CheckmateApostates
CheckmateApostates t1_j2f4c42 wrote
Reply to comment by Anynameyouwantbaby in WSU PhD student arrested in Idaho Killings. by Levonorgestrelfairy1
I take it you haven't been to Pullman
CheckmateApostates t1_j2aqqo3 wrote
Go Cougs!
CheckmateApostates t1_j1jynja wrote
Reply to comment by AnchorJG in A population density map of Washington by Pecners
Pullman is a liberal-leaning city without the migratory students
CheckmateApostates t1_j1jxhb3 wrote
Reply to A population density map of Washington by Pecners
This really brings out the separation of western, central, and eastern Washington. Kinda cool.
CheckmateApostates t1_j131ii2 wrote
Reply to comment by bwaibel in It is 7:34 in the morning the day before the winter solstice. Look outside right now, and know that if we did “Daylight Saving” time year round, it would be 8:34. by factotvm
No, I was agreeing with your reply. A lot of these "solar noon is 12 pm" people don't seem to understand that, though. It's just weird how if I go to Missoula and gain an hour on the clock but only like 15 minutes of real time with respect to sunset, I'm not suddenly at risk of my heart exploding or any of those other nonsense things that anti-DST people argue.
CheckmateApostates t1_j12fdnb wrote
Reply to comment by bwaibel in It is 7:34 in the morning the day before the winter solstice. Look outside right now, and know that if we did “Daylight Saving” time year round, it would be 8:34. by factotvm
Right, solar noon fluctuates throughout the year and is only at 12 pm close to the eastern edge of a time zone. We have solar noon at noon in Spokane during half the year, whereas everyone else comes later.
CheckmateApostates t1_j12eayj wrote
Reply to comment by mooomba in It is 7:34 in the morning the day before the winter solstice. Look outside right now, and know that if we did “Daylight Saving” time year round, it would be 8:34. by factotvm
Alaska doesn't count, apparently, especially when people start talking about cancer and daylight savings time as if some places in the world don't get more than 16 hours of sunlight a day.
CheckmateApostates t1_j12dvq2 wrote
Reply to It is 7:34 in the morning the day before the winter solstice. Look outside right now, and know that if we did “Daylight Saving” time year round, it would be 8:34. by factotvm
What's the difference between 7:34 and 8:34 am when I have my blinds closed until my alarm tells me to wake up?
CheckmateApostates t1_iwql0ig wrote
Reply to comment by Alternative-Eye-1993 in boy I sure do love the very 100% natural grasslands of eastern washington by Expandatory
Eastern Washington is very green north of Spokane. The Selkirk Mountains in the northeast corner are part of the inland temperate rainforest. The brown wasteland that we see during most of the year in central and eastern Washington are farms and rangeland that used to be prairie, semi-arid steppe, ponderosa pine shrub steppe, and forests.
CheckmateApostates t1_iwobo5o wrote
Places like Pullman celebrate that while giving lip service to conserving the (very much endangered) natural prairie that only exists in small pockets scattered across the Palouse. Throughout the spring, while the wheatfields are still rolling waves of dirt, Turnbull NWR's little patch of prairie blooms with a succession of wildflowers. It's really beautiful and a sad reminder of what we've lost.
CheckmateApostates t1_j30kwo3 wrote
Reply to Does anyone actually believe those guys attacked the power substations to rob a store? by 420_Braze_it
Totally don't believe it. Attacking a substation to rob a store is like some super villain or heist movie logic, except they forgot the logic of not bringing your phone with you when you're committing a crime.