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North and West

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  1. Yeah I don’t follow football and was blindsided by that and the snow threat. And they didn’t even have what I came for. Son is a Kendrick fan but I have only vaguely heard of him. If they recorded after 1985, I’m clueless. 

    I saw the Grammies were on last weekend and I swear I felt like my father when he only heard of Blink-182 this past summer when I heard the winners. They could have told me that the best new album was by the group Milwaukee M12 Cordless Drill and I would have been like, “huh, guess that’s what the kids are listening to nowadays.”


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  2. It obviously hasn’t snowed much this winter, but has it felt colder this year more so than recent winters, and colder more often and consistently?

    Or is it more just recency bias from warmer winter being more often now?

    Just thought of that today as it was chilly out and looks chilly on my phone forecast.


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  3. Pattern looks quite favorable rest of February and probably into March.
    In fact it gets more favorable as the days drag on.
    Not everything will be a hit but there will be many opportunities 

    have we discussed the sun angle


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  4. Nonsense. Get the fck out with your both siderism. Examples and evidence or STFU.

    By phrasing it like that, aren’t you providing credence to what I was saying? Personally, I don’t like Trump nor did I vote for him, but when questioning a few things about the other side’s mistakes, it gets turned up to 11 and you turn off persuadable people.

    Getting yelled at is not a fun experience for people and drowns out the message.


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  5. I think for you guys to get your points across better is to have more humility rather than insulting others.

    I think a lot of what you said is valuable and I agree with - insane defense spending, environmental healing, food health and safety, a tax code that favors ultra wealthy - but the messaging is losing. It sounds religious. More in the aspect of “I’m right, you’re not only wrong, but in fact too dumb to realize I’m right.”

    I mean, we’re glossing over the recent issue of the pain of school closures, not being able to question Covid’s origins, and lying about Biden’s mental deterioration after many of us have had elderly loved ones that we’ve seen decline with age.

    People don’t have to be in lockstep with everything.

    Humility should be acknowledging your own mistakes and poor choices, but showing why the path you’re promoting today is beneficial and helpful to the future.


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  6. The mid January pattern absolutely SUCKED! If we are only going to get 3 inches of snow for the entire month, I'd much rather it be in the 50s for the rest of the month.  Cold and dry is awful.
     

    I think it’s good for pest control, though. Not great for the drought.


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  7. Bob, ask yourself... have you spent a lot of time outside the US? Do you have a good sense of other places and cultures, their history and political systems? Do you have an intelligent and diverse group of friends who can challenge you? Do you read a diverse selection of news? Or do you listen to political talk radio and watch Fox "news"?
    Be honest, do you believe you have the right foundation in life to understand and discuss politics?

    I’m reading this this morning and I think to get your point across, it doesn’t help to encourage the person you’re speaking with to question if they’re smart enough to understand the world.

    If I’m at work and I need your help on a project, I don’t think rhetorically asking you if you’re smart enough is going to help you see my point of view or what I’m working to accomplish. It may in fact make you think I’m difficult to work with and you’ll do the bare minimum but nothing more.

    We all work with people we think we’re smarter or better than; actively reminding them of that can work against our self-interests.


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  8. It's the truth. And people need to hear it. If you are an idiot, I'm coming after you. Why? Because you are harming my country, my family, and my well being.
    And if you think I'm an idiot or that I live in my mother's basement, I will prove to you that I am not.

    I mean, if we’re on weather boards in our spare time, I doubt any of us are idiots, right?

    I just don’t think name-calling or insulting others helps change minds.

    I don’t think anyone would go on a date, insult our date, and then hope they will immediately see the error of their ways and beginning to change. It’s why I don’t like or voted for the current office holder.


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  9. I'd bet everything I have that you are an uninformed ideologue. You literally couldn't be more wrong if it was your goal to post something incorrect. I dare you to post something intelligent on any subject. We have too many people like you who think they understand things that they actually know nothing about. It's all buzz phrases with you. Simple black and white. Completely unable to grasp subtlety or nuance.

    Man, that’s harsh. I think we’re all just trying our best everyday.


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  10.  
    Most government agencies need more staff, higher prestige, higher caliber of applications, higher salaries. Efficiency could also be increased by not having 1 of 2 major political parties actively sabotaging government for 50 years.
    Also what we don't need is $20,000 CT scans, $4000 ultrasounds, $1000 basic blood work etc. We are all sharing these exorbitant costs. Private college education system is fcked too.
    We need a paradigm shift in health care, child care, elderly care, and our college education system. Privatization and the constant push for bigger profits are bleeding us dry. Attacking and dismantling the government is the completely wrong focus. Obviously perpetuated by greedy or stupid people. Quality of life is much higher in other western countries. The model being pushed on us is Russia.

    I don’t fully agree or disagree with you. The deficit spending can’t be sustainable.


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  11. He’s in the February thread saying a major snowstorm is possible mid-late February if the pattern verifies. 

    My mistake; I didn’t see it. I just opened the storm thread for Saturday and jumped from 15 to 185 since I last saw. Haven’t seen the February thread since last night. I hope it’s insane.


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  12. we can talk about specific policy impacts but not politicians k thx

    I think policy impacts are separate from the observation that any organization you are in - private, public, non-profit, or beyond - is that roughly any organization has about ten percent of employees who are unnecessary. Look at any corporate job you’ve been in or government entity you’ve dealt with - they’re inefficient. We’ve all worked with people where we wonder what they do.

    I was once that person in a job where I didn’t have enough to do; it was fun, but I knew I could easily be cut. I left before that happened.

    The federal government as a whole is just the largest entity, so the sheer number of people that wouldn’t be missed is that about ten percent across the board. It becomes a tangled web we weave when they’re targeted for vindictive reasons in certain areas.


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  13. There’s a bit of an ongoing seismic crisis at Santorini / Kolumbo volcanoes in Greece (Kolumbo is a neighboring system of Santorini, only a few miles northeast - and is also capable of powerful eruptions and has done so in historic times). 
    The resurgent dome of Nea Kameini in the middle of Santorini’s caldera has effusively erupted numerous times in recent history, but this doesn’t appear to be that as the locus of quakes is between the two systems. 
    This, IMHO, is very unusual. And appropriately, Santorinians are quite nervous at the moment.
    It’s unlikely any major eruption is about to begin just because, as always, large eruptions at any given system are rare. But something is going on and this warrants considerable caution. I’m seeing daily large magnitude quakes … mag 4-5. 
    I have actually been to Santorini in the late 2000’s, I dated a young Greek woman when I was just starting college and I traveled with her there. Santorini is unbelievably beautiful, but also the size and magnitude of the caldera is incredibly apparent - the whole area is born of extremely powerful volcanism. 

    The past five years have been just terrific. Glad to see it’s getting better.


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