hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Comedians are in general smart, so it's unsurprising that lots of them have college degrees. But how many of those are degrees in things like theater, or communications? Generally these seem to be irrelevant degrees to being a comedian.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Yeah, women who aren't selected for priding themselves on their modesty are in general not ok with commentary on modesty. Why? Because it's one of those things where it's a rat race that you can never be comfortably ahead on, and women are real sensitive about it.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
As I've said before, when this came up- 'women in comedy' is the wrong framing. Ellen was a very popular and successful comedian a while back. But elite class proper ladies do not make good comics because comedy is inherently transgressive, and 'being transgressive' is not what elite proper ladies do. That's what this is about- these women are performing the social role of elite proper ladies, and they're rather unhappy about being excluded from comedy.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
It kinda reads like this was a Pete Hegseth thing which Trump signed onto and then dropped like a rock? Like my mental model of Trump is that he's pretty normie and has policy preferences like your drunk uncle in a diner. He wants the illegals out and doesn't really think about legal immigration. He wants things made in the USA and thinks we have to take out Iran. Etc, etc. Not 'bring back public executions'.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
There were two papabile in their fifties in the last conclave. One was too radical to get elected and the other was too involved in secular politics.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Thé pope has lung cancer. Earlier this the lower lobe of his right lung was removed.
He is unlikely to die soon, but persistent poor health tends to be a limiting factor on the pope’s power- and all indications were already that pope Leo XIV was relatively weak.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That movie failed because of ridiculous wokeness in place of plot.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah no, nobody cares. Maybe if it's mispronounced.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d ago
Talarico has generally poor health, apparently.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
Hey, I like magnum revolvers. Great safe queens and I can very occasionally convince my wife to shoot one.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
2d ago
Heavily Hispanic areas in the US tend to be represented by extremely moderate democrats.
hydroacetylene
2d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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?
The medievals were absolutely obsessed with evil rabbits; they drew pictures of them fighting each other, torturing people, etc, all over the place.
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