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Hashashin_ t1_j8vvnkl wrote

Reply to comment by 70-1is69 in [OC] Paramilitary Forces Manpower by Country according to global firepower index by two_plus_two_is_zero

I must say that was an admirable attempt at changing topics. Why am I not surprised?

I wonder, why Karachi a city with 25 million people, very high population density, poverty and crime rate requires less paramilitary than Kashmir?

Perhaps it's because the paramilitary in Karachi is used to maintain peace in a city with an inadequate amount of police force. While paramilitary in Kashmir is used by India to maintain territory.

I would know that because I live in Karachi. We support paramilitary being deployed in Karachi because they are better than police. I wonder if you can say the same for Kashmiris?

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iamvegenaut t1_j8vsy5d wrote

Reply to comment by crimeo in HYSPLIT Air Dispersion model depicting the potential transport of chemical plumes emitted by the East Palestine Chemical Disaster [Ohio]. Simulating February 3-7, 2023 [OC] by apathyEndsNow

i think its only giving a concentration because to model the spatial dispersion pattern of a hypothetical volume of *some contaminant* in air, there has to be a starting concentration of *some contaminant*. it looks like they've used a dust based model, and the standard for quantifying concentrations of stuff in air when the exact composition is unknown (like dust / ash / etc.) is mass per cubic vol. for such hypotheticals the exact values are irrelevant and meaningless, but their relative differences are still useful as a vector.

and I wasn't sure of any of this either at first so i simply clicked the link OP provided to read about the model and its assumptions. There is an impressive amount of documentation available for HYSPLIT. I have learned some cool stuff already. Most of your questions / assumptions could have been addressed by reading the documentation, and doing so would probably even make clear how many of the shortcomings you've identified in the model could be improved. But it doesn't seem like you're interested in learning / contributing / helping bc all you've done so far is use hundreds of words to say nothing more than "youre dumb thats dumb you cant do that", and that seems like a waste of your knowledge

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NoHandBananaNo t1_j8vruyl wrote

Reply to comment by Turbulent-Mango-2698 in Leonardo DiCaprio still refuses to date a woman Over 25 [u/TrustLittleBrother's updated design] by _StoneWolf_

> I don’t think I know any single man of any age that wouldn’t choose to occasionally date women aged 18-25 if that was actually a real possibility

As a middle age guy who sure as hell would not want to date anyone that young all I can say is yikes.

Tho, you did say "single" men, and I'm not single, so maybe there's a selection bias in that the kind of men who want to pursue much younger women, are more likely to remain single themselves for extended periods of time?

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chuteboxhero t1_j8vqmfw wrote

Reply to comment by Kesshh in Factcheck.org - Trumps Final Numbers by extremekc

Yes for sure and they can be so intricate that it doesn’t really capture the overall sentiment of what is being said.

This isn’t any type of trump endorsement at all but an example of a fact check totally painting a narrative. I remember when trump backed out of the Paris climate accord he said that China would wipe out any progress made if the accords goals were met in two weeks. The fact checkers said it was false because it would actually take 59 days instead of two weeks. Yes technically not to the day correct but the general point he was trying to get across was generally true (albeit stupid to bring up by him ).

Trump lied about so many fucking things but it’s also clear that some fact checkers were just hell bent on finding a way to prove he’s lying about everything.

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