Cool and damp, getting warmer later, maybe. National forecast has us in a rain and T storm possible zone. I’ve got stuff to do that can’t happen in the rain, so I hope it holds off or is very regional.
Started the day yesterday at the BOL. Rained on and off all day. Temps came up into the 60s, but were dropping like a stone by dark. There was a brief rainless period in the afternoon that let me get stuff inside and dried off. Also threw a lure in the water a few times. The lake is back to normal levels, but was murky as chocolate milk from the run off. Fish gotta eat regardless, so I tried something bright and noisy. No luck though.
Saw a couple of waterfowl I didn’t recognize. I’m going to have to look them up. Kinda goose like, kinda not. The local fauna changes with the season, and it’s interesting watching it and learning about it.
It was a productive weekend. Wife got a lot of stuff painted and organized/cleaned. I got the washer plumbed in and tested. Also got the gas line for a dryer plumbed in and tested. The dryer that came with the house is electric, older, but doing fine. I just figured that if I have the wall open anyway, I should put the gas line in and future proof it. I was already wearing my PPE for attic work. I also completed the insulation of the pex in the attic. It’s easier to slide the foam on than to slit it and then tape the slit closed. Since I was cutting the last big section in half to add the drops for the laundry machine, I took the opportunity to slide on the foam in both directions.
I still need to run pex for all the hall bath, the master shower, and one remaining hose bib. And in spring I’ll need to connect the other hose bibs too. That will be next visit, or the ones after that. No shortage of things to do. Nice to be crossing stuff off the list.
Hung two doors and put knobs on them… and discovered that I got the size wrong on the other doors. I’ll be looking for more 32″ doors. I’m still looking for entry doors anyway. Between the house, shed, garage, and dock house, I need 4 entry doors in various styles. I don’t want to pay retail for that many. Thankfully, not an urgent project.
It’s time to start doing some network/media server/pc work up there too. I’ve got walls open and I’m in the attic, I might as well at least pull the cat cable. I’d like to get cameras and a nvr running up there, and an internal network even if we don’t have internet access. It’ll be in between other projects, but cams are starting to push on my brain. That’s usually a sign that I need to get something done.
Anyway, unless something changes, critical infrastructure FIRST, then other stuff.
And in the mean time, still working on my house, and still stacking…
nick
When some brainless dingleberry starts going on about cultural appropriation physically around me, I look at what they’re wearing. Blue jeans? Sneakers? Machine-knitted shirt? Eyeglasses? Fitted underwear? All invented by White men. Take them off before you say anything else.
This never has the effect of making them stop to think about what they’re saying.
It always has the actual effect of pissing them off, which was the effect I wanted, so I’ll continue to do it.
46F and saturated this morning. Turns out both kids have orthodontia checkups first thing today, so no waiting for the bus.
I’ve got to shower though, so I better get moving.
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-yeah complain to me about a made up affliction, ‘cultural appropriation’ on the internet, using phones or computers…speaking english and surrounded by the fruits of western civilization. It is to laugh if I didn’t personally remember ‘politically correct’ changing from a mocking statement about how INcorrect something was, to a mandated GOAL.
It’s the whole “you can’t use my song or like my books because you are not the sort of person I like” writ large. Who the heII thinks they can control what other people like?
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At this point, Apple faces being locked out of the AI crazy if they continue on the current trajectory with the hardware. My guess is that’s why the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro is delayed since swapping out the GPU is not going to be possible anymore.
The relationship with Intel and possibly even (gasp) AMD and Nvidia will have to be reconsidered.
Specifically, RayBan frames being used with clear prescription lenses. Knockoffs without the logo not accepted.
And North Face everything in colder environments.
Four years ago in Chicago, I noticed Chinese execs in women’s Canada Goose running around, putting plausible wear on the coats before taking them home to their Bang Bangs.
Well, Vicky, I have one for you:
“Don’t let them piss in your face and call it rain.”
RINO. Ukranian. She was in the Oval Office when Biden signed the first Lend Lease bill, kicking off WWIII, in May.
We made a trip to Buc-EE’s in New Braunfels, TX, yesterday. Loaded up on munchies and ate. I got a XX pulled brisket sandwich. Man, that was good. Huge and delicious. Pulled pork is good, too. And the chicken Mex-tex burrito.
It’s raining by me in SA. 39℉. I think Winter may have finally arrived.
The hosting for this site is having nameserver issues this morning (as of about 945am PST). You might be seeing ‘site not found’ screens. Reloads (sometimes several) will usually work.
Not my fault.
WRT being a musician or photographer: If you get recognition outside of yourself or family/friends then you certainly deserve the title. Money is a universal recognition, but there are others.
Ray is a photographer, even if he never makes a dime (But IIRC it funds a scholarship). Not that he needs me for validation. 🙂
Exactly what I’d expect to hear from someone who was at fault. Hmm..
Yeah, I’m calling shenanigans, dock his pay!
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Wait, what? There is ‘pay’ involved?
Same here in TN. The food is quite good, fresh, and well prepared. New Braunfels is currently the largest Buc-ee’s but will be surpassed by the Buc-ee’s in Sevierville when it opens. That will be surpassed by the rebuilding of the Buc-ee’s in Luling.
We stop at the one north of Atlanta on I-75 going to and coming back from Atlanta. Save $3.00 on gas and spend $50.00 on food and goodies. That and the bathrooms are the best around. The larger drinks are cheap and we get the biggest for the road.
The beef jerky is surprisingly good and a considerable variety of flavors. Wife did get a bad pecan praline on one trip, we saved it, took it to Buc-ee’s on our next trip and it was swapped with no questions asked.
Speaking of Buc-ee’s in Texas. Wife and I are taking another trip to Texas in March. We will be in the usual places, including San Antonio on the night of March 13. Arriving about noon, leaving noon the next day. If Mr. Atoz is available, it may be possible to meet for lunch at the Bill Miller we were at before.
A two-week trip to visit wife’s family members. Lots of stops for just a night or two. Wife wants to visit her friend in Windcrest on the outskirts of San Antonio and visit her mother’s grave in Boerne and replace the fade plastic flowers with fresh flowers.
When we buried her mother fresh flowers were placed on the gravesite. The next day the flowers were gone, nothing but stems. We figure the flowers stolen. Not so according to the cemetery people when we went to file a complaint. Turns out the deer frequent the cemetery every night looking for new flower on which to snack.
Wife’s brother is buried next to her mother in a family cemetery on the mother’s side. The father and stepfather are buried in other cemeteries. The wife’s brother was killed when he was eight years old by an illegal from Mexico driving a truck and pulling a trailer. The driver lost control and the trailer hit her brother. The illegal had no license, no insurance. He was deported and was back in town one week later driving the same truck.
Lot of AIS time but no more 10–12-hour days of driving. I am over that. We made one trip from our home to the home of the wife’s brother. That was a 16-hour drive. Plan was to stop after Shreveport. Routing took us on roads where there was no place to stay that did not look like an extended stay flop house.
When we finally got to a decent place, it was only another hour to her brother’s. I was not spending $120.00 for just another hour of traveling. That last hour was rough. Not doing that again.
Almost funds the scholarship. Close enough for general purposes. I contribute a little of my own funds.
The best moments were the dedication of the high school yearbook to my wife and me. That was an unexpected surprise. The person in charge of the yearbook begged me to be present to take pictures of some awards. I had no idea that two of the people being awarded were the wife and me.
The next was the induction into the high school sports hall of fame. Another nice surprise with recognition at the football game.
Those two events were worth more than money.
You have Schilo’s in San Antonio. Why bother with a road trip to Buc-ee’s? 🙂
If you haven’t been out there already, Luling has at least four Central Texas BBQ institutions which make it worth the road trip — Kreuz Market, Black’s, Smitty’s, and City Market.
There are others, but those are the places we’ve tried.
The pork chop at Kreuz Market is so tender that it is possible to slice with the plastic knife, but you have to go early since it sells out fast.
I don’t make a road trip to Buc-ee’s. I stop at Buc-ee’s which just happens to be on the route of my road trip.
It’s a separate appropriation, has been for years.
Technically, it didn’t explode. The big ball of fire was from the Hydrogen in the External Tank, but it just burned.
Before Challenger it was calculated as 1 in 100,000. That’s why they decided to open it to non-astronauts and put a teacher on it.
“Ford cuts Mustang Mach-E prices following Tesla price drops”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-cuts-mustang-mach-e-prices-following-tesla-price-drops-162211985.html
Yup, no matter what, Tesla is a leader. They strike out in unknown directions and bring back something.
I’ll bet that you cannot find a Ford Mach-E at any of their dealerships at any price.
Before Challenger it was calculated as 1 in 100,000. That’s why they decided to open it to non-astronauts and put a teacher on it.
I hope that the NASA guy who calculated the 1 in 100,000 does not work for SpaceX now. I think that I will let the daily ballistic from Houston to Tokyo and back run a few hundred times before I try it out.
BC: Sleeping With Wolfdog
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2023/01/30
Usually, they sleep on top of you.
Fifty-four years ago today,
The Beatles all walked away.
“Calculated”. Is that what it’s called when someone feeds made-up numbers into a calculator?
“Calculated”. Is that what it’s called when someone feeds made-up numbers into a calculator?
Yup, Risk Analysis does straddle that line between Art and Science.
Yup, Risk Analysis does straddle that line between Art, Science and HPFM.
Fixed it for you.
Dilbert: Ontario Psychologists
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-30
Shades of Jordan Peterson ! If Dogbert did not live in California then he would be in real trouble.
Yup, Risk Analysis does straddle that line between Art, Science and HPFM.
HPFM = High Performance Flight Machinery ?
Crankshaft: Choir Cat
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/01/30
The choir cat is literally living on the edge.
HPFM = Hocus, Pocus, F*cking Magic.
>> Look carefully at the “Inglorious Basterds” assembled in front of Pitt – a couple of comedy stars and a horror flick director.
Mike Myers also shows up doing a spot on WWII British General, and Simon Pegg was originally cast as Pitt’s character’s English counterpart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA4s92G_0U
Tarantino. You will see the scalpings.
Definitely one to see on the ‘big screen.’
>> Wrapped up my plumbing, and ran a test load of laundry. No leaks. Got the gas line for the (future) dryer installed and tested. No leaks.
@nick, what’s used in TX these days for interior natural gas lines? Last place we had with gas was in NYFC with all black iron. FL and current place was/is all electric.
>> I will be looking at some better professional reviews from the usual sources (PC Mag, Tom’s, RTINGS,)
Hmm, never know what you’ll learn here…all these years reading reviews at PC Mag, Tom’s and others, I have never heard of RTINGS. Thanks @JimB, bookmarked.
>> I need a color inkjet (NOT a color laser) printer for general business use,
So do color inkjets not print those .gov tracking microdots?
Last printer I bought was a Samsung B&W laser. Once kids left for college the need for color printing dropped significantly. For the occasion color document I stop by the local FedEx Office store and print there.
“Windows 11 will auto-update version 21H2 users to 22H2, here’s everything new coming to your PC”
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-begins-automatically-updating-windows-11-version-21h2-users-to-version-22h2
“Microsoft has announced that users still running the original launch version of Windows 11, known as version 21H2, will be automatically upgraded to the latest version of Windows 11 known as version 22H2 or the “2022 Update” starting now. The update is rolling out in waves, beginning with PCs that have been running Windows 11 version 21H2 the longest.”
I have yet to install any Windows 11 Pro x64 PCs in our shop. Maybe some day soon.
“GE Hitachi and 3 partners announce first commercial contract for grid-scale SMR in North America”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/SMRs-reactor-GE-Hitachi-Ontario-Public-Power-Aecon-Group-nuclear/641483/
“GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Ontario Power Generation, SNC-Lavalin and Aecon Group signed a contract to deploy a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at OPG’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site in Clarington, Ontario.”
“GEH will design the reactor and provide engineering licensing support, construction, testing, training and commissioning. The Darlington SMR BWRX-300 reactor will provide up to 300 MW(e).”
Finally ! In Canada ?
And who needs a reactor dome !
“The Eight-State Suicide Pact is advancing quickly…”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-eight-state-suicide-pact-is-advancing-quickly-145533/
“Earlier this month, the states of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York and Washington each introduced bills to impose state-level wealth taxes on residents.”
“This is not a coincidence. Politicians are deliberately coordinating with their counterparts in other states to ensure that the legislation passes in ALL of the eight states.”
Some people are calling this the Elon Musk tax as his punishment for daring to leave California.
>> The woods were deep and dark. It was like flying thru the void for miles at a time, no lights, nothing visible more than 5 ft off the side of the road.
@nick, have you considered some auxiliary lighting for those conditions? Don’t want to discover a wild critter at the last second deciding to cross the road.
(random ‘Zon search, not a recommendation) https://www.amazon.com/Zmoon-14000LM-Driving-Bumper-Hunters/dp/B07V52K41R?tag=ttgnet-20/
Besides the people watching, Buc-EE’s has an exclusive on Uptime Tropical Passionfruit which is D5’s favorite energy drink. I don’t go there for the BBQ, but eat there when I do go. They have some great sweets, also.
>> Way too many cops enjoy the escalation and use it as an excuse to punish people who stand up for their rights by arresting them on bogus charges which are later dismissed by the DA. Or they lie or invent laws in order to get ID, or to search a vehicle. I’ve had the “passengers must ID” lie used on me, before I knew better.
In the current video, they yank him from the car, guns drawn. For alleged reckless driving? That’s an absolutely insane overreaction, and it only gets worse from there.
Based on real events in Baltimore from 2015 – 2019…
We Own This City is an American miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed and written by George Pelecanos and David Simon, and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
The miniseries details the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption surrounding it. The story centers on Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, one of eight officers who were convicted on various corruption charges in 2018 and 2019. It follows a non-linear narrative with frequent flashbacks.
https://youtu.be/Ig9BcW7gXvE
The price cuts at both Ford and Tesla were about getting under the tax credit cap.
Ford produced 78,000 Mach-E units last year but only sold 40,000 in the US. A lot of cars went somewhere else.
Ford produced 78,000 Mach-E units last year but only sold 40,000 in the US. A lot of cars went somewhere else.
China. They like electric cars for their coal produced electricity.
All the ceiling tiles are up except for the ones that need to be cut shorter than 24 inches. Five tiles on one edge, an L-shaped tile, and a really short tile. Looks quite nice in a 2×2 grid rather than 2×4. The biggest issue was getting rid of the fluorescent lights and using LED lights that are on a dimmer.
Cutting the tiles was easy, just a quick pass through the table saw. Lots of very fine dust necessitating the wearing of a mask. Cutting the holes for the 5 lights and two heating vents was a challenge. I have a hole saw the correct size, but the centering bit is too short. The saw has a tendency to go off center if a person is not careful. One time the saw caught and torqued my hand quite nicely.
Minor cuts tomorrow and we should be done.
One nice side effect of the LED lights. There is no longer any hum as there was from the fluorescent lights. The hum was from the ballast in the light fixtures.
…until the LED lights start flickering. I have tried several brands, including ‘name’ brands, of LED ‘can’ lights, and they sometimes flicker. It’s a ‘subtle’ flicker that you can only see if you are not looking directly at the light. It happens on several of the fixtures that are on most of the time.
Replacing the LED bulb with another one – from the same mfg or a different one – resolves the flicker. But the flicker comes back after the bulb has been in use for a few months.
Every light I have in my house is LED. Living room light and kitchen light are on for 15+ hours a day. The lights are probably six years old. No indications of any flickering. Even from a side angle. The lights I just installed may get used 10 hours a month.
Voltage low or high? Your eyes are more sensitive* than most? Are others able to see it?
* “Sensitive” as in “able to detect”, not “ooh, poor widdle baby eyes, have a safe space and a teddy bear”
The LED candelabra bulbs we use in fixtures on either side of our garage door will flicker after about a year. Blame Texas temperature extremes and direct sunlight hitting the bulbs during daylight hours.
We have Winter storm warnings for our county tonight. Of course the nearest HEB’s stocks of bread, milk, and eggs are destroyed according to my wife, who stopped on her way home to get salad ingredients.
Someone’s making Blizzard Toast!
Looks like ERCOT put all the 60 year steam boilers online cause the so-called renewables are barely making 5,000 MW even though there is 38,000 MW installed of windmills and solar. Texas is using 63,000 MW at the moment of which natural gas and oil are making 42,000 MW, nuclear is making 5,000 MW, and coal is making 10,000 MW.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Tuesday morning is going to be interesting at 6 am. Looks like we are going to bang against 70,000 MW. We hit 66,000 MW this morning, Monday.
If you look at the Windy,com temperature map, there’s a big bunch of cold over most of the US. Current temps (430pm PST) below 30F in most places. Even the folks in CA are cold – temps in 50F’s .
Hit the ‘play’ arrow and see that temps will not start warming up until Wed afternoon.
Temps at my place (eastern Olympic Peninsula WA) have maxed out at 35F. Overnight lows in 20’s.
Yeah, but WA State kinda sorta knows how to deal with that kind of weather. Texas doesn’t south of Dallas, and even Dallas is iffy.
>> I also needed a transmission fluid change, brake fluid flush and change, and coolant flush and change.
@Ray, were these services specified in your owner’s manual or “recommended” by the dealer’s service department? I’ve always gone by the former and ignored the latter, with varying responses, up to, ‘oh no, you’ll void your warranty.’ I left the dealership spouting the warranty BS and went to an independent shop.
My wife said that the MUD sent out a request to conserve power and water again, just like the February 2021 freeze.
I need to forgo my morning shower so Show Ya down the street can charge his Mach-E GT. Sure, I understand.
Not.
>> The auto manufacturer’s want to capture all the maintenance as a profit center right alongside the engine repair profit center and the body repair profit center. The dealers are all-in, of course, although they are a bit irritated about the constant stream of special tools required. Only a matter of time before you won’t be able to open the hood on your new vehicle. Then government will make it a safety issue and forbid you from opening it, and no, the enormous contributions made to the “representatives” that put that power in the hands of a non-elected alphabet agency is just a coincidence, as are the obscene salaries those alphabet agency employees get when they move into jobs provided by the automakers.
Be worried if John Deere starts selling EVs. For now, acquire some knowledge before you start poking around under the hood of your EV. The battery pack as a whole runs at 350 – 400 volts and can discharge at as high as 1,500 amps (for a Tesla Ludicrous P100D).
>> Support whoever is fighting for ‘right to repair’ in your local legislatures. This is already fact for farm equipment and almost completely true for apple products.
Is this true for Apple desktops as well? If so, what measures have they taken?
All of the Apple desktops except the Mac Pro are now disposable like the laptops.
The new Mac Pro with Apple Silicon has been delayed. If there is anything to AI, look for that delay to become indefinite while Cupertino figures out what to do about GPUs.
But Ron Nirenberg said that shutting down the coal plants would make the grid more reliable! And we can believe him!
Never mind.
I brought in some firewood and tested the generator. I hope I don’t need it. Charging battery packs now.
32 degrees in NW SA
I don’t know and don’t much care. The dealer has taken care of my vehicles very well. Even one time admitting a mistake and fixing the problem at no cost. No charge for the parts that really needed replacing. Parts department told me about a cheap option to fix a non-functioning starter. If it didn’t work they would apply the cost of the parts towards a rebuilt starter.
Basically I trust them and if they say a procedure is needed, I let them do the procedure.
The Toyota dealer service departments here don’t like to change the fluids as often as I do.
Toyota recommends 10,000 mile oil change intervals which is insane to me, and the dealer pushed back on the coolant flush at four years as the owners manual specifies.
Until the timing belt broke on the Solara, the only engine work I ever had done on that car was the valve cover gasket. Three times in 20 years, all from WA State mileage.
Where’s Waldo??
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-29/call-for-review-into-disappearance-of-radioactive-capsule/101904900
@alan, for gas lines, generically it’s CSST, Corrugated Stainless Steel, lowes carries “pro-flex”. There are special ends that install with a C clip, washer, O ring, and cardboard washer, to lock into a corrugation, and then you tighten down the nut… Easy peasy. You can do all home runs back to a manifold, or do trunk and branch. I chose home runs to avoid any joins in the middle, and so I could do them one at a time.
I would suggest installing all the valves on the manifold when you put it in, even if you aren’t pulling all the pipe at once. That makes it easy to do any work on the run (like finally install the end valve and connect to an appliance) without shutting everything down.
You need to read the instructions, and are supposed to take an online certification test… but the system is designed to be fool proof. Soapy water and a pair of big wrenches are your friends, even with this system.
It’s similar in concept to pex for water. Although I chose to do trunk and branch for the pex, it’s mainly because I couldn’t find a manifold locally. Since then, my plumber pointed out that with home runs, you have a lot more wasted water waiting for the hot on each run to get to the faucet. You use more pex too.
All the trades’ manufacturers are putting more money and design into ‘systems’ that take the skill out of the install. There is still knowing what and how to do the job, but it’s SO MUCH easier. I just hope the stuff holds together in the long run.
n
Well.
n
Huh, guess it’s getting too big to ignore?
The shaming images that show where our iPhones, laptops and EV car batteries REALLY come from: The truth about the Congolese mines where kids are paid $2-a-day to dig for cobalt
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(and not mine monkey boy. I’m using old tech, because the greenest thing to do is NOT REPLACE those things constantly.)
Laughed a lot at the show. Kinda surprised she was still going strong and still working.
Cindy Williams dies aged 75: Laverne & Shirley actress passes away after brief illness as family pay emotional tribute to ‘kind, beautiful, and generous’ star
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Honest journalists would have written
I really don’t know what the solution is to child labor in third-world countries.
AFAIK the first-world countries without exception have histories of child labor. Children labored and died for generations until the countries got rich enough they could afford to care. Until then, taking the children out of an economy at the subsistence level was death.
Kick the kids out and bring in modern mining practices run by large conglomerates paying large sums to the local governments. Have we done our moral duty then when the politicians get fat and stack the money in Swiss bank accounts and let the children starve?
I do know this: There is not enough cobalt in the world to make iPhones and Teslas for everyone.
The elite who gathered in Davos had the solution. It’s not much different from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1C6kqXT9XU
[Since these things don’t stay up forever, if the link is broken, look for Loki’s “Kneel before me ” speech in The Avengers.]
There is another way to look at it:
A number of states have or are trying to pass laws that allow abortion up until birth.
If there’s nothing wrong with that, then why make a distinction about birth? Why not make it 12 months, 5 years, or 18 years? And why limit the decider to the “mother” when the same folks who are busy writing those laws can’t define, male or female?
@alan, for gas lines, generically it’s CSST, Corrugated Stainless Steel, lowes carries “pro-flex”. There are special ends that install with a C clip, washer, O ring, and cardboard washer, to lock into a corrugation, and then you tighten down the nut… Easy peasy. You can do all home runs back to a manifold, or do trunk and branch. I chose home runs to avoid any joins in the middle, and so I could do them one at a time.
Generator Supercenter ran 200 feet of this in the 1 inch ID size from my new gas meter to my 38 kW generator. It is is underground about a foot. It is set to 2 psig.
@SteveF
“Honest journalists would have written”
If it’s not necessary to preface “New York Times” or “60 Minutes” or “Shady Lake Gazette” with such, why not just “Project Veritas”?
The wiki entry for Laverne & Shirley does not mention the salary controversy or the $20 million lawsuit that Cindy Williams filed after she left.
Well.
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We are living in a crazy world, aren’t we. In a sane world, the FBI would have broken their doors down on Saturday after the Friday night announcement.
>> I’m using old tech, because the greenest thing to do is NOT REPLACE those things constantly.)
Only just caved and updated my Pixel 2XL (which I bought used) to a new Pixel 6 because the USB-C charging port was 90% non-functional. As well, the 2XL no longer gets security nor feature updates. Got a good price on the 6 as the Pixel 7 is now out.
>> We are living in a crazy world, aren’t we. In a sane world, the FBI would have broken their doors down on Saturday after the Friday night announcement.
No, we only do that to former presidents ending in ‘45.’
>> The Toyota dealer service departments here don’t like to change the fluids as often as I do.
Toyota recommends 10,000 mile oil change intervals which is insane to me, and the dealer pushed back on the coolant flush at four years as the owners manual specifies.
A dealership service department leaving money on the table?
Shocked!
I’ve been offline for a while. An old school friend from the US stopped by for a few days, as a surprise visit. So I put my work to the side and we enjoyed her visit. Now, of course, I have to catch up with grading, so it’s a bit frantic. Taking a break between exam questions just now, so let’s see what y’all have been going on about…
That was a failure of management, with an engineering error in the background. The design of the O-rings on the boosters was the engineering error. However, on the day of the flight the management *knew* that the boosters were colder than allowed, and they launched anyway.
As I read it, the California version kicks in if you have a net worth over $1 billion. I’m not seeing how this is really a problem? It seems more like it’s more of a show for the sheep. First, there aren’t that many billionaires. Second, a billionaire can establish a residence wherever they want.
Wealth accumulates, and causes problems in a society. The Kennedy clan, as an example. The Clintons, as another example. You don’t really want those dynasties to exist – they bring only negatives. Maybe a wealth tax is at least part of the solution.
When LED lights were first really becoming popular, we bought various bulbs. Mainly, we had problems with the lifetime – the electronics were so cheap that even brand-name bulbs died quickly.
In our new house, the LEDs are permanent fixtures, with no way to change anything out easily. No flickering, and no failed LEDs at all. The quality seems to finally be there, or maybe permanent fixtures are just better quality in general.
This is the second time this has happened. The last time, apparently four people died.
Someone needs strung up for carelessness.
It’s not a simple issue. As drwilliams points out, basically every society had child labor in the beginning, until they managed to raise living standards. Families need that labor to survive.
On the other hand, raising living standards requires education, and working kids are not in school.
And on the gripping hand, we are not allowed to talk about correlations between IQ and race, except for races that score better than whites.
Those excellent BBQ places are in Lockhart, not Luling, if anybody is looking for them. Luling also has a couple of good BBQ joints, and it’s only about 20 minutes drive from Lockhart.
Visualizing the scale of fossil fuel usage and by country:
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/the-scale-of-fossil-fuel-production/