The "7% for every 1°C" rule (sometimes cited as 6-7%) is an empirical observation derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. When you plug in the relevant physical constants for water (like the latent heat of vaporization) and consider typical atmospheric temperatures, the equation shows that saturation vapor pressure indeed increases by roughly this percentage for each degree Celsius of warming. 

Which at the end of the day leads to some crazy weather.  These images from China are unbelievable.

Being nominated for a peace prize by a war criminal does not mean anything.

Seriously, peace prize, Netanyahu, really?  It it was not so moronic I would laugh.

That link is to the international criminal court.

It is all a snow job so Netanyahu can keep on killin.  Nazis are in charge.  It is disgusting.

Yesterday it was replacing immigrants with Medicaid recipients to pick lettuce.  Today it's giving Trumpolini the Nobel Peace Prize!  The surreality of 2025 Amerika is reaching a fever pitch.

Of course from the moment the prize was funded by the inventor of high explosives Alfred Nobel it has been steeped in hypocrisy, so it's not an entirely unexpected possibility.  Still, dropping El Trumpo into the same Venn diagram circle of NPP winners with folks like Nelson Mandela, Albert Schweitzer and the fucking Quakers is a pretty big stretch. lol.

Better yet is the guy who nominated him... Benny Netan-Yahoo!  There's a real expert on Peace!  Dropping bombs on Arab children qualifies you to nominate someone for the NPP?    By this logic, Truman should have been nominated for vaporizing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Truth is Lies.  Love is Hate.  War is Peace.

https://www.mediamatters.org/patrick-bet-david/pbd-panelist-vincent-oshana-giving-trump-nobel-peace-prize-thats-giving-jeffrey

PBD Panelist Vincent Oshana compares giving Trump a Nobel Peace Prize to "giving Jeffrey Dahmer a Michelin star for his unique taste in meat"

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What planet is El Trumpo living on?  Who could possibly take an idea like this seriously?  How many truly "able bodied" people do you think are receiving Medicaid bennies?  Even if they are technically able bodied, they're probably obese couch potatoes in their 50s who wouldn't last a day picking lettuce.

So making yet another U-turn, now he says he'll let the farmers be in charge?  What does that mean?  Who are all the new ICE Gestapo agents he is hiring round up to deport?

It gets more surreal every day.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-agriculture-medicaid-migrant-farm-workers

US agriculture secretary says Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers

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Ward of the State?  Last I checked, I am a disabled citizen who's using his medical insurance to reside in a post acute care rehab facility.  It's not a prison or an orphanage.  So besides trying to insult me, he's inaccurate.  Even if I was a ward of the state, there's no shame in that.  Is it shameful to be an orphan?  It happens.  I got injured and have medical issues.  It happens.

At least I'm not so unhappy with my life I  entertain myself by trying to insult people on the internet.

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The Diner Troll continues to return, and as usual he is tolerated until he gets insulting.  That is pretty much getting to be right away as things are going.

TDOS has been told not to refer to the Diner membership as three old geriatrics several times.

TDOS You forget I am the Übermensch who pays the bills, and who writes the code.  It is sort of like I own the place.  RE and I make the rules.

QuotePlot the relationship between x:y (1:7) and x1:y1 (2:14) and try not to get a straight line. Avoid admitting as best you can that this is EXACTLY why only one of us is still working at our professional peak while the other "elderly gentlemen" are left with being happily stoned stupid or a ward of the state.

TDOS I could delete your post for that, and give you another three days off.  <-----  And I just did.

For someone who is thousands of miles away you sure know a lot about me.  Your clairvoyance is beyond belief.  And still working at your professional peak implies that you are a professional troll because otherwise you would not be arguing with a former engineer with a Masters Degree about an exponential that is piecewise linear with a slope of 7 around the data point of interest.  You would be too busy at your real job, or you must hate your real job with a passion to bother coming here where you only get suspended over and over again for being rude and insulting.

*  I am not feeding the troll.  I just suspended him for three more days.  AGAIN


The statement

QuoteFor every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold ~7% more water vapor—like a sponge expanding

is a good analogy that captures the essence of a fundamental physical principle governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

The "7% for every 1°C" rule (sometimes cited as 6-7%) is an empirical observation derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. When you plug in the relevant physical constants for water (like the latent heat of vaporization) and consider typical atmospheric temperatures, the equation shows that saturation vapor pressure indeed increases by roughly this percentage for each degree Celsius of warming.

Sweet someone with a private website like ours who lets his stuff get embedded.


100% About what Luke Smith says about AI.  The massive quantities of power is another question.  What it is and what it is good for it the question for today.

And my fooling around with it consumes as much power as a 100 watt old school light bulb while the program runs.

My python AI project  <--- I format a continuous un-formatted string of text into a properly formatted string of text with punctuated and identified sentences.  Fragments remaining un-formatted.  It is a work in progress and quite a nut to crack.  To the technically curious - It is complicated task to make a large text file flow through a small context window.

I have made enough progress to know I am going to wind up with something useful.  And repeating Luke's point of view. 100% AI is a tool and useless without humans in the loop.

The OBBBA's Medicaid cuts are catastrophic in scale, with 11.8M–17M losing coverage, 1M+ jobs vanishing, and $100B+ in economic activity evaporating annually.

Rural areas and vulnerable populations (disabled, elderly, children) will bear the brunt.

First wave:  Administrative disruptions and provider strain (2025–2026)
Second wave: Mass coverage losses and job cuts (2026–2027)
Third wave:  Economic collapse in vulnerable states (2028–2034)