Read the article looking for his reasoning. Nada. Apparently he got a calculator out and thought, “We could be 0.54% more productive!”

For only two days, there is almost no productivity lost. People simply work a little harder to make up that time. There’s also less work because no one else was working, but still, c’mon.

Putin can’t stop without crashing Russia’s wartime economy. If he does that, he next gets to experience defenestration.

Putin’s talk of peace translates as, “I need to slow the roll so I can rearm.”

Read Echopraxia! Genius monks have exactly that in the desert powering their facility.

Start with Blindsight first! (Only a 2 books altogether.)

Growing a bit old, ain’t it?

Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things that make a tomato a fucking tomato.

Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone bitch. I’m sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I’m in NW Florida. Even down here I can’t grow year-round. Good luck with that.

*Napoleon Bonaparte

But it does sound like Sun Tzu! Which reminds me, got a new copy of The Art of War and I haven’t read it in 10 or 20 years.

Fair enough! I was going to edit and say that black powder isn’t technically explosive, just burns real fast.

I make my own black powder for shooting.

2 KNO3 + S + 3 C

Stump remover, sulfur, charcoal. Few bucks to make a kilo.

Reading how Rocky eats in Project Hail Mary got me thinking on that! I wonder if aliens would find our eating disgusting or if it’s the most common way to get energy. Pretty much every life form on Earth chews food with their face then shoves it down.

Worse! My gas station flashes:

DO NOT REMOVE CARD

3 TIMES before

REMOVE CARD

Sounds like the pilots killed the fuel, and did not mean to do so. Having watched the video, and being totally ignorant of this sort of thing, that makes sense of what I saw.

I’m not trusting any report until I have had heard from Admiral Cloudberg. If you’re not familiar, plane crash investigation is what he does. He’s completely unbiased and seems to be the expert, at least for us layman.

Well. Your journey took real strength. Ain’t that something? Keep fighting the good fight.

We got rocks over 4 billion years old. But you’re right, very little would survive after 100-200 million years.

Earth would never get fossil fuels back as their formation was dependent on lacking fungi to break plants down. This is indeed our one shot.

Tempting to try this and diff it. My most complex PowerShell scripts aren’t testable as they were company/task specific. Plus, I killed my X account long ago. :(

Don’t some states have pretty restrictive laws about that?

Y’all downvoting OP for laying out the methodology.

Pretty sure I’ve read that it is, but the issue here is retesting employees that are already onboard.

Y’all should employ my “Hawkeye Pierce Theory of Work”. You bust your ass right off the bat, get really good and knowledgeable, get recognized as such. At worst, you get a lateral promotion doing something you would rather be doing, or gain the juice to do what you want to do and leave the lazy people to do the crappy parts of the job. In any case, they dare not get rid of you.

If that doesn’t work you a) are not the top employee you think you are or b) need to get another job. I turned down a job that’s considered pretty good around here by our biggest employer. They made it damned clear I wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything else for at least a year. Nope.

It’s hard to overstate what these guys see. If you’ve ever experienced this magnitude of disaster, you know damned well that all the pictures and video in the world doesn’t do justice to the actual destruction and suffering on the ground.

Ex-FIL was in the Mississippi Guard. Earned 2 Bronze Stars on two (three?) tours of Iraq. Humanitarian aid, not combat, a detail relevant to the story below. He was just fine.

Came home and fought his way through Katrina on the tip of the spear. Those men chainsawed houses in half and pushed them off the road to get in. After all that he suffered PTSD, hooked up with another Guard member, left his wife of 32-years and stopped talking to his only child. He was not fine.

New Orleans got the news coverage, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast was fucking wrecked. We went to see the man in Gulfport, then headed north. The last of the damage we saw was past Hattiesburg, 80 miles of destruction. And that was going straight away, the blast radius closer to the Gulf was wide.

Some of these people are digging for corpses, some are little corpses, with their hands. Many, most?, of these people are facing serious PTSD in the near future.

Anyway, after living Ivan, I cried my eyes out over Katrina. I still tear up when I think about it, still cry thinking about what I saw the next morning. Cried when the Florida Guard rolled in to save our asses, thought I was on my own.

Taking the kids swimming in the creek now. I’m out.