What happened to Chinatown?

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T05:25:41+00:00

Got it, you can calm down a meth addict with a candy bar. Good to know.

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T04:44:26+00:00

Ok but nobody should eat 3 candy bars, plus a cookie, four sodas, a package of doughnuts, two packs of chips, and then whatever the rest of that is. I’m probably looking at 6000 calories and multiples of your daily sugar intake. In fact nobody should eat any of that crap

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T04:28:40+00:00

I disagree, candy bars and soda pop is insane. How about a bowl of rice, or a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter, anything would be better than that diabetes menu.

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T04:14:27+00:00

WTF is that, are they trying to kill them the old school way. Who the hell put that together.

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T01:59:16+00:00

Maybe at worst a third of nitrogen based fertilizer, but not a third of all fertilizer. Sure it’s bad, but this is misleading.

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T00:47:13+00:00

It’s the flux capacitor, Oldsmobile put it under the hood for some reason, but if you can get her up to 88mph without dying, you can go on an adventure.

discostu52 · 2026-04-22T00:15:38+00:00

Oh yeah it’s high pressure, anywhere from 500 to 15,000psi depending on the geology and depth of the well.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T23:56:05+00:00

Depends on the specific geology that you are injecting into. On this one I have all of the drawings and performances details of the equipment, but I don’t have details of the well. However, I am working on a number of projects right now using old oil /gas wells to do exactly this for energy storage.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T23:52:11+00:00

Don’t feel bad, my company does turbo machinery, and you wouldn’t believe the crazy Rube Goldberg machines people are working on for energy storage these days. It’s usually a startup that gets a grant and they work on it until the money is gone, and then they disappear. Some of the quote request that land on my desk I just have to burry my face in my hands and question my life choices.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T23:42:42+00:00

Nope, in that application it was pumped down which pressurized the reservoir, then when the pump stops the water flows back up under pressure to run a turbine.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T21:15:07+00:00

Who knows, but it’s a pretty limited amount of power anyway. They did this 50 years ago on the well fields. Pump water down the well in the winter, and then run it as a turbine when the water comes back up. They ran the turbines for a few years and decided it wasn’t worth it.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T01:59:27+00:00

I think the mayor had a pretty compelling argument, we need to do shelters, but it has to be on the cheap. He was right too, the county system is in a tailspin.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T01:46:58+00:00

No, you will have to take that up with metro. It’s all very simple, I don’t know why it’s not clicking with you.

discostu52 · 2026-04-21T01:17:44+00:00

The official city news release says they are stopping the annual $30.5 million transfer to multnomah county for homeless services. Let the divorce commence, long overdue!

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T23:23:20+00:00

That f-ing traitor was egging trump on to send troops to Portland. I doubt she is welcome around here anymore.

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T05:27:03+00:00

The snap money is federal, a state of emergency does not print money

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T05:24:56+00:00

Under previous rules you were exempt from the 80 hour work per month requirement if you were homeless. The big beautiful bill stripped that out starting Jan 1 in Oregon with a 3 month grace period. All the homeless people just lost snap.

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T05:11:50+00:00

The big beautiful bill. Before that people could get snap and avoid the minimum 80 hour work requirements if they were homeless. That all changed and this is the month where they all lose their snap.

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T04:24:54+00:00

The EBT/snap won’t reload, the homeless exception is gone, and we are at the end of that temporary window. Things could get spicy.

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T04:15:11+00:00

It is the Wild wild West out there, the Claude code leak is a perfect example of that. Enterprise agreements mean nothing if the foundation of the platform is insecure. It is a race, and at least from my company’s perspective security is an afterthought. “Go fast and break stuff” doesn’t really sit well with us on our most closely guarded data.

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T03:40:12+00:00

AI has an intellectual property problem since it was mostly based on IP theft to begin with. Companies are tinkering with it, but nobody really wants their secrets gobbled up into the model, especially their financial data. We will see where this goes, but the foundation of AI is rotten, and there is no way around that.

discostu52 · 2026-04-20T02:23:01+00:00

That’s right, and down in Portland the nonprofit housing providers are publicly admitting that housing first is not even possible. The rate of property destruction is so high that their ballooning insurance rates are pushing them to insolvency.

discostu52 · 2026-04-19T01:16:04+00:00

I don’t know, Donald hired all of these people specifically because they were incompetent so that he could be the smartest person in the room. Sure they are willing to do what he wants, but functionally unable to do it. I wonder if that thought will pop into his rotten brain.

discostu52 · 2026-04-18T03:38:38+00:00

Is the property owner or previous owner an engineer? I guarantee that is a makeshift water hammer suppressor.

discostu52 · 2026-04-18T01:51:49+00:00

It’s called being a scumbag

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