I will miss the following subreddits:
\ohlympics
\nostalgiafapping
\askhistorians
\montereybay
\10s
\patientgamers
And that’s about it. Tennis porn and games.
I quit using Reddit, the website sucks and third party apps are the only way to make it usable. It joined Twitter in being deleted from my phone which frees up more time that I used to waste.
Engineering and surveying. Throughout the southern part of the country.
PE is good if it’s patient money. I have no use for the kind that overpays, thinking they can either split the business up (and resell) or just increase prices to justify the price paid.
We’re always acquiring, and valuations are way more reasonable than during the Rona. Still higher than before 2020 but at least private equity has gotten the fuck out of this space. Those guys Fuck everything up for players in the market just looking to expand. They buy at inflated value without regard to what works in the industry.
The dam busting bombs in WW2 used by the Brit’s were 4000 kg. That is compared to a 500 kg normal size. Yeah.
It was placed explosives on weak points to create a failure. Not shelling which is a ludicrous assertion.
Went and watched some videos of the breached flow. That’s a lot of flow. The amount of sediment moving from the reservoir is going to be incredible. The damage is going to unreal downstream on the low bank.
I also thought some more about this and the most damage would have been done with explosives in the emergency relief pipes, especially in the wet side because of the basically incompressible nature of water, which means the energy of an explosion can be directed toward the structure.
Engineer here, do design of some small dams from time to time. Demo of a dam is fairly simple if you have access to its base. You just need a breach to start and it will go quickly, because water will find a way through it. Could a single missile do it? Unlikely but a bunker Buster might. On the other hand, planting explosives at the downstream base and in the intake and release structures would certainly do it with minimal chance of not working.
The pictures I’ve seen show a narrow breach which indicates no catastrophic structural failure, just a breach. It’s probably still a total rebuild but I don’t see evidence of a huge flood wave resulting from it. I’ll read up some more of it today.
Florida is actually a little bit underwhelming. And given the direction of the state vis a vis corporations I suspect that will not change. I see it as continuing to attract wealthy retirees fleeing high personal tax rates but not much else. Their infrastructure sucks and is only going to get worse. None of the natural advantages Texas or California have, plus the wonder of increasingly terrible hurricanes.
The one I expect to continue growing is Georgia. A lot more so than its neighbors.
This thread has gone so meta I can’t even keep track any more. Visionary, definitely not. Driven and successful, yes, despite his manchild tendencies. Someone who will produce Schadenfreude forever, definitely!
Debt default delayed, now we can go back to Fed watching and decrying all the money that got pumped into egg futures by the brrrt printer.
This week stonks are back on the menu, boys!
I wound up getting the Hisense U8H. Just too cheap to spend another 500 bucks and it looks like the main weakness is if you don’t sit in front of it (angled viewing). Time will tell if I made the right choice.