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  1. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    They are American citizens, who have been afforded the opportunities to be successful, raise families, and not be under constant threat every single day of their lives.

    And they want to throw it all away as a temper tantrum.  They "WHAT ABOUT???" everything - American women will be safer under a Harris presidency.  WHAT ABOUT THE WOMEN IN GAZA AND LEBANON?  Kamala Harris and a Dem congress will codify Roe v Wade and ensure women have the right to choose their own reproductive healthcare outcomes.  WHAT ABOUT THE WOMEN AND BABIES IN GAZA BEING MURDERED BY KAMALA HARRIS?????

    It's dumber, and more malevolent than that.  It's "people are being harmed in Gaza, so we're going to act in a way to harm people here in the US.  That'll show you."

    It's political terrorism, it's not much more complicated than that.

    Way to make me sympathetic to your cause (sarcasm).  I have to give you everything you want, or you'll hurt me and my family?  Fuck YOU.

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  2. 1 minute ago, heso said:

    I can’t wrap my head around a protest non-vote that could give the win to a party that despises you.

    Because Trumpkins aren't the only people for whom hatred and rage are more important than voting for your interests, and actually support voting AGAINST your interests.

    It's stupid and counter-productive in the extreme, so, yeah....that's kinda what we do 'round here these days.  Fucking idiots.

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  3. Just now, Captainant said:

    bowling GIF

    that's just about a worst case for Tampa

    Wind wise, it ain't good.  But surge wise, it could be much worse -- a direct hit on the mouth of the bay, which that track looks to miss to the south by just a bit, which can be enough to help a lot.  Still gonna be a fuckload of surge, just not as bad as it could be.

  4. 1 minute ago, jkates said:

    That's simply not true, but I'm not going to try to change anyone's mind.

    I have my disagreements with both, and I know both personally, but I'm sure random people on the internet are a better source.

    Carry on.

    I grew up in Houston.  Know a good number of people who have lived and been educated/subjected to the Second Baptist bullshit.  Have listened to and read his exact words.  Old Ed is a huge piece of shit.  I'll confess to not knowing much about Jr.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24265963/hurricane-milton-helene-gulf-of-mexico-atlantic-water-temperature

     

     

     

     

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    Milton is forecast to make landfall on Florida’s central west coast tonight as another major hurricane, with Category 3 or 4 strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale that tops out at Category 5. Milton ran into strong wind shear, weakening it as it approached Florida, which is why it’s been downgraded from a Category 5 storm. Nevertheless, it’ll be “an extremely dangerous major hurricane,” the National Hurricane Center says. Tampa Bay could be hit with as high as a 12-foot storm surge.

    “That storm surge is still the biggest issue that we’re looking at. Any of you who went through Hurricane Helene, that was 4-6 feet and that was more devastation than I’ve seen in my life,” City of Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said in a press conference today.

    It’s too soon to know exactly how much climate change might have influenced Milton’s development. We do know that with Helene, the high sea surface temperatures along the storm’s path were 200-500 times more likely as a result of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels that are causing climate change, according to a study published today by an international group of researchers.

    Off the bat, forecasters already expected a rough hurricane season this year with near-record heat in the Atlantic. With warmer than average sea surface temperatures lingering into the fall, coastal communities could once again find themselves in hot water before the Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end on November 30th.

    With greenhouse gas emissions still on the rise and global average temperatures climbing, they could be feeling the heat again next season, too.

     

     

    Blah blah blah -- way to cover up for "them" and their WEATHER CONTROL MACHINES!!!!

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  6. Just now, chainsaw said:

    This should be a blowout, dude

    It won't be.  It was never going to be.  And that has nothing to do with who the Dems run.

    It has everything to do with how basically and essentially shitty we are as a country and society.

    Liberal Jesus himself could run against Trump, and Trump would get 47% of the vote.  

    No minds will be changed.  All anyone can do is play the turnout game.

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  7. 13 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    I just want to see the data that supports the strategy of pretending Dick Cheney wasn't a complete piece of shit.

    You don't even have to pretend that.  You can realize that even pieces of shit like Dick Cheney realize that Trump is a next-level piece of shit who represents an extinction-level threat to the Republic.  That's how bad Trump is - even Dick Cheney thinks he sucks.

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  8. 19 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

     

    That....is perfection.  "Here's the Constitution!  With SOME of its amendments....but, ummm, not the 11th through 27th.  Those aren't real and don't count.  Really, the Constitution is just the 2nd Amendment and to summarize the rest, 'Trump can do whatever he wants.'"

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  9. 19 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    yes, permanently

    it will take several years to pump the water out

    it can't be done in hours, days, weeks, or months

    Yep.  The lack of understanding of most people of the VOLUME of water we're talking about in floods, and how it moves (how long it takes, how much of it there is) is amazing. 

    "When they hear a hurricane is coming, why don't they just release water from the lakes to make room for the rainfall????"

    Cool, cool.  So, let's say we're expecting a catastrophic amount of rain.  100,000 acre feet are going to fall into the basin of lake X.  Lake X can release 5,000 acre feet of water a day without causing catastrophic floods downstream.  So...it'll take 20 days to make room for that flood.  In the meantime, these are the unknowns, based on the fact that we KNOW hurricanes change path right up till the end:

    1) what if the hurricane drops most of its rainfall DOWNSTREAM of the dam?   Now the dam has just dumped 5,000 acre feet of water into the waterway, making downstream flooding WORSE than it would have been without the release.

    2) what if the hurricane whiffs entirely, turning west by 100 miles?  Now you've dumped your summer drinking water supply downstream, not to be replaced.  Everyone goes on water rationing for the next year.

    3) and again.....what did you gain?  If you start dumping 5 days before landfall, based on a wildly uncertain forecast, you empty only 25,000 acre feet of storage.  Which the flood (if it happens) fills up like that....and then you STILL have a flood.

    The volume of water in hurricane-driven floods, and the unpredictability of where the rain is going to actually fall, mean that any efforts we make to pre-plan and "prevent" the flood are folly, especially in more flat-land areas (where lakes are only 30 feet deep, as opposed to 230 feet deep in the steep hill country).

    But even in Helene, you have people bitching because "why didn't they empty all the lakes beforehand??!!"  Because they couldn't be certain where it was going to go, you don't just drain lakes based on an uncertain forecast, and if they got it wrong, the flood caused by those massive releases combined with downstream rainfall would have made things even worse.

    1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yes, there are no structures capable of handling the tub surge of a preschool boy.

    Or when he sticks his dingus up out of the water and says "look!  It's a periscope!"  My wife left the room.  I couldn't stop laughing.

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  10. 4 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    In a sense, air craft carriers do make the economy more productive via protection and streamlining of trade routes.  

    Yep.  Control of the seas is a giant "economic advantage" strategy and policy.  You may reasonably debate the morality of it (including the costs/toll it exacts on third parties), but our military hegemony makes our country more prosperous and profitable.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    And they all know it. Hence the desperation. There's a long line of grifters who are going to be socially and economical ruined if Trump loses. 

    It's truly great.

    Not me, I'm gonna do GREAT.  My "Challenge the Stollen Election II, Kamala Boogaloo" PAC is gonna RAKE in the bucks.  The dipshits' disability/SS checks will hardly pause in their bank accounts before they send the money on to me to STOP THE STEAL!

    anthony-adams-rubbing-hands.jpg

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  12. 25 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    Aren’t they saying that one hurricane is five times the human energy consumption?  

    Something like that.  The joules of energy involved in a hurricane are staggering.....yet we have a cascade of idiots, including elected officials, who think that "they" are manipulating the weather to create and steer these beasts.  With fucking WHAT?  We don't possess ANYTHING capable of being more than a fart in a tornado in terms of influence on something with that much energy.  "They have a 1 trillion watt laser!"  Cool....that won't do shit.  The weaponized stupidity that is now involved in how we handle weather events....man, it's something.

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