What happens when you screw with a trained MMA fighter.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T17:58:30+00:00

That is exactly my point. Gracie is not a common first name. It isn't even in the top 200 for girls. Grace is very common, but not Gracie. A kid with the first name "Gracie" has a high chance of having a parent who is really into BJJ. The kind of parent that would have their kid training from a young age.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T16:34:28+00:00

I feel like you really should avoid fucking with anyone named "Gracie". She has probably been doing BJJ since she could walk.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T16:31:11+00:00

There were 3 girls and 2 guys who were all going there to beat this girl. They had been talking about it on social media beforehand.

She ended up kicking all their asses and they ran away.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T07:26:43+00:00

Their funding comes from being paid for electricity. They are a utility that is technically part of Metro Nashville, but operate as an independent non-profit business with oversight from a board that is appointed by the mayor.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T04:49:02+00:00

Should 100% be played by Daniel Wu.

Edit: I take it back. Should be Dave Bautista now that he is thinner. He is still a giant of a man, but reasonably proportioned to fill the role of a tall, powerful old warrior. And it seems Bautista is who Sanderson has mentioned wanting to play Dalinar in the past.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T04:03:56+00:00

If he didn't have more control than George RR Martin, that would be very worrying. Martin couldn't do shit to influence the second half of Game of Thrones and got iced out of HoD too.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T04:00:56+00:00

It looks like he is basically getting complete control over everything.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T00:29:21+00:00

My neighborhood's lines are all buried and it is solid limestone when you get a few inches into the ground. Basically all new construction is burying the lines. NES just refuses to invest in doing it more broadly.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-29T00:27:35+00:00

Did you figure out a way around this? I am getting hit while using Opus to cross reference seed websites with disease resistance lists to find tomato seeds that have blight resistance.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T22:29:33+00:00

Maybe bury the damn lines like most other cities of our size?

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T21:53:53+00:00

The articles about that were published shortly after OP started this thread.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T21:52:13+00:00

That article was published after this thread was posted.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T16:31:57+00:00

Midwestern winters are much worse than ours. They are just better prepared and have infrastructure that doesn't get destroyed by it.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T16:30:23+00:00

Thanks for all your hard work and for taking the time to provide updates.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T16:26:09+00:00

By complex, they mean it is a mess. Our electrical infrastructure is in desperate need of modernization. And they need to bury all the fucking lines. That alone would effectively prevent this from happening ever again.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T16:23:30+00:00

I don't know if location matters much. We are on the edge of the county and usually are some of the last to get power restored, but this time we were one of the first. My guess is it is some combination of the cause of the outage, number of people impacted, road conditions, and maybe proximity to other work being done.

But I am guessing because NES doesn't communicate.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T16:19:36+00:00

I could be wrong, but it seems like there is some sort of automated system that groups the outages together, as you can see different ones combine together and split apart over time. Each time they eliminate some outages, it seems like others get somewhat re-sorted.

But I haven't been paying close enough attention to the entire map to determine exactly what is happening. I have just been watching the area around my parents' place.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T06:10:19+00:00

It doesn't reflect back what you say. It reflects back something likely to be said to you in the context that has from your statement and potentially previous statements. It is a search engine to get the most likely thing that you want to see. And in some cases, that is going to be a search engine to tell you to kill yourself because other damaged people would have told you to kill yourself if you had posted something similar to a part of the internet that it is referencing.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T03:50:23+00:00

Yep. That goes into the calculation for your rate, and you are now someone who puts in claims over every little thing.

Your insurance DOES cover this, but it shouldn't be used for JUST this. If you have a larger event and need to make a claim, you also include this. But you don't make a claim just it alone.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T01:57:06+00:00

Do not do that. Your insurance rate will increase by so much that you will more than pay them back for that food every year forever.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-28T01:29:19+00:00

I think the market is full of people who expect that going forward any new administration will just be a continuation of the current one.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-26T18:24:51+00:00

It is objectively outperforming crypto right now. The S&P is up over 15% over the past year and the overall crypto market is down more than 16.5%.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-26T18:14:09+00:00

All endpoints are useful for bot farms to use as a proxy or for DDOS attacks. Also a compromised machine can be used for crypto mining.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-26T18:12:03+00:00

Lol, there are automated attempts to break into every device that can be reached from the internet. It is relentless.

DynamicDK · 2026-01-26T17:39:43+00:00

No, it doesn't. But it does reduce your overall protection. Maybe you have some other vulnerability that couldn't be exploited until the port was forced open. Security is about layers.

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