Random Thoughts 7

[WWGD]

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-elon-musk-spacex-headquarters-california.html

Has he moved Tesla plants to Texas?

 

[pinball1970]

Has he moved Tesla plants to Texas?

No plans to move manufacturing according to Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-spacex-will-move-headquarters-texas-california-2024-07-16/#:~:text=In 2021, Musk moved Tesla's,to Texas earlier this year.

 

[WWGD]

No plans to move manufacturing according to Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-spacex-will-move-headquarters-texas-california-2024-07-16/#:~:text=In 2021, Musk moved Tesla's,to Texas earlier this year.

Sorry for my laziness here.:(.

 

[fresh_42]

I hate CC. My body needs less energy to heat up and I struggle to lose weight.

 

[WWGD]

CC?

 

[fresh_42]

Climate Change.

 

[jack action]

I hate CC. My body needs less energy to heat up

So you are saying that you are the one to blame for global warming because you are not picking up your share of heat?

 

[fresh_42]

So you are saying that you are the one to blame for global warming because you are not picking up your share of heat?

I blame it because I do pick up my share of heat.

 

[WWGD]

I just stay out of the kitchen.

 

[WWGD]

It may have been Karma. I was asked to introduce two people( new hires) to each other. I told them wrong names of each other and told them both the other was very hard of hearing. Then I had to work with them and it was a nightmare.

 

[Hamiltonian]

 

[pinball1970]

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I'm higher than guy number one.

 

[Astronuc]

'Whole House Shook': Overhead Video Shows Aftermath of Train Crashing Into Garage
https://news.yahoo.com/news/whole-house-shook-overhead-video-101605138.html

It's an unusual location, but the garage and house sit at the end of a Y, a stub track that is used for turning locomotives. Obviously, the locomotive did not stop at the end of the track but ran off the end and continued into the garage.

A resident of Niagara Falls, New York, described how her “whole house shook” after a train engine crashed into her garage – the same one that was hit by a train in the 1970s, The Buffalo News reported.

The newspaper reported the locomotive flattened most of the residential garage at Lori Morreale Harris’s home on Seneca Avenue on July 22. A train hit the same spot when her grandparents were living there in the 1970s.

 

[Mayhem]

LaTeX has a haunting quality of turning a billion typed words into half a written page.

 

[pinball1970]

I had the annual argument with the ladies in the office regarding opening the windows in summer. I like these women, they are (mostly) intelligent, educated, caring, funny, hard working professionals some of which juggle children/home life and work.
I respect that.
However, on this they become stubborn, irrational, idiotic monsters!

I took one of the tribal leaders to the pub (actually she drove but ...)
I said to her, I don't want conflict, I want peace and harmony with a little love thrown in.
She said.
"What if you are the only one who doesn't want the windows open?"

Right so, if enough of you think the earth is flat except me then we can alert the press? Sorry guys we had a meeting so you are going to have to change the text books.

 

[fresh_42]

I took one of the tribal leaders to the pub

I cannot recommend this. As for my experience: you will lose, and not only the argument.

 

[pinball1970]

I cannot recommend this. As for my experience: you will lose, and not only the argument.

It was just a lunch and a drink. She is intelligent but also a hot head who bears grudges.
She has a great work ethic and I respect her. A mixed bag but you have to trust people sometimes.

She said I am not a complete ***hole. Just when I am condescending.
I think that's just age, my son is only three years younger than her.
We are moving soon so all this will be moot.

At the moment I am just letting them open the windows, as wide as wide can be.
Peace and harmony, and a lot of heat.

 

[BillTre]

My random thought for the day:
"What happens if you use a taser on a cell phone?"

 

[jack action]

I had the annual argument with the ladies in the office regarding opening the windows in summer.

[...]

She said.
"What if you are the only one who doesn't want the windows open?"

I don't understand, normally women are always cold and want the windows closed.

But in your case, you are the one who wants the window closed? You refuse to add layers of clothing to be warm enough and prefer that the women take off pieces of clothing until ... Never mind, I got it now!

 

[Astronuc]

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies that had prompted 25,000 people to flee roared into the near-deserted town of Jasper overnight with flames higher than treetops, devastating up to half of its structures, officials said Thursday.

Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta province, said from 30% to 50% of the town's structures are potentially damaged or destroyed, saying “that’s going to be a significant rebuild and significant displacement.”

https://news.yahoo.com/park-rangers-canada-search-stragglers-192420873.html

Seems like towns in western US and Canada need a more effective fire prevention/mitigation system. I've been wondering about a water storage system that could spray a curtain of water between a town and wildfire, or periodically spray a forest or brush to keep the foliage and ground moist. That of course would require millions of gallons of water.

One of my colleagues chase to stay at his house when a wildfire threatened the neighborhood. He stayed on the roof with a garden hose and sprayed the roof, fences and vegetation to prevent burning material from setting dry material on fire. He and neighbors saved several houses, as the fire burned along a gully alongside the neighborhood. Other neighborhoods weren't so fortunate.

 

[jack action]

I've been wondering about a water storage system that could spray a curtain of water between a town and wildfire, or periodically spray a forest or brush to keep the foliage and ground moist. That of course would require millions of gallons of water.

If they would begin by building permanent firebreaks around the town, it would be a good start.

 

[BillTre]

If they would begin by building permanent firebreaks around the town, it would be a good start.

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Beaver habitat makes a good fire break, but its not always possible.

 

[Astronuc]

f they would begin by building permanent firebreaks around the town, it would be a good start.

I've watched a fire spread by embers blowing ahead of the fire. A fire break might have to be one or two or three miles (3.2 to 5 km). To keep the dust down, one would have to plant succulents, which might work in S California, but would be problematic in parts of Oregon, Washington, and up in Canada, where winters get very cold.

 

[Mayhem]

Why should I complete my degree when alcohol is literally like right there?

 

[DrGreg]

one or two miles (3.2 to 5 km)

Sorry to be pedantic but that should be 1.6 to 3.2 km (not that it matters to the point you were making).

 

[Ibix]

Why should I complete my degree when alcohol is literally like right there?

To get a good job to get money to get more alcohol. It's a beer today or beer tomorrow question (in the strict Boolean sense of or).

This may not be good life advice.

 

[Mayhem]

To get a good job to get money to get more alcohol. It's a beer today or beer tomorrow question (in the strict Boolean sense of or).

This may not be good life advice.

Yet, the best motivational advice I have received, a close contender to "think of your infant daughter".

 

[Astronuc]

Sorry to be pedantic but that should be 1.6 to 3.2 km (not that it matters to the point you were making).

Correct. I was probably thinking 2 to 3 miles.

 

[Astronuc]

Porsche 911 Turbo Crashes At Almost 200 MPH During Idaho Gathering
https://news.yahoo.com/news/autos/porsche-911-turbo-crashes-almost-180000598.html

Driver and passenger are “alive but severely injured” according to someone identifying as the uncle of the passenger!

"According to the Sun Valley Tour de Force website, the fastest speed achieved in the no speed limit run was set by a Bugatti Chiron at 253.01 mph. This marked the ninth annual gathering for the charitable event."

 

[WWGD]

My friend was getting weird looks from her WhatsApp contacts. It turns out her 6 year old daughter was accessing her account in her phone and writing weird, but credibly- adult posts like " I would like to poo at the supermarket"or, " Tell that to the cheese, you fat slob".