No shit right?

I’d pay you to shit my hand in a drawer if it meant I didn’t have to use atlassian

I just imagine them handing out some Beretta 9mm’s to some lab technicians who typically work with ice cores or something and them being told “You’re getting sent to Seattle. Find this guy”

That’ll get you killed on my beach.

Biggest issue is keiki and tourists crowding the seals when they come on shore to take pictures, and the seals get nervous and head back into the water. But sometimes you get local kine just as disrespectful.

But also…

Special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration arrested Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk near Seattle

wut…

Oh you know he didnt have to throw his special gifts away…,

Again or is this the same event from yesterday?

I went for jerk a few weeks ago and it was the marinated version not the rub version and I was crestfallen.

So my sub was a modern nuclear sub. It had both a reactor and a diesel engine. But modern diesels and even some older ones, they would get close to the surface to run their diesel (because you need oxygen for combustion) via a snorkel to charge batteries, then go back under.

A reactor is much quieter than a diesel. And batteries are quieter still. Water moving through pipes, anything with periodic motion, is going to have a frequency. And sound moves far more effectively under water. So generally yes, in operation, you aren’t running equipment like the diesel engine. The goal is to be sneaky. Running a diesel is practically announcing to the whole ocean “here I am”.

Not many fat sub sailors then?

Oh quite the opposite… one treadmill. All the way aft. In the smoking area.

Is it 12h shifts?

Depends if you are forward or aft, nature of mission/ training, and how many stations/ personal your division has for any given underway.

Standard is when I was enlisted was actually 6 hour shifts on a rotating 18 hour day. 18 hour days you say? But wouldn’t that make Homer something something…

I think its now 8 hour standard shifts and sailors are far less suicidal and depressed, at least so I’ve heard.

The rack space is extremely small. Smaller than a surface vessel. I can’t remember the exact dimensions but I want to say in the range of 50 centimeters between the mattress and the bunk above you. The racks are in the range of maybe 65-75 cm deep. The mattress is maybe 10cm. All your gear has to fit into the rack, which lifts up on hinges, so maybe you have 6-10 total cm of storage below your rack. I went out of my way to get a mini-disk player when I got shore-leave in japan so I could bring more music with me underway. Also, you are probably sharing this rack space with another sailor because if you are jr. enlisted on a submarine, its almost certain you are hot-racking, which means, someone else is going to crawl into your rack and sleep once you get out of your rack. This serves two function, first you need 24 hour coverage on all watch stations, and, well there isn’t a ton of sunlight anyways so since you’ll need to cover a 24 hour watch regardless, you can get away with fewer racks than you have sailors. Its always hot in the rackspace. Cooling and heating requires pumps. Pumps make noise so you generally just don’t do it. Just a bunch of sweaty sailors and their dirty socks for weeks on end. Yeah maybe you trust them with your life but you sure af better not trust them with your socks. There are also people constantly coming in and coming out of the rack space. So you’ll almost never get undisturbed sleep.

As far as motion… Unless you are doing something like a maneuver, or you are just getting underway or at battle stations, you don’t feel practically any motion on a submarine. You intentionally get below the surface sufficiently to avoid any impacts of wave action, because why wouldn’t you? I would say sea-sickness is far less of an issue on subs for exactly this reason. If there is significant wave action, just go deeper. Now if you are at battle stations or in combat or doing exercises, yes, you’ll 100% feel some motion, and then there are extreme cases like an embt blow, which is going to send bodies flying. But in general, slow and low and trying to create as little motion as possible is the goal with how you are going to practically manage a submarine underway.

As far as sound. Its called the silent service for a reason. Practically every decision is made with a thought about how much sound is this going to make. Every wire run, every pipe, every pump, every circuit; everything is done with a consideration of what impact this is going to have on your profile because the entire point is to be practically invisible to not only other submarines, but surface vessels or anyone else who might be running sonar. Anything humming… thats an unmitigated disaster if you are a submarine and is a practical announcement to any other vessels in your vicinity “Here we are, and here is where we are going”.

So what is it really like? Take a 3 meter x 3 meter garden shed. fit you and 15 of your closest friends onto some of those cheap plastic storage shelves… and spread some corn-nuts or similar smelling items around to get the full authentic experience. Oh and hit everyone in the head with a hammer because I didn’t mention the part about dropping oxygen levels to reduce the risk of fire. So you are always going to be groggy and have a tension headache. But maybe after a couple years you’ll be able to afford college.

Depends if we’re talking about a hobby or a habitat.

I think in struggling with the first one: is atmosphere the total atmospheric pool divided by the earth’s surface area?

That’s actually good feedback that you are struggling with; the answer is that the 19.1 is the gross amount of material coming out of the atmosphere. Everything here is in megagrams of carbon per hectare per year. So I could make that more clear.

I used a sankeyflow in python. So its all done in code and with very little revision it made high quality attractive sankeys. I didn’t label them in python though, it was too fidgetty, so I did that in powerpoint.

Yeah about half of the values in that figure, mostly the rate functions and some of the standing pools are from my own research.

seagulls?

You don’t like seagulls?

💯

Lets see Porter take that interview.

Medhi

Medhi is a once in a lifetime talent when it comes to interview and debate. Any candidate who gets interviewed by Medhi comes out looking better just because they Medhi is so skilled at what they do.

Yeah in terms of turdburger vs shit-sandwich, this is definitely one of the elections of all time.

Yeah I don’t want to be deeply invested in this race because I think the field of candidates is pretty garbage, but because the field is garbage and because its probably the most important governorship in the nation, I feel compelled to study the candidates. Basically we can consider someone like Steyer on the face of their policies and background or we can consider them in the context of the other candidates. I end up with two very different conclusions of Steyer this way.

On their face, billionaire, faux-populist, jonny-come-lately to progressive policies. The typical “Ahh I’m gonna give it all away… eventually” schticht. It rings pretty hollow on paper. When I hear them talk, I do believe that at least they believe that they believe in these policies, but sticking feathers up ones ass does not make one a chicken. Untested in terms of electoral leadership so we don’t really know how they’ll be if they were to govern. If it were in a vacuum they’d be a hard pass for me.

But when I take them in the context of the field, there just isn’t another candidate even providing lip-service to progressive populism, so whats a girl/ boy/ non-gender conforming individual to do? Porter fell off hard and should be dropping out. And the rest are shit. And I actually trust Porter less than I do Steyer to follow through on their promises. And beyond Porter what are the options? All conservatives or neoliberals, both of which aren’t worth even considering.

So I think the progressive choice is Steyer, but a begrudging choice, not an enthusiastic one.

I stand by what I said.

I’ve outlined how what you said was ahistorical and how even the tent-poles of the progressive movement got Fetterman wrong. So since you’ve got a magical wizard-mind that is able to go backwards in time to to rewrite history, please tell us how we get it wrong: Should we trust Steyer? Are they another Fetterman?

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And I would say that Waimaea is like, maybe not as scary as Nazaré, just because it is more slabbed up and a more reliable right. Like, I coudn’t say that when Waimaea is firing its not pure chaos because cmon. 50+ft waves. But like, the way the break is and how it forms, its why people can still paddle into that wave an not have to get towed in.

And structurally its the same concept. Waimaea canyon is right behind the break and its a deeeeeep canyon. Just that we get bigger direct sets with a lot more ocean behind them than Portugal.