Lol, yep. Oh you spray lots of stuff that’s designed to kill bugs? I think it might be killing lots of bugs!

Fascinating, as I had no idea it could start to happen this quickly. This really helps explain how regional dialects like the Carolina Brogue emerged in isolated parts of the country/world.

Boil it down even further than OP and everything, ultimately, is just binary impulses between differently oriented clusters of atoms.

Time and time again I find myself coming back to a deterministic interpretation of the physical world. We’re now at the point where a simple scrape-predict-regurgitate AI language model (ChatGPT) can convincingly imitate the communication pattern of a human being with good factual recall but low social acumen, almost like what we generally associate with the autism spectrum. It’s harder and harder to argue that we aren’t just walking flesh bags with simple electrical impulses that carry us from decision to decision based on a finite dataset. It’s amazingly complex and sometimes can seem unpredictable, but it’s still finite. Were we ever able to build a sufficiently complex computer, I believe it could predict every decision we ever make with remarkable accuracy. The concept of “free will”, at least to me, seems a comfortable agreed-upon illusion that keeps us from killing and eating one another.

Thanks for the heads up. I thought about using “the UK”, but then Ireland was an outlier. Is there a less controversial term for the whole cluster?

I can’t find much that describes the modeled impacts outside of the English-speaking world, but that’s probably because I’m googling in English. What I can find suggests that in N. America sea level will rise, hurricanes will intensify, and precipitation will increase. In the British Isles, Africa, S. America, and India precipitation will decrease dramatically. Beyond those immediate, more straightforward impacts from the movement and distribution of moisture/water vapor, it’s difficult to predict what’ll happen because third and fourth order impacts are difficult to model due to inherent volatility and unpredictable sensitivity to large-scale changes.

Yeah after a little digging it looks like the risk isn’t that it’ll stop and do something crazy like reverse directions, but it could phase shift to a slow, weak circulation pattern over the course of a few decades. That would mean that heat still gets delivered northward but not quite as far and not quite as fast, which presumably would increase not only sea level but also hurricane intensity/duration over the eastern US/Canada. The British Isles would dry up considerably, as would the poorest parts of South America, Africa, and south Asia, so we’re likely looking at tens of millions of refugees fleeing famine each year.

Not good, y’all. Most of northern Europe is generally temperate because of warm equatorial air delivered via the gulf stream (NYC is roughly the same latitude as Rome), and this shutdown won’t seem real until it enters a dramatic and irreversible phase shift, perhaps over the course of a year or two. Suddenly most of Europe will get very cold, VERY quickly, and the entire world will feel environmental, financial and cultural shockwaves for decades.

Can I get that process started? Where do I put the url in directly to subscribe from kbin if/when the 404 error is corrected?

Why doesn’t flyfishing@lemmy.world show up when I log into kbin.social and try to subscribe from that instance?

I started it here: https://lemmy.world/c/flyfishing