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Comment war, volcanic eruption, flood, famine, disease (Score 2) 302

Looking only at current climate change is tunnel vision. I can name ancestors who moved from one place to another because of war, volcano, epidemic. Obviously they did not give up on children.In fact, I can name ancestors from whom I am a product of a third marriage after the demise of earlier spouses.

Comment demolition of DMV offices (Score 1) 50

The virtualization of DMV activities is partly motivated by state mandates for jurisdictions to build more housing. The city with the DMV nearest to me is already at build-out, but is required to build more, so they are set to re-zone the land with the DMV office and demolish it to build the mandated housing.

Comment personality disorders (Score 1) 82

Looking for a sliver lining, I hope a preponderance of output from large language models might evoke classroom education on recognition of personality disorders so that the general population becomes more aware and immune to misleading information from machine and people. Alas that will take a generation to realize.

Comment Re:Where are the details? (Score 1) 78

The UCSC blog is down. The API URL at the company is down. Slashdot and Techcrunch are the only open evidence that this ever happened, but the API is loose out there. The lack of response for a period of months suggests that there can be no fix and that the deployed hardware now has net negative value which CSC is contractually obligated to keep running in order to service the needs of the users at each site.

Comment Re:tornado outbreaks are not new (Score 1) 73

One of the 1967 tornados went through my yard. It was initially recorded in the federal tornado database, but because of the severity of the other tornados on that day it was omitted from the state database. At a later point someone in charge of the federal database decided that the state database was more reliable and they deleted my tornado from the federal records. In this case one of the other people affected by my tornado was an employee of NOAA, and he pointed out the news coverage of the deleted tornado, and he got them to re-insert the tornado in the federal database as out of sequence number 9999 for that day.

As noted in several other posts here, the old records are capriciously incomplete by comparison to what is now routinely documented.

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