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Meteorology PhD, data scientist, ski mountaineer, GSP dad
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Comrade Lutnick is proud to share the essence of the Juche idea abroad and carry the flag of the Great Leader.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

I have been baffled by this exact thing since I moved here in 2008. Also, I-90 gets so much heavy truck traffic that there are literal ruts in the road surface that pool water and make it super easy to hydroplane (notice this the most between Issaquah and North Bend).

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Every senior officer serves at the pleasure of the President, but Trump and Hegseth’s firing of CJCS Chairman General Brown will reflect badly on the civilian leadership, not on the military.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

Hey, it gets the important one right...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just came across this again - I wrote it back in October of last year - and for once in my life I can say good god was I right www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-cult-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Zelensky was elected with a majority of Ukrainian votes. His presidency was extended per the Constitution during the war. It’s odd to hear him called a dictator by someone who led a failed coup and is now expanding the executive branch in violation of American norms and processes

submitted 3 days ago • 155 comments

Outmanned and outgunned Ukraine hasn't fallen. I am asking you to help me to support out defenders by getting engineering equipment to Ukraine. I have increased the goal to 120,000 USD as I think it's the least I can do. www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

@theaircurrent.com providing clarity on what actually happened with the FAA layoffs: theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf... Thanks for the quality reporting, @willguisbond.com. So, could've been worse, but this certainly isn't bolstering safety...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

when I worked for the government this was actually a serious problem: we had over a million files that could only be opened on windows 98, scattered randomly across 50 million weather records from the last couple hundred years

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I keep hearing G.K. Chesterton as I observe the Trump administration: "Brave men are all vertebrates. They have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover, and their softness is inside."

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Gosh, the Inspector General did a whole report on this subject ... before DOGE ever showed up. Maybe Elon should have read it before screaming "fraud".

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2404 comments

I cannot adequately express how despicable this is.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We are largely still talking. We need to be acting. At least we need to start talking about acting, not just how shocked we are.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Roses are red Cherenkov is blue Just use a screwdriver What's the worst it can do?

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Free speech!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

While I wait for the email that tells me whether I’ve been fired or spared, here’s a thread of things I’ve had the privilege of working on, experiencing, and accomplishing in my 10 months as a federal employee at the Storm Prediction Center. 1/?

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue If you are within the yellow hatched area, there is a 10% probability of an EF-2+ tornado within 25 miles of you

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments