros »

riffic wrote: post #48
pyrophane wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm assuming you meant to write ableist, in which case, how is the above comment ableist?

edited, thank you. To answer your question, adjectives related to intelligence are ableist in origin. I don't think this needs to be explained and it's not my job to educate you or anyone else on this forum.

There should be a word for the driveby condemnation (ooh we could call it that) that is "what you said is unethical but it's not my job to tell you how".

I doubt driveby condemnation will convince many people.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by kingsloi »

dylan604 wrote: post #16

This looks like a tedious process that I would have totally done on my own had I thought of it. By that I mean the painstaking process of matting out each frame, then randomly placing it on places of the map, just because I could, just for the lulz. I'm not discounting it as "i could have thought of that", but appreciation for how useful it actually is. Some people cannot grasp certain things without visuals, and thi…

Yeah I agree! I knew the eruption was big (being able to clearly see it from space), but those visuals 1) make me remember how big the Pacific is, 2) how much bigger the eruption was than I originally thought, when overlaid on somewhere I know the relative size of (such as Florida).

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by Clubber »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #19
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Write a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?

Interesting; on aside, I would call: Florida - State Ontario - Province Spain & UK - "Country" colloquially; might use the term "Nation" if I needed to be more inclusive/ambiguous (Understanding that formally, State might in fact be a better term: e.g. it's "Minister of the State" or "Statesmanship" etc; but this is how I'd use them in daily life. ESL, 25 years in Canada FWIW)

State and Country are used interchangeably. The United States, before the Civil War was just that, a union of self governing entities. A nation is a group of similar peoples such as the Nation of Islam or Navajo Nation.

Country and State are synonymous terms that both apply to self-governing political entities. A nation, however, is a group of people who share the same culture but do not have sovereignty.

https://www.infoplease.com/world/diplomacy/state-country-and...

https://www.thoughtco.com/country-state-and-nation-1433559

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by finnh »

dheera wrote: post #36
vkou wrote: post #27

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> I mean, how fucking dumb do you need to be to look at a lava flow and cut a road or train track through it? Do they not realize that lava means "run"? Build infrastructure elsewhere. Right, and nobody should build cities on rivers or coasts, because rivers flood[1] and coasts get hurricanes that cause floods, nobody should build anything in valleys[1], because they flood, nobody should ever build anything in mounta…

> Right, and nobody should build cities on rivers or coasts, Many ancient civilizations knew not to build on coasts. Beijing, Xi'an, Cairo, Rome, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, London, Moscow, Kyoto, most of these cities of critical governmental and strategic importance were not built on coasts for very good reasons. And then you have some modern hipsters after the 17th century who decided not to take a history lesson a…

You seem to have a lot of anger. You might want to consider letting some of it go - it's a heavy load. Speaking from experience.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by rosstex »

I would like to see, "MEDIA COVERAGE OF Tonga eruption compared as if it had happened in various Nations". Because apparently no one knows anybody who lives in Tonga with a camera, but damn that high tide at the Berkeley marina was crazy!!

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by vkou »

dheera wrote: post #36
vkou wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I mean, how fucking dumb do you need to be to look at a lava flow and cut a road or train track through it? Do they not realize that lava means "run"? Build infrastructure elsewhere. Right, and nobody should build cities on rivers or coasts, because rivers flood[1] and coasts get hurricanes that cause floods, nobody should build anything in valleys[1], because they flood, nobody should ever build anything in mounta…

> Right, and nobody should build cities on rivers or coasts, Many ancient civilizations knew not to build on coasts. Beijing, Xi'an, Cairo, Rome, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, London, Moscow, Kyoto, most of these cities of critical governmental and strategic importance were not built on coasts for very good reasons. And then you have some modern hipsters after the 17th century who decided not to take a history lesson a…

You've cherry-picked a bunch of non-coastal cities, but completely missed that nearly all of them were built on rivers.

Which have all of the same problems with flooding as coasts, but much worse. Coasts flood when you get a major storm causing a surge, or a major earthquake. Rivers flood when the seasons change, when it rains upstream, when you get a mudslide upstream, when there's a major earthquake sending a tsunami upriver...

Why do you think cities built on coasts and rivers on the whole grew, and out-competed cities that were built inland?

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by dang »

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #5
milliams wrote: post #2

The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.

Write a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?

You should have used the article's original title, because it was neither misleading nor linkbait. I've reverted it now.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by throw_nbvc1234 »

boringg wrote: post #51

Pretty cool way to look at it. My take away ... Florida is almost as big as Britain? Wow, I didn't realize how small Britain was.

As an American who enjoys soccer, it's crazy when you then overlay the entire football pyramid onto Britain. I don't see how USA soccer (MLS, grassroots, lower leagues ect...) could ever be like the "ideal" of how things are done on the other side of the ocean.
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