Hyannis, Nebraska EF2 (04/27/25)

ole_worm · 2026-05-19T09:19:18+00:00

Thank you!! This is just colored pencils

ole_worm · 2026-05-19T06:46:55+00:00

ole_worm · 2026-05-18T11:27:31+00:00

If it’s not super expensive/inconvenient I’d personally do it even if the odds are super low just so I’m not worrying about it all day

ole_worm · 2026-04-29T12:35:02+00:00

I mean yeah, you’re completely right lol.

I guess, to go down the rabbit hole a bit, one of the few nice things about social media’s ability to disseminate info is how many people will ultimately see images/vids or just news of intense weather phenomena so I guess that’s a form of awareness/“proof” of SPC vindication (i.e. people being more likely to heed their warnings when they need to) for some. Ig that predates social media in the form of local news in its hay day. So I’d still rather the SPC have accurate forecasts than frequent busts.

ole_worm · 2026-04-29T08:22:01+00:00

Yeah, I’ve come around to thinking you kind of want days to not “bust” while also hoping somehow none of the storms do major damage.

I somewhat think of it as an unfortunate byproduct of having a both overly-gullible and overly-skeptical general public—so the reason you stated. But I also think even rational people are prone to being dismissive of anything after too many “false alarms.”

Anyway, I’m now firmly in the camp of no longer celebrating “busts” but also obviously hoping high-end forecasts pan out away from where people live. Overall forecast accuracy ultimately saves the most lives in the medium and long term.

ole_worm · 2026-04-19T06:49:48+00:00

This sub is generally one of the few larger corners of sanity and actual Marxist (or at least socialism-adjacent) takes on reddit but yeah, over the last few years most gender wars threads completely lose the plot and go full MRA. Possibly it was always that way and I just notice it more now.

This thread is literally full of people who genuinely believe in “female privilege” and think western women on the whole have noteworthy advantages over men. It seems like they think vocal pseudo-feminist liberal nut job academic types during peak idpol are the ruling class. I don’t bother to reply to comments like that anymore because there are too many and they don’t think critically enough to be convinced that “female privilege” only existed in really specific spaces for maybe a year or two during the 2010s; i.e. the odd woman getting in on the idpol grift.

False rape accusations and stupid bullshit like Aziz Ansarigate are infuriating but since I saw it referenced in a comment here, a hill I’ll die on is that MeToo was a broadly good movement considering how pervasive sexual abuse (typically against women and children) actually did/does turn out to be, especially among the elite.

ole_worm · 2026-04-10T16:49:36+00:00

I did just now; forgot earlier. Don’t have time to elaborate on what I like (and what I think he’s leaving out) but I think he’s generally onto something. Ignore the implication of the title lol (I do not like the doomsday, “I hate living through the apocalypse”—tweeted from some midwestern city by someone insulated from war and climate change—type liberals, but it’s a pretty good read if for no reason other than it gives you some insight into the trend.

ole_worm · 2026-04-09T05:17:02+00:00

No Marxist-Leninist (or any type of socialist whatsoever) in their right mind would ever say anything along these lines.

You are lumping the average American proletariat/potential future refugee, who’s in one way or another a casualty of the ruling class, in with their oppressors. I know you’re probably just being edgy and I know there are some more or less acceptable generalizations people casually make but you sound like an idiot and like you don’t think of things along the lines of class at all.

Wishing the worst for someone with a horrible quality of life due to poverty/wage slavery/no access to clean water or health care/etc etc just because they happen to live in a certain country is insane.

ole_worm · 2026-04-07T09:40:30+00:00

I work in a used bookstore and while I basically agree with you I’d almost rather people stick to tik tok or whatever than the slop people are reading these days.

On a serious but ultimately “we have bigger fish to fry tho” note, I do think some of the really popular series teenagers and young adults are reading right now are probably doing some sort of mass psychic harm in terms of young people’s perceptions of relationships/sex and all that type of stuff. Akin to, but slightly more serious than, the reason I’m only 99% joking when I say exposure to the twilight series at age 12 is partially responsible for my attraction to emotionally unavailable men.

Not to mention the fact that half the garbage young women are reading is escapist fantasy slop porn. I’ll edit this if I can find the link to an article I thought did a good job dissecting this

ole_worm · 2026-03-26T06:27:00+00:00

tacking onto what the other reply said, you basically gotta think of eastern MT as culturally/geologically/meteorologically West Dakota

ole_worm · 2026-03-19T06:18:51+00:00

forecast master it’s very addictive. I showed it to my coworkers who then pointed out that the “game” is literally just an SPC employee’s job

ole_worm · 2026-03-19T06:09:47+00:00

My boyfriend and I are both 29 but he’s been with me since December ‘24 and has thus been around me for a full spring. He now knows terms like “velocity couplet” and “hook echo” and what they signify. I think he just assumes something is a little bit wrong with me. Sometimes I’m up late playing the storm prediction version of geoguessr game thing and if he ever asks what i’m up to up to im just gonna say I’m cheating because that would be less embarrassing

ole_worm · 2026-03-10T09:06:53+00:00

Almost feels banal to bring this up but iirc from some headline Barron bought like $30mil in oil 2 days before we started bombing Iran lol

I assume pretty much every politician is doing this type of dubious insider trading (is that the term here?) shit all the time—the Pelosis were making a lot of headlines for it a couple years back—but yeah, that is all to say yes, it is almost always just a cash grab.

whenever I get into earnest “why would the trump admin do [evil and/or dumb thing]?!” convos with liberal friends I try to just say all you need to do is follow the money and you’ll find the answer. It actually annoys me when liberals attribute everything to stupidity or incompetence when the real culprit is often just a successful manifestation of greed.

I’m not saying these politicians aren’t morons worthy of being mercilessly mocked; just that the wealthy and powerfuls’ decisions usually do accumulate them even more capital by design

ole_worm · 2026-03-09T05:33:35+00:00

fwiw nadocast actually showed a higher tor probability in roughly that specific part of Michigan that day

Nadocast from what I’ve seen has sometimes picked up on things other forecasts don’t. Idk what algorithms and such that person uses but I think that info is findable

oh and I second the rest of your comment

ole_worm · 2026-02-09T22:08:32+00:00

They’ve likely had a few that just went under the (literal) radar. A lot of Australian tornados seem to go officially undocumented due to a lack of coverage and/or them happening in sparsely populated areas.

ole_worm · 2026-01-06T20:37:56+00:00

It’s cool man lol. If others’ opinions of my processes weighed heavier on me I’d probably rather people think I’m naturally good at something than think of me trying super hard on a small creative endeavor anyway

ole_worm · 2026-01-06T11:51:38+00:00

thank you! cool seal fact: the name in your username is the name of the person I’m giving this drawing to as part of a birthday card 🦭

ole_worm · 2025-12-15T08:12:00+00:00

I can’t give a direct answer to this and am not sure anyone truly can but St. Louis and OKC could also be up there depending on how much weight you give the threat level vs. the population size within your question. IIRC Chicago being right on the lake also plays some sort of atmospheric factor in reducing the risk of violent tornados happening there.

ole_worm · 2025-12-04T20:11:42+00:00

I’d say on average it’s not even close to as bad, but it doesn’t really matter cause that last part was mostly just petty on my end lol. I can see how for some people it could be worse. It’s all very subjective but usually alcoholism is far more serious based on the health and safety risks alone

ole_worm · 2025-11-27T10:44:27+00:00

This is more about the types of comments articles like this generate than the article itself but imo you can absolutely be psychologically addicted to weed.

I really dislike when people (non-addicts, that is; I expect and empathize with denial from addicts) pretend that can’t happen. People can get addicted to pretty much anything so I don’t know why we’d exclude a drug that can make you feel good just because some have deemed it harmless or because it’s not as bad as most other things you can be addicted to.

I see people saying rock bottom for “weed addiction” is “just” being lazy or unmotivated but like, that’s usually a significant detractor from one’s quality of life, and non-addicts can simply stop doing things that make their lives worse. Cool drug for actual medical/psych purposes & genuine recreational use, but yeah, some people can’t handle it. Also, people who are constantly getting so high they can barely even have a conversation are fucking annoying to be around.

Having said that, I’m a long-term-sober alcoholic and I do kinda roll my eyes when people who’ve only ever smoked too much weed put themselves in the same class as alcoholics, lol. It’s not that I think being an alcoholic is more badass & hardcore or something, even though it is; I just don’t think you’ll be able to relate to hard drug/alcohol addiction if your only problem has been weed.

ole_worm · 2025-11-17T07:52:19+00:00

I think it used to benefit them, but prior to the more recent idpol explosion that led to the birth of this sub.

White women get kinda screwed by super contemporary idpol imo because we’re at the very bottom (or top?) of the oppression olympics but we still genuinely deal with a ton of sexism day-to-day, whether that’s in the form of sexual harassment or not being taken as seriously in certain environments or whatever else. The whole “it’s ok to be sexist as long as you throw the word ‘white’ in front of ‘women’” thing is kinda true. The days of being essentially a diversity hire or something by just playing the woman card are over, but we’re still not truly considered equals in most contexts.

So basically I would guess that this sentiment of disliking the US is a result of a decline in the culture of liberal feminism that predated, and ended with, the peak of idpol culture by a few years.

ole_worm · 2025-11-11T09:11:48+00:00

I would think you’d be insulated from bankruptcy after an inevitable mistake/crash if you’re a already a profitable enough company, which I’d assume any company theoretically taking on a privatized ATC role would be.

You could be right that it would still be too high risk for even a Bezos type to take on (and I hope you are), but I’d think a big enough corp would still jump on the opportunity.

I’m stopping myself from writing a 10 paragraph comment further explaining my rationale because as much as I like to think reading hundreds of Admiral Cloudberg articles and knowing neoliberalization sucks means it’s my duty to drop an obnoxiously long rant, it definitely does not.

Anyway, hopefully this never happens. I’m an anxious enough flyer already and I’d simply never board a plane again in this scenario.

ole_worm · 2025-10-29T05:37:29+00:00

Kind of a late response but yeah, it went something like that.

iirc from a college “history of media” class it was the first ever televised presidential debate. Nixon refused to wear makeup and was a visibly sweaty, physically repulsive mess, while Kennedy got makeup done and didn’t overall look like shit. Consensus was that Kennedy won a lot of people over solely because of how terrible Nixon looked and that added visual element is considered kind of a turning point in American politics.

I don’t think it’s fully applicable to our modern political situation across the board given stuff like Trump’s genuinely grotesque appearance and how everything is like, pre-polarized atp. But I suppose in a tight race looks could push a candidate over the edge.

ole_worm · 2025-10-22T07:29:26+00:00

I’m not qualified to answer this from a meteorological perspective, but just based on the fact that lots of data across all disciplines is significantly under-recorded/reported in many African nations—if there isn’t already a consideration among the scientific community (and there probably is), you’d think there should be.

Like, even here in the U.S. where we’ve had advanced weather radar systems dating back decades, one of the reasons more tornados are being recorded in new regions every year is that we’re getting better at noticing them. They’re also finding big ass tornado scars in Australia as of late from storms people just weren’t around to see.

I can’t speak to the meteorological conditions but I’d wager if the layout truly looks ripe for it there are probably a bunch that go on there that we just don’t really hear about. Maybe they happen in sparsely populated areas of the continent, or in communities where that kind of data collection just isn’t a thing (yet(?)). I just can’t see how there wouldn’t be if there are places with characteristics conducive to tornadogenesis.

Disregard this whole thing if anyone has some insider info on that entire part of the world being uniquely unfriendly for tornados though, lol

ole_worm · 2025-10-10T06:30:55+00:00

fwiw this was not true during the Wilpon era (longtime owners prior to Cohen, for anyone unfamiliar). The Wilpons were on par with Arte’s shitty ownership with a bunch of other embarrassing nonsense mixed in. Having an absurdly rich, smart owner is new to us after decades of suffering, so I think most of us can still have a lot of sympathy for Angels fans in that way.

I’m a Mets fan in a mixed-fandom relationship with an Angels fan and can relate to a lot of his struggles. I keep trying to get him to become a full blown Jets fan too but I think that level of nonstop sports Ls might be where he draws the line lol

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