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It's still hot and things still suck, except near Hurricane Dorian. Things blow there. Oh, and stay safe Hurricane Hunter goon.
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Did the mattering happen yet?
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Sep 1, 2019 04:36
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Casimir Radon posted:Did the mattering happen yet? We have to finish infrastructure week first.
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Sep 1, 2019 04:45
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Sep 1, 2019 04:52
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Dammit I was going to make a new thread and title it “MeMREs.” I was never in, but I’ve eaten a lot of MREs courtesy of the Louisiana National Guard. My then-girlfriend and I spent a good chunk of the summer of 2008 doing reconstruction work in the Lower Ninth Ward, and the group we worked/lived with had a huge pallet of unused MREs delivered after Katrina in 2005 that they wouldn’t take back. So, when we took a week off and did a bike tour around Lake Pontchartrain , we just took a bunch of MREs for our meals. I’ll never forget camping along the Tchefuncte River and drinking a tall boy and watching the sun set over the river while we waited for our vegetable manicotti to cook, our bike helmets serving as our own “rock or something.” It was a great memory of mine and I guess it must be one of hers because we’re getting married next month!
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Sep 1, 2019 05:02
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Dammit I was going to make a new thread and title it “MeMREs.” Congrats and thanks for helping out my hometown!
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Sep 1, 2019 05:07
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I am the Blue Lives Matter 8.5" x 11" homemade construction paper signs taped to an SUV used as a float for the Straight Pride Parade.
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Sep 1, 2019 06:16
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49540681 Things getting worse for Brexit, but funny. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49540751 Things getting much worse in Hong Kong. Distinctly not funny. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49536374 Hope none of you have fond memories of Kunduz, because it's about to get razed one way or another.
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Sep 1, 2019 06:22
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2019 has 122 days remaining.
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Sep 1, 2019 06:46
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Dammit I was going to make a new thread and title it “MeMREs.” The bar is very low for romantic dinners from here on out, so good job
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Sep 1, 2019 07:22
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i wonder what the mood is in ireland these days
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Sep 1, 2019 07:50
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quote:Disgusting, full of lies, and a toxic shade of orange. Finally, a picture that does the president justice. Nostalgia4Ass posted:I am the Blue Lives Matter 8.5" x 11" homemade construction paper signs taped to an SUV used as a float for the Straight Pride Parade. That was supposed to be a parade float? 
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Sep 1, 2019 08:04
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i wonder what the mood is in ireland these days https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/northern-ireland-troubles-violence-police-bomb-dissident-no-deal-brexit-a9075286.html A month ago: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/northern-ireland-could-return-to-violence-study-shows-1.3989670 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/there-ll-be-violence-on-the-streets-of-northern-ireland-by-christmas-1.3986941
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Sep 1, 2019 08:47
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Arc Light posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49540681 You would think after 2 years of the EU telling them "backstop or no deal", the Brits would learn that a demand of "remove the backstop, or there will be a no-deal Brexit" automatically means a no-deal Brexit.
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Torrannor posted:You would think after 2 years of the EU telling them "backstop or no deal", the Brits would learn that a demand of "remove the backstop, or there will be a no-deal Brexit" automatically means a no-deal Brexit. Brexiters are delusional and think they can have it all, even though there was never a scenario in which the UK could leave the EU and maintain the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. They either go back to the Troubles (no deal), or Northern Ireland effectively reintegrates with the Republic (Irish Backstop). But the the English haven't exactly ever given a poo poo about the Irish to begin with so it's unsurprising none of them thought about it (or cared) prior to voting leave.
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psydude posted:Brexiters are delusional and think they can have it all, even though there was never a scenario in which the UK could leave the EU and maintain the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. They either go back to the Troubles (no deal), or Northern Ireland effectively reintegrates with the Republic (Irish Backstop). But the the English haven't exactly ever given a poo poo about the Irish to begin with so it's unsurprising none of them thought about it (or cared) prior to voting leave. Nothing they believe makes any sense. Apart from that you summed everything up perfectly.
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Sep 1, 2019 13:44
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dorian is now a cat 5quote:Category 1: Winds 74 to 95 mph (Minor damage)
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Sep 1, 2019 14:27
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Feels a little early in the season for a cat 5, but Wikipedia says that 8 have formed in August (of any year), but 21 have formed in Sept (again, of any year). I wonder if the date of cat5 formation is inching earlier due to climate change or not?
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Sep 1, 2019 14:31
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:dorian is now a cat 5 With sustained 175mph winds, apparently. Though it's apparently no longer projected to make landfall. Does that mean it's good news for the small region it was supposed to hit straight on, but bad news for literally everyone because it'll chill along the coast gathering more energy over the hot ocean?
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Sep 1, 2019 14:54
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It may not make a US landfall. The northern and eastern islands of the Bahamas, on the other hand... e: doesn’t even need to be a landfall there. It’ll be bad enough as it is, even if the Eye never actually passes over any land.
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Sep 1, 2019 14:56
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Let’s not lose sight of the bigger picture, either. The Atlantic is loving pissed and is brewing up more storms, just in case Dorian doesn’t do well enough. 
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Sep 1, 2019 15:00
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Icon Of Sin posted:Feels a little early in the season for a cat 5, but Wikipedia says that 8 have formed in August (of any year), but 21 have formed in Sept (again, of any year). I wonder if the date of cat5 formation is inching earlier due to climate change or not? Most definitely, with warmer waters fueling more intense storms which also carry more moisture to dump inland.
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Sep 1, 2019 15:09
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Oh, you could probably look at it at least 2 ways. Earliest date of category 5 conditions, and how long it takes for a hurricane to become a category 5. Are they forming earlier? Do they become that strong faster? I’ll take a crack at it later, but I’m guessing the answers are “earlier and faster” because we live in hellworld where good news is one of those nice things we can’t have.
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Dumb question, what holds a hurricane together? Centrifugal force should fling the "air" into all directions (?), so what keeps it in that twisty-turny-thing configuration?psydude posted:Brexiters are delusional and think they can have it all, even though there was never a scenario in which the UK could leave the EU and maintain the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. They either go back to the Troubles (no deal), or Northern Ireland effectively reintegrates with the Republic (Irish Backstop). But the the English haven't exactly ever given a poo poo about the Irish to begin with so it's unsurprising none of them thought about it (or cared) prior to voting leave. Isn't NI inhabited mostly by angry Protestants? Won't those be mad about joining Ireland? Or is that how we get to the Troubles restarting thing?
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aphid_licker posted:Dumb question, what holds a hurricane together? Centrifugal force should fling the "air" into all directions (?), so what keeps it in that twisty-turny-thing configuration? Northern Ireland is pretty evenly split, 45/48 Catholic/Protestant. But the Protestants tend to be madder/scareder.
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aphid_licker posted:Dumb question, what holds a hurricane together? Centrifugal force should fling the "air" into all directions (?), so what keeps it in that twisty-turny-thing configuration? The hurricane isn’t spinning; the wind is. Because of the Coriolis effect, ground friction and what not. Basically, when the ground (or water surface) is warm, it warms the air over it. Warm air rises, as it rises this lower the atmospheric pressure at ground level. So air from outside the low pressure area gets sucked into the void. This is what causes wind. Wind speed is proportional to how quickly the pressure drops over distance, or how “deep” the low is. If you look at a weather chart, the closer together the isobars are, the fast the wind is. In a spherical frictionless universe, the wind would go straight to the center, but in practice, the wind follows the isobars while curving somewhat inward. The Coriolis effect sets the direction. TLDR: the air doesn’t get flung out because a hurricane is air getting sucked in. Like someone is letting the air out of a balloon.
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The spin is a Coriolis effect. I think the low pressure center in the eye keeps the winds focused towards it, but the system is so drat large that Coriolis effects deflect them from being completely straight and give it that rotating buzz saw appearance. I’m getting data from here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/108832/why-do-tropical-cyclones-not-tear-themselves-apart That all makes basic sense to me, with a background in oceanography. e: ^ he does this for a living, listen to him over me.
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Sep 1, 2019 16:07
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Would a hurricanes spin change direction if it crossed the equator?
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Just realized the Battle of the Bogside and the start of the modern Irish terror campaign / insurgency was 50 years ago last month.
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BigDave posted:Would a hurricanes spin change direction if it crossed the equator? https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2790/why-are-there-no-hurricanes-in-the-southern-atlantic-basin I don't think that's ever happened.
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FrozenVent posted:The hurricane isn’t spinning; the wind is. Because of the Coriolis effect, ground friction and what not. Extremely cool, thank you very much!
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aphid_licker posted:Isn't NI inhabited mostly by angry Protestants? Won't those be mad about joining Ireland? Or is that how we get to the Troubles restarting thing? Yeah, a shrinking majority of Northern Ireland is Protestants. Further complicating matters is that a key (and crucial) provision of the agreement allows citizens of NI to claim either Irish or British citizenship and even get issued their own passport. Reimposing the hard border would nullify that portion of the agreement and undoubtedly cause mass rage from Republicans who would lose their Irish identity. Cue the PIRA and UVF setting off bombs in each other's neighborhoods (which they've already been doing, as that article in the Independent highlighted) and abducting, torturing, and murdering alleged informants. The Good Friday Agreement does allow NI to rejoin the Republic continent upon a majority referendum in each country, but it probably wouldn't pass in NI. Still, the Irish Backstop would effectively wall NI off from the UK by treating it as a foreign country with respect to customs and immigration in order to keep the border open with the Republic. The EU and UK will never reach a deal on free movement (that was the entire reason a bunch of angry old white people voted to leave in the first place), so NI would remain indefinitely walled off from the UK. From that point, given the economic circumstances (Northern Ireland's economy sucks and is largely subsidized by Westminster and the EU, while the Republic's economy is strong) along with a declining Loyalist population and decreasing connection to the UK, it's only a matter of time until it rejoins the Republic. That's why the DUP (which refused to support the Good Friday Agreement in 1998) has been a small, but critical, part of the Tory coalition and has been vehemently opposed the Irish Backstop even though NI voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU. psydude fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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BigDave posted:Would a hurricanes spin change direction if it crossed the equator? Tropical storms can’t really exist close to the equator for a few reasons, but generally speaking they tend to head away from the equator. Icon Of Sin posted:e: ^ he does this for a living, listen to him over me. Not really but I used to be a merchant marine deck officer and now I do air and maritime logistics, so the weather’s been my main enemy for the past fifteen years or so.
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FrozenVent posted:The hurricane isn’t spinning; the wind is. Because of the Coriolis effect, ground friction and what not. Wait so we do have two hurricane guys?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wait so we do have two hurricane guys? They are becoming more common due to climate change 
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Sep 1, 2019 16:51
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Brexit really is onion layers of stupidity. If there wasn't a narcissistic conman with a rapidly decaying brain in the Oval Office it would be endlessly funny to watch. Instead it's two countries furiously peeling back layers of their onions trying to out do each other for king of the idiots.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i wonder what the mood is in ireland these days https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1167794989260300289?s=20
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wait so we do have two hurricane guys? No, Wonder Free is the hero / maniac flying into hurricanes to tickle their balls; I’m just a guy getting rained on who spends way too much time looking at weather charts. Edit: I nearly failed Meterology I in nautical school.
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Sept 2019 current events: flying into hurricanes to tickle their balls I had you two confused earlier
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