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I'm all for conservation, but I really have mixed feelings on this one
  • As long as they're not inside my house, (and if they were, I would take them outside) I'd say it's fine. They deserve somewhere nice to live (as long as it isn't. inside my house)

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    They've been pressure washing them. You can tell.
  • seeing these always reminds me of the train scene in Spirited Away

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    How come there are currently large low pressure zones at North Pole and South Pole?
  • The ITCZ is an interesting case to use here! You're right that it's the thermal equator and has low pressure, but you've gotta consider convection and wind direction too (i.e. the whole Hadley cell). Convection (caused by solar heating) causes low pressure too, and pressure is often relative.

    When you're thinking about stuff on a global scale you've always gotta consider the global atmospheric circulation

    There's a lot of good explanation in the link I sent - it's tricky trying to consider all the variables together, but I would say that variations in density (latitudinally, at least - unless you want to start talking about hydrostatic balance!) doesn't account for the variation in pressure or temperature.

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    How come there are currently large low pressure zones at North Pole and South Pole?
  • the complication is that in meteorology, the volume of gas does not remain the same! if you're changing the mass, temperature, density, and pressure of a parcel of air, you definitely can't assume that the volume is constant

    it's good to use a different ideal gas equation, instead of PV = nRT (pressure x volume = n * R * Temperature)

    we meteorologists tend to stick to unit masses, and use: Pressure = density ×R×T, instead

    i.e. when temperature decreases, pressure decreases

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    Burning Up
  • the wet bulb temperature1 is just the temperature of a wet thermometer, and varies with humidity and temperature. Wet bulb temp is never higher than the dry bulb temp, so (entertainingly) you're proposing that the meaning of 100° varies wildly and is always lower than the true temperature, effectively making the air temperature always ≥100°, and increases when the air is drier, like some sort of inverse relative humidity.

    1(I'm aware you probably didn't mean wet bulb temperature here, but let's have fun with the idea) :)

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    New Zealand: Māori king's daughter crowned as king buried
  • The Māori monarchy dates back to the 19th Century, when different Māori tribes decided to create a unifying figure similar to that of a European monarch in order to try to prevent the widespread loss of land to New Zealand's British colonisers and to preserve Māori culture. The role is largely ceremonial.

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  • I would genuinely buy a bra that needed charging if it did something useful (like phase cooling / some sort of refrigeration). Not from Temu though

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    ‘Beaver-bombing’: unauthorised rodent releases on the rise in English rivers
  • Where are people getting the beavers to do the unauthorised beaver releases?

    Do they use rehabilitated ones? Or are the ones who were both in captivity (big fenced areas) being "accidentally" let out of the fence?

    Do beaver-keepers secretly meet up in the night and exchange unregistered beaver babies to prevent inbred populations?

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    ADHD Rule
  • AuDHD and completely caffeine free (and stimulant/meds/drugs free too). Caffeine definitely doesn't work for me like it does for other people - makes me sleepy and headachey. I'd rather just work with what I've got, (noise cancelling headphones + being inflexible) even if it has limitations

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    I went to Reading Festival and something wasn't quite right
  • The weather risk management of festivals in the UK is often very unsafe and met with attitudes of "the show must go on!" and "just deal with it!" without any proper planning or attention to forecasts.

    Most of Renee Rapp's team's equipment was completely drenched in water and presumably ruined. Whilst it's fine for the festivalgoers to make their own decisions, when it's thousands of pounds worth of electrical equipment - the event organisers really should know better.

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    Flight attendant slams passenger for making bread on board, ‘I hate people like you’
  • She had to let it rest for another 20 hours after getting off the plane anyway. Even if it was really necessary, she could have made the dough at the airport (past security) and kept it fully sealed whilst on the plane.

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    Do people care about Oasis getting back together?
  • the only Oasis song I know is the one people play to be deliberately annoying. I'd much rather be rickrolled

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    "The Newspaper of Record"
  • Where I live, in December, it's already night by 4pm, whereas in July, 4pm isn't even the peak of heat yet. But if someone said "good evening" to me at 4pm in either of them, I'd prob accept it either way, and I'm a meteorologist

    Also: In the UK and the US, the typical meteorological standard is just to split seasons by month (DJF MAM JJA SON) for easy stats reasons, but other countries have entirely different standards based on climate. Different people have different definitions and it's completely fine

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    Revealed: Almost 455k trees felled by UK councils in last 10 years
  • Oh no sorry, that 35 years was if you're planting 10 trees for every 1 you cut down (have a look at the calculator!)

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    I'm not big on this new 'pants' trend.
  • I had to google this (because I'm not from the US) and I'd be super surprised if their tagline became "cooler than trousers but still covers your arse"

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    Compassionate Discourse
  • sorry, my mistake, I totally meant to say I value "community" not "communism" ;)

    (also, I'm not North American!)

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    I'm not big on this new 'pants' trend.
  • even if this is true, there are other, much cooler types of clothing than trousers that still cover your arse

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    Compassionate Discourse
  • when talking to my parents, if I say "community" instead of "communism," or "nobody deserves to starve" instead of "free food", and "help vulnerable people" instead of "benefits" and "everyone deserves to feel safe from harm" instead of XYZ - everyone wholeheartedly agrees!

    But if I let them go off on a tangent without guiding them, then they're "anti woke" even though they don't know what woke means

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    Revealed: Almost 455k trees felled by UK councils in last 10 years
  • The ecosystem of a mature tree is vastly different to that of a sapling.

    Bristol Trees have a very cool calculator that illustrates the impact of replacing mature trees with saplings on CO2 - it takes about 35 years to get back to the same amount of CO2 loss. CO2 isn't the only thing that matters to the environment either, but you'd hope councils were aware of that too

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    Unusual road markings in Brighton mocked
  • I can imagine they had so much fun with this one

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  • www.newscientist.com Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells

    A technique for attaching a skin made from living human cells to a robotic framework could give robots the ability to emote and communicate better

    >A smiling face made from living human skin could one day be attached to a humanoid robot, allowing machines to emote and communicate in a more life-like way, say researchers. Its wrinkles could also prove useful for the cosmetics industry.

    Edit to say: There's a video in the link 🌝

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    I love barbecue but seem to know very little about it! I cook lots indoors but haven't had much practice outdoors or with big meat

    To make sure my next BBQ goes better than the last: What are your favourite places (websites, YouTube channels, blogs, etc) to get barbecue advice/knowledge/ideas/inspiration?

    Alternatively: what are your best pieces of advice for BBQ novices? :)

    Thanks in advance!

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    This has been the hottest June in the UK since 1846, (and also since 1676, using the Central England Temperature series)!

    I think even with today's cooler temperatures, it'll still have beaten the records.

    Schafernaker says a bit about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/66055520

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