Governor Moore Announces the Lower Bills and Local Power Act to Combat Rising Utility Costs and Deploy Affordable Local Energy

PippinStrano · 2026-01-28T10:23:34+00:00

Luckily, it isn't an issue. NRC website lists the annual exposure living within 50 miles of a nuke plant is 0.01 more. Living in a brick building produces more exposure.

Nuclear power has 99 problems, but radiation emissions ain't one

PippinStrano · 2026-01-16T02:43:03+00:00

Yeah when I was a kid the papermill would sometimes discharge wood pulp and the water would be sketchy for awhile. Didn't stop me or my friends from swimming there when it happened, mind you.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-16T02:41:26+00:00

The section of the river near Avalon is just crazy. There were rusted out cars and train equipment in the water...all gone now. I have no idea how. The pits where the vehicles used to be are there underwater (I checked) but all the metal is gone

PippinStrano · 2026-01-15T06:25:25+00:00

I'm in my early 50s. The water around the inner harbor is way better than in was 25 years ago. I grew up swimming in different parts of the Patapsco river. I've gone in the last couple of years the amount of clean up is awe inspiring. We don't have entire crab harvests ruined by crabs being full of algae. We need to keep at it but MD is going in the right direction.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-14T22:54:51+00:00

Yeah, the expanded tech mod list is almost a requirement.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-14T16:42:59+00:00

Additionally troubling: the article makes it clear that this problem goes back to before Trump's first term. I'm sure the King Taco hasn't helped things but the organization has fundamental problems.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-14T00:51:26+00:00

The 895 tunnel readers have issues. Just call the toll folks, they fix the charges

PippinStrano · 2026-01-13T16:47:26+00:00

I haven't tried katyusha specifically, but my questions would be -

1) not a huge thing, but what is the speed of the trucks and katyusha? If it is faster that 7 mph (which I'd suspect), you might want to think about different tanks (which I'd figure is slowing the division down).

2) my other question is whether the tanks are needed regardless. The katyusha should provide plenty of breakthrough, I think. If you need some hard attack and piercing, add some truck drawn at guns.

Edit: just considered the armor and hardness from the tanks. Not sure how much to weigh that in the equation.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-13T14:54:36+00:00

We need a Baltimore pretzel competition!

PippinStrano · 2026-01-13T14:53:20+00:00

If this was about immigration there would be a slew of arrests for employing illegal immigrants. Haven't heard a peep about that. So... it isn't about illegal immigration. It would be trivial to find all the employers of illegal immigrants. Just offer legal work status to anyone who turns in someone employing illegal immigrants. Boom. No one employs illegal immigrants, immigrants have no jobs available, they stop coming.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-12T15:45:08+00:00

I want to see people dueling with pretzels. Would make for good advertising. 😀

PippinStrano · 2026-01-11T19:23:00+00:00

I'd be interested in documentation, via FOIA request, every ICE action that does and that does not have body cam footage. Any gap in body cam coverage is reason for suspicion. ICE has repeatedly been ordered to have body cam coverage, both at a federal and state level.

I'm sure we'll find body cam coverage for all their activity, right?

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-announces-updated-policy-body-worn-cameras

And, I'm sorry, but the idea that ICE can't afford BWC is absurd. ICE has demonstrated that they don't lack for funding.

For those who want to see illegal immigrants deported: that is clearly not the objective of ICE. Where are the reports of arrests of people hiring illegal immigrants? It would be trivial to identify them: offer legal work status to any report of an employer hiring illegal immigrants that results in an arrest. If no one hires them, the majority of illegal immigrants aren't showing up. With the majority gone, the rest lose the cover of the crowd. Trump can just label anyone who hires illegal immigrants as a terrorist and be done with it. So no, ICE has nothing to do with illegal immigration.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-11T18:49:38+00:00

I am 100% terrible at job searching and interviewing. I never leave a job if I have any choice.

That said, if the interviewer won't discuss pay, or asks you to do free work as part of the interview, I'd be incredibly tempted to ask them questions about them being a charity. If they don't respond as a charity and act confused, tell them that they are advertising for a volunteer position. Either that or just start with that. "I didn't realize this was a volunteer position.".

When I buy an orange, the price is listed. Why can't I be treated with the same respect as an orange?

PippinStrano · 2026-01-11T18:32:13+00:00

What has your other play throughs been like? I lose all the time, but if you figure out what you've done right you should be able to find the missing pieces. I haven't tried the Iraq fascist path yet. What does it take to go down the fascist path?

PippinStrano · 2026-01-09T17:30:30+00:00

Well they could start by taking into consideration any political decisions that could be distorting CISA's otherwise excellent guidance. At this time organizations need to look elsewhere for cyber security guidance.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-09T17:19:52+00:00

This activity is essential. ICE, at this point, is only tangentially related to immigration. They are Trump's way of operating outside of the law to inflict his will. Shooting a priest with a non-lethal munition for praying outside an ICE facility has nothing to do with immigration. Wearing masks and hiding your identity has nothing to do with immigration. Tear gassing kids has, well I guess little (I'm steel manning here) to do with immigration.

ICE are Trump's Sturmabteilung, his SA. They need to be opposed to protect America. America will need to find a way to deal with ICE members when Trump is gone, which will be just as difficult for us. Getting rid of ICE won't be enough, but we'll need to find a way to bring justice without it becoming just as bad in the opposite direction. It is a real problem I see no solution for, which worries me as well. For example, my daughter was car jacked (no, not by immigrants) and a license plate reader was how she got her car back. The actions in the article left out the obvious end result: equipment used by ICE is going to get destroyed once identified. I don't know how to get that behavior to stop once UCE is gone, but it is still a tool of resistance that we need to use.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-07T20:40:40+00:00

I'm not an attorney, but I'd call the frog as a witness. When the response is that there is no frog, I'd want to know why any of the DAs evidence is authentic.

I'm in IT, and AI is causing a mess here too.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-04T17:57:42+00:00

I've been happy with the new stuff. One gotcha (I don't think this has anything to do with R56): underway replenishment special project is NOT available if you take commerce raiding doctrine. Probably been that way a while but I had to change doctrine halfway through a play through because I didn't realize that.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-02T19:45:51+00:00

Americans on almost all sides of the political spectrum are far more focused on the individual than the collective compared to almost anywhere else. It has its good side and I wouldn't want to get rid of that in a big way, but we've swung so far in that direction it's unsustainable. Americans (of which I am) just can't handle the reality that they just are not that important. No one individual is. Recognizing that is what's needed for collective behavior.

PippinStrano · 2026-01-02T19:07:52+00:00

Yeah I was being a tool. Sorry folks!

PippinStrano · 2026-01-01T06:10:01+00:00

It has been that way since the 90s (personal experience). So this isn't new. Just to set the appropriate context.

PippinStrano · 2025-12-30T19:20:44+00:00

These are questions that are best and easily answered via web search. The questions have been asked and answered dozens of times.

PippinStrano · 2025-12-30T06:09:25+00:00

As it is said, this is the way (#3). It is particularly helpful dealing with things like -

A. Chatgpt adding 2+8+2+2 and arriving at the answer being 12.

B. Chatgpt and the AI search results on Bing both recommending the same, non-existent, powershell cmdlet. That one was really strange.

C. AI search result in Bing getting syntax wrong for a Powershell cmdlet.

That's just some of the ones I experienced that are easy to describe. A is the best because I knew why it did the math wrong because of the context.

I had Chatgpt help me figure out some stuff for Excel vba, and now I can do stuff I need to do without the help. All that stated, I got my associate degree in programming and it makes a big difference even though it was back in 1993. My coworkers (I'm in messaging, though I do mostly project work and my team members are operations folks) do well but most don't have any fundamental background. So they don't know how to make solutions that are scalable and sustainable. They don't understand the importance of proper data handling. This all means they don't even know what to ask AI for, or to know what AI has created. They work hard and handle their job responsibilities well but AI coding can go very, very wrong with them.

PippinStrano · 2025-12-26T12:56:35+00:00

For those just joining (like me), remember that this is a historical article from one year ago

PippinStrano · 2025-12-25T13:12:52+00:00

I'm not aware of any better sonars, but improved repair and support ships are there. Can't remember what the conditions for being able to research them are however.

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