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I guess I'll stock up on sun tan. Gonna need it for this balmy winter!

All my homies hate the WRF

Great. Just found out that my water heater's leaking, looks like from the lower temp panel. Yay. Just what I needed.

Perfect time to relax with my favorite Leavenworth webcam: I do wish they'd invest in making the pedestrian street more of a woonerf-style, instead of it clearly having been a 2 way road through the heart for the last 40 years. Why pedestrianize it if you're not going to make it feel more pedestrian friendly? Just feels like I'm walking in a road when I'm there. Any ideas @Brian_in_Leavenworth

It was so fun looking that we drove out there and enjoyed some winter wonderland-ness It was snowing 5 minutes from my house. My annoyance was maximal.

Home

I was super sick the first 8 days in Sweden, and got everyone else sick. Some naaaasty flu

Did you finally strike it rich in the golden fields of Liberty?

Lol close. It was just announcing the stops the next intercity train that was coming to our station was going to. There was a track issue near Alvsjö so some stuff got rerouted thanks to literally a dusting of snow. How does snow mess up transit in basically the arctic? It's like there being now snow plows in Anchorage.

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Hmmmm...just took these 20231019_121415.mp4 20231019_115946.mp4

Landed in Stockholm last night. Will be here for 3 weeks. Maybe I'll get lucky and get some snow. Good luck everyone

Just needs to be 150 miles west and about 1.6 million times more energy.

Pretty deep quake. 57km, and upgraded to 4.3. Not a bad little rumble.

Just felt an earthquake here in DT Seattle. Pretty minor but definitely noticeable.

Ended September with 3.5" of rain. Hoping October will be a bit wetter.

I see blue popping up on models, and yet no snow_wizard. Hope he's okay

Just move over here already Phil. Then you can complain when it's 80 degrees with low humidity like the rest of us

Yes...a nightmare scenario for Seattle -.- Driving to my home for a month looked kinda like driving into the gates of hell lol Edit: anyone know what happened to Snow_Wizard? He hasn't been on since April. I know summer ain't his bag, but I've never seen him bail on this place for so long.

I feel you. I clear 6 figures for my family, so no assistance will ever come my way...but my food bills are up 3x. I have 2 kids I'm trying to feed and one of them is on formula. Add the 3x price increase on food, I'm also paying more than double in gas costs compared to 3 years ago. I'm about at the point where I just...skip eating sometimes. COVID gave me the gift of being massively overweight and high blood pressure, so maybe this is a blessing in the disguise. Praying for you, your health and your family however. I know your road is tougher than most.

Drove down the coast of Oregon all the way to Santa Rosa a few days ago for a wedding. Currently in Klamath falls, going Us-97 the way home. This is one hell of a beautiful drive, never been on this side of Oregon

True equity is not possible without a totalitarian government. True equity is not found in nature, and there's no equality of outcome without the suppression of people's inherent differences. Whether that be intelligence, conscientiousness, drive or any other myriad of factors that go into people's desire to succeed. It's almost like everyone forgot what happened in the 20th century. We've run this experiment about a dozen times, and all we have to show for it is nuclear proliferation and about 100 million dead bodies.

Sure it lists "only 50", but it also explicitly bans any semi-automatic rifle that "accepts a detachable magazine" (i.e. all of them) and: - has a telescoping or folding stock - has a non-firing grip, either in a handle variety or a grip on the barrel - has a silencer, suppressor, or anything that lowers the audible nature or visual aspect of firing the weapon - has a pistol grip (that's like 20% of all manufactured rifles right there) - a thumbhole stock - a overall length of less than 30" Then because that wasn't enough, it also bans any semi-automatic rifle with a fixed magazine capable of accepting more than 10 rounds. This is effectively a ban on all semi-automatic rifles and several hanguns and shotguns as well.

Ignorant takes are ignorant. Some thing never change.

Incorrect. It bans specific features that rule out almost all semi-automatic rifles, several popular semi-automatic handguns and shotguns. It also bans specific parts for maintenance of already owned firearms. Not only that, but there's a long list of specifically targeted firearms that are being banned. Seriously did you actually read the bill?