40 MW Natural Gas
565 MW Solar
1,568 MW Wind
0 MW Everything else
Total capacity;
43.47% Natural Gas
23.21% Coal
3.64% Oil
29.68% zero carbon (i.e. Nuclear, Hydro, Wind, Solar, etc)
So, 'clean' electricity (from a global warming perspective) has passed Coal and Oil (note, oil for transportation is not included here) combined. It is growing faster than natural gas... while coal and oil electricity production are both declining.
Nuclear is not zero carbon. Ignoring the sheer amount of steel and other fossil fuel products required just to build a nuclear power plant, have you ever examined how much oil is spent just mining and refining fissile materials? And the other, much worse, environmental effects of nuclear waste?
Suggesting nuclear is somehow a clean energy in any capacity is, to be blunt, dancing right into insanity. It's one of the dirtiest we have, on every level, and it's potentially a far worse ecological disaster than the carbon-heavy power sources. Ignoring even meltdowns, just the nuclear waste is an ongoing problem even with those low levels of implementation.
Unfortunately, it may be a necessary evil due to population levels.
The GM hates you and Paizo is in on the conspiracy to make you suffer.
And thus, all is suffering dedicated to make you despair. And despair you shall, until the bonds of your sanity in real life break and you slowly descend into gibbering madness.
That is the key to the sanity rules. There is no truly understanding them. They are an eldritch abomination in text form, and the more you contemplate them the closer to losing your own sanity you come.
So my mom is having surgery to remove cancer on her face in a few weeks and is freaking out.
To the point that she dug her old photo album out of the cupboard last night and went through it with my sister (she's usually "Why on earth would you want to look back?") and actually asked for help getting the house, yard, etc. ready for her to be out of commission until the end of June.
She didn't even ask me to come help when her husband died.
And she's asking to see her grandchildren.
Gee, wonder if she's suddenly worried about her mortality?
So I got a couple of days off at the end of the month and am taking the kids up.
I will roundhouse kick Death and force her to live forever!
I'm going to watch rampage tomorrow. I've not seen the show yet, but if you say it's good, I'll take your word for it.
I do not believe I used the word "good" anywhere in my review of the movie...
Didn't you say something about 4 beers, while you gave ready player one a 2 beer rating and don't beers work like rotten tomatoes?
No, I'm pretty sure that's how many beers you have to drink, at a minimum, before you can enjoy the movie.
Correct. The higher the number of beers, the worse the movie.
Typically this is a scale from 0 (awesome 'classic') to 6 (really drunk), or even 8. But there exist "infinite beer" movies (such at The Gate or Prometheus where you couldn't possibly drink enough beer to actually enjoy the movie).
EDIT: And aren't drinking, movies, and public nudity a time-honored tradition?
I find four dozen grams of weed to be sufficient for enjoying Prometheus.
So I'm trying to figure out the point of this thread. Seems like it's all about just getting it to be as long as possible, by carrying on whatever conversations you feel like. Is that right? Or am I missing something? Are there rules? Like, no talking about goblins or paladins, not talking about the rules of this thread (fight club style, in which case I apologize for breaking the first two rules of Deep 6 FaWtL), or whatever?
So, NobodysWife, Shiro, and I went off to see Ready Player One last night. After pans both here and from Impus Major, I expected to be woefully unimpressed.
Instead, it was an unabashedly goofy tour through my childhood. The sheer number of game, toy, and movie references targeted at those of us who were children of the 70s was overwhelming. The in-game scenes were chaotic and goofy and borderline epileptic-inducing, but it all worked for me.
From the reviews I've read, this is actually the problem.
The basic complaint I've seen from multiple articles is "World is saved by kid with encyclopedic knowledge of White Male Demographic targeted pop culture ephemera of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, while basically acting as if everything outside of 'White Male Demographic targeted pop cultural ephemera' of those eras basically didn't exist".
Looking back at that era, I'm finding it hard to see how it's any less problematic when we don't ignore the other groups. That entire era was just a terrible period for entertainment if you didn't enjoy white male-targeted media. I mean, some of the stuff that was empowering for women and minorities back then would be extremely sexist and racist by today's standards.
I might have missed a couple rare gems here or there. But I can see why someone would basically throw their hands up and decide it would be less problematic to just focus on the one group that had it good.
So I'm trying to figure out the point of this thread. Seems like it's all about just getting it to be as long as possible, by carrying on whatever conversations you feel like. Is that right? Or am I missing something? Are there rules? Like, no talking about goblins or paladins, not talking about the rules of this thread (fight club style, in which case I apologize for breaking the first two rules of Deep 6 FaWtL), or whatever?
Ginger ale stayed down so far. This is good. My husband stopped and got some Gatorade on the way home, so now it’s just about staying hydrated between bouts of sickness. It’s the red Gatorade though cause that’s nasty and if I’m going to end up hating a flavor due to sickness then I pick that one.
Gatorade has flavors? I just thought it was food coloring mixed with tainted water.
They decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the person who does everything up front should be assigned to not do any of it. So, instead of my normal duties, I spent five hours cleaning hand pieces.
We spent five hours with the front counter effectively shut down before management figured out this is a bad idea.
You say ground cherry, I say tomatillo. They're a regular ingredient in many Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes, and quite delicious in fresh salsa and tomatillo marmalade/jam.
captain yesterday wrote:
Coffee acts like an appetite suppressant for me.
Coffee doesn't seem to affect my appetite, but it does tend to work on me like a bran muffin.
NobodysHome wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
Coffee doesn't seem to affect my appetite, but it does tend to work on me like a bran muffin.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was weird.
Caffeine is a mild psychoactive diuretic. Keeping you regular is one of the benefits.
The downsides are the withdrawal symptoms. If you are a caffeine addict and feel mentally slower without it, you're not imagining things. Caffeine withdrawal includes lowered brain activity as a symptom.
Meeting about office health, environment and safety.
Somebody: We’ve got too many sugared drinks in the fridge.
Me: Uh guys, there’s low sugar version of drinks, but honestly – if you really wanted to cut down the sugar, you guys really should start drinking plain water…
Now if you excuse me, the mug of cocoa I’m having now is so good...
I am a sweet tooth - but usually I give the sugared drinks in the office a wide berth – sticking to plain water, or occasionally tea(without sugar). I go around constantly telling everyone on the evils of coke (it has 9 and 1/3rd teaspoons of sugar in a single 12 ounce can), which instantly busts your daily limit.
Occasionally I may indulge in a bit of stuff, like half a can of coke but other then that, nadda. It’s plain water. Cakes however…are a totally different story. Put a cake in front of me, I’ll eat it. I really can’t stop myself.
The issue I have with tea is that even though green tea is supposed to help with weight loss and all that, it makes ME hungry, and I start eating more the next meal. I’m not so sure how helpful that is.
If I drink coffee, its even worse. I suspect the effect of caffeine on me is I get hungry faster.
Caffeine doesn't do anything for me anymore. I'm too resistant.
I've never had unsweetened green tea. Always had it with a dash of honey. I can see I'm not missing out.
Well, dihydrogen monoxide comes with some very vicious withdrawal symptoms and everyone who takes it dies. Overdosing on it can be quite lethal, and inhaling it has some seriously negative effects on your health and can result in death.
*Drinks tea and starts eating donuts in front of John* ;)
You do know caffeine and sugar are drugs, right? =)
I'm talking about the hard stuff, like Narcotics and Amphetamines. The stuff that gets people sent to prison.
You know that narcotics and amphetamines can be legally bought as over-the-counter drugs, right? Codeine is a commonly-available narcotic, and a number of weight loss drugs are amphetamines.
And we go through another round of "why do we have to do so much history research stuff for English class, blaaaah" to which the answer is, of course, "so I don't have to keep stopping our reading in class to explain what a bootlegger is (and also mini-research projects like this get you more experienced with those pesky research/speaking and listening standards)."
They've been pretty good so far.
Most of the irregularities with English require a rather thorough history lesson to explain. There are massive differences between common perception and reality as far as some word origins.
I think some people were getting snippy about a subclass or something. I stopped paying attention when the complaints didn't even attempt to make sense.
It might not be proper decorum, but I hope my fellow FaWtL's will grant me a small pseudo-soliloquy.
So my grandfather (mothers side) just passed away (more precisely about three hours ago).
As the oldest (thus far) male member of my family he lived to the fine age of 90 years old.
He had slowly, but surely been racking up various health problems for quite some time, so in a sense, his death wasn't unexpected.
He was a man of his time. Born in the 20's he'd lost touch with the speed with which society sped along, and struggled to make sense of rapid development of the world around him. As a staunch conservative, we often didn't se eye to eye politically, but as a jokester and a bit of a comedian he was always fun to be around, and that mischievousness is truly something I'll miss.
While "old" in outlook and right-wind in opinion (and voting) he was never truly unreasonable. Them foreigners got accused of a lot of things, and he was leery when an Iraqi family moved in next door. Though as with so many other things he blatantly claimed to dislike, the old coot still helped them get their first vegetable garden growing, and he would invite their children and grandchildren over for a cold drink and some fruit from the garden in summertime.
In short, his "Good" might not have been your "Good", but he did his best to make his time here a boon to those around him.
You'll be missed Carl. I know that much cause I already do.
I found out at work today why the students have been complaining so much over the past year.
A little over a year ago, we started enforcing rules and guidelines for the kits they turn in. The students are unhappy there is more required of them and we're not accomplishing more. The amount required of them is only growing in response to their complaints, since some of it can only be fixed on their end.
How does this overlap into any of what you experienced earlier?
It's a college environment. What makes you think logic or reason have any power over how anything is done?
Just today, I had to lecture a doctor forty years my senior on basic infection control protocol. This man has been cleaning teeth since before the age of computers and still doesn't understand the benefit of wearing gloves.
I had to lecture him in front of students he's in charge of teaching. And that's still far from the worst OSHA violation to happen today.
If OSHA ever investigates, the prison sentences will look like a chapter of Genesis. "And Paul was sentenced to 900 years. And Amanda was sentenced to 900 years. And Raul was sentenced to 900 years. And..."
I found out at work today why the students have been complaining so much over the past year.
A little over a year ago, we started enforcing rules and guidelines for the kits they turn in. The students are unhappy there is more required of them and we're not accomplishing more. The amount required of them is only growing in response to their complaints, since some of it can only be fixed on their end.
Tonight marks the end of my third week in hospital. Tomorrow will be another lung test, and if my docs like what they see I will finally be going home...!
Lung test came back at my baseline!!! Haven't gotten official word from my docs, but I fully expect to be discharged today...unless some cruel god interferes, of course. Still have to wait on the hospital bureaucracy though, so it'll probably be a few hours...
Grats! And no worries. You are not on my radar and the rest of the cruel gods have the night off.
Oh, and John -- Carnegie Mellon University has a HUGE computer science department. You should check the university's web site for openings. I'm betting they'll have something for "part time late night sysadmin" or something that would get you in the door to both a computer-related job AND eventually a job with good health benefits.
Good luck!
EDIT: From my experience, university jobs always boil down to "whom you know" rather than "what you know". And it's not just for academic positions. Typically, you take a wage-slave, part-time job just so they get to know your face. They hire "strangers" for those positions. Then, as full-time positions open up, their "official" position is that the opening is for the "best-qualified" person, but somehow that "best-qualified" person is ALWAYS one of their part-timers. So it's surviving for a year or two on part-time, no-benefit wages until they're convinced they like you and a position opens up. It's a waiting game. No more, no less.
Blackmail also works. If it's a traditional university, look for someone high up in power who is male and imply you know a few things of an unsavory nature about them, but are willing to keep quiet if hired. If a medical facility, target one of the doctors instead; doctors are usually a lot harder to replace than administrators.
Speaking of TI, I heard this from the CEO of the company where I worked at one time.
Back when TI was trying to get into the PC market, some guy working in a TI warehouse noticed that many TI-99/4As were entering the warehouse, but few were leaving. He correctly concluded that they were selling poorly, so he short sold TI stock, and encouraged his family to do the same. Sure enough, TI gave up on the PC market and dropped the TI-99/4A. The stock dropped in value and the family made piles of money.
The SEC noticed that several people with the same last name made money by shorting the same stock at the same time. It didn't take them long to figure out that one of them worked at TI. Unfortunately for him, his family sang like canaries, and he ended up in jail for insider trading.
So guys who work in warehouses are "insiders"? Sheesh.
Yep. They have access to certain bits of insider information.
This is why I use time travel for all of my stock trade fraud.
What is the tax rate for illegal uranium enrichment operations?
Are large quantities of lead and NBC suits tax-deductible? Is mining equipment for the illegal mining of uranium tax deductible?
Do I have to pay taxes on my government-funded illegal bioweapons labs? And can I claim the nuclear weapons I'm producing at my other lab as a business expense, since I'm using them to contain some of the pathogens?
I think PF needed simplification, but not in terms of the mechanics. Option bloat was the biggest issue. A quick look at the direction of PF 2E makes it look like they're going in the direction of D&D 5E... simplifying the game too much for my tastes.
Yes, I know options are just options... but PF was including references to non-core options in most of their products, making it difficult to easily play the game without all the supplements.
My ideal PF would be the core rulebook, the Bestiaries, the Golarion world books, and maybe one or two "Unearthed Arcana" type expansions. Unfortunately, the reality of being a game publisher is that you have to keep coming out with new product.
This looks like it will be the final death of the d20 system, which is a shame. I think it was the ideal RPG system.
I see PF2 being similar long term with feats quickly adding up in the new edition, much like PF1 having 2-3k in feats...not my cup of tea anymore and stopped playing pathfinder.
5E hasn't avoided option bloat either. They tried to minimize it by having a release schedule that is measurable in geological time.
Unfortunately, setting information is folded into their APs too much, so you really don't get a lot to work with as far as their current settings. It's easier to make your own setting than to try to hunt down all of the pieces of Faerun lore that are current and guess how the rest of the setting is.
Far, far too much of 5E is third party material as well, which has always been rather dodgy with DnD.
I don't really see DnD as being a superior option at current. More like trading one set of problems for another.
Van-y-Krye is also a Welsh village, famous as the place where Owain Ap Rhyddir (not Gwylym Ap Llydri, as some misguided historians state) penned the Bardic classic 'Ygalythadd Lledaegyth Maeregochoch', in a tent, under the influence of mind-altering acorns.
I'm just going to assume a cat walked on your keyboard.
(Seriously, Welsh is really weird. Assuming you aren't just making things up, because Welsh place names lend themselves really well to those kinds of shenanigans, I did not know that. EDIT: But according to Google, it's likely you're just making it up. I applaud you.)
After some googling, "y krye" is Frissian. Which is found in the Netherlands and Germany ;)
The Dean's second in command called my entire department into a meeting to yell at us about the lack of getting kits done on the time frame the students want.
It amounted to us being told that we're a bunch of lazy slackers and that our reasons why we're having trouble (lack of people, lack of proper supplies, faulty equipment, and insane increase in workload and kits ordered) are just unacceptable excuses. And because we've been comparing notes and generally trying to keep morale from evaporating entirely, we're no longer allowed to talk to each other.
Also, we've been yelled at because people like to do things like get water and use the restroom.
I know it surprised the Dean's second when the pushback against what she was saying was led by one of our managers. The boss over the managers backed the Dean position. So the entire department got to watch our leadership fracture.
Another employee also spoke up about it, but was cut off midway through. This... also carries some unfortunate implications, as everyone became quickly aware of. Particularly the tone the assistant took towards those two.
The department ended up even more divided in the aftermath. I ended up rewarded; they're going to fix the problem with my position by eliminating reusable trays. The two who spoke up against the Dean's position got their concerns and stances effectively ignored. Several people are picking sides, and at this point there is no foundation for a team to exist.
I'm in the unfortunate situation where I have to pick a side. I've been trying to avoid it, but now... there's no room for neutrals.
The unfortunate implications:
The two who spoke up, and indeed the majority of the department, are all black. The Dean's assistant and the boss over the managers are both white women, and their tendency to speak down to those of darker skin is well-noted in the department.
The people assigned to the front window, who seem to also be the most popular with the students, wouldn't stand out in Scandinavia.
Today brought to the surface a growing racial divide within the office space.
If anyone is interested as to why I'm so pissed at my employer right now, I'll tell you. Any Tekko volunteer that works a total of 24 hours is invited to attend the post-show dinner at Pittsburgh's Hard Rock Cafe. Because I didn't receive Today and Friday off, I had to cancel my two Friday games. Which leaves me 10 hours short. I'm not forgiving the company for this. There's no apology that the company can offer that can make this right. I'm done with them. I simply have to wait for the right time of my own choosing.
I figured it was due to them demonstrating impressive levels of incompetence to the detriment of your mental and physical health.
There are few things more awkward than watching teenagers try to define hate speech without giving outright examples of it with the principal sitting in the back of the room...
Most adults I've seen are no better. And some are far worse...
Well, the last evening before the start of this year's Tekko is here. The first two days of which I will not be attending, because the staff in the office claim they "lost" my Time Off Request form. *sigh* I hate my job. :(
Also work never answered the four times I called for some reason, and upon running to the office and speaking with the receptionist she claimed the phones had never even rung when I called. Weeeeird.
I've had that happen far too many times. It is a pain every time.
*SIGH*. It's always fun to be reminded that while teenagers think they're adults, the whole, "Thinking through your actions and showing restraint," is still a bit beyond them.
NobodysHome, introducing himself to his chaperonees via group text: "OK, everyone remember we're going into bear territory, so no scented personal products, all food in proper containers, oh, wait a minute..."
Senior who Knows NobodysHome Well: "Yeah! Everyone come heavily-armed and with high-end stereo systems!"
NobodysHome sighs to himself as he privately texts student in question that jokes about heavily-armed high school students are Not OK at the moment...
Well, depending on the bear, he's not wrong...
For me I would think it as a joke but again, different environment here.
Black bears occasionally catch rabies. That's the time when a handgun or shotgun is generally called for.
About the only other case where you need a weapon is a polar bear, and then an anti-tank rifle becomes practical.
Unless you're dumb enough to anger a grizzly. Then you'll probably want an AK-47 or light machine gun. You've probably got about six seconds at most before it kills you, so spray and pray really is your only option for survival if you're an average citizen. Luckily, it's not hard to avoid that.
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