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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • That helps slightly but in the absence of radar, balloons, and satellite telemetry, it doesn’t help accuracy of forecast beyond, “it might rain here in a few hours, it might not.” Not much different in functional usefulness than looking at the trees to see if it’s going to rain.

    I have a watch with a barometric pressure sensor, it will alert me to potential maybe coming storms, but only potential maybe, not what direction, what intensity, what hail potential, what wind shear. All it knows is the air pressure is changing pretty fast. It is right maybe one in ten times. (My location tends to have very rapid weather changes, in general, however.)

    And outside of that, ground stations don’t really help to keep air traffic safely in the skies at all, lacking jet stream telemetry, which is calculated and estimated on a daily basis to figure out which sky highways flights should use. Not just passengers either, most commercial passenger airliners have a portion of their cargo hold sold to shipping (and make more money on that than the seats). USPS, other shipping companies all ship in cargo holds. Water transport would be affected as well of course, as well as rail and truck to a lesser degree due to floods/landslides/blizzards or random sideways Texas sandstorms blowing semi trucks over.

    With flights, this means fuel estimates will be off, tailwind or headwind is stronger or weaker than predicted, you’re landing at an alternate airport. This means more random turbulence and/or injuries mid-flight. More grounded flights, more flight delays. More potential for collision. Especially with neutered ATC in concert.

    It is all interconnected, and all being arbitrarily destroyed without any thought into why it all exists.




  • FTA it seems:

    • American Express
    • WPP (ad agency)
    • Omnicom (ad agency)
    • Interpublic Group (ad agency)
    • Publicis (ad agency)
    • “increasing number of small brands”
    • Stagwell (ad agency) possibly, as quoted in the article as saying, “The political boycotts and things are dissipating because companies are realizing that taking one side and the other is a dangerous place to be.”

    A quick AI search for some of who uses/d those ad agencies:

    WPP:

    • HSBC
    • Rolex
    • Samsung
    • Shell Oil
    • Unilever
    • Nestlé

    Omnicom:

    • Apple
    • PepsiCo
    • McDonalds
    • Nissan
    • Pfizer
    • Unilever

    Interpublic Group (IPG):

    • American Express
    • AstraZeneca
    • GM
    • Nestlé
    • Amazon
    • L’Oréal

    Publicis:

    • Google
    • Dodge
    • Humira
    • Samsung
    • Nestlé
    • L’Oréal

    Stagwell:

    • Anheuser-Busch InBev
    • JP Morgan
    • Uber Eats
    • AT&T
    • Mastercard







  • The cuts also affected the launching of weather balloons, less are being launched now daily, so current knowledge of the jet stream across the US will be more limited. This means daily routing of flights through the various air “lanes” gets more challenging, more unexpected air, predicted fuel burn rates will be wrong if a tailwind isn’t blowing as fast as estimated, or headwinds are stronger.

    Likely won’t increase crashes too much, but will increase turbulence, in-flight injuries, rerouting, and detour landings.

    (As well as forecasts for the ground being less accurate.)






  • Had a friend back in similar age area, they went one evening, “I’m going to the ATM to take out $20 so I have money for tomorrow before the overdraft I’m already going to get breaks my debit card.”

    I also had similar overdraft hell story when I was multi-overdrafted rent was entering past due and was on the verge of being homeless waiting for my next paycheck to stay afloat, drove home from work with the engine misfiring nearly dead out of fuel. Went home and scraped a “rare” (like an old quarter or penny, nothing fancy, one of those odd things family gives you) coin jar for enough money to buy a couple gallons of gas and food for my pet.

    Wouldn’t wish that dogshit on anyone, it is literally criminal greed that can destroy a person in under a week.



  • Voter registration is handled at the state level, not Federal. It’s a problem that has never existed. Just Mango Mussolini trying to Nazi harder.

    Voter registration in the United States

    (Emphasis mine.)

    All U.S. states and territories, except North Dakota, require voter registration by eligible citizens before they can vote in federal, state and local elections. In North Dakota, cities in the state may register voters for city elections, and in other cases voters must provide identification and proof of entitlement to vote at the polling place before being permitted to vote. Voter registration takes place at the county level in many states or at the municipal level in several states. Many states set cutoff dates for registration or to update details, ranging from two to four weeks before an election, while 25 states and Washington, D.C. have same-day voter registration, which enables eligible citizens to register or update their registration on the same day they cast their vote. In states that permit early voting, and have voter registration, the prospective voter must be registered before casting a vote.