Some of it just really sucks though....not that it is a viable crop any more but cropping tobacco absolutely sucks. Never personally worked in the fields cropping, but I did have to go out and top a field by hand once. Tobacco plants grow flowers on top that pull the tar out of the leaves. The plants are 6-7 ft tall, and usually a mower type farm implement was hooked to the back of a tractor and cut the flowers off. So when that broke, we had to go out and take the flowers (suckers) off. Basically had to get in the plant and stretch my arm up as far as I could to break the flower off without losing leaves. I was covers in tobacco tar after that. My usual job was taking the tobacco after it was picked and hanging it in a drying barn. When I was a teenager, I worked in tobacco in S. Georgia. At that time, one of the employees would round up a crew from the "projects" and pay them cash under the table (so they would not lose their "benefits" and have cash to buy crack). We would get them out there as soon as it was sunrise and it used to be they would go all day. When I was there, they would quit about 12-1pm whether we were ready for them to quit or not. Migrants were just starting to settle in the area, and by the early 90's the crew from the projects refused to do the work, so the farm switched over to migrants. After a few more years, the migrants refused the work too, so the farm had to buy a mechanical picker. It did not do nearly as good a job, but at least it showed up for work! Chicken processing plants is another truly awful job. You can usually smell a chicken processing plant long before you drive past it. There has always been jobs that folks aren't really willing to do. Since we can't have slaves any more (sarcasm) we have to rely on migrants for those jobs. That said, to my comment about berry picking, it used to be that was how a vast majority of teens up here earned money in the summer but at some point, the migrants moved in and took the jobs. We tried to get my son working there, and he talked to friends and they all said it was not a viable option any more because the migrants run off all the gringo kids.

I responded to Kamala Harris' political texts by inviting her to my niece's skibidi toilet-themed birthday party. Thus far no response from her, her legal team, nor the secret service. Still waiting for Trump's campaign team to reach out so I can invite him too. My goal is to get them to meet at the party unexpectedly, then be forced to resolve their differences. They'll kiss, we'll film the whole thing, america will unite, it'll be great. You're gonna love it

0z GEFS is actually impressively chilly. A couple times 850s drop to -2 and they spend a lot of time around zero line.

A think it's a bit colder than normal. The ECMWF has a 52/37 day for SEA later this week.

Last time I went up to Fernie I saw plenty of huge trucks with "F*CK TRUDEAU" bumper stickers and the like. Was so cool. Can we anex the East Kootenays and Southern Alberta in exchange for Portland or something? edit: I would also be willing to trade Missoula for the East Kootenays.