hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Yeah no, nobody cares. Maybe if it's mispronounced.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Polling isn't correct, though. I'm not saying republicans are favoured... I'm saying there's lots of warning signs of a blue mirage, and Talarico almost certainly has advisors who are accustomed to the idea enough to try something high-risk variance, on the basis that the median voter hates ads enough to just vote on a party line basis, Greg Abbott will steal the election on the spot in a way that carries Paxton over the top, etc.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Talarico has generally poor health, apparently.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Eh, Galicia had replacement fertility before the war, and they're the properly 'Ukrainian' part of Ukraine. Nowhere near out of the question that they'd recover- after all, the children born immediately before the war are now turning four, and Ukraine might use some child soldiers in their late teens but it's not recruiting younger than that.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Indians don't want to go to Ukraine. They want to go to richer countries which aren't currently on fire and covered in snow at the same time(the US obviously the ideal, but Canada, Australia, the UK, even Russia all rank far above Ukraine). Indians don't want to live in an impoverished shithole which has been wrecked by war and in which the average citizen is incredibly racist.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The ukrainian people want to fight, though.
Now, I broadly agree with the idea that the ukrainian government should avoid further loss of life to preserve Galicia, because that's the only 'ukrainian' part of ukraine(I make no illusions about my ethnoreligious prejudices). But the Ukrainian public wants to fight to the bitter end, and I respect them for it. It's not the government making them.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
'Digger' is at least a funny joke- as a red tribe name it's close enough to be plausible but probably not terribly real.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I'm not going to see this movie.
I wanted to chime in with the often overlooked fact that the vast majority of wells, and possibly a majority of fossil fuel production, in the USA is done by small companies, often owner-managed, which are not household names and usually do not last multiple generations. The owners/executives are an elite group, the kind of gentry sometimes brought up by particularly intense blue tribe rhetoric(alongside car dealership owners). And these guys not only don't believe in global warming, they tend to believe in abiotic oil and a young earth as well- because their competitive advantage is in using engineering expertise sourced from politically incorrect communities to strip oil out of wells that the companies with their names on gas stations consider marginal. I was out filling deer feeders with these guys last weekend. 'Digger' is about a parable... there's an opposite parable to be told, and it's one a huge chunk of the country believes in wholeheartedly.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Hey, I like magnum revolvers. Great safe queens and I can very occasionally convince my wife to shoot one.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Well yeah- I have guns made for WWII(and stored in a random closet since then, not dipped in cosmoline in a state armory in eastern europe for fifty years). I have pistols used heavily since the seventies and shotguns from the mid twentieth century.
The gun industry may simply have saturated demand and need to expand the supply of gun owners. I know I stopped buying new guns because I simply couldn't think of any I wanted badly enough to spend hundreds of dollars on(I already have plenty, after all). Unfortunately, 'who can they sell guns to' is a valid question- selling CCH's to red tribe women gets you, like, one new gun per buyer, and a lot of them are already onboard. There's plenty of people legally prohibited from owning them, or simply unwilling to do so. It's a tough market to expand in; all the guys in my hunting club already have enough guns that it'd probably be more lucrative to try to sell them a second safe. Regulars at the range are in the same boat.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Heavily Hispanic areas in the US tend to be represented by extremely moderate democrats.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Usually commercial freezers have a manual defrost switch to test functionality or restore operation after a freeze up caused by misuse, which is what they triggered.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, running defrost heaters and the compressor at the same time is very bad for the system, like sugar in the gas tank level bad. But that's not what sticking the system in defrost does; it normally prevents the compressor from running at all. That guy bypassed stuff manually which in his case blew up the system(normally it just tanks the compressor).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A stuck in defrost wouldn't necessarily cause short cycling(although depending on the control setup there might be some). It would just keep the freezer off. They could replace the controllers with mechanical versions pretty quickly if they can get skilled labor onsite in time, but they wouldn't expect to have a controller programmed to stay in defrost indefinitely- no one would do that on purpose.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It was probably put together by career HVAC techs who told them to set up communication via a web portal so they could initiate defrosts* on their cellphones, and then set the passwords to their lastnames.
*For those in the back who don't know, commercial freezers are supposed to have an electronic defrost that clears ice off the evaporator so it doesn't inhibit airflow. This attack worked by reprogramming that defrost to never end.
You are aware these are freezers, right? Like they're important but they're not holding onto private data or whatever.
Emerson writes the password on the device for technicians to have access to, and Ke2therm uses all fives(no, it can't be changed).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They had inbound open ports to allow their maintenance managers to change settings store managers were messing with, probably. But why they didn’t take security precautions to prevent that I don’t know. Probably because they’re career hvac techs and it doesn’t occur to them that someone would want a freezer to stop working.
What were the hackers after? Ransom ware?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
All of these manuals are online for technicians to read.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, all of that stuff is absolutely industry standard- because most of these freezers are worked on by contractors with an end user who don’t know nothing about nothing and they need a default admin password.
Their main competitor is even worse.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This system was not designed by IT professionals.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Why freezers needs to be visible, why do they need to be remotely managed, why is not this done on dedicated internal network, why do they need firmware updates
Having worked as a refrigeration tech before, I may have some insight- this was almost certainly done for management and monitoring. Defrost cycles are very important to keep freezers from bricking themselves, and danfoss controllers are very common as an alternative to a mechanical time clock- because they’re fully programmable to the conditions of the specific box.
Why they were connected to the internet is probably because corporate wanted to be able to mess with it without sending someone in person. The stated reason was probably so they could set passwords but in reality it was to make in house maintenance personnel’s lives easier.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The church does not align perfectly with woke lib-left talking points. They merely happen to oppose the death penalty, as is elite consensus in Europe, even on the right.
It's generally best to model the Catholic church as having similar policy positions to the Europe's conservative elite- because by and large, that is who makes up the upper church administration. Bishops in the Roman curia are mostly from elite, conservative families in continental Europe. That means that yes, they believe in global warming, don't have vibes based opposition to immigration(because that's not an elite thing), oppose the death penalty, don't support the right to bear arms, etc- but also have hardline sexual morality views, are generally opposed to socialism, tend to be bioconservative, support gender roles, etc. The RCC is run by elites and has official positions which tend to be shifted towards elite consensus.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Clan based societies actually don't use the death penalty very much- they punish serious crimes with fines, that the entire family of the guilty pays into. Feuds happen when the two clans can't agree about it. The death penalty tends to be a feature of states.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Texas did put police in the way of the open border and Biden just... let them.
That movie failed because of ridiculous wokeness in place of plot.
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