September 29, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Heavy rain and 58 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Finally a good soaker. There is a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 57 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 1 pm.

Listened to the debate this evening on the radio 📻. Nothing too surprising, Trump is a hell of a bully but in the same way a very good debator even if half of the things he says makes a little sense and the other half are untrue. 🤷‍♂️ But it still was an entertaining program while I washed my buckets and gear from camping and put stuff away and cleaned the kitchen floor 🤣.

Tonight will rain, with thunderstorms also possible after 2am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌧 Low of 57 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 5th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 1am. 🏖️ South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 1991.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 97% illuminated. At 11 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 37° from the horizon, some 248,717 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 6th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Thursday, October 1. The darkest hour is at 12:46 am, followed by dawn at 6:23 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:52 am in the east (93°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:29 am with sun in the east (99°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 12 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain before 11am, then a slight chance of showers between 11am and 2pm. 🌦 High of 67 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 28th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 6am. 🏖️ West wind 6 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1905.

In four weeks on October 27 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (253°) at 5:54 pm,🌄 which is 45 minutes and 14 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 54 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 56 and 36 degrees. The record high of 79 degrees was set back in 1963.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2019 🗳️ is in 5 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 6 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is in 7 weeks, December 🎄 is in 9 weeks, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 11 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 12 weeks, Cold Moon 🌕 is in 3 months, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 14 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 17 weeks, 38th Birthday 🎉 is in 4 months and Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 18 weeks.

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I am going to vote for libertarian Jo Jergenson for President 🗳 🗽

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I think I am going to vote for libertarian Jo Jergenson for President 🗳 🗽

While I think Joe Biden will be a better president than Donald Trump, I don’t think it really matters who I vote for president in New York with the electoral college and the fact that Biden is widely expected to win New York by a million or more votes than Donald Trump, driven by the deeply blue New York City.

I think voting third party advances alternative ideas and gives third party candidates more prominence in the future. I think both Biden and Trump represent old ways of thinking and doing things, that we need real change in our country and its not going to be advanced by the two party system. We should look seriously at third parties, especially in low stake elections in non swing states.

Lately I’ve been voting libertarian a lot more, in part because the party has automatic ballot access in New York State and because I am attracted to many of its ideas calling for a smaller government. I know when I own my own land and the off grid property I am going to want to be left alone to farm and hunt my land, take care of things responsibly without a lot of government involvement. I want my gun rights to be preserved, to be treated with respect by my government and for the right to be left alone.

Nothing is going to change whether or not I vote for Biden. While having a bigger popular vote margin gives Biden more bragging rights it won’t overcome the electoral college. So I feel like it’s my right to vote my conscience, even if I fully understand that Biden is vastly superior to Trump.

Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters – The Atlantic

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Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters – The Atlantic

“They’re all hustlers,” Trump said.

The president’s alliance with religious conservatives has long been premised on the contention that he takes them seriously, while Democrats hold them in disdain. In speeches and interviews, Trump routinely lavishes praise on conservative Christians, casting himself as their champion. “My administration will never stop fighting for Americans of faith,” he declared at a rally for evangelicals earlier this year. It’s a message his campaign will seek to amplify in the coming weeks as Republicans work to confirm Amy Coney Barrett—a devout, conservative Catholic—to the Supreme Court.

But in private, many of Trump’s comments about religion are marked by cynicism and contempt, according to people who have worked for him. Former aides told me they’ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base.

The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery

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The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery

Perhaps it’s not surprising that some people steal from machines more readily than from human cashiers. “Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron,” reads one of the more militant comments in a Reddit discussion on the subject. “There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.” Barbara Staib, the director of communications of the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, believes that self-checkouts tempt people who are already predisposed to shoplifting, by allowing them to rationalize their behavior. “Most shoplifters are in fact otherwise law-abiding citizens. They would chase behind you to return the $20 bill you dropped, because you’re a person and you would miss that $20.” A robot cashier, though, changes the equation: It “gives the false impression of anonymity,” Staib says. “This apparently empowers people to shoplift.”