• Phanlix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      363·
      1 year ago

      Dude for real. A cheap bidet attachment for your toilet is the way to go.

      First off, a bidet is better than toilet paper. I’ve been using it for years, and it cleans you 100%. I use basically 1 square of TP to dry myself after, and it’s always completely clean. If you had a bird shit on your arm would you just wipe it off with paper and call it a day?

      I laughed at all my friends who made fun of me for getting one on all my toilets after the great TP shortage of 2021, and a few of them ended up switching over.

      For the apocalypse I have a camping toilet with a foot operated bidet. I mean I already use it when car camping, and I have a hand bidet for backpacking.

      Solar panels are also in play. I also bought a freeze dryer and have about 5 deers worth of freeze dried jerky, and buy and freeze dry on sale fruit and veggies pretty regularly. I try to maintain around a 1-2 year supply of on hand food. A few steel plates, ar-15 pistol, and enough ammo to hold off the upper floor for quite a while too, but that’s another conversation. I’m as ready to go as I can though, let’s do this.

      • Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Is there a trick I’m missing? Spray my butthole for 30 seconds and I need pretty much as much TP, actually more because the first batches get wet.

        • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          221·
          1 year ago

          No, but realistically the argument that bidets are better for the environment is kind of shit anyway.

          You do it for a clean butthole. For a guy like me with a pair of legs belonging to a werewolf, you might end up wiping more but the end result is a clean ass without taking a shower. Worth.

        • Phanlix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          1 year ago

          If your stream is at the max setting that’s comfortable and you move around a bit and make sure to get the whole area I’ve got nothing for you other than a recommendation to up the fiber in your diet.

          I did get a nicer one that can just about peel the skin off on the highest setting, but even the lower quality one I have on the main bathroom downstairs gets me completely clean. I do tend to use it longer than 30 seconds, I’m pretty thorough about the rinse process.

        • Habahnow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I just use like 2 squares of toilet paper first to mostly dry myself, then like 3-4 to make sure I’m completely wiped. I’m not hairless down there either and that usually works for me.

        • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve now used japanese style ones and Indonesian style ones and I can say people might be talking about different types. The Japanese style ones that just shoot a water fountain at your butt are fanvy, but I found I still needed to wipe. Indonesian hose style? That fucker will blast all the shit off your ass with just the water

      • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m thinking we set up our cooperative farm/compound in Anchorage. It’s gorgeous, and one of the places least likely to be affected by climate change disasters.

        • Phanlix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          You have no idea the temptation I have to do just that. A satellite connection and a remote job for income and I’d be good. A family member is up in Alaska already, he’s got a plot of land with a natural gas deposit that wasn’t large enough or near enough to a populated area for the US gov to care about. So they’ve got it tapped and have a pretty ideal setup. They bought my grandfather’s tractor a while ago an old restored 1912 John Deere.

          I do enjoy the comforts of living near everything. I’m not sure I could give up having 100s of restaurants to choose from and a dozen or more grocery stores in a 10 mile radius. Or the specialty delis, high speed gigabit, and other comforts of civilization.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            One of my peers works in a very remote area of BC (Americans: BC is in another country and it borders Alaska’s south tip) in unionized IT via starlink. Think: the major highway going past it is two-lane.

            • quiet
            • hard work
            • no commute
            • land
            • pension (50% fo life after 25)
            • biking
            • hiking
            • backyard camping is camping

            But:

            • fucking prepper tourists
            • sometimes the power dumps
            • you wanna see what’s outside before going out to the garage.

            Remember: nature doesn’t care about you and we’ve only been pissing her off for 50 years.

    • farcaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      541·
      1 year ago

      This most extreme level can cause complete HF (high frequency) radio blackouts on the entire sunlit side of the Earth, lasting for a number of hours.

      So, is that really it? A HF radio blackout? I can’t imagine most of us would even notice if HF were disrupted. I don’t know the physics involved, but if VHF/UHF were hit it would be a much bigger problem.

      • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        55·
        1 year ago

        The carrington event knocked out telegraphs all over the world in the 1800s.

        That’s the most powerful geomagnetic storm on record. It induced so much current in the telegraph wires that they literally melted.

        In the 1800s that wasn’t a huge deal. But if it happened today, billions of dollars of electrical infrastructure could be rendered useless, and stockpiles of replacements are already non existent. It would take years to recover.

        But this is not that strong of a storm, so I doubt it’ll do anything but cause some pretty lights and maybe ground a few flights due to communications issues.

        • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          1 year ago

          And I’m sure any affected areas and satellites will be shutdown for that period to reduce any operational risk.

          So less planes falling and more planes delayed.

          Same for network communications as items are routed around certain areas or via some methods like fiber vs others.

          • CheezyWeezle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            221·
            1 year ago

            Planes wouldn’t just fall out of the sky anyways lmao. Even if planes lost communications completely they are still operational flying machines. It would just be very difficult to coordinate planes landing at that point. I don’t know about the protocols, but I’m sure there exist failsafes to coordinate air traffic in the event of radio communication loss.

            • 520@kbin.social
              128·
              1 year ago

              It would be a bit more serious than a loss of communication. The electronics in the plane would be completely melted. Including the ones responsible for controlling the plane.

              • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
                15·
                1 year ago

                Airplanes are designed to withstand the current, voltage, and EMP effects of lightning strikes, whose local fields are several orders of magnitude more powerful than anything the sun has ever thrown at the earth.

                Any solar-originated pulse strong enough to “completely melt” any electronics in the plane will kill everyone and everything on the daylight-side of the planet, and probably strip the entire atmosphere.

              • CheezyWeezle@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                1 year ago

                Why and how would the electronics in an airplane be melted? Airplanes are naturally a Faraday cage, and all the components are going to be EMF shielded anyways.

                The only thing an airplane would need to worry about with a solar storm is the increase in radiation exposure, and even then it’s only relevant for the Flight crew who have limits on how much radiation they can be exposed to per OSHA.

              • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
                7·
                1 year ago

                That’s not how earlths magnetic field induced current works…

                The conductors on a plane are short, the induced current is tiny. Significant currents are produced in long conductors (transmission wires). Severely damaging the infrastructure they connect to, and potentially themselves.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      @j0hn@j0hn@lemmy.world you can swap the link out, just edit the old one into the body so the context is there for anyone talking about it

      also I think the bigger news story here is an increased chance of Auroras 🌌 Take a peek outside if you live somewhere northern and clear-skied

  • snapoff@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Why does the article include so many whatever they’re calling tweets now about aliens/conspiracy theories smh

  • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    1 year ago

    I hope someone can ELI5. I mean, we’re told that sunlight/etc we see is 8 minutes old - it took 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth. The radiation, light, etc all travel at the speed of light, neither slower nor faster.

    If we can see anything on the sun, it happened 8 minutes ago. It’s not like we’re looking out over a Kansas field and see a tornado coming.

    Further, there’s this from a quick Google (while attempting to answer this question myself), from Oct 13 2023:

    “How much warning do we have for solar storms? So it should come as no surprise that a team at NASA has been busily applying AI models to solar storm data to develop an early warning system that they think could give the planet about 30 minutes’ notice before a potentially devastating solar storm hits a particular area.”

    So how are we getting a notice one or two days in advance here? Is the sun currently ejecting matter into space, intersecting the place in our orbit we’ll occupy tomorrow (or the next day)? Or is this like predicting a volcanic eruption, basing it on other observable behavior?

    • RoboRay@kbin.social
      22·
      1 year ago

      The charged particles that affect our electrical and electronic systems have mass and therefore cannot travel at the speed of light… We can see the visible light effects of a flare and know that the slower-moving particles that will cause actual damage are on the way.

      • tpyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        That was a very succinct explanation; two sentence refresher course. Thank you!

    • BellaDonna@mujico.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it’s not just light, it’s better to understand it as an ejection of super heated plasma. It is mass ( actually called a coronal mass ejection ) and maybe kinda comparable in ELI5 concept to a volcano eruption.

    • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
      1513·
      1 year ago

      ChatGPT says:

      This delay is due to the fact that solar storms consist of charged particles (mostly electrons and protons) ejected from the Sun. These particles are not electromagnetic radiation (like light), so they don’t travel at the speed of light. Instead, they are propelled by the solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles that flows outward from the Sun.

      The solar wind travels at varying speeds, but it typically takes several days for the charged particles associated with a solar storm to travel from the Sun to Earth. The exact time depends on the speed of the solar wind and the distance between the Sun and Earth.

      So, although light from the Sun reaches us in just over eight minutes, the charged particles involved in solar storms take longer to traverse the vast distance of space between the Sun and Earth.

      *downvoters be like “oh no, it answered the question successfully, how can I get triggered emotionally by this?!” Like seriously guys you realize it’s basically a calculator for language? what the fuck are you hating on?

    • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      So, the thing is we can’t really predict CMEs. What we can do is observing them by satellites like SOHO or SDO (actually you can also check these data, check for jHelioViewer). While light indeed needs roughly 8 minutes to travel from the Sun, the ejected plasma is much slower than that, it travels at a comfy pace of 1000km/s or so. So it takes about a day to reach Earth (you can do the precise numbers as a homework or use Wolfram alpha to cheat), so from the observations we have roughly this time to do anything.

    • pan_troglodytes@programming.devEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      there are satellites orbiting the Sun, much as how we have satellites orbiting the Earth to help predict our weather. same principle

  • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’m supposed to be on an airplane on December 1st. If the storm ends up happening on the 1st instead of the 30th, could that potentially mess with air traffic controllers and radio comms in the plane?

  • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
    86·
    1 year ago

    NASA and weather experts are issuing a warning about an upcoming solar storm projected to strike Earth on November 30. This relatively minor storm is anticipated to disrupt radio and GPS signals.

    Meh

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      We sure it didn’t hit today? My GPS was going apeshit when I was driving around downtown a half hour ago.

      • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        As a scientist I’m meh, as a human being I’m enjoying the conspiracies and hype, though!

  • Froyn@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    Is it only India that’s impacted by these events?
    Going back to the late 1900s I don’t recall any solar storm/flare having an impact on US electronics/communications like every article written has made claim to.