Oh wow, that’s terrible.
My spellchecker needs to be updated because it doesn’t want me writing “Turkiye.”
7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
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Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#52This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
Hmm this guy's focus on planetary movements and lunar geometry light up the parts of my brain reserved for detecting quackery. I would bet that he got extremely lucky with his timing.
You're on to something here. I followed some information from the SSGeos website and found that they appear to use work done by a guy who is revered among astrologers, John H Nelson. I had never heard of the guy but it looks like he is a big cheese of early 20th century astrology believers who liked his studies on the effects on short-wave radio propagation under the influence of planetary alignments.
I think this is another case of a blind squirrel finding a nut. It's bound to happen once in a while.
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#53The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Turkey has been standardizing its name in every language as Türkiye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#54This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
Register 365 accounts and predict every day, you'd hit 100% correctness for earthquake prediction next year.
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#55The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Yes! People in other countries can have their own ideas about their country’s name should be in English, but if they don’t have a large English speaking population (eg India), they don’t get a vote on what we say in English.
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#56The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Turkey has been standardizing its name in every language as Türkiye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change
And we should ignore that because we speak English and they don’t.
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#57The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Or we can respect the name they prefer, since it’s important enough that they requested international recognition. I’m pretty loosey goosey with my own name and don’t mind if other people are, but I respect when other people don’t feel the same way. I don’t see any reason to insist on disregarding it for a whole country.
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#58This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
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Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#59This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
Register 365 accounts and predict every day, you'd hit 100% correctness for earthquake prediction next year.
You don't even need to do that.
Register every day post a tweet about an earthquake tomorrow. If you're wrong, delete it. When you're right, you seem prophetic.
Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Turkey has been standardizing its name in every language as Türkiye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change
And we should ignore that because we speak English and they don’t.
The word isn't an English word... Do you call Beijing "Peking" as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing