Avoiding Doomerism

[Nuke]

people just don't like being reminded that they are going to die. nothing does that like an active pandemic and a media that cant stop talking about it. its about the same wrt climate change. they seem to be using the term "winter weather advisory" rather liberally. even the local news does that, but i look out the window and think "typical alaska winter", "its december Darn it".  they put this climate change notion in your head and then bomb you with bad weather reports (form a very large spread of locales and climates). when the weather is nice its not news worthy and they never talk of that or give it very little attention. its always told in a dramatic way, as if with urgency, to the point where i wonder what uppers they are on. regardless of what the science says, this is terrible for your psyche. media has always been bad at interpreting science. but that's not how they make money, they make money by sucking you in and bombing you with ads. see the world with your own eyes sometimes. remember why science depends so much on observation.

[SunlitZelkova]

9 hours ago, Nuke said:

they seem to be using the term "winter weather advisory" rather liberally. even the local news does that, but i look out the window and think "typical alaska winter", "its december Darn it".  they put this climate change notion in your head and then bomb you with bad weather reports (form a very large spread of locales and climates). when the weather is nice its not news worthy and they never talk of that or give it very little attention. its always told in a dramatic way, as if with urgency, to the point where i wonder what uppers they are on.

I assume you must be talking about national news, which I agree like to fear monger.

As far as I can tell local news, at least in the Pacific Northwest (WA and OR), only use “winter weather advisory” when an actual weather advisory has been issued by the NWS…

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

We are going from above 40 degrees to below 4 degrees in a matter of hours.  Already one person dead from exposure. 

First time since 2015 with wind chill down to - 25.

Winter Storm advisory/watch/warning... Whatever.  It's cold.  Dangerous cold. 

... 

I blame Canada. 

[Nuke]

yep definitely canada. 

[StrandedonEarth]

21 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

I blame Canada. 

 

20 hours ago, Nuke said:

yep definitely canada. 

Oh sure, blame Canada, it’s all our fault. Sorry about that eh…

Keep it up and no syrup for you! 

Edited December 24, 2022 by StrandedonEarth

[kerbiloid]

3 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

Oh sure, blame Canada, it’s all our fault.

???
And whose else?

Without Canada, the North American continent would be washed by warm oceanic currents from the North, at  45°N.
Greenland would be a green land, and Alaska would be another Florida, less hot and more comfy.

Couldn't you put your part of land somewhere in the middle of Pacific, which lacks any land.

It would also turn your pines into palms, which are evolutionally almost the same, just with overturned needles.

[Zozaf Kerman]

I always knew these Canadians were up to no good

Spoiler

Except for @StrandedonEarth

 

[Pthigrivi]

1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said:

 

Oh sure, blame Canada, it’s all our fault. Sorry about that…

Keep it up and no syrup for you! 

Are you taking applicants? Vermont is interested. Our combined power of syrup will be unmatched the world over. 

[Ryaja]

4 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

Keep it up and no syrup for you!

NOT THE SYRUP!

[Nuke]

5 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

 

Oh sure, blame Canada, it’s all our fault. Sorry about that…

Keep it up and no syrup for you! 

3 hours ago, Pthigrivi said:

Are you taking applicants? Vermont is interested. Our combined power of syrup will be unmatched the world over. 

we buy our syrup from vermont. 

[Pthigrivi]

This may all seem OT but it turns out the cure to Doomerism is in fact excellent maple syrup. 

[kerbiloid]

Just thought a little...

The Canada proper place seems to be next to Australia.

Both are from Commonwealth, mostly English-speaking. One lacks heat, another one lacks snow.
If merge them, it would be a properly watered and warm place, with marsupial grizzly on the eucalypts, snow cangaroo (like in SW ep. V), and other things.

[Nuke]

1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

Just thought a little...

The Canada proper place seems to be next to Australia.

Both are from Commonwealth, mostly English-speaking. One lacks heat, another one lacks snow.
If merge them, it would be a properly watered and warm place, with marsupial grizzly on the eucalypts, snow cangaroo (like in SW ep. V), and other things.

canada lynx would kill everything. i mean australia has never known big cats. lynx doesnt exactly qualify because they purr, but they are big enough to take out kangaroos and koalas. they might have problems with the GIANT SPIDERS OF DOOM, but its nothing a cat cannot handle. 

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

snow cangaroo