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May 2024 Pacific Northwest Weather
First off I will clarify, I don't know s**t about forecasting for alaska, but it seems like the weather is looking decent for our Denali expedition starting Sunday, seems like 1/3rd of the days will be pretty clear and the other days will be somewhat cold and snowy but it's not looking like we'll have many major storms to bring us extreme cold winds and heavy snow, those storms are usually what you have to worry about. 20-40% of the days being nice is usually all you need to be able to summit, the bad weather days are used for altitude acclimation. Not sure if we'll actually be able to land on the Kahiltna glacier on Sunday, that's when our air taxi is reserved but it often gets delayed because of weather. Forecast is calling for light snow in the morning without much wind and I am yet to be informed if they can fly in those conditions, hopefully they can because otherwise we'll have to wait till Wednesday to fly to the glacier. -
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Middle East Conflict of 2023-2024 (Also including the protests related to this)
I feel a little odd saying it, but given the iron triangle that is the US/Israel alliance, I really don’t think Biden is doing all that badly. Sure, I wish the whole incestuous, morally compromised relationship hadn't gotten to this point. The USA should have pushed Israel hard when they started building illegal settlements in the West Bank after occupying it in 1967. But there is the world as it actually exists, and the world that I wish might existed, and the two are not the same. Announcing an intent to suspend certain forms of military aid should an offensive proceed is, given the above, a pretty unprecedented development, one which carries significant domestic risk for Biden. All the evidence, in other words, is consistent with Biden being upset with the disproportionate scale of Israel's retaliation, and trying to rein it in. My guess would be that the Biden Administration is being quite pushy and explicit via diplomatic back channels. He’s definitely better than a fascist like Trump would be. Fascists think bigotry and wars of ethnic extermination are good things. Trump would back Bibi 100% and then some. You can even see the roots of such sentiment here, where some of the resident fascists (and yes, that is what they are, fascists) are now openly talking about bigotry against their enemies being justified. (And no, not all the righties here are fascists. Many are conservatives.)
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