Sadly a new off topic thread

[skjl47]

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Hello; The above may be click bait but in todays world maybe not. The gist is a man driving a truck hit and killed a jogger. He did stop and try to give aid but the jogger died.
That was over a year ago. Now the truck driver is suing the estate of the jogger he ran over and killed. Click bait or not that got to me. I lost some focus while trying to read more. Something about PTSD & being hospitalized is mentioned. I do get it would be traumatic to kill someone, but to sue the estate of the man you killed?????.
As a kicker the jogger's wife was jogging alongside of him when he was killed. I have thoughts.

 

[Ulu]

From science.org:

“Climate models show considerable discrepancies in their future projections around the Atlantic, mainly due to uncertainties in the fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Climate models . . . “

It couldn’t possibly be that the climate models are all a bunch of uncertain junk, created by people that got govt grants to do “work” that they could convince people would amount something, without actually producing anything that you could use or measure.

These predictions are coming from a government who has failed IMHO to predict anything correctly in a long long time, except that members of the other party would be crooks, in which they are all correct.

 

[jjohnwm]

Does anyone remember the praises that were being trumpeted about the weather supercomputer a few decades ago?

Previously, weather forecasters used all the data they had at their disposal to formulate their ideas of what the upcoming weather would be like. We were told to expect these temperatures and those winds and this much precipitation during the following few days. Sometimes they were right...sometimes they were wrong. Occasionally, one would be forced to wonder if the weather guys ever actually looked out a window or stepped outdoors.

The supercomputer changed all that. Forecasts now are often broken down hour-by-hour, with very specific probabilities assigned to each individual hour. It's not "a chance of snow today" anymore. Now it's "clear and sunny @ 10am; increasing cloud @11am; 37% chance of light snow @ noon; 46% chance of snow continuing through 1pm..." and so on. Forecasts extend a week or more into the future now.

Sadly...they're still wrong as often as not...but now they're wrong considerably further into the future. There's still nobody looking out the window. My wife mentioned to me just a moment ago that the giant fluffy snowflakes pelting down upon us now weren't supposed to start for another hour. I'm shocked.