iFred

What are the ratios? Do you think Kuchera applies here?!

I knew I was going to see a post like this after seeing snow out your way while crossing the ship canal bridge.

I mean, unlike you, I don't hate America, so I hope BYD doesn't sell cars in the United States without a proper review from the WTO. I've got a Model S, it drives great, plenty fast, and a 10% to 80% charge takes about 15 minutes at a Supercharger. Charging at home means that I rarely have to think about range, but when I have to during a road trip, I hit about 400 miles. While I don't agree with your stance that Mao was actually a great guy or that America would be a much better nation had the Wobblies lynched Bill Boeing (again, your views, not mine), I do agree with you that the Cybertruck looks like garbage. Well, that one giant ass wiper blade, cheap interior, and carrot shaving edges. Looking forward to the company getting a new CEO one day soon.

Tangentially related is the beauty of experiencing a windstorm caused by being on the lee of a mountain. I’ve experienced that just a few times, once because of the Olympics in October of 2010 which brought an all day wind event for Bellevue to Everett. Then a handful of Mt Rainier events in Bonney Lake and Buckley. The best cyclonic storms seem to have a window of five or six hours before it moves on, but those mountain events can be a solid 24 hours of turbidity fun.

Probably wouldn’t even appreciate the low sun angles, inversion season, the fun of a regional wind storm, or warm and clear summer twilight that lingers into a midnight darkness before breaking out into a beautiful shade of blue orange early the next morning.

Take a break man.

Looking for folks who would be interested in playing host to some sensors, radios, and small computers. I would be collecting atmospheric conditions, gases, radiation, and emergency pages sent out to first responders. This would be a part of what might be an open mesonet network of stations that provide more data than your typical weather station. As host to the station you would have access to the data coming from it as well as the data collected from other stations. Send me a DM if you’re interested. This is open for folks in the Pacific Northwest and BC.

Mountains of New Mexico are a special place in their own right. It might be my ancestral blood talking, but it might be the only place on the continent south of the 37º parallel that I would consider living in.

I was 8 when I took the forums over.

A bit depressing to see that by the 2044 eclipse that I’ll be in my late 30s.

It’s ok buddy, we’ll see a below normal April again sometime before the heat death of the universe.

San Antonio, Austin, and Nashville all deserve teams more than Seattle. Hopefully we see relocation in a decade or so.

I'm always amazed (but probably shouldn't be) that the six month divide between leaf yellowing and drop and budding to leaf out is almost precise.

Nether does the CFS, GFSxtreme, and Tarot-Pro. Any continued snow talk will result in a ban.

CanSIPs has been pretty aggressive about DJF for the past few months. Maybe more of a feedback thing than anything else, but always fun to dream.

I thought there was a species in the Willamette Valley.

Lunch is on me when I pass through in April. Yall have a Carl’s Jr, right?

Real non commie talk for a moment, anyone thinking, much less expending any mental energy or anguish over the perceived notion of your “unjust wealth” hasn’t been paying attention to you and the forum for the past decade, or they’re just an asshole. I appreciate your warm map enthusiasm and pictures of your garden plots. Hell, if I could get my wife to be ok with living more than five miles away from downtown Everett, we’d probably be neighbors.

The commune did not like my radical views. I also never applied after someone pointed out the hiring freeze and I ended up getting a raise at my current place.

Genosser, a true Trotskyite would understand that the reactionary is flawed from birth and cannot be saved as their continued existence is a parasitic one to the cause of the people. In order to liberate the worker, you must liberate the reactionary of their earthly existence. It is only then that when they find their personal burdens freely painted onto a brick wall, that they can find their true place in a global revolution.

Looking turbulent out there.

Funny to think that we had similar childhoods, but one of us grew up to be an evil sun loving robber baron who lives a gilded lifestyle that is tucked away in a princely chalet, while the other is an ice storm loving revolutionary willing to die for the people.

You’re pretty spot on there, but the fact you engage with a capitalist institutions and do little to fight for the cause would make you more of a Maoist.

Don’t worry comrade, I’ve collected enough information that when the time comes to raise the red banner over the region, we will be able to isolate and eliminate the counterrevolutionaries who stand in the way of the people and the progress which is demanded.

Sir, you are in a safe sarcasm space. I still maintain the right to ban you for whatever the hell I want to.