@technastic_tc yes, sorry, I was trying to make a joke based on the fallacy that things you prepare for don't happen, and things that you don't prepare for do (for example, the one day you forget your umbrella is the one day it rains)
@technastic_tc both days. They declared 25th holiday on 24th, and 26th holiday on 25th
I don't know what it was like in Pondicherry or those parts of TN interior or Andhra Pradesh the storm crossed after landfall. The last forecast I saw from IMD showed a track that went more north than west and missed Karnataka altogether. But I got distracted by household matters after that
and that worsening trend seems likely to continue. Climate change brings instability, extreme weather etc
Recently watched David Attenborough's short film A Life on Our Planet and he emphasised that our game-changing invention (in that it allows us to produce enough food to support huge populations), agriculture, was possible because of, and is highly dependent on, the climatic stability of the last several thousand years
Meme: "pulling a terdon"
Originator: terdon ♦
Examples:
"let's not pull a terdon"
"Let's not pull a Terdon here."
"I promise to never pull a Terdon :p"
Background: Our dear friend (and moderator) terdon inadvertently assisted a poor user in deleting his home directory. Terdon was quick to own u...
Sigh. That's a known troll. Very mild for them though, those were just three softcore images of women in underwear. not even particularly shocking or anything
@technastic_tc Eh, it depends on the site. AU is one of the most active sites of the network, so AU had more "work" than my other two combined. My third was Bioinformatics which is tiny, and had next to no work at all.
Unix & Linux is medium: quite large, but not a lot of moderation work involved.
The really impressive ones are folks like Chris who's a mod on 5 sites and, most importantly, one of them is SO which is a full time job by itself!
