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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • Hilarious. I'm in.

  • Oh, I thought this was somehow about MapReduce

  • If 27% of Americans identify as conservative Christians, and 64% are Christian, that means 42% of Christians are conservative, not 20%..

    1. Wut
    2. I didn't make this map
    3. I don't think anyone thinks that, but that doesn't invalidate the fact that Christianity (especially evangelical) is highly correlated with one political party in the US, and it's spatially heterogeneous
  • Sea ice (most of the arctic) is VERY different to land ice (which is most of Antarctica). Check some sea ice maps and ice thickness maps to see the difference.

    Also, the two hemispheres are not tightly coupled over short (decadal scales). The Arctic has been warming much faster than the Antarctic (so far).

  • Right, but how do you know who is talking from knowledge, and who isn't?

    Anyway, thanks for the reference, now I know :)

  • Eh? I did a group theory (topology) course at Uni, I dont see how it's related? You'd need a categorisation system before you can do treat anything meaningful with groups, and there are hundreds of plausible orthogonal ways to divide up the space of all TTRPGs

  • At least some penguin species need sea ice to breed, and Antarctic sea ice extent has dropped off a cliff in the last decade (a starting in 2016) (source: went to a plenary about sea ice at the AMOS conference in Aus at the end of June)

    I think what ever happens in Antarctica, it's likely to be complex...

  • I don't get why people have these kind of arguments without providing sources. It makes you both look argumentative and not very trustworthy.

  • Not in a meaningful timeframe, I think. Even if we get a worst case outcome (say +5°C by 2100, ongoing warming), permanent land ice in Antarctica will likely take many hundreds, or even thousands of years to melt entirely.

    It's always going to have frozen winters with lots of snow, due to the long dark polar winter.. I guess some boreal tundra species could survive that, but farming is probably unlikely to be viable, I would guess.

  • Good points (and good writing).

    I guess my aim in trying to (loosely) categorise game systems is that I would like to try a bunch of diverse systems, so that I can figure out which types I like. These categories help me map out the space of all existing games, which helps me find example games that also match themes I like.

    I know I CBF with anything much crunchier than D&D, except maybe reading about it out of morbid curiosity. Fatal sounds horrendous 😂

  • I would say someone getting offended by you communicating openly is not "nothing". At least it would be a problem for me.

  • Seems possible.

    But the answer might be highly culturally dependent, and also contingent on a tonne of extra context, so you're probably not going to get a reliable answer from the internet.

    You could try asking him his intentions directly. Or telling him that you're not interested.

  • Be interested to know why people are downvoting this. I generally like Bernie, but this is on point.

  • Thanks! Yeah, I know there's a million variations of each, but I guess if you've played one variation you at least get a bit of taste of the mechanics.

    I forgot about dice pools, I've listened to a Dogs in the Vineyard podcast. I haven't come across the others yet.

  • Haha, yeah. Also, anything with too many burnt carbs is not great.