Hot. Hoooboyo, it’s hot. Humid too. Mid to high 80s for humidity. And temps to 100F in the shade. Brutal sun. Yesterday, today… likely tomorrow too. It was 86F and 88% RH when I went to bed.
Spent the day like I always do, planning to take over the world… nah, just riding around on machines. I’m getting friction burns where my arms and legs touch the machines. Between the constant jostling and the fine grit sticking to every surface, it’s like being in a rock tumbler.
I updated my progress in yesterday’s comments. I’m going long, as I’m not done and won’t be done today. Or even tomorrow. I am committed to getting everything back together before the Fourth of July weekend, which will be in 3 days. Then I can continue tearing stuff up for the next 4 days.
Hey, maybe the kids will want to operate the machines. I would if I was 12. Heck I’d jump at the chance to try running most machines at my age now. That wouldn’t help my schedule but it would be cool to spend some time on it.
As a side benefit, I’m now confident that I could whip up some earthworks defenses given a skid steer and an excavator. That ain’t nuthin’.
Learn a new skill. Stack up some useful things.
nick
To deconstruct that word, you’re a psycho. Well, you run a business so it’s to be expected.
Soma means body, but everybody’s got a body so it shouldn’t need to be mentioned. Mentioning it suggests that you have an extra body. You’ve complained about health issues, so you’re probably not just lugging around a body over your shoulder everywhere you go. This suggests that your spare body is just a skin suit.
In sum, you’re a psycho in a skin suit. Paging Buffalo Bill…
Ditto. A few years ago I mentioned having to mow the lawn in 80F heat and 70% humidity. I noted a distinct lack of sympathy from the Houston contingent.
If I ever have a project where I need to move a lot of dirt, break and move concrete, or similar, I’ll probably either buy used equipment and sell it when I’m done or do a long-term lease. These jobs always end up being more involved and taking longer. The downsides are tying up capital until you resell the equipment, and reducing the sense of urgency to get the job done. (I don’t have a problem with procrastination on starting and finishing a job but I do have, shall we say, an unending series of interruptions and of tasks which get dumped on me.)
‘Blade Runner’ is a great movie. So dark and gritty.
Lionsgate knows how to move DVDs and make a profit. “Sisu” will be a popular physical media release in a couple of weeks.
Spoiler – Nothing bad happens to the dog, but he has a few close calls.
The whole world has seen “Pulp Fiction” and “Shaun of the Dead”. Someone will still watch those movies 100 years from now.
The Cuban riff on “Shaun of the Dead”, “Juan of the Dead”, is a very interesting flick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhcIBEqczpg
$60,000. Disney will probably spend 10,000 times that getting the final Indiana Jones emasculation out the door by the time this weekend is over.
Movies are about to change in a big way since they will need to make money. Imagine.
Good luck, nick!
When my nephew was about 8, my brother let him try the controls of a mini-digger. He had a knack for it, and was able to manipulate it perfectly after about ten minutes. My brother gave him instructions and wisely handed over the machine to go and do something else. Nephew did a beautiful job. These days, he handles the place-keeping thrusters on oil rig supply vessels and megayachts. Skills!
Some kind of stigma comes with every choice of what we wear outside of the house, and a lot of people can’t handle the thought of being labelled so they insisted on mask mandates “for safety” even if it didn’t make a lick of sense.
And, again, I believe about half the white population in the US and Europe have a desire to go full “Rolf Gruber” in “The Sound of Music”, even if that means, as the movie implies, that the neighbor family gets loaded onto a boxcar headed to a “shower” facility.
Masks for many people just became another way to control the masses around them.
@claytonW for the win, pick up your fabulous prize on the way out! I actually like the release version better than the director’s cut. I hear the voiceover in my head whether it’s there or not, so I’d rather have it. The “happy” ending I can take or leave, but it is a nice lift at the end, and I think it’s become canon with the release of the last film.
82F and sunny, with a nice breeze.
Late start, left my phone in the kitchen so missed my alarm. That’s usually a sign that I’m getting worn out on a project, when I leave my phone behind.
Officially extended my rental just now. @steve, I’ve been looking for used equipment to do just what you suggested, but A, there hasn’t been any cheap, and B – we’ve been using our working capital elsewhere. The plan was attempted.
And now to finish breakfast and start churnin’ and burnin’.
n
An improved Wankel with eye popping claims:
Liquidpiston.com
(fixed link – RickH)
Unless you’re using small construction equipment frequently and have some facility with repairs you are better off renting. Just changing filters on a skid steer can run $200-300. Pop a hydraulic hose and you can have hundreds of dollars in parts and a couple days wrenching.
Then there’s the problem of attachments. Bucket, grapple, forks, post pounder, auger, etc. What do you buy, and what can you rent, if compatible with your machine.
Do you have sheltered space to park it, or do you buy one that has that well-oxidized look of 365 days a year in the sun and weather.
Jase Medical now allows you to order a second “Jase Case” of 5+ antibiotics to keep in a second location (Bugout, RV, car, etc). I will get one for our condo. I think it is worth the price to have real human-certified antibiotics on hand. Keep them in the fridge.
Home. Left Atlanta early this morning. 26 days away from home.
@Ray, you need a vacation from your vacation 😉
@Nightracker
Your link is borked.
https://invest.liquidpiston.com/
Lunchtime.
Slow but steady progress. It’s 91F in the shade. I’m taking a drink every time I get on or off a machine. Had to pee so it is working.
I hate the new safety spouts more than I hated the old spouts. Now you have to flip a tab up and using your whole hand, squeeze from the spout back toward the handle. There has to be an ADA claim in there because you need a lot of hand strength to do it. I managed to spill diesel all over too, trying to lift the can above my waist, tip it, all while squeezing that mother humping spout. It takes a LONG time to empty too. I guess my diesel cans will be getting new spouts like my gas cans.
F-ing bureaucrats.
n
Gas can spouts: I ordered this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BP6GS56K?tag=ttgnet-20 $23.
First I ordered the of four, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BP6Z29ZV?tag=ttgnet-20 (link now directs to the 12 pack) for $12 and I liked the set, so let’s buy more. The price was now $15. Let’s look at other items the seller has. An eight pack it is. I have enough gas cans to use all eight.
How about one of those 12V fuel transfer devices?
I got the 4-pack of gas can adapters that someone – Alan? – mentioned recently. (Thanks again to Alan or whoever it was.) Haven’t fixed my gas can because it still has gas in it. 2-gal can, used only for the lawnmower, lasts most of the Summer.
When I’m putting gas in my mower, I entertain myself with thinking of ironic punishments for the legislators or bureaucrats who came up with the retarded gas can requirements, and definitely for the lobbyists who pushed for them. Trap them in an Arizona gully in August, chained to a car with no gas. Give them a gas can and they have to get enough gas in the car for it to start before the floodwaters come.
It’s been a while since I’ve bought motor oil. But is this a legit price? https://www.amazon.com/Briggs-Stratton-100005-SAE-Engine/dp/B000BXMF7C?tag=ttgnet-20 $5.49 plus tax for an 18 ounce container seems a bit excessive.
Yeah, I think I’ll keep on with Delo 400 30w in the lawnmowers.
I like this idea. Make sure they have a weak battery so the car cranks slow.
Of course the a/c system has no freon…. and not all of the power operated windows will open.
Why does anyone still live in NYFC?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/eric-adams-defends-love-vegan-pizza-nyc-wood-coal-fired-oven-crackdown-cites-canada-wild-fires
Seen on a T shirt (but no longer timely)
When this virus is over I still want some of you to stay away from me.
Stolen from a friend.
Do you have sheltered space to park it, or do you buy one that has that well-oxidized look of 365 days a year in the sun and weather.
Uh, if that construction equipment is parked in the sun and not protected by fence with a Rottweiler and a Doberman, it will grow wheels and get towed away. That equipment starts at $50K new and the cost rises quickly. People are on the lookout for unprotected stuff all the time.
This is Texas. We are transitioning from a high trust society to a low trust society. In fact, we may have transitioned already. Many of my neighbors now have fences around their air conditioning equipment for their homes.
The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It’d take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you’re lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.
“Texas College Fires Biology Professor for Teaching Students That Sex is Determined by Chromosomes”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/texas-college-fires-biology-professor-teaching-students-that/
“In November, four students walked out of Dr. Johnson Varkey’s lecture over the standard teaching about X and Y chromosomes, according to First Liberty Institute, a law firm representing the professor.”
“The law firm has now sent a letter to St. Philips College asking them to “immediately reinstate Dr. Varkey to his position and clear his record of any wrongdoing.””
“Two months after the walk out, in January, Dr. Varkey received a Notice of Discipline and Termination of Employment and Contract letter stating that the school “received numerous complaints” about his “religious preaching, discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals, anti-abortion rhetoric, and misogynistic banter” and that his teaching “pushed beyond the bounds of academic freedom with [his] personal opinions that were offensive to many individuals in the classroom,” according to First Liberty.”
So much for science.
Been to Mexico? Or around Edinburg and McAllen since forever? The fancy houses have cinder-block fences with broken bottles on top and remote control entry gates. ←- and that was mid-70’s.
That shirt(-r) is just moving north because the Feds are importing that crap.
“Microsoft wants to bring Windows 11 to the cloud for ALL users, including you”
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-want-to-bring-windows-11-to-the-cloud-for-all-users-including-you
“An internal document has revealed that Microsoft is building a consumer version of its Windows 365 cloud-PC streaming service that will allow anybody to subscribe to a Windows PC hosted in the cloud that can be accessed on any device. Windows 365 is already available for commercial customers, with both Windows 10 and Windows 11 cloud PCs available.”
No.
“Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake processors: Everything you need to know about the new (and refreshed) CPUs”
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/intel-14th-gen-meteor-lake-processors-everything-you-need-to-know
“Intel continues to push for incredible generational advancements in its processors at lightning speeds, with the upcoming 14th Generation titled Meteor Lake beginning to peek over the horizon. There are dramatic changes to the standard naming scheme, promises of AI-focused additions to the new CPUs, and even plans for a 15th Gen of Intel chips with the further-upcoming Arrow Lake.”
Good night ! Complicated.
“US will need to triple building retrofit rate to meet decarbonization targets: report”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/building-retrofit-decarbonization-targets-jll-report/654004/
“The U.S. will need to triple its retrofit rate to meet net-zero targets, with 80% of today’s office buildings to still be in-use by 2050, according to a report sent to Facilities Dive by JLL, a commercial real estate services company.”
Not gonna happen. Most small buildings are owned by individuals who do not have the capital and do not see the need to the upgrade for very little cost savings.
San Antonio.
I 35 from San Antonio north through Williamson County is California Lite anymore.
When this state goes Dem, it will happen faster than it did in California, however.
“Microsoft wants to bring Windows 11 to the cloud for ALL users, including you”
Next thing you know, they will add to this innovation so you only pay for the computer cycles, RAM, and bandwidth you need to access your remote machine from your local device. The local device would not even have to be that smart, but it would show color. They could call it the Microsoft WU331.
Oh, yeah. I bet access is throttled by your social credit score.
Wow, the solar is making 11,094 MW (13.9%) and the wind turbines are making 16,367 MW (20.5%) of the electric power in ERCOT right now. ERCOT is fat, dumb, happy at the moment with the power cost at $25/MWH. Total demand is 80,422 MW at the moment.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
The retrofit auditing is the full employment act for the otherwise unemployable. Very little actual work will be done. I imagine that violators would be required to pay additional taxes.
An X-Windows terminal. How 1990.
Get the intern cracking on validating that your software runs under Wine on RHEL.
The retrofit auditing is the full employment act for the otherwise unemployable. Very little actual work will be done. I imagine that violators would be required to pay additional taxes.
The major retrofit is to rip out the heating oil or natural gas fired boiler for the building and replace it with electric heating throughout the building. Expensive. The same with water heating.
Conversion of everything from fossil fuels to electric is just a vanity, it does not reduce the usage of fossil fuels that much.
“Backpacking through Bedlam (InCryptid)” by Seanan McGuire
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0756418577?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number twelve of a twelve book urban dark fantasy series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by DAW in 2023 that I bought new from Amazon. There are several other Crossroads books and short stories in the Incryptid universe. I will purchase future books in the series when they are released.
Alice Price-Healy has found her husband, Thomas Price, after looking for him for fifty years since the Crossroads collected on his debt and sent him to another universe. Now they are back from distributing the 300 people from the collapsing pocket universe that Thomas Price was dumped into by the Crossroads. And of course, there is a new crisis that needs their attention, the Covenant of St. George has four teams in New York City that are trying to kill all of the incryptids there. Especially the 300 ton male dragon in the depths of Manhatten island who may be the last male dragon in the world.
There is a excellent short story at the end giving a picture of how the hundreds of Aeslin mice live in the Portland Price household. The house is designed for the Aeslin mice to easily move in the walls from room to room and story to story.
The author has a website at:
https://www.seananmcguire.com/
The incryptids are listed at:
https://seananmcguire.com/fieldguide.php
Note: Even though the author and I share the same middle and last name, I paid for my book and was not compensated for my review. I have no idea if we are directly related.
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (770 reviews)
“What might a SHTF event look like?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-might-shtf-event-look-like.html
“Following a few articles in these pages over the past month on aspects of emergency preparedness, I’ve been exchanging e-mails and messages with a few readers who wanted to know what might precipitate a life-changing, society-changing emergency for which all our preparations would be needed. I hastened to inform them that it was unlikely that any single event would do that. What we’re seeing all around us is a gradual, slow-motion decay that’s leaching the life out of our businesses, our infrastructure, and our economy as a whole. (See, for example, our recent discussions about competence and its absence.). This decay has been happening for several decades, and the pace appears to be accelerating. Could it “go critical” overnight? Yes, given a few very dangerous circumstances, but the odds are greater that it’ll continue to deteriorate until enough things break down that the overall “system” simply stops working. It collapses under the weight of its own inertia. (Of course, if our politicians and other leaders came to their senses, things could be reversed and our problems fixed before that becomes inevitable. If. Insert hollow laughter here.)”
Cutting the natural gas feed to a home or business still requires rolling a truck.
Everyone wants a job they work from home in their jammies, even the people tasked with cutting your heat for a low social credit score.
We went over the employee satisfaction surveys today at the office, and management quickly scrolled past the comments from the individuals who believe that returning to the office should be an individual choice.
The manager really got uncomfortable when I asked about the company monitoring badge swipes to track who is showing up on a regular basis.
I don’t really care about going in if they insist, but I want the policy to apply to everyone who is within driving distance of the campus.
Everyone wants a job they work from home in their jammies, even the people tasked with cutting your heat for a low social credit score.
We went over the employee satisfaction surveys today at the office, and management quickly scrolled past the comments from the individuals who believe that returning to the office should be an individual choice.
The manager really got uncomfortable when I asked about the company monitoring badge swipes to track who is showing up on a regular basis.
I don’t really care about going in if they insist, but I want the policy to apply to everyone who is within driving distance of the campus.
One of my nephews works in IT for a major financial services company located outside Chicago. He and his wife have been living all over the place, not in Chicago. In fact, they just bought a 100 year old house in Denver on June 1. Well, his boss told him two weeks ago that it is time for him to start coming back in the office. My nephew told him that he bought this house in Denver and they gave him three years to come into the office. My nephew is a IT project manager and runs a web development team based in India so he usually works through the night talking with them.
“An expensive lesson…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/06/an-expensive-lesson.html
“This morning I opened the tote that contains our water filters and associated supplies. I found bad news inside. Bags of calcium hypochlorite powder (so-called “pool shock”) had perished, spilling their contents all over everything. To make matters worse, the hose connections on our family-size water filter had also perished, and what looks like a foam lining beneath the plastic connection covers had spread brown funky-smelling gunk all over everything. (I suspect possible interaction between them and the pool shock.) Whatever caused it, I wasn’t prepared to trust the contents any longer, due to contamination.”
“It’s an expensive lesson, but that’s what our “rainy day fund” is for, among other things. I got onto Amazon this morning and ordered replacements for all our water filters:
A Lifestraw Family 1.0 unit for large-scale base-camp-style filtration;
Two Go Series bottles for filtration on the move;
Four Sawyer SP124 mini filtration systems for personal use (and to share if need be);
A Survivor Filter Pro compact filtration system for vehicle camping use, plus a spare filter for it;
A potable water hose for refilling water containers.”
Nick, you ain’t the only one with stuff aging out.
90% of the posts on the Nextdoor service is “car stolen from my driveway in the middle of the night” – because the bozo hadn’t locked the car door. But when I post something that says “This has become a low trust society; you cannot leave your car doors unlocked”, I get a 30-day suspension for “hateful conduct”.
>> “Microsoft wants to bring Windows 11 to the cloud for ALL users, including you”
We had these where I last worked. Virtual instances for the non-IT staff, which they then tried to roll out to the developers. The virtual machines quickly started to hang when ‘real work’ was attempted. The HP engineers were a regular sight for several weeks. They finally agreed that we needed to upgrade to physical instances. I managed to avoid the whole mess because I had too much data on my network home drive to be migrated and my boss provided me with cover, telling the data center manager that I was needed for critical client-facing work. I told my team’s systems analyst where all the important project documents were stored so he could grab them after my early retirement.
Today’s serving of ‘Kamel’s Word Salad’ is sponsored by Hidden Valley Ranch…
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/06/27/and-with-that-statement-you-can-see-why-kamala-harris-poll-numbers-are-abysmal-n2625014
No one in the US C-suites has cracked the formula to get all of the White and Asian males back to the office while giving a pass to everyone else. I guess his company figures it will take three years for the lawyers and HR droids to come up with something.
Or the chat bot tech to mature.
My friends who work in financial services are day trading at home, technically a violation of SEC rules but definitely something they couldn’t do in the office.
>> I don’t really care about going in if they insist, but I want the policy to apply to everyone who is within driving distance of the campus.
“…driving distance…”
What’s that in Texas…anything under two hours each way?
Good Guy With a Gun Decimates Active Shooter in Las Vegas, Local Officials Allegedly Cover It Up
<sigh>
>> 90% of the posts on the Nextdoor service is “car stolen from my driveway in the middle of the night” – because the bozo hadn’t locked the car door. But when I post something that says “This has become a low trust society; you cannot leave your car doors unlocked”, I get a 30-day suspension for “hateful conduct”.
I gave up on NextDoor awhile ago…too many Karens with nothing to say…
>> “What might a SHTF event look like?”
Uhh… https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/5-people-contract-malaria-within-us-borders-first-such-cases-in-two-decades/ar-AA1d4Wn8
An hour is the company’s idea of “driving distance”.
The physical distance varies with compass direction. North can mean as far as Belton on I-35.
So the active shooter, having been shot by the good guy, is 10% disabled?
Decimate is a word, with a meaning and history.
ref Snowden, threatened with life in prison or even execution for pointing out that the US federal government is violating the Constitution.
A couple of NYS agencies used Windows computers which were so locked down that they were simply terminals. They started to push them on developers and sysops. They stopped only when systems started to fail because the sysops couldn’t administer them … exactly as had been warned. But the “top” people in every agency are political appointees and the next couple tiers are people – “people” – who have mastered no skills other than taking the civil service exams and exercising caution in the workplace so that they never get a black mark on their record.
My current employer pushes employees to support various charities. It’s not just exhortation; employees can get time off to work in a food bank or whatever and there’s a budget for buying things to donate. The prez recently chided half of the company because the top volunteers* were highlighted and they were all women.
I pointed out that most of the women in the company work in departments with, shall we say, soft measures of performance and low criticality of timeliness. They could lose half of their staff for an afternoon and no one would even notice.
Engineering and another basically technical department are 95% male, we’re understaffed, we’re overworked, and we generally work to hard contractual deadlines. We can’t just reduce our time at our computers by 10%.
I emailed this to the prez. No response, which is unusual. He usually replies, whether I’ve sent him a suggestion for improving some inter-team process or just a dumb joke.
* Is it really volunteering if you get your regular pay for spending an afternoon every week at an animal shelter instead of at your work computer?
That’s not a very progressive view.
My favorite word redefinition, or at least the one on my mind at the moment, is biweekly. A coworker on my previous job caused confusion by using it to mean “twice a week”. After I corrected him, he brought up an online dictionary which showed “every other week” as the primary definition but “twice a week” as the second definition. So, while I still blame Dan for being an ignoramus, it’s not entirely his fault.
I’m on the fence about the description and the prescriptive orientations of dictionaries. I realize that the English language evolves and it’s not the place of a dictionary publisher to stop that. I also realize that there are a lot of ignoranuses out there and do not think that dictionary publishers, or society, should go along with whatever idiocy they’re spouting this week. This is especially true for the deliberate destruction of meaning, values, and communication which progressives and other commie scum are pushing but applies also to boneheadedness such as screwing up “biweekly”.
And don’t even think about using DDT to squash this outbreak of Koof Skeeters. DDT cause Global Warming. Which is real!!!
90% of the posts on the Nextdoor service is “car stolen from my driveway in the middle of the night” – because the bozo hadn’t locked the car door. But when I post something that says “This has become a low trust society; you cannot leave your car doors unlocked”, I get a 30-day suspension for “hateful conduct”.
I have given up on Nextdoor. The moderators are just a bunch of Karens and delete anything that is edgy at all. Most of the postings are about missing dogs, dumped dogs, and missing cats.
>> I don’t really care about going in if they insist, but I want the policy to apply to everyone who is within driving distance of the campus.
“…driving distance…”
What’s that in Texas…anything under two hours each way?
South of Houston to North of Dallas, 300 miles, six hours each way.
“An expensive lesson…”
Buy chemicals in containers appropriate to store chemicals, not plastic bags intended to get you home (sometimes) without leaking (much).
Store chemicals so the acids are separate from the bases, the oxidizing agents separate from the reducers, etc.
Know what the labels mean:
https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/scientific-products/resources/chemical-storage-management-resource-center/chemical-segregation-storage-guide.html
The worst case might look like this: Hurricane/tornado/straight-line wind breaches the building envelope, tears your storage apart, and rains on it. Spilled fuel ignites. Toxic smoke.
I was watching an old CSI at a friend’s over the weekend–cable, so couldn’t back it up. The scene was the conversation, but as background one of the techs refilled a container, not just with the wrong chemical, but one that could have deadly consequences. At least I think that’s what I saw. I need to track down the episode and check. Real Soon Now.
Nick, you ain’t the only one with stuff aging out.
– I learned the lesson with pool shock several years ago. There is no way to safely store it long term. I think I recently wrote about it in a comment on Peter’s site too, it was somewhere other than here.
Basically, the bag won’t hold it. Maybe sealed in mylar, in a glass jar, with a glass stopper, out behind the shed, in an old cooler. If you store it with or near anything it will destroy it. Even putting it in the shed will corrode every tool in the shed. Absolutely do not store it indoors or with other preps or valuables.
It eats metals. It breaks down plastics. It’s REALLY reactive.
I’m sure the chemistry guys will explain why, but from a practical stand point, it won’t keep long, and you don’t want it with your other stuff.
n
I’m looking at the salt water chlorine generator that pool filters use. Should be usable for drinking water if it will keep the human soup of a swimming pool clean. One more thing on the list.
Multiple stories and videos on Carbon Robotics Laser Weed Killer using 150W CO2 lasers.
Machine learning.
So if you trained it using those signs that they have on some roads in the SW warning of illegals crossing the highway…
@Nick
“Pool shock” describes the intended effect, not the chemical.
Some pool shock is sodium hypochlorite. (Dissolve it in water and you have laundry bleach) Keep it out of sun and heat and keep water away and it will keep for a long time. Store it improperly and it will evolve chlorine gas.
Calcium hypochlorite is another pool shock chemical. The hypochlorites are very water soluble and fast-acting, but short-lived. Sunlight removes non-stabilized chlorine from swimming pools very quickly.
“Dichlor” “sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione” is another pool shock chemical. There is also “trichlor” which is “trichloro-s-triazinetrione”, which is not used as pool shock but as tablets in a chlorine feeder. Dichlor and trichlor have chlorine ions (2 and 3, respectively) on a cyanuric acid backbone, which makes them more stable.
Any chlorine compound is potentially a strong oxidizer that can exothermically react with many materials to release heat, often enough to start fires. They can also react to release chlorine gas which is heavier than air and can pool in low areas and can kill vegetation and animals.
@drwilliams, it’s the one that can be made into ordinary bleach for treating water that is the one people should store. But storing it is problematic as mentioned. It’s packaged and sold for immediate use, not long term storage.
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The front page of Zerohedge is full of good links today, rather than link, go and look.
NYC central city tolling approved. Bud Light exec’s fired. Exercise causes strokes (yeah, keep trying to move the overton window you pukes). Tucker Carson.
Seriously, go look.
And I’m going to bed.
n
As a prof, I’m obviously interested in cases like that of the fired biology prof. However, it’s not clear what really happened. Did he teach X and Y chromosomes? Or did he preach religion?
If he was fired for teaching biology, that’s obviously wrong. However, his defenders refer to his “devout Christion religious beliefs” and talk about his role at his church. That’s an odd defense, and makes one wonder if he was bringing religion into biology class. I looked around a bit, but couldn’t find any useful details…
Despite exposure to the Internet, lots of my English is frozen at the time when I left the US in the 1990s. Lots of words have been abused to the point that their meanings have changed. Lots of small spelling changes, irregular verbs becoming regular, some grammar simplifications (“mown” is now “mowed”). Ghetto vocabulary is becoming mainstream (“tryna”, “Imma”), so is Internet-speak (“lol”).
I sometimes cringe, when reading articles online, before remembering that those spelling and grammar errors are today’s accepted usage.
Languages evolve… English is evolving particularly rapidly right now, probably due to the massive number of people who speak it as a second language.