So, hows your weather

Pages: 1 … 141 142 143

Index »
Community »
Everything Else »
So, hows your weather

2025-12-23 22:35:00

#3551

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +674|4359

I am visiting family in South Carolina. I have something to say about "the South."

The white people in the south aren't real white people.

https://iiswhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/europeans-white.jpg

You really have people down here walking around talking about Christmas in 60 degree weather.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTH1m5OkKC6MAB_zrqt2JV_5vrF3YdkabM0NWsAzE7HDkn3MU2SltezpnwB&s=10

That's not right. Christmas is supposed to spent freezing your ass off.

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/4E25C01E-1C86-4506-96917BC27371F023_source.jpg?w=600

Don't give me some bullshit about your viking ancestors if you spent your entire life without having to clean your car before work.

https://www.fbfs.com/getmedia/88eeb127-2c9d-4f30-af8b-493a76113b49/LCArticle_ProtectCarSnowIce.jpg?width=612&height=408&ext=.jpg

2025-12-24 02:05:24

#3552

uziq: Member; +553|4092

have you heard of the antipodes? it's literally mid-summer where dilbert is right now. entire british colonies at the beach.

the south was settled by failsons of the landed gentry. hence why there's a lot of scots, irish, and to a lesser extent welsh. they were cucked by english landowners so they went to the new world to roleplay as lairds on plantations.

2025-12-24 10:02:42

#3553

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +3,005|7272|949

We are supposed to get "months of rain" over the course of the next few days. Already saw a terrible accident on my way to work this morning bc it doesn't rain consistently enough here for people to learn how to drive properly.

Flooding is expected in many of the fire-affected areas. The coming of Jesus is bringing plague-like weather events. Couldn't have planned a better encapsulation of the state of America.

2026-01-12 13:10:36

#3554

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +701|6931|Washington St.

Highs of 56 tomorrow. January 13th and we'll be approaching 60 degrees in seattle.

I get the feeling the planet is trying to fight back and kill us to fix itself. 1000 years ago it would be working, which is a blink of an eye in clinate-change timing, but unfortunately we're doing it way way faster than the planet can keep up with

2026-01-12 17:21:36

#3555

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,095|7412|PNW

i've got a lot of mental logs of conversations with climate change deniers. some hugely pessimistic misanthropes about a lot of human topics, suddenly brighten up about how they read in a blog somewhere about genetically engineered coral reefs or garbage collection drones and how this definitely means the whole crisis is averted and they can keep blowing off the mounting problems being added to present-tense. like there's a difference between not mentally exhausting yourself by thinking about it every single day, and simply denying that there's a problem (and taking that to the polls).

was fairly icy in lacey not long ago. so much for Global Warming!

e: don't really get how "would you rather they do nothing then, newbie?" is seen as a massive counter to me saying it's not enough, especially when they're selectively anti-expert and opposed to so many other measures that would help. wth

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-01-13 03:01:13)

2026-01-17 12:20:15

#3556

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +674|4359

I am in the parking lot of a dollar tree in Pennsylvania right now. Just sitting alone on the metal parking beam. It is snowing.

I left my girlfriend's place after an argument and just started walking.

When she decided to move to Pennsylvania it was a surprise to me. She initially wanted to move out of her mom's place but then switched course because she felt bad and wanted a place for her mom too. So she bought this place in Pennsylvania. We had argument about this then because I didn't want to live with her mom. I still don't want to live with her mom. And I definitely don't want to live in Pennsylvania. I have no empathy for the people out here and their way of life.

All of my friends and connections are in the NYC area at least an hour away. My friends band is playing tonight in Jersey but I have to deal with snow out here in Pennsylvania. My girlfriend's friends won't even come out here to visit her because it is still far out.

Finally to top it out of her mom doesn't want to move out of the place they already have. So she bought a house that no one wants to visit and she only stays there on the weekends with me because she is afraid of being there by herself because no one wants to out here.

2026-01-17 14:11:10

#3557

uziq: Member; +553|4092

could you have afforded to buy something suitable within the 'NYC area'? why did she choose to move out to philly? budget reasons? pursuit of career? be nearer her mom?

also: i thought the USA was vast? what's an hour trip to see your friends? with a bit of advance scheduling, that's no problem. an occasional snow-out and a weekend spent at home is not the end of the world, man. you're not 23 anymore. put a movie on and suck it up.

2026-01-17 14:40:45

#3558

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +3,005|7272|949

I drove an hour to have dinner with friends last night and an hour plus to get a haircut today. Not that big of a deal tbh

Its 86° here in socal today.

2026-01-17 15:01:20

#3559

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,095|7412|PNW

i drive long distance when i have to. i hate doing it, unless the destination is recreational, social event, someplace i've never been before, or the route has scenic stops (deception pass!). washington's a decent place for that if you like nature, but very unexciting between seattle/nisqually, puyallup/everett. if i was trapped in a workaday three hour commute both ways indefinitely, and the vista stopped being stunning, i dunno man, rather just do extended stay close to the workplace and go home on weekends.

spending more time at parks means having to carry trump's face on a card now. ugh.

2026-01-17 16:32:35

#3560

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +674|4359

Ken, Much of my life is within walking distance. You drove an hour and a half for a haircut. I can walk to my barber.

Uzique, it is an hour minimum. Sometimes two hours one way with traffic. I need to wake up at 4:30 AM to beat traffic to get to my job in NJ. If I shower and get ready in Pennsylvania I will get stuck in traffic for 2 hours. I need to be out of the house in PA by 5 AM to get back to my place by 6:30 to get ready if I commute on a weekday. Back home, I get out of bed at 7:30 on a weekday. I get home from work at 3:00, if I commute to PA after work I get there at 5:00. You lose hours to the road every day.

She moved from Princeton where her mom owned the home and she was the caretaker. She picked this place on the border because it was a new build and was cheaper than NJ stuff. This is a brand new house for $400ish. The average home in NJ, not even new average, is $550,000.

I don't mean to sound like an asshole but I have made big strides in the last year in my political stuff. I want to be a leader of the community where I live. Going to see my friends band back home isn't just a night out. It is townie networking. And this isn't the first thing I missed out on by being out here in Pennsylvania.

...

I am better now

2026-01-17 19:35:00

#3561

lil_droo: Member; +22|2135

SuperJail Warden wrote:
Ken, Much of my life is within walking distance. You drove an hour and a half for a haircut. I can walk to my barber.

Uzique, it is an hour minimum. Sometimes two hours one way with traffic. I need to wake up at 4:30 AM to beat traffic to get to my job in NJ. If I shower and get ready in Pennsylvania I will get stuck in traffic for 2 hours. I need to be out of the house in PA by 5 AM to get back to my place by 6:30 to get ready if I commute on a weekday. Back home, I get out of bed at 7:30 on a weekday. I get home from work at 3:00, if I commute to PA after work I get there at 5:00. You lose hours to the road every day.

She moved from Princeton where her mom owned the home and she was the caretaker. She picked this place on the border because it was a new build and was cheaper than NJ stuff. This is a brand new house for $400ish. The average home in NJ, not even new average, is $550,000.

I don't mean to sound like an asshole but I have made big strides in the last year in my political stuff. I want to be a leader of the community where I live. Going to see my friends band back home isn't just a night out. It is townie networking. And this isn't the first thing I missed out on by being out here in Pennsylvania.

...

I am better now

Long commutes are fuckin draining at first time wise but you get used to it. I would just listen to podcasts and kinda zen out. Gave me time to think about shit that benefited me in the long run. Glad I can bike to my day job now in like 20 mins but still end up driving to sleep in a lil longer plus it's sketchy as fuck cycling these streets

How are homes only in 500k in NJ tho? I thought NY area was some of the most expensive real estate in the country? My basic 3bd2 bath home in West LA is valued at 1.4mil. Shit even where I grew up an hour north of LA homes are 800k.

gang shit

2026-01-18 06:22:08

#3562

uziq: Member; +553|4092

SuperJail Warden wrote:
Ken, Much of my life is within walking distance. You drove an hour and a half for a haircut. I can walk to my barber.

Uzique, it is an hour minimum. Sometimes two hours one way with traffic. I need to wake up at 4:30 AM to beat traffic to get to my job in NJ. If I shower and get ready in Pennsylvania I will get stuck in traffic for 2 hours. I need to be out of the house in PA by 5 AM to get back to my place by 6:30 to get ready if I commute on a weekday. Back home, I get out of bed at 7:30 on a weekday. I get home from work at 3:00, if I commute to PA after work I get there at 5:00. You lose hours to the road every day.

She moved from Princeton where her mom owned the home and she was the caretaker. She picked this place on the border because it was a new build and was cheaper than NJ stuff. This is a brand new house for $400ish. The average home in NJ, not even new average, is $550,000.

I don't mean to sound like an asshole but I have made big strides in the last year in my political stuff. I want to be a leader of the community where I live. Going to see my friends band back home isn't just a night out. It is townie networking. And this isn't the first thing I missed out on by being out here in Pennsylvania.

...

I am better now

i get it, and that sounds pretty reasonable to me. perhaps you both have different needs - if only in the moment? couldn't you just have continued renting for a while, saving up together, with the aim of boosting that extra $100k? (i say it like it's nothing, but presumably it can be a game-changer for many couples).

if your career is firmly anchored a 2 hour commute away, yeah that's not ideal. in those sort of circumstances, in many other countries people would consider having a pied-a-terre nearby to where they work and stay during the weekdays. but i think we both know that if you kept a separate living arrangement for work-weeks, you would step out on your relationship repeatedly and walk all over the poor girl (no offence - men just have that dawg in them i guess).

if you aim to settle permanently in NJ, and this isn't just some temporary infatuation with the local potentates and jersey wop aristocracy you've encountered at the rotarian club or whatever, then you both really need to have a conversation about where you're actually going to fucking live, long-term.

Last edited by uziq (2026-01-18 06:23:00)

2026-01-22 05:43:04

#3563

tazz.: oz.; +1,341|6814|Sydney | ♥

This week is going to be fucked.
Time to hermit.

For those that only know freedom units, that's 111.2F on Wednesday.

^{everything i write is a ramble and should not be taken seriously.... _{seriously. ♥}}

2026-01-22 05:53:25

#3564

uziq: Member; +553|4092

at least it's not humid. it's the endless summers of mid/high 30s WITH humidity that totally wrecks me.

still, stay out of the sun. sunstroke is no fun.

2026-01-22 06:06:46