I really wish someone would pick apart why we are getting two distinct camps in forecasted outcomes and what features are missing in the cold runs that are present in the warm ones. Sure, the axial tilt of the ridge is better, but why?

Holy Wind!!

I was just surprised you wanted people to check their privilege. Ive been in tech all of my working life. I dropped out of high school, started at a help desk and worked my way up and out into some Of the world’s most powerful and innovative companies. There were chunks of my twenties and early thirties that I won’t get back with 60-80 hour weeks, countless sleeps interrupted by PagerDuty or Slack, only to firefight a systems outage caused by someone else’s carelessness. I’m incredibly fortunate, something that I do thank the Holy Spirit for daily and not take for granted that a series of random bouts of luck with my parents that led to our family to out here in the Seattle area. Even while being poor enough that we were on a first name basis with the parish food bank, my Dad managed to gift me a Boeing surplus computer at a young age which kicked off another series of events leading me to my here and now. You’re right that no one really should try to pull a dick measuring contest over “jobs”. Sure, selling feet pictures on OnlyFans or shilling get rich quick crypto schemes are probably worth the scrutiny, but I’m not going to laud my personal sense of worth over someone who takes home less pay. I don’t know their personal relationship with their chosen profession or craft. I have no idea the hours they went through, the heartache and stress or even the sleepless nights. I can only do what a good human can do, show them courtesy and respect for their line of work. Anyway, this probably should have been posted in the political thread so I’ll just kill it here before Phil bans me.

EPS tonight was poetry in motion. Enough cold members to get me excited and hopeful, but enough lame members to keep it fun. Just as I like it, pure perfection!

The mean temp drops to about 8 or 9F below normal for SEA at the end of the EPS. Very solid.