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We need to slap the wood paneling on the simulation. .

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Honest question, are we going to have some shots at snow, or is this going to be like last year? Or is it too early to tell? .

Morris County? .

Regression to the mean hurts. Not even not bothering to count every other variable. .

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0nRf2rPV_y/ .

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Can we start putting the sun angle play in as a negative? They sunsets have just started their creep towards later (sunrises don't count).

I prefer inhospitable hellscape. .

I’ve been saying this for years: it’s happening, it’s silly to deny it, but it’s also a trade-off for an advancing civilization. The warming atmosphere is occurring because we’re living better and longer, and having instantaneous and near-instantaneous communication and transportation devices. How much would you give up for a more inconvenient and arguably less healthy life (e.g., mining and smelting activities help give us trains and cars and MRIs and medicines) that comes from carbon-intensive activities? I do think we’re advancing to where technology cleans excess carbon from the atmosphere and to where we have better fuels (I work in aerospace and space engineering, and there are advanced jet fuels being tested now, both for security and environmental reasons), but we’re not there just yet. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. .

I’m not saying it’s not above average; I’m just talking about how it’s communicated here. Rather than “seasonably mild,” which is boring and tranquil, “torch” conveys a hellscape. .

Torch is one of those terms that’s overused (here at least) today; it’s kind of like how people now describe many jobs and relationships nowadays as “toxic.” When everything is toxic (or a torch), nothing is; it numbs the listener or reader to conditions where it’s actually toxic (or uncomfortably warm). Highs in the 40s (imo), is not a torch, but it’s been taken to the glue factory. .

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Do you live in the ocean? .

I find your surplus of faith encouraging. .

I’m kidding. Just being punny.

https://apple.news/AuKG_ygP5S46wrr8dM6RYMg This sucks .

All I Want For Christmas is Yamamoto on the Mets (I’m hoping this is about the Mets and not meteorology) .

I don’t know what this means, but I laughed. +1 .

Last Palm Sunday, I went to my younger son's baseball season opener where it was a pleasant 32 and breezy.