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  1. I have a vivid memory as a young scout of an assistant scout master forcing us to break camp in the middle of the night in Perdernales during a pop up storms, with more than a bit of panic and urgency. I was tired and annoyed at the time, but thankful today.
  2. The thing about climate change, and this is no CR, but think of it like loaded dice, and you want to prepare for the worst case scenario being both worse than historical standards and more often. Whatever the worst case is: flash floods, hurricane winds, tidal surge, drought, heat death, lake effect snow, etc. To stick with the gambling metaphor: if in the past you’d roll a snake eyes occasionally and lost your original stake, now you roll it much more often, and your stake and house is on the line. And you don’t roll a 9 nearly as often to make money/have a good time. So for central Texas, you’ll have both more drought and, given how heat affects atmospheric dynamics, more catastrophic flooding.
  3. My grandfather used to tell me stories about the dam before Tom Miller failing.
  4. A atmospheric chemist I know put it this way: carbon dioxide doesn’t think about you at all when it absorbs radiation at one wavelength and then gives it off in a different wavelength.
  5. As somebody who works/worked in and around the DC not-for-profit community, I second this. They are one of the most inept organizations on earth. You are better off using actual cash to start a cooking fire. I know it’s challenging but please wait until local verified rescue groups are on the scene to contribute money.
  6. FWIW, I listened to portions of the birthright citizenship case and when they were not discussing injunctions, at least 6, and possibly 7 judges were extremely skeptical of the government’s position.
  7. I know we are talking tactical campaigns... but since being a pedantic asshole is a birthright here, I'd argue this little campaign in the spring of 1863 is kinda the gold standard for operational planning and execution:
  8. As long as Marine Le Pen draws breath and the French far right remains a viable political party, I wouldn’t rely on the French for anything beyond cheese and wine.
  9. I don’t disagree with that. Just the narrative that the Iran’s just straight trucked a bunch of 60-90% enriched uranium out and nobody in combined intelligence community said “hmm, I wonder what’s in those 18 wheelers?”
  10. I find it a little hard to believe that over the course of a week since the war started, with air superiority, the Israelis just watched the Iranian's back up trucks to Fordrow and load it up with an unidentified cargo and drive away. Or the US overhead satellites feeding intelligence to the IDF.
  11. I mean, we can't have that wartime cabinet dissolve and him be exposed to criminal indictment now can we?
  12. Depending on how successfull we ultimately determine the Fordrow attacks to be, this kinda seems like the Iranians are all but begging us to ask Isreal to stop.
  13. Given what Israel just did to Hezebollah and continues to do to Hamas, I think we know the answer to that question. They've gone full Judge Dredd.
  14. That's Marvelous!
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