tbh i don’t really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they’re all connected it’s the same ocean
no metaphor here just pure confusion…is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?
Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.
That’s the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.
This is the Indian and the Pacific. It’s not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.
Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won’t. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won’t mix horizontally either.
The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.
The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It’s got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can’t cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.
This is cool as fuck
*eyeroll*
See also river confluences. This was always an interesting aspect even in the NW Pacific as you could come across particularly turbid or clear patches. But going south to Panama and on to the Gulf/Atlantic the changes were cool.
Also this is why you can suddenly get some really crappy conditions. The Caribbean can go through vastly different sea states in a short distance. The Yucatan was particularly choppy compared to further north near Hispaniola, Stuck In The Yuc was very rough and pitched the boat up and down A LOT *runs to head to barf* only time I got seasick while already at sea (would get queasy the first couple hours leaving the Columbia River but rarely hurled).
The filming location of Fantasy Island. July 21, 2023.
Did a school trip here circa 1979-80 as a 5th/6th grader combined with visiting JPL in Pasadena, Fantasy Island was still on the air and we were all excited to be on the ‘set’ for it. JPL was fun too (my dad had his first post-USMC job with JPL/Goldstone Deep Space Tracking Station).
i wonder how long it’s going to take people to stop calling them “tweets”, much in the same way i’ll never stop calling that powdery stuff “nestle quik”.
Let me grab a kleenex and q-tip and I’ll get back to you, right after I finish my plate of tater tots. :D
I love how the NES has a fundamental limitation of 8 sprites per scan line, it literally cannot render more than 64 pixels worth of sprites per horizontal line. This should really limit what kind of games you could make on the system.
But no, the developers were like “fuck it, we’ll shuffle the sprites each frame! Then on each frame, which eight are visible will alternate”
“won’t that flicker like mad?”
“yeah, but… Fuck it!”
And they just carried on! Making professional games! Hundreds of them! And they look like flickery shit because of a fundamental console limitation! But who cares, they’re good games. Move on.
I love how for years as a kid i assumed it must be some soffisikated algorithm to detect whicht sprites were drawn last frame
But NOPE they jus shuffle which order they get written to sprite ram
An important thing about computer games is a “good enough” simple algorithm beats a “clever trick” complex system nine times out of ten.
(the other one out of ten is id software in the 90s)
“average coder invents 9 algorithms” is actually in error. The average programmer invents 0 novel algorithms. Doom Carmack, who lives in a maze with orthogonal walls and invents 400 per game, is a clear outlier and should not have been counted
Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract — and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.
Sometimes you see a word and ‘BOOM!’ there’s that PTSD/Previous Life Experience. X marks that spot
The Calcasieu River is where I fell overboard on my first CG cutter, which was a tug/barge doing construction work. Working on a navigation light we just punched in (utility pole into the mud, put a platform with the light on it and a couple reflective-covered boards), leaning over to lag-bolt in the day boards and my boot slipped off the piling and 'SPLOOSH’ I’m in the February river water drifting out towards the jetty/gulf of Mexico! Thankfully I got in the lee of the barge and was able to slowly swim back to the barge and they used a pole hook for me to grab on to, then put one of our low platforms on the barge and hauled myself up. Took a hot shower, put on a dry uniform and very wet boots and got back to work. Basically working on one of these but the day boards were 6 foot
Ex-desert rat now happily living in the pacific northwest. USCG/Air Guard veteran. Heathen. Dorkasaurus. I make stupid gifs of things like food dancing. He/him.
