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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Agean90 posted:

laughing my rear end off at the city of needles, some pissant village of 5000 managing to secure its own power better than multiple metropolitan areas with some of the biggest concentrations of wealth in the country

for real it's because there's way more money to be made at the higher density population areas

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

thousand needles was a terrible exaggeration in the first place

Irradiation
Sep 14, 2005

I understand your frustration.

Vox Nihili posted:

Colored areas on this map are publicly-owner (municipal) utilities. Tan areas are privatized, mostly PG&E, SDG&E, and Southern California Edison. You want to be in one of the colored areas to have a shot at avoiding blackouts, death, etc.



loving lol that Biggs and Gridley have their own utilities now

redleader
Aug 18, 2005

Engage according to operational parameters

Vox Nihili posted:

Southeastern California is a weird place. Hosts the highest and lowest points in the contiguous 48 states, less than 100 miles apart. Lots of barren frontierland, either left to boom and bust or entirely passed over as useless (except for that brief period when it hosted the Manzanar concentration camp).

and, of course, the needles

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

imperial irrigation district grows most of the vegetables americans eat in the winter. just think about that, the next time you eat a green thing, if you're american

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

oystertoadfish posted:

eat a green thing, if you're american

:thunk:

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators
https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1189270309066686464

Freaking Crumbum
Apr 17, 2003

Too fuck to drunk


needles was nearly a ghost town when my mom grew up there in the 1950s. the fact that it's managed to just baaaaaaarely cling to a sliver of life despite the fact that it has no real industry or commerce, no tourism nor easily exploitable resources, just a lonely mcdonalds sitting on the side of the 95 that runs through the town, is proof of just how powerful and deadly their clan of master assassins really are. their 10000 needles technique is almost a fabled perfect jutsu

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Vox Nihili posted:

Colored areas on this map are publicly-owner (municipal) utilities. Tan areas are privatized, mostly PG&E, SDG&E, and Southern California Edison. You want to be in one of the colored areas to have a shot at avoiding blackouts, death, etc.



The virgin PGE vs the Chad Muni utility.

Odonata
Nov 5, 2009
Nap Ghost
To the northwest of the City of Needles lay the Dead Mountains. If anyone wants to join me this weekend I'll be questing there for the Lich's Crown.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1189351589766746117?s=19

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lol

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
Really though, it's the executives that should be run off the road

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

Really though, it's the executives that should be run off the road

100%. they don't drive marked vehicles though so we should be safe and just make every newer-model luxury car fair game

TehSaurus
Jun 12, 2006

i say swears online posted:

100%. they don't drive marked vehicles though so we should be safe and just make every newer-model luxury car fair game

Wait you weren't already doing this?

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

I assume anyone in a car without body damage is an enemy of the people

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Gripweed posted:

I assume anyone in a car without body damage is an enemy of the people

But I drive a Dodge Caliber, surely no enemy of the people would drive a car that lovely

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Freaking Crumbum posted:

needles was nearly a ghost town when my mom grew up there in the 1950s. the fact that it's managed to just baaaaaaarely cling to a sliver of life despite the fact that it has no real industry or commerce, no tourism nor easily exploitable resources, just a lonely mcdonalds sitting on the side of the 95 that runs through the town, is proof of just how powerful and deadly their clan of master assassins really are. their 10000 needles technique is almost a fabled perfect jutsu

don't gently caress with spike, that beagle don't mess around

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
china is training their population to withstand the coming atmosphere from climate change

https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1189229024951881728

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo
China's mostly just desertifying the yellow river basin

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

Iron Crowned posted:

But I drive a Dodge Caliber, surely no enemy of the people would drive a car that lovely

dodge is a chud brand. you are suspect

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1191022852612542465?s=19

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018

coal ash is clean idiot

Hurt Whitey Maybe
Jun 26, 2008

I mean maybe not. Or maybe. Definitely don't kill anyone.
Delhi looking futuristic the future is world choking pollution


https://twitter.com/siddharth3/status/1190837875434086400?s=21

Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

did a weird weather pattern happen that boxed it all in like that?

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:

Delhi looking futuristic the future is world choking pollution


https://twitter.com/siddharth3/status/1190837875434086400?s=21

lmfao

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Bulgakov posted:

did a weird weather pattern happen that boxed it all in like that?

it's about that time when the monsoon winds from the south fail, so things are much more still

edit yeah look at wind speed in the graph above

Hurt Whitey Maybe
Jun 26, 2008

I mean maybe not. Or maybe. Definitely don't kill anyone.

Bulgakov posted:

did a weird weather pattern happen that boxed it all in like that?

apparently this time of year there’s not much wind and the farmers burn their crops. add in Diwali fireworks and apparently that’s the cause: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/world/asia/delhi-pollution-health-emergency.html

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ueDHn2HTk

more beautiful than ever

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

I assume the meter is fully pegged and we're in the not great not terrible zone?

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:

Delhi looking futuristic the future is world choking pollution


https://twitter.com/siddharth3/status/1190837875434086400?s=21

That's a high number

Gareth Gobulcoque
Jan 10, 2008



herman Caine climate plan

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Bip Roberts posted:

I assume the meter is fully pegged and we're in the not great not terrible zone?
If the meter tops out at 999 that’s really worrying




how are we going to make the number go up any more :ohdear:

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer
number will always go up

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

TACD posted:

If the meter tops out at 999 that’s really worrying




how are we going to make the number go up any more :ohdear:

Now we gotta go for most days in a row with the number maxed out

Paramemetic
Sep 29, 2003

Area 51. You heard of it, right?





Fallen Rib

Gripweed posted:

Now we gotta go for most days in a row with the number maxed out

Seinfeldishly: don't break the chain!!

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

*beijing bursts through door, slams money on table* I'M OUT

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
remind me what gavin's doing to address climate change again

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1191032777463889920

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

remind me what gavin's doing to address climate change again

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1191032777463889920

Reducing the planet's albedo by letting PG&E create massive firestorms.

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Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

cut fire stoppers

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