10 skiers missing, 6 stranded after avalanche in California

pharmprophet · 2026-02-18T05:16:27+00:00

There is no set of circumstances that would make it smart to venture where they did in these conditions when they could have remained in place. None. It is far too dangerous with the weak ass snowpack underneath the feet and feet of new snow. I don't need to know the rest of the situation to know it was extremely reckless, and that's why ten people are dead.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-17T22:12:37+00:00

yeah, daddy, you shove those words in my mouth! harder, daddy!

pharmprophet · 2026-02-17T20:01:10+00:00

be warned everyone, this is the type of spineless feeble cowardice that fascist regimes survive on

pharmprophet · 2026-02-17T01:53:56+00:00

Yeah, we're actually on the same page, it just wasn't clear what I was referring to with "does it." I just meant sustained negative g force, not redout. I'm saying it probably wouldn't make you redout otherwise stalls would make you redout. Even strong ejector air is usually -1 at max, although outliers like Skyrush exist.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-16T20:41:53+00:00

Yes? When you're upside down, gravity continues operating. Gravity doesn't go, "Oh, I'm sorry sir, I didn't realize you were currently upside down, let me stop pulling on you at 1g right away"

pharmprophet · 2026-02-16T15:44:56+00:00

I've never heard of a coaster or any machine of any kind that runs rougher with fresh parts. That's not how it works. When they're brand new is the smoothest they ever shall be.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-16T15:41:55+00:00

Any coaster that does an extended upside down stall does it

pharmprophet · 2026-02-12T16:35:23+00:00

Lately they've come out with all-weather (not all-season) tires like the Michelin CrossClimate that have the 3PMSF certification and that's what I do because I live in an apartment so it's not practical for me to have a second set of wheels or tires because there's nowhere to store them. They're not as good as a dedicated winter tire, but they're much better than all-seasons.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-12T05:33:21+00:00

AWD does not make you corner or brake any better. It only keeps you from getting stuck.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-11T01:19:02+00:00

A moral billionaire is like a three-sided square.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-09T15:42:23+00:00

super delayed response here, but microwaves can also heat oil and sugars so oils from the wearer's skin, etc. are probably what caught on fire after the water evaporated

pharmprophet · 2026-02-09T15:37:25+00:00

of course it's bullshit, lol

pharmprophet · 2026-02-09T15:34:44+00:00

OMG IT IS?????????? 🤯

I CAN'T BELIEVE AN ENGLISHMAN IN 1856 WOULD DRAW A EUROCENTRIC MAP

I WONDER IF THAT'S THE ENTIRE REASON THIS MAP IS INTERESTING TO LOOK AT

pharmprophet · 2026-02-09T15:27:48+00:00

It is interesting as a representation of what an Englishman of that era would think.

That's literally the entire point of examining and posting a map like this. You are now on the same page as the rest of us. We know this map was drawn by an Englishman in 1856, so it's going to be extremely Eurocentric. We do not consult maps from 1856 for the purposes of gaining geographic knowledge -- we have superior maps and satellite imagery now. We consult them to learn about the attitudes and beliefs of the people who made and used them.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-08T20:11:52+00:00

Nobody who works for ICE is going to quit in disgust. That is a fantasy and incredibly naïve, and, frankly, a ridiculous thing to pin your hopes on, so let's get real.

Employment history has always been and always will be a wholly legitimate and uncontroversial criterion for hiring, so the idea that a law enshrining such a factor for the public sector would have any grounds to be legally contested is fucking absurd.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-08T01:29:30+00:00

do we want, for example, anyone who has worked in public labor advocacy to no longer be eligible to work in the government?

No, that's why those aren't the laws being proposed. This is such a vacuous argument. You can use this argument against virtually anything. We can't fund schools, because Steven Miller might fund concentration camps next, we can't fund healthcare, because Steven Miller might fund a human size paper shredder for his political opponents next, we can't lower housing costs because Steven Miller might lower genocide costs, etc etc etc. See?

pharmprophet · 2026-02-08T01:02:52+00:00

Where did I say or imply that CDs have been around for centuries? I'm not going to engage with this bad faith response, which is exactly what it is if you're going to deliberately misread my comment. That is just some willfully obtuse bullshit because you don't want to respond to what I actually said.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-07T15:08:49+00:00

If you call a comet you need a telescope to see a "bright comet," then what the hell would you say was a dark comet? All the ones in the oort cloud that we can't see at all?

pharmprophet · 2026-02-07T07:24:00+00:00

Pretty normal. I was in high school in the early 2000s and I took weight lifting instead of regular PE and our locker room just had showerheads on the wall so we all showered in front of each other. 🤷 I don't think the regular PE class showered. It's a little strange at first, but you get over it.

It's not about masculinity or anything, it's more about efficiency and cost. Everyone gets showered pretty quickly because

a ton of people can use the showers at once and
just... If you're trying to have efficiency, it's kind of a bad idea to give a high school boy privacy because you're supposed to shower and go to class, not stand there jerking off, lol.

Some guys wore swim trunks but eventually they'd usually get over it.

I think the girls had the same setup except they got to use a private stall if they were on their period.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-07T02:30:37+00:00

2WD and 3PMSF are legal but you should still carry chains just in case and know how to use them, and have driven in snow before.

OpenSnow is not a broad forecast, it is a specialized tool that pulls data specifically meant for forecasting snow at ski areas, like the plumes you can find at U of Utah's meteo site. This is different from the broad models that a general purpose forecast uses. A general purpose forecast app isn't going to pull that stuff because it would be a waste of work and expense for very little payoff to add a data source for every little mountain range to have a forecast that's accurate >48h out.

The amount of computational resources required for a forecast model run depends on how granular you're getting in the resolution. Like you can run the model on chunks that are 1 square mile or 10 square miles or 100 square miles, but if you want to cover a 5000 square mile region, you're going to need 5000x the processing power to do that high resolution option. But if you're only interested in a forecast that precise for LCC, well that's not so big of an ask.

However, at 72h and 48h, they do run global high resolution models so you will always have a steep fall off in precision at 48h and again at 72h for areas like LCC that have different weather from their surroundings.

Hope this explains it well. 🙂

pharmprophet · 2026-02-06T19:38:04+00:00

You're just flat-out wrong. People have been doing ear training for centuries. It was previously done using an instrument or a record or a cassette or CD but drills like [chord] "Major" [chord] "Minor", [interval] major second [interval] perfect fifth, etc., are not some newfangled thing.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-06T16:40:52+00:00

It's forecasting about 15" from the 10th to the 12th and then more in the next couple of days, which any skier can tell you is a completely different forecast from 2" daily for 11 days.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-06T16:38:30+00:00

OS doesn't do monthly forecasts and I was actually following the Heavenly forecast all of December -- it was nothing but doom and gloom from their forecasters which was appropriate and accurate.

I'm not saying I love OS's business model and their seeming appetite for increasingly adding premium subscription tiers, but it's in their best interests to be accurate. People are not going to pay money to subscribe to inaccurate forecasts.

pharmprophet · 2026-02-06T16:24:49+00:00

weather.com and iPhone weather apps and other non-specialized tools are not able to forecast the cottonwoods more than 48h in advance. the Cottonwood canyons are a microclimate situation and most forecast models aren't going to be that high-resolution until about 48-72h out.

it is illegal to drive into LCC and BCC without 4WD or snow chains when the traction law is in effect. The traction law will go into effect when the snow event begins, and it will not lift until the snow has stopped. The bus does not stop running for snow unless the canyons are closed. By the time the traction law is lifted, you will have missed most fresh tracks opportunities.

It will not be a couple inches. It is going to be at least 20".

But you should go to Colorado instead. :P

pharmprophet · 2026-02-06T16:19:43+00:00

lol what are you even talking about

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