The Junk Drawer

Roger A. Shrubber said:
camp out for a couple of days...make an adventure of it.
we have a 4 man tent, a queen sized air matress that you can blow up with the little electric pump or a foot pump, good sleeping bags, a coleman lantern and stove, a couple of lanterns with solar panels to make the batteries last longer...camp out in the back yard, make a fire in the hibachi, keep the coffee pot hot...
oh, and a piece of advice from the last time the power went out for a few days here, get some dry ice if you can, and pack your freezer with it, unless you want to have to replace it all...
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Hopefully the garage be open tomorrow and I can get my car fixed!
 
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Cutting the Cost of Medications

Millions of Australians will save $12.50 on medical scripts under an Albanese Labor Government.
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  • Labor has committed to cut the cost of medications by reducing the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) co-payment from the current maximum of $42.50 per script, to a maximum of $30 per script.
 
It looks like Florida is about to get walloped with one going right across the state. We will have to see how Desantis responds since the interior (MAGA country) will be hammered. They did fuck all for preparation since the last one, but the wealthy have generators or will move to another home, and the morons don't mind being screwed, so why bother.
 
DIY-HP-LED said:
It looks like Florida is about to get walloped with one going right across the state. We will have to see how Desantis responds since the interior (MAGA country) will be hammered. They did fuck all for preparation since the last one, but the wealthy have generators or will move to another home, and the morons don't mind being screwed, so why bother.
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Aw come on; the morons have standards!

Buy them some Gator-Fil-A and it’s all good.
 
In my town there are a few lessons to be learned, like making sure gas stations, grocery stores and the two local banks have generators and robust connections for cashless payments. We live in a cashless society these days and stores can't operate without power, so some business in each community has to be designated as essential services and if the government has to give them a grant to do it then they should. It should be a no brainer for some though, the local superstore lost tens of thousands of dollars in frozen food, a generator would be a fraction of that cost. Perhaps their insurance companies should take notice? Power will go off here, no matter how robust the power grid, we have hurricanes most falls here and with climate change these extreme weather events will only get worse. Even if the government just had mobile generators on trailers and made a requirement for easy hook up to the gas stations for auxiliary power. This should be done on a national level, so we can surge standardized equipment to local disasters. We need to make sure essential services like banking, some gas stations and grocery stores have generators and are linked by a robust network, even if the banks were open people could get cash, since most people have a local account.

The province of Nova Scotia and PEI had their electrical grids wrecked from end to end, both provinces were completely without power, and it will be a while before it is restored to some communities that were harder hit than mine, we had relatively little damage in town, trees down and some damage to wires, but not much. In Glace Bay the wind blew so hard it snapped off the power poles, the trees full of leaves never stood a chance, it will be quite a while until power is restored there. So, we need to be better prepared because it will happen again.
 
There have been other recent important developments in Lithium Sulphur batteries besides this that should lead to mass production.

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A turning point in lithium-sulfur battery field technology

Professor Jong-Sung Yu's research group in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST developed a technology for a porous silica interlayer by loading sulfur, an active material, in silica. This new approach is expected to be pivotal to the R&D and commercialization of...
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DIY-HP-LED said:
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In defense of the card catalog, it didn’t make any uninvited decisions about what you actually meant to search. I’m getting fed up with search bias being presented as an obligatory feature.

That property will either kill Google as the default search engine, or be stripped from Google (which I doubt; it’s on because there’s money in it)

or it will end objective searches except by a dissident cadre aging hard-bitten scholars maintaining and operating paper libraries.

This Trek episode (Court-Martial) was prophetic.

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cannabineer said:
In defense of the card catalog, it didn’t make any uninvited decisions about what you actually meant to search. I’m getting fed up with search bias being presented as an obligatory feature.

That property will either kill Google, or be stripped from Google (which I doubt; it’s on because there’s money in it)

or it will end objective searches except by a dissident cadre aging hard-bitten scholars maintaining and operating paper libraries.

This Trek episode (Court-Martial) was prophetic.

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So mod squad gave you fancy moniker on your pen???
 
Roger A. Shrubber said:
someone's logic is...flawed...
"Cannabis has been a big debate in Tennessee over the last few years. Critics argue it isn’t federally legal yet, while proponents say cannabis use is already happening illegally, so you may as well make money and make it safer by taxing and regulating it."
https://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/tennessee-cannabis-users-crossing-state-lines-for-product/

please explain to me how taxing and regulating cannabis will make it safer? law makers are totally ignorant on the subject, they read a few articles and assume they have enough expertise to make a meaningful decision, and their regulations are almost without fail asinine, idiotic, and useless...
their very effective regulations are why this search is so populated....
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=dispensary+weed+found+with+mold
and this one, for pesticides...
https://www.google.com/search?q=dispensary+weed+found+with+pesticides&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALiCzsZhle3wwJgkeEVz18F6xIjCldQf6g:1664296555701&ei=ayYzY7u2KuGYkPIP_-eUmA8&ved=0ahUKEwj7l4Pos7X6AhVhDEQIHf8zBfMQ4dUDCA0&uact=5&oq=dispensary+weed+found+with+pesticides&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABMgUIIRCrAjoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoICCEQHhAWEB06BAgjECdKBQg8EgExSgQIQRgASgQIRhgAUMQFWPEjYI8oaAFwAXgAgAGdAYgBrQ6SAQQwLjE0mAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz
i know legalization has been a lot of peoples dream for a long time, but if this is the result, i'll stay illegal, thanks....
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It doesn't but like Near Beer..they want to lower thc content..like Near Beer there will only be a small following..it's a Christian Nation.
 
schuylaar said:
It doesn't but like Near Beer..they want to lower thc content..like Near Beer there will only be a small following..it's a Christian Nation.
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when i was a kid in Mn all you could buy was 3.2 beer, which is watered down horseshit...people started taking weekend trips to canada with their pickups and stationwagons, and everyone i knew was drinking molson, moosehead, or labatts...
 
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