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Equivalent latitude (Climatology 🌍)

In differential geometry, the equivalent latitude is a Lagrangian coordinate. It is often used in atmospheric science, particularly in the study of stratospheric dynamics. Each isoline in a map of equivalent latitude follows the flow velocity and encloses the same area as the latitude line of equivalent value, hence "equivalent latitude."...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivale

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and just getting off my chest, the whole thing around sensor and lens equivalence (if you know you know if you don't count yourself lucky) is....it's painful. It's not right, it's barely able to reach the dizzying height of being wrong, and it's not useful.

(the technical aspects of achieving a given exposure look and feel to a frame requires a balance between sensor sensitivity (aka ISO), shutter speed and aperture. equivalence is not a thing)

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Things Corporate News Media think are of equal importance

#equivalence
#media

Joe Biden spoke, and incorrectly identified a foreign leader

Donald Trump is found guilty (dozens of times) of fraud

Joe Biden stuttered

Donald Trump bought off silence from a porn starlet

Joe Biden stumbled a bit as he walked up a stairway

Donald Trump encouraged and helped to orchestrate an attempt to violently overthrow the government of the United States of America

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The violence of #resistance and the violence of #oppression are often equated to give the latter more legitimacy, and to maintain an existing order. Genuine hope for change only comes when public opinion rejects that #equivalence. ALL the atrocities committed by the #Israeli state – both during the past three weeks and as an occupying power in general – must be condemned every bit as harshly as the actions of Hamas, and by as many people as possible. It is the only way that we can compel Western powers to intervene in this encroaching genocide of #Palestinians.

"No Labels" group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparations

William Galston, a Brookings Institution policy scholar, said this week that he would separate himself from No Labels, which he helped found, over its 2024 planning for a #third-#party campaign to #challenge Biden and Trump.

“I am proud of No Labels’ record of bipartisan legislation, and I know its leaders want what is best for the country. But I cannot support the organization’s preparation for a possible independent presidential candidacy,” he said in a statement.

“There is #no #equivalence between President Biden and a former president who threatens the survival of our constitutional order. And most important, in today’s closely divided politics, any division of the anti-Trump vote would open the door to his reelection.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington PostNo Labels group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparationsBy Michael Scherer