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2:13 AM
States are blowing right past their old record daily gains.
38k from NY.
 
2:26 AM
> U.S. reports more than 250,000 new coronavirus cases, with several states yet to report
Good morning
 
It will be your Christmas Eve.
 
2:42 AM
 
 
1 hour later…
3:56 AM
I wanted to go jogging, but it's minus 18°C
Maybe just after the noon it will get warm
 
4:10 AM
Presumed burial mound of Oleg of Novgorod (died in 912 AD)
 
4:26 AM
 
5:06 AM
In Russia: 6 robots / 10 thousand workers
 
 
2 hours later…
7:34 AM
A lot of snow
 
8:05 AM
Before the invention of the crow bar most crows got drunk at home
 
9:17 AM
Young man arrested for 10 days in Rostov-on-Don for posting the symbols of FBK (Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation) and UG (Smart Voting, Navalny's system for selecting anti-Putin candidates) in his Instagram account. He will spend the New Year celebrations in jail.
Since FBK has been announced an extremist organization, posting of its logo online constitutes a crime.
 
 
2 hours later…
11:12 AM
Minus 18°C
Still people are riding on bicycles
 
11:28 AM
A Moscow court has just imposed a fine of USD 95643310 on Google for "non-removal of prohibited information".
95 mn dollars
 
 
1 hour later…
12:52 PM
DC area
 
1:04 PM
Hii guys
long time
 
Is it right to say “ Ever have I done something wrong in my life “ or “Ever have I been to that basketball academy “ . Here , I mean to say is that I haven’t done anything wrong & been to basketball academy. I want to know if my sentences are correct
@CowperKettle Hii. Hope you’re doing well.
 
 
2 hours later…
3:21 PM
Russian court imposes on Meta (Facebook) a fine of USD 25 000 000
Haha, what a good day for the Russian state treasury, provided these two companies pay.
 
@CowperKettle Nuh-uh, that ain't a lotta snow.
 
I will need to find a VPN to bring the TOR browser to life.
Otherwise, no Facebook for me, and there are a lot of friends who live in other cities.
Putin has blocked the most popular VPN servers already.
He'll likely block Google totally for the duration of his short and glorious war in Ukraine, but then will relent.
I should at least grab some interesting movies to watch during the block.
 
There's a lotta snow.
 
@Robusto Yes, this is a good layer of snow
 
That was February 2014 at my home in the Boston area. I had to clear the driveway twice, once in the middle of the storm, or I would have been completely snowed in.
 
3:33 PM
@Robusto Wow, near Boston
Usually Boston must be warm
Boston is at 42 degrees of latitude
It's like Sochi in Russia, a resort city.
 
@CowperKettle It snows more when the weather warms up.
 
@CowperKettle Most of the country is lower than 42 degrees north. Microclimates are determined by more factors than latitude alone.
@Robusto I'm not sure that's really true. It's just that there's more moisture in April than in January.
 
@tchrist In winter, when the location is below freezing for large parts of the winter, a cold front displaces a warm front and that's when it really snows.
 
In the foothils of Konzhakovsky Kamen mountain 2017
 
3:37 PM
There has to be moisture in the air.
 
Nobody but nobody goes to Chicago in winter as a pleasant resort area.
And it's just a few minutes south of Boston.
 
Yeah. I lived the bulk of my life in snowy areas. But Boston is warmer in winter than Chicago, mainly because of the nearby ocean.
Lake Michigan has no Humboldt current. Or Gulf Stream.
 
I'm at 40 degrees, and I had like eleven feet of snow last season. But I'm continental, and at altitude over a mile, and I get more moisture pulled up out of the Gulf of Mexico in winter than I do from the Sea of Cortez in summer.
 
Somersaults in the snow
 
@Robusto That's exactly it. He's in the middle of his continent; no warm current.
 
3:40 PM
@tchrist It's raining here today, probably will be snow in the higher elevations.
I expect the Watermelon will be a Sugarloaf come morning.
 
I saw a rainbow yesterday evening, although it didn't actually quite get to me. I believe I see rain falling on the hilltop five miles away.
"hill"
Not sure where the snow-line is right now. A day or two ago it didn't look as far down from timberline as I would have expected.
Oh, the rain is just now getting here.
 
1st April 2018, on a lake
Lakes are especially hard to traverse
 
@CowperKettle Where I'm from it's not safe to do that on a lake on that date.
People too often try and fail.
 
La sandía va a ser un pan de azúcar mañana.
 
You'd have to be up in the high country here, like closer to two miles than to one.
 
3:43 PM
A lot of stubborn fishers sink each year here
They refuse to stop fishing despite the thinning ice
 
You gotta love being cold to do that.
 
@Robusto O de hielo.
 
Por supuesto.
 
@Robusto There's a lot of special winter gear
 
@CowperKettle Still.
 
3:46 PM
@CowperKettle Yes, also in Wisconsin. Here where there aren't so many lakes the mania is less, but you will see it being risked up high late in the season at the notorious Dillon Reservoir.
 
Putin and Defence Minister Shoigu love to go hiking along
Tough male friendship
 
No sexy Brokeback Putin pictures in this chat.
 
@CowperKettle "Well, speak softly and carry an armored division, I always say."
@CowperKettle Did you mean "alone"?
 
Yes, probably
 
Stupid fingers.
 
3:50 PM
 
Nice view!
 
That's Dillon Reservoir. I guess it has finally frozen. Took forever this year. It's 3200 acres at 39.6074°N 106.0551°W 9017' Z.
 
This is really romantic.
 
Uh, this is more Putin than I normally see on a Friday.
 
3:53 PM
LOL
 
It supplies a great deal of water to Denver, despite being on the other side of the Continental Divide. But it's 4000' feet higher than Denver, so they drilled a mighty tunnel for the water to drain from the Pacific Basin into the Atlantic Basin.
 
@tchrist Doesn't that violate all kinds of treaties?
 
@Robusto Year, I'm REALLY not sure how they managed to avoid the Law of the River on that one.
The Compact, I mean.
Dillon Reservoir, sometimes referred to as Lake Dillon, is a large fresh water reservoir located in Summit County, Colorado, United States, south of I-70 and bordered by the towns of Frisco, Silverthorne, and Dillon. It is a reservoir for the city of Denver, and its waters are under the control of Denver Water. Popular ski areas are close to the reservoir, including Copper Mountain, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, and Breckenridge. == History == In 1859, a large party of gold-seekers led by Ruben Spalding discovered gold near the headwaters of the Blue River, which prompted a population surge in Summit...
 
A river compact is what I would think Thetis would use to store here makeup.
 
They're diverting from the Colorado River, since the Blue River is one of its tributaries. Yet I can't imagine this would be available for Phoenix or farther to draw upon.
 
3:59 PM
Maybe you can't imagine that, but I bet others in AZ and CA could.
Certain people of the legal persuasion.
 
There was a Compact Call on our water this summer. The first one ever.
 
What happens in a compact call?
 
The feds release our reservoirs for downstream.
 
That is infuriating.
 
> The water level at Colorado‘s largest lake is currently falling faster than it has ever fallen before.

It’s not because of evaporation or a lack of conservation here.

Instead, the federal government has decided that the water in Blue Mesa Reservoir in Gunnison County is needed downstream more than it's needed here.
 
4:05 PM
Lake Abiquiu has been as wet as a damp handkerchief lately because of that.
 
> By the end of September, it will be 96 feet below capacity, a level not seen since it hit 93 feet in 1984.
 
I was told that in some places of the British Isles, water from the tap is expensive and they try not to use it very much.
 
I find that dubious. Flushing the toilet, showering, bathing, etc have far greater impact.
 
It's agriculture that uses the most water.
In California, personal use accounts for only 2% of the water used.
 
4:08 PM
> The nation’s Western drought is so severe that federal predictions of Colorado River flows into Lake Powell for 2021 dropped by the equivalent of 10 Lake Dillons in just six months, according to a key new report.

In issuing the report Friday, U.S. water engineers said they will for the first time take water from Flaming Gorge, Blue Mesa and Navajo Reservoirs to protect electric power production at Lake Powell’s Glen Canyon Dam, where water levels are in danger of falling below the electric turbine intakes.
 
What gets my goat is that there is no thermal interface in Russian buildings to make refrigerators use some of the cold air from the street in the winters, which can last quite a long here. Home fridge heats up your home to make some volume cold, but it's already minus 10 C in the street.
 
@CowperKettle In Alaska, people use refrigerators to keep food from freezing. Go figure.
 
@CowperKettle That sounds complicated.
 
@tchrist Computers use thermal interfaces, for instance heat pipes
Why not make specialized recesses in kitchens to install fridges there, with a thermal interface.
That will save electricity.
In the Urals, it's consistently cold since late October to early April.
Cold enough to store food.
 
Just put your food on the back porch. That's what we've always done.
> Pain ahead for Upper Basin states

The new plan announced to shore up Powell for the rest of this year signals pain for all the Upper Colorado Basin states of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. A lowered pool in upstream reservoirs can affect fishing, water recreation and more, with other conservation pilots in the works in coming years to pay ranchers to give up some of their water without relinquishing long-term rights.
 
4:11 PM
 
In Siberia, we used special wooden boxes hanging outside the windows, calling them Siberian fridges
 
@Mitch Smurfy!
@CowperKettle Well yes, it's best to put it inside something so that the creatures don't get it.
 
@tchrist What I thought was interesting is the 'plantation belt' the banana shaped swath from southern Virginia all the way south through Georgia to Mississippi.
Very visibly green
 
That's how they looked in my childhood
As I grew up, people became rich and bought real fridges.
 
@CowperKettle wait... what's a 'thermal interface'?
 
4:16 PM
@Mitch Some conduit allowing cold air from the outside to participate in the freezing action of the domestic refrigerator.
Some metallic pipe? With a fan?
I'm not an engineer. But it's absurd to see the fridge heating up the kitchen when it's minus 10C outside.
Maybe the wall could be made thinner and the fridge put into this recess in the kitchen wall, so that the back of the fridge is always colder, and it does not need to heat up air so much. Less of a differential. The sides of the fridge in the recess could be sealed more or less tight with some material.
 
4:28 PM
@CowperKettle Isn't that a kind of heat pump?
A heat pump is a system used to heat or cool an enclosed space or domestic water by transferring thermal energy from a cooler space to a warmer space using the refrigeration cycle, moving heat in the opposite direction in which heat transfer would take place without the application of external power. When used to cool a building, a heat pump works like an air conditioner by transferring heat from inside the building to the outdoors. When used to heat a building, the heat pump operates in reverse: Heat is transferred into the building from the outdoors. Common heat pump types are air source heat...
 
Could be
 
4:53 PM
When I look up χείλος in Google Translate, the text says cheilos but the synthesizer pronounces it as khilios
 
@CowperKettle The war between orthography and pronunciation. Cf. Achilles / Ἀχιλλεύς.
 
5:24 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad asn for hostname in answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer (70): Is "life is hard without jam" in use?‭ by RC Lyrics Band‭ on english.SE
 
Hedgehog getting an X-ray
 
@Mitch I've never ever lived anywhere that has any green dots at all.
@CowperKettle Looks spatchcocked.
 
6:00 PM
 
@CowperKettle from your description it seems more like just a simple access to cold from inside a warm area whithout having to open a window or door
 
Could be this too.
Thermal interfaces can be different
 
A fuel pump or hear exchange mechanism (like an air conditioner or refrigerator) has active physical mechanisms to move heat from one place to another instead of just passive adjacency of differently temperatures areas
 
What if a white person rents a flat in a totally black neighborhood? Will he be beaten? I wonder why there are so many areas colored in "black" totally.
 
Historically, the black population of northern and western cities were largely from the Great Migration
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. It was caused primarily by the poor economic conditions as well as the prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld. The historic change brought by the migration was amplified because the migrants, for the most part, moved to the then-largest cities in the United States (New York...
@CowperKettle the link might mention 'redlining' which explains the 2nd part of your question
 
6:07 PM
What stops people from mingling in 2021?
It's unnatural to have purely black and white areas on the map.
 
@CowperKettle I paid rent (before being in shelter again, doh...) in Lexington Market, which is a "redlined"/segregated area. I was never beaten by Black people. Heck, my experience is being beaten by my own Jewish/Whiteish people instead long before.
 
We have an Uzbek family living a couple of floors below. There is no purely Uzbek area in Yekaterinburg.
 

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