mars296

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure naming an Army base after a Marine would improve morale. I would love to hear the shit talk if that happened though. But yeah I'm sure there are plenty of people worthy of the honor, which a confederate is certainly not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately, most people don't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Nice touch of detail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I've seen ads on TV for it. I also happened across Jack Frags streaming a campaign playthrough yesterday on YouTube. I briefly tuned in to see what the campaign was like. His game crashed a few minutes later and he mentioned it was the 4th crash so far during his stream... So I stopped watching. I haven't bought any COD since the original Black Ops and wasn't going to buy this one but that did not inspire confidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As someone who has always been around people speaking broken English, it becomes very easy to interpret word jumbles and mistranslations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Why are all the wooden handles gone but not the wooden box itself?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He is trying to say that we use energy (presumably he is talking specifically about fossil fuels) for everything and in ways that people may not even realize it. He is saying that without fossil fuels society can't function.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain what the process is?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah remember the storm is very big so before it makes landfall or even without making landfall, it is still affecting a wide area.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

It appears they preserved Melbourne, FL moreso than Melbourne, Australia.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What surprised me most about Helene was the ground speed. I don't remember seeing any hurricane make landfall in the US moving at over 20mph. As a casual observer I have anyways seen 12 mph as a quick storm and 6 mph as slow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

They are habitable with the correct building codes. Northern Florida historically got very few hurricanes so the buildings are not hurricane resistant. The fact that their house floated away is the red flag that the home could never survive a hurricane. Houses in South Florida are concrete block exteriors. In the Keys you can't have any living space at all on the first floor too.

It does make it much more expensive to build but I see that rule becoming necessary in all coastal areas.

The extreme damage will be when hurricanes start making regular landfall in even less historically hurricane prone areas (see Western NC getting hit by the same storm at a fraction of the strength it hit Florida with). We already had hurricane Sandy fuck up NJ. It won't be pretty when a similar storm hits Philly, NYC, DC, etc.

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