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snoodog  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looks like Charlotesville is really starting to backfire for White Power groups

Can we just have a colosseum where groups that disagree can just battle to the death without hurting bystanders. That way we can get rid of all sorts of violent elements in our society. The Anti-Fa groups are just as dangerous as all the other violent groups and its a mistake to ignore them. Right now they might be getting practice fighting the white power people who nobody cares about, but soon enough they will wage violence in other places and for other causes.





am_Unition  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are the Anti-Fa people blameless? No, not at all. But evaluating the core ideologies of Anti-Fa vs. neo-Nazi-ism and reaching a conclusion that they are anywhere near equivalent is laughable.

There SHOULD be a healthy measure of rage as a reaction to let white supremacists know that what they're standing for will alienate them from the rest of us who have agreed to play nice with one another.

Calling for Anti-Fa to be culled because of things they might be doing in the future seems a bit draconian, and not what we should be expending our efforts on right now.

galen  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Previously

kleinbl00  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fer real. The Weather Underground was more than 40 years ago.

user-inactivated  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

... and they went to great lengths not to hurt people. The only people the Weather Underground got killed were some of their own accidentally blowing themselves up.

am_Unition  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·  

TIL.

Maybe not the same guys in charge of wunderground.com, but both groups did/do a good job.

Edit: "Maybe"

kleinbl00  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A PSA from your local weather enthusiast

Wunderground is owned and operated by The Weather Network, formerly known as The Weather Channel. It is largely made up of members of the Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) as well as public NOAA data. Unlike Accuweather, which prides itself on telling people what they want to hear, Wunderground provides raw NOAA data and forecasts where available, and its own probabilistic curve fits where not. Wunderground reciprocates for this data by providing free memberships, free hosting of webcams and a general community atmosphere that Accuweather, a bunch of neoconservative fucktards that want to privatize NOAA, don't think you want or need.

Note that your iPhone? It spits up Accuweather.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled non sequitur.

am_Unition  ·  2383 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is there some unwritten rule that decrees any website receiving praise must change its current interface to something inferior within several weeks' time?

I can't even get wunderground's fucking temperature/wind/heat index graphic to load anymore. The forecast graphs I used most often are now several "tabs" over. If I am being punished for using ad-blocking software, please, in the name of god, just tell me.

Christ!

Devac  ·  2383 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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am_Unition  ·  2383 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    derivative

Oh, you mean like the stuff they trade on Wall Street, right?

kleinbl00  ·  2383 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ugh that is bullshit.

Use the app. It's mucho better. Although they occasionally have server-side bullshit.

am_Unition  ·  2383 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, sorry. (I mean, I know you're head webdesigner for them, for sure)

Part of the problem is that I'm visiting the page to check whether or not the heat index is below 100F yet. I've gotta move away from this place.

tacocat  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The fact that non sequitor isn't in common use is pretty unfortunate. Because it's a term for a thing I do regularly in conversation.

I was also scared you were going to tell me some reason not to use weather underground. I'm relieved. I'm not a weather nerd but I have 4 weather apps on my phone because the weather can be important and I'm not the kind of person who complains when the forecast is wrong because I know it's an almost an impossible feat to attempt in the first place.

If you complain about TV weather men being wrong you should be given a Farmer's Almanac and told to deal with that to guess if you're going to get wet

am_Unition  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When I non-sequit here it feels like a criminal violation, and all off-topic talk should be relegated to pubski. Sometimes I even feel remorse for bumping a post such as this one with irrelevant comment chains, just like I'm doing this very instant. But not badly enough to forego pushing "contribute"...

Then, maybe several minutes to an hour or two later, I'll sometimes add an edit with slight signs of remorse.

Devac  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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am_Unition  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Devac throwin' down in Latin makes me feel insequir :/

kleinbl00  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The TV guys get short shrift. They have to say "looks like it might rain" and if it doesn't rain they're full of shit. On the other hand, the NWS gets to say "65% chance of rain" and if it doesn't rain the probability just wasn't high enough. They're saying the same thing.

am_Unition  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

By "good job", I guess I meant "the only source of weather I ever consult", and I use it multiple times each day.

Saying "a 30% chance of rain on X-day" is woefully lacking compared to the hourly breakdown that wunderground provides. They do great with large-scale weather systems, but when a stationary front is overhead, I like to test my own guesses against their models. Under some conditions, I can really clean up.

tl;dr - yes, fuck accuweather and weather.com

kleinbl00  ·  2415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The guys from Accuweather straight up told Nate Silver that if it's a 60% chance of rain they'll say 75% because people are less likely to be mad at them if it doesn't rain and they were expecting it than if it does and they weren't.

Choads.