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I appreciate you taking the time on it at least!

"using simple terms for a lay audience" distinction? Is it less the minerals present than the process of aggregation? Is there some shorthand being used here?

I can accept that - that said, your earlier distinction was that rocks had to be made of more than one mineral, and the cited page is saying "Glacier ice is actually a mono-mineralic rock (a rock made of only one mineral, like limestone which is composed of the mineral calcite)."

Is this a /

external communication" thing, or just a disagreement between branches of geology, or something where you feel that the USGS is just flat wrong?

Is glacier ice a type of rock? Glacier ice, like limestone (for example), is a type of rock. Glacier ice is actually a mono-mineralic rock (a rock made of only one mineral, like limestone which is composed of the mineral calcite). ...

So I'm having an issue I've had before, where someone I'm in community with has expertise, but that directly contradicts sources I've been told to take as authoritative.

Could you explain why sources like the USGS disagree, and explicitly describe glacier ice as a rock? Is this an "internal vs. /

Also - if single minerals don't count as rocks, why does the category of monomineralic rock exist? Or is this a geology-specific version of astronomy's "yes, we call it a dwarf planet, planet's in the name, but it's not a planet."

Ice that consists only of water would be incredibly rare on the surface of the earth. Even the ice in my freezer, which is filtered, has Flouride, Argon, Sodium, and Sulfur in detectable amounts.

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It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

I mean, Republicans aren't mad at the Republican party, it's doing what they want.

Meanwhile, Democratic voters are absolutely furious at the Democratic party, so I'm not terribly surprised.

"We've decapitated the regime! Now they'll collapse!"

Meanwhile,

"Hey, ready to do the thing that people in our position have been doing since the invention of gunpowder?"

"Resource rich power sitting on a trade route that's relatively easy to control" is the foundation for *so many* empires over history, because those powers can do *exactly this.*

It's just... six thousand years of "well, time to close the pass and starve these jackasses."

Interesting read, esp. as there have been multiple volunteer requests to the reserves/NG to go on ADOS orders, basically military-grade spackle as the article points out.

Challenging that really hadn't occurred to me. Be interesting to see how it plays out.

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

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Nah - they cherry picked five short passages (with human curation) and compared them to human works with no context, and only one of the human works (the one more people picked) was written in this century.

They set up a test to make most people answer the way they wanted.

Given his love of Broadway, I've got even odds that he appoints Rum Tum Tugger to a cabinet position.

I second this motion.

Let's vote.

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