9:59 and counting.

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      5 months ago

      finally! love playing pretend as normal people. let me start. “how bout that weather eh?”

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        Well, if we’re being meteorologically precise, the “weather” as you experience it at this exact moment is really the culmination of a vast number of interacting variables that are constantly shifting on scales ranging from the microscale—say, the turbulent eddies you might feel swirling around the corner of a building—all the way up to the synoptic scale, which refers to the continental-sized weather systems driven by upper-level dynamics in the troposphere.

        At present, the dominant feature influencing local conditions is the interaction between a semi-stationary frontal boundary, which is essentially a transition zone between differing air masses, and the associated baroclinic zone, where horizontal temperature gradients are maximized. This boundary tends to act as a focus for mesoscale convective development, though in your immediate vicinity, that energy seems to be manifesting more in stratiform cloud decks rather than organized convection. The dew point depression values are modest, suggesting that the boundary layer is near saturation, which is why relative humidity feels elevated. Surface observations corroborate this, showing low to moderate cloud cover with occasional breaks depending on diurnal heating and radiative flux.

        Meanwhile, if we look aloft at the 500-millibar geopotential height field, we see a weak trough propagating eastward, embedded within a larger quasi-zonal flow pattern. This induces some subtle upward vertical velocity fields via positive vorticity advection, which, if you were inclined to notice, could explain the patchy mid-level cloudiness overhead. At the surface, barometric pressure is trending slightly downward, but not at a rate that would imply rapid cyclogenesis—rather, it’s consistent with the passage of a weak synoptic-scale disturbance.

        In short, the weather right now could be described in lay terms as “a little cloudy with some humidity,” but really what you’re feeling is the local manifestation of vast thermodynamic and dynamic processes—everything from latent heat release in distant convective systems to planetary wave modulation in the upper atmosphere. In other words, it’s all very ordinary, but also astonishingly complex when you stop to unpack it.

        Did I normal right?

        (No, I did not write all that. I used devil robots.)

  • toomanypancakes@piefed.world
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    We can totally play some board games, or if you play an instrument we could jam. House is even fairly clean, I’m ready and waiting.

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    I have an induction forge and an induction smelting crucible. That’s literally endless entertainment, until my arms get tired.

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    Show you a gladiator fight, then ask you “are you not entertained?”

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    5 months ago

    Boring standard screen-based stuff. I could dig out a board game if you really want, I guess.

    Maybe you’ll like my dog?

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        I kind of did this to a friend of mine. We both got some 18 year old laptops that still run on x86 and we wanted to install Linux on them (arch specifically). We met at my place, and I started with trying to get it work. He meanwhile realised he needed something so I gave him my key and hopped into a skirt while he was away. When he returned I just turned ti him, made a “gun” with my fingers and said “I lied to you, I dont have Netflix. Take of your shoes, we are installing 32 bit Arch”. Funniest shit of my life.

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    You can either join me in sitting around a small fire and discussing rc stuff, star trek, guns, and how functionally unregulated capitalism is destroying the planet, or you can keep moving.

    I hope you’ll join me, I’m making breakfast. Eggs, potatoes, bacon, biscuits, and pancakes if you’re okay with some mildly overcooked spots.