M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

Post by carabiner » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #207

If any west-coasters are confused as to how this is news: the Northeast is sort of geologically unusual for the US in that we have almost no surprising, sudden weather thingies. No tornados, mild thunderstorm, occasional hurricanes (but they are usually weakened a bit compared to, like, Florida by the time they get up here and they’ve spent a long time going up the coast so they tend to be well tracked by forecasters…

Post by nielsbot » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

sunshine_reggae wrote: post #264

tombert wrote: post #128

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I actually do use Rumble (there are some more controversial-but-also-left-leaning creators that got banned from YouTube that I like), but man the ads on there are insane. COVID conspiracy theories, vaccine "alternatives", political ads for obscure Republican candidates, stuff like that. Fortunately, at least for now there's not a lot of ads (I suspect that they can't find a lot of mainstream advertisers), so generall…

I don't know - for example, here is a video of a couple of scientists who explain in detail how they have analyzed the vaccine contents and how authorities then have reacted to their complaints: https://rumble.com/v4n6hsn-analysis-on-covid-19-vaccines-per... Would you still call such content a conspiracy theory?

Post by graypegg » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

mikeocool wrote: post #268

bee_rider wrote: post #255

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The thought process was: I know earthquakes aren’t really weather, so I’ll tack on “thingies” to make it clear that I’m making up some new more generalized term. The point was to group all the… I dunno, whatever, surprising attacks by the planet into one thing. I can’t think of a real term for this, I think there might not be one, I guess I could call it something like “weather or geological surprises” but that’s jus…

Sim City "Disaster" menu items

Post by wilg » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:55 PM UTC

ancientworldnow wrote: post #241

georgeecollins wrote: post #203

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As a native Californian this provokes a bit of a chuckle. Try a six plus sometime! But seriously, I hope everything is fine.

The geology of the east coast makes earthquakes about ten times more intense (according to usgs) so this is similar to a west coast high five.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

mrguyorama wrote: post #269

bee_rider wrote: post #240

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It’s just a hurricane in the winter, no biggie. We would enjoy the snow and check out the surf (from a safe distance). I think you aren’t officially supposed to suggest the latter though.

I mean, it really isn't a huge deal, but the nor'easter that just came across us here in southern maine left about 350k people without power in a state of 1.6 million people. That's not nothing.