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 Westerly: "From the west"

Westerly: "Toward the west"

ooh, what the hell Is it?? 

Well hell, west-coast winds usually go east, that I've heard,

and east coast winds come from the ocean (east) and blow west.
The middle, I don't know (don't care, right now)

But when a weatherman says "West winds" or "westerly", what is he talking about?
Like we're all supposed to know.

Electricity, "direct current", say the pedants, moves from "Positive" to "negative".

Nono, say the other pedants, "Negative to positive"
Like it makes a difference?
Well, if you were inventing something, it might....
I'm old and I still don't know.

Yeah, just like westerly winds, it's so simple (gawd) (lol)

"women should not vote" (do you see where this is going?)

https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2025/10/15/louisiana-callais-supreme-court-voting-rights-act

,

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/15/nx-s1-5573329/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-louisiana

Anyway....

Fuckin winds, blowing hard, come from somewhere, and I wanted to know, so I asked,
And got that answer.

 The weather vane on a preachy kid's show was what started this. 
I can't remember what they said, exactly, so I'll summarize-google.
If  the vane's rooster is facing west, that means, the wind is blowing east.
Or, the complete opposite of what I thought (birds follow the wind direction)

Yeah, what the picture says.
So the imitation 7-year-old in the preachy cartoon was WRONG, in-your-face, pbs

No wait...

O shit.

If the arrow is pointing north,

the wind is blowing SOUTH.

In the rooster's face.

So anybody saying "Northerly" might mean the north-wind is blowing SOUTH, right?
I still don't know.

Why not just reverse the arrow so it points south?
That would be too easy.

A lady yelled "..."windsock!!" and I think she's right. The windsock doesn't care where you've been, it points to where you're going.
Xenophobes and judgmentals should take note.
So let's see, you take off in the opposite direction the windsock is pointing, right?

Typical judgmental lingo obfuscating the truth:
The wind blows west, so the sock points west.
go against the wind to take off, 
WITH the wind once you're up there.
(I wouldn't know about LANDING, though)
o.
Against the wind to land, for that pillowy effect

wut?

Except on Sundays, Ax^2, E=MC

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This new gizmo looks fantastic. But what does it do??

If it's a new way to hook up cables, great.

If it's a nother way to keep USB from being compatible, Boo, hiss.

oooo.
Nice.

My waking nightmare is that my very expensive Displayport cable which has a lock and needs to be unplugged a certain way, will get yanked out by some mover of stuff.
I doubt they make magnetic displayports....
https://www.google.com/search?q=do+they+make+magnetic+displayport+cables&oq=do+they+make+magnetic+displayport

A guy complained it bends to the right, and he wants one that bends leftward.
(Aren't they reversible?)