[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[warpus]

I thought "getting nicked" means "getting robbed"

but it also means "getting your face cut" ? that doesn't make sense either though

 

[Samson]

I thought "getting nicked" means "getting robbed"

but it also means "getting your face cut" ? that doesn't make sense either though

A "nick" is a small cut, so people and items can be nicked, as in get a small cut made in them.

Also, items can get nicked as in stolen.

Also people can get nicked as in arrested.

English is so fun.

 

[warpus]

Got it. But razors usually come with a protective thingy that serves this purpose, this isn't a problem unless you lose that thingy

 

[Samson]

I could complain so much about that infographic:

Do not take normal laundry detergent, take special wool detergent. It is FAR easier to rinse your clothes when washing in a hotel sink.

Why take extra bags, just put your laundry and souvenirs in your main bag, you can only put one in the hold anyway.

If you are taking a razor you are probably male. What male wears cloths of "a similar colour palete"?

I prevent my toiletries (only tooth paste when travelling) spilling by putting the top on. You only need to care about the 3 ounce limit if you are hand luggage only.

If you have dirty shoes, wear them.

What sort of sheet is air tight that will stop odors?

My main tip for packing is: Packing always takes from when you start until you leave, so do not start packing until the last minute. Just make sure you bring your passport and credit card.

[EDIT] My big tip: You cannot take water through security at airports. But you can take and empty bottle, and in most airports you can fill that up for free rather than paying extortionate amounts for a bottle of water past security.

Also: What sort of power adaptor fits in a glasses case? I am pretty sure none that would work with UK plug at either end.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm told that women like to shave their legs.

 

[warpus]

I like to shave women's legs too, try to be more inclusive in your generalizations

 

[Arakhor]

Well, what you do with a razor between two consenting adults is up to you.

 

[The_J]

Shower caps for the shoes? Shoving them into a plastic bag will not do ^^?
And if I'm packing that tight that I need to vacuum my cloths, then I'm probably not really bringing an extra pair of shoes.

 

[Lexicus]

[EDIT] My big tip: You cannot take water through security at airports. But you can take and empty bottle, and in most airports you can fill that up for free rather than paying extortionate amounts for a bottle of water past security.

Holy moly
I was blind before but now I see

 

[stfoskey12]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...cans-exposed-unsafe-drinking-water/564278001/

I will concede that there are more problems with the water supply of many that I didn't know about. But in most cases that water did not contain pathogens that would make you sick from just having a glass, and it seems to be 63 million were exposed at one point in time as opposed to the whole time.

 

[El_Machinae]

I generally talk about 'per capita emissions', because I happen to think that apportioning the atmospheric budget in a per capita way is basically the fairest I can think of. And I start the timeline at "1992" (because that's when the Rio Conference was agreed to) or at least "1992" because that's when Kyoto was signed.

Everyone and their dog knows that we currently need to emit fossil carbon as part of the process of lifting our people out of poverty AND creating the alternatives. But this is for the "what about China???" people. The Chinese are consuming their share of the buffer vastly slowly than my countrymen are.

 

[civvver]

Holy moly
I was blind before but now I see

We do this everywhere man, having kids teaches you a few things. We bring their empty thermos with straw bottles to movies, airports, zoos, parks, whatever, just find a drinking fountain and fill er up.

 

[Lillefix]

We do this everywhere man, having kids teaches you a few things. We bring their empty thermos with straw bottles to movies, airports, zoos, parks, whatever, just find a drinking fountain and fill er up.

I did that on Heathrow once. I had this unmarked bottle of tapwater in my hand when I entered the plane(a little bit to provoke, because I find the rule so ridiculous), and I had to drink from the bottle to prove it was water.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Cutlass]

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/americas-arid-west-invades-the-fertile-eastern-u-s/


The 'rain shadow' of the Rocky Mountains has moved 2 degrees east as a result of global warming. Making more farmland too dry to use.

 

[stfoskey12]

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/americas-arid-west-invades-the-fertile-eastern-u-s/


The 'rain shadow' of the Rocky Mountains has moved 2 degrees east as a result of global warming. Making more farmland too dry to use.

The link isn't working for me, but I am initially skeptical, simply because the dust bowl was worse than anything that's happening now, and that was 80 years ago, before global warming was much of a problem.
Here's one link I found that does work: http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/0...e-great-plains-used-to-begin-now-moving-east/

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The dust bowl had nothing to do with climate change as you say. It was typical drought patterns combined with ultra-irresponsible farming techniques that caused that. It was a short term, mainly man-made diaster that affected a small area (in the scheme of things).

Presented here is a long term man-made climate shift that affects an entire continent.

It was the F1 tornado to a category 2 hurricane, except we caused them both. The dust bowl was not worse than this, intense local problems do not out weigh huge dispered ones.


They just make better news.

 

[Cutlass]

The link isn't working for me, but I am initially skeptical, simply because the dust bowl was worse than anything that's happening now, and that was 80 years ago, before global warming was much of a problem.
Here's one link I found that does work: http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/0...e-great-plains-used-to-begin-now-moving-east/

I think you're looking at 2 different things. Variation around the mean, and changes to the mean.

 

[stfoskey12]

The dust bowl had nothing to do with climate change as you say. It was typical drought patterns combined with ultra-irresponsible farming techniques that caused that. It was a short term, mainly man-made diaster that affected a small area (in the scheme of things).

Presented here is a long term man-made climate shift that affects an entire continent.

It was the F1 tornado to a category 2 hurricane, except we caused them both. The dust bowl was not worse than this, intense local problems do not out weigh huge dispered ones.

They just make better news.

I disagree that the dust bowl wasn't worse. I don't see people moving to California by the hundreds of thousands just so they can eke out a living. The depletion of the Ogallala aquifer combined with a warming climate could spell trouble in a few decades, but I don't think it's quite here yet. Oklahoma's actually been getting wetter over time.

Source: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/state...ase=10&firsttrendyear=1895&lasttrendyear=2018

I think you're looking at 2 different things. Variation around the mean, and changes to the mean.

But that was such a radical variation around the mean that it was (AFAIK) more impactful than the current shift.

 

[Cutlass]

But that was such a radical variation around the mean that it was (AFAIK) more impactful than the current shift.

So is a hurricane, for most locations. It's still a vast outlier, and not an ongoing event.