Will Hurricane Milton be a dud or will it be paradise lost?

[Shippou-Sensei]

It'd be a bit of a daddy-long-legs effort at best.

He will secretly finance the lifestyle of a young woman he ends up sexualy involved with?

Daddy Long Legs (1955 film) - Wikipedia

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for the people who don't get the refrence.

Sounds like him.

Not sure the Fred Astaire version made them sign an NDA


Edited to add. For some reason I got the umbrella conversation mixed up with the one about maralargo

 

[Humberto]

Nah (the devil) Spring Heeled Jack will knock a door, only to be answersed by a servant girl. The mere sight of him will scare her into a state morbid hysterics as the myth of his dark escapades grows to attention in 19th c London.

 

[cesare]

And meanwhile, people die and lose their homes while people mock.

 

[Humberto]

Fuck me then.

 

[Humberto]

mocking the dead

 

[Humberto]

Dunno why I bother

 

[cesare]

Fuck me then.

Cue the self pity

 

[Humberto]

Cue the self pity

Not sure it's self-pity.

 

[cesare]

Not sure it's self-pity.

You'll make it about you.

 

[Humberto]

You'll make it about you.

I think I may have misunderstood.

 

[bcuster]

Looks like the Naples' earth cam is down

 

[Humberto]

I thought me talking to Shippy was considered heartless in front of peoples homes being destroyed. And the mere act of me not preventing this situation made me a legitamate target. All the while 'making it about me'.

 

[Yossarian]

The fabric roof has been ripped off the Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field stadium in St. Petersburg, which had been set up as a shelter for thousands of first responders

 

[petee]

We live on reclaimed marshland from.the Thames and the Thames barrier is just a few miles away from us. We can imagine what Floridians are going through but many times worse.

this piqued my interest and whaddya know, there are wiki pages about it.

Embanking of the tidal Thames - Wikipedia

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Thames Embankment - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[petee]

it's bad already

More than 1.5 million without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida, causes deaths and flooding

Hurricane Milton has made landfall in Florida near Siesta Key in Sarasota County, bringing powerful winds, deadly storm surge and flooding.

apnews.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online.

www.rollingstone.com

This hurricane season, Cappucci and the other meteorologists I spoke with say, conspiracy theories have been flooding their inboxes. The main one that people have seemed to latch onto is the accusation that the government can control the weather.

This theory seems to be amplified with climate change creating worsening storms combined with a tense election year, and the vitriol is being directed at meteorologists.

“I’ve been doing this for 46 years and it’s never been like this,” says Alabama meteorologist James Spann. He says he’s been “inundated” with misinformation and threatening messages like “Stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else.”

 

[Nylock]

Fucksake. We are doomed, aren't we?

 

[Chilli.s]

The main one that people have seemed to latch onto is the accusation that the government can control the weather.

So true Im surprised trump hasnt incorporated it in one of his brainstorm speeches

 

[skyscraper101]

CNN now saying 3 million without power

 

[DotCommunist]

I remember learning to understand or at least appreciate how impossible it it is to control something so vast and many factored as the weather, the butterfly effect metaphor. Apply it to the physics of snooker or pool and you see why all computer games of the aforementioned are complete shit. Once you've worked out the controls you can't miss. In reality the million and one factors from a slight bend in the cue, sweaty palms, a divot where someone chipped the white too hard, humidity affecting the baize...this and a 1000 other factors flattened out completely in a game. Its fundamentally impossible to control without I dunno, supercomputer the size of a small moon? The Met office has (i think) the second most powerful supercomputer in the isles to predict ahead! No idea how this ones got in but if it deflects from the realities of climate change one can speculate as to the source of this nonsense...

 

[NoXion]

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online.

www.rollingstone.com

I am so fucking sick and tired of knowledgeable people being sent death threats by fascist cunts and tinfoil twats who attempt to assuage their hurt feelings by lashing out. How the fuck in this day and age are these wastes of skin not rotting in prison where they fucking belong? Isn't it a crime to send death threats? The evidence is right fucking there, and many of the blinkered fuckwits who send them aren't going to be smart enough enough to cover their tracks properly. These people only understand power, and examples need to be made of them.

 

[NoXion]

Meanwhile Elon Musk is also busy fucking things up, because of course he is:

Musk’s hurricane of misinformation has finally gone too far

With Hurricane Milton making its way to the Florida coast, Ryan Coogan explains why conspiracy theories promoted by right wingers on Twitter/X could make this terrifying disaster even worse – especially for Republicans

www.independent.co.uk

 

[story]

Something in me sees a direct line between those who troll and hate on the internet and then go “chill man it’s only the internet….” and this real life bullshit, which is like the same kind of trolling but escaped from the internet and now just happening everywhere on a global RL scale.


Everything is the thin edge of a wedge. Everything.

 

[NoXion]

Something in me sees a direct line between those who troll and hate on the internet and then go “chill man it’s only the internet….” and this real life bullshit, which is like the same kind of trolling but escaped from the internet and now just happening everywhere on a global RL scale.


Everything is the thin edge of a wedge. Everything.

Or they will pretend that they were being sarcastic or satirical. One of the biggest problems I have with amateur "satirists" on social media is that they can be indistinguishable from the real deal. I've seen even genuine piss-takes being shared around by fashies and tinfoilers as straight propaganda. Such people are impossible to properly attack with satire because they don't give a shit about the truth.

 

[frogwoman]

Tampa and St Petersburg saw 18 inches of rain in the night apparently. However, Tampa bay was actually drained of water due to the water being sucked back out by the winds

 

[Rompipalle]

Or they will pretend that they were being sarcastic or satirical. One of the biggest problems I have with amateur "satirists" on social media is that they can be indistinguishable from the real deal. I've seen even genuine piss-takes being shared around by fashies and tinfoilers as straight propaganda. Such people are impossible to properly attack with satire because they don't give a shit about the truth.

Well, that's Trumpian tactics right there. That's the sort of line he trots out when he's pulled up for his relentless lies and stupidity.

Unfortunately, he isn't called out for it often enough.

Trump has no sense of humour and isn't intelligent enough for either sarcasm or satire to work. He's just a plain, nasty old liar.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Study: Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes

Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will likely cause other global changes in climate: An MIT study has found that solar geoengineering proposals will weaken extratropical storm tracks in Northern and Southern hemispheres.

news.mit.edu

 

[PTK]

Meanwhile Elon Musk is also busy fucking things up, because of course he is:

Musk’s hurricane of misinformation has finally gone too far

With Hurricane Milton making its way to the Florida coast, Ryan Coogan explains why conspiracy theories promoted by right wingers on Twitter/X could make this terrifying disaster even worse – especially for Republicans

www.independent.co.uk

I agree that Musk is despicable.

That article is wrong in one aspect.
I live in Britain, but I know that it is untrue that “The entire party has completely abandoned not just common sense, but the basic acknowledgement of the laws of cause and effect.”
There are Republicans who reject this conspiracy mongering.

I was dubious about the one positive claim about Musk, that he has ordered his Starlink satellites to help the victims of Hurricane Milton.
And, indeed, it turns out that there is a catch. People will have to pay $400 to pay for the hardware to access the internet via Starlink. Furthermore, those who sign up for the free 30 days automatically transition to a $120-per-month residential subscription following the 30-day grace period.
Also
“Customers residing in the disaster zone who already possess a dish and desire a fee waiver must submit a specific support ticket, which the company will review at an unspecified time. Kinney Baughman, a Boone, NC, resident, told The Register that the Starlink offer was a "craft bait and switch...meant to take advantage of people instead of helping them."”

Elon Musk's Starlink Gives Hurricane Helene Victims Free Internet For 30 Days—With A $400 Catch

Elon Musk promised free Starlink to Hurricane Helene victims but hid the $400 hardware cost, leaving many feeling duped.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

 

[editor]

Meanwhile Elon Musk is also busy fucking things up, because of course he is:

Musk’s hurricane of misinformation has finally gone too far

With Hurricane Milton making its way to the Florida coast, Ryan Coogan explains why conspiracy theories promoted by right wingers on Twitter/X could make this terrifying disaster even worse – especially for Republicans

www.independent.co.uk

That's a really good piece.

 

[frogwoman]

Nene (@nene10.bsky.social)

Hurricane Milton hits Florida, USA, and causes destruction.

bsky.app

Sorry for bsky link - this video shows some really scary impacts of hurricanes. I suspect it's not from Milton though