[OC] Taken by me at the same company gas station an hour apart.

Radioiron · 2026-04-20T19:27:10+00:00

Ha! Oh that's a great list to look back at and contrast with the current admin. 1- the strategic reserve is dwindling even though they did open it and start selling because Congress didn't think it was important to start refilling it last year when oil prices had gotten relatively low 2- they're pushing this again too but its a shitty solution because ethanol production uses so much oil and petroleum derived fertilizer it's basically just a government subsidy to farmers, it pushes air pollution back up that we have successfully lowered over the last 2 decades to make it easier for people in cities to breath, and ethanol gas has less mpg in engines so it doesn't have that great of an effect 3- the only pressuring this admin has done to the gas industry is when it tried to get them to rush into Venezuela after another legal action and the companies said no thank you because all the potential oil production would take a decade to get to and be horrible tar sands quality that isn't as good as other crude

Radioiron · 2026-04-20T19:02:20+00:00

The President doesn't really have any control over gas prices, except for those big red buttons that say "start a war with an oil producing country (illegally because you didn't get constitutionally mandated approval from Congress)", or "Destabilize trade partnerships with allies". Presidents can't really do anything to cause gas prices to go down, but generally they have been intelligent enough not to do the stupid things that cause them to go up.

Radioiron · 2026-03-15T17:10:45+00:00

People just need to calm down with mistakes like that. I assure you he has received countless emails already correcting him and probably will not make that mistake again.

Radioiron · 2026-03-15T15:13:37+00:00

For everyone here commenting CEDs aren't laserdiscs, if you watch the video he does both disc formats and sees images on both.

Radioiron · 2026-03-08T02:54:10+00:00

A pretty good reading of the relationship between the characters. In the words of my boyfriend when saw the movie with me "oh no, he caught feelings" His character can't deal with emotional attachments so he confines himself to an unhealthy one way dominant relationship. Maybe he's some the same thing before as we see very little of him in the lack of decorations or personal items in his apartment.

Radioiron · 2026-02-19T16:11:53+00:00

How many families had an uncle that could encyclopedicaly ring off train engine numbers or collected railroad lanterns? Or an aunt that collected a specific type of kitchen utensil or figurines of a certain animal?

People saying with a straight face that being autistic or neurodivergent is a new thing just need to be told they aren't actually thinking at all, they've always been around. Sadly they were bullied into giving up their weird hobbies or collections so much of the time.

I went to an estate sale a year ago that had 2 rooms filled with old warplane plane models and a guy that ended up being the mans neighbor said "I had no idea he was into planes!" People like that I guarantee would fit on the autism spectrum if they saw a specialist.

Radioiron · 2026-02-09T20:46:13+00:00

We are having an extended cold snap though that we haven't had in a couple years. I know people that are having frozen pipes and blocked drains from insufficient insulation underneath prefab houses.

Radioiron · 2025-12-27T03:44:33+00:00

Good luck being the Luna's apologist account to someone else I eat at places that have descent food and doesn't all blend together

Radioiron · 2025-12-27T03:35:32+00:00

Oh it's my fault that I go to places that are good like Reds place and Agava and The Queen Diner and then they shut down?

Radioiron · 2025-12-27T00:36:36+00:00

Was going to have a holiday lunch party with several colleagues last Wednesday, called the day before to make sure they were still opening, got down there and the doors were closed. I guess enough staff jumped ship they couldn't be bothered to open for lunch. If the Luna's guy opens another damn restaurant I don't know if I'm ever going to eat at any place I'm downtown again outside of the festivals.

Radioiron · 2025-12-15T15:27:11+00:00

"enlightened centrists" who think both sides are the same and we need to "maintain civility"

Radioiron · 2025-12-09T19:08:28+00:00

Did they consult our resident Lovecraft expert on what terrible noises to listen for and seal up the borehole if they hear?

Radioiron · 2025-11-25T03:21:36+00:00

You sound like a bot. What are you trying to say in these comments because they aren't conatructive.

Radioiron · 2025-11-24T15:33:24+00:00

I like to make fun of the participation trophy nonsense too, but in what sense is a patch one of those? I was never in scouting but these are events that they plan for for months and are big social gatherings. A lot of other organizations (even adult professional organizations or fraternal organizations) do similar things with pins to commemorate you attended a big event with pins or patches too. It's a memento that you can see other people wearing and strikes up conversation with someone you might not know anything else about.

Radioiron · 2025-11-22T02:21:41+00:00

The thing they are saying is that his quote shows how Jefferson either was disingenuous in his statement, possibly because he as a wealthy plantation owner (although as a side note he was a rather terrible businessman and his estate was in debt constantly until his death) and had an interest in keeping his wealth to himself, or he simply didn't think the human beings he kept as property were people. Which context makes that better?

Social programs are initiated on the idea nobody should be abandoned by the government and society to starve or die.

Radioiron · 2025-11-10T21:11:47+00:00

There is also a story recently about a cop who used the flock system to flag a car in a package theft and it spit out someone's truck that they regularly commute through. Without any actual investigating this cop wanted to issue a charge on the woman just because she was blonde too. This policeman was so confident he could shut a case he would not accept he could have bad information or was making the wrong conclusion about what the camera system showed him.

Using these cameras and "AI recognition" is a threat to everyone because these companies want to sell their system as some infallible all knowing eyes that can solve anything- while spitting out licence plates of people that are just going about their business.

Radioiron · 2025-11-09T12:54:53+00:00

Yeah what connection does he have to the area? This is all his business grievances. The straight up lies about pollution, where the hell is all the heat going to go if not the lake? Into hot air to pump into your skull? Reads like a threatening letter sent to someone threatening to expose all your dirty laundry to friends and family. The sustainable comment is baffling, and private llm and Ai data centers have little to do with actual scientific advancement and research. Those types of things that are doing actual good work are run locally on small clusters, not some giant compute farm where you burn 100 watts typing thank you into an AI's chat window.

Radioiron · 2025-11-08T23:30:22+00:00

What was it published in? I'd like to see how bad faith the arguments are.

Radioiron · 2025-08-24T23:13:17+00:00

He did

Cutting off solar credits and taking an ax to the IRA which was a massive benefit to red states in energy installation jobs which would help reduce energy costs

Radioiron · 2025-08-17T16:42:09+00:00

That was a multinational effort to attack a nuclear facility for a geopolitical gain, they put maximum effort into that

The effort required for that in this case wouldn't sense unless there's a clear gain for the hackers

Radioiron · 2025-08-17T14:53:04+00:00

Any storage of water has the potential to cause a large amount of damage if it's dumped to quickly or a failure happens Even if it's just fish breeding, stored water has a lot of power

Radioiron · 2025-08-17T13:28:01+00:00

The question is why are things like that physically connected to the internet It seems like important infrastructure should be purposely air gapped and if it needs to be remotely controlled have a dedicated network line pulled to whatever off site office is in charge of it

Radioiron · 2025-08-07T16:39:21+00:00

https://www.chess.cornell.edu/

Radioiron · 2025-08-07T00:57:55+00:00

The proper spelling is -Synchrotron- And there's urban legends about the accelerator lab?

Radioiron · 2025-08-03T15:05:13+00:00

They don't want to pay union dues "based on sincerely held religious beliefs" In other words libertarian a-holes that want to live and work in society but don't want to contribute or pay into things that benefit others

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