The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

Same here. Also, that I’m about to repeat an anecdote that I’ve posted before. This is based mostly on my family often telling me “yes, heard it before, several times, thanks.”

 

Did you ever read the pages long "contributions" by juve chelsea? Thank god for the ignore button.

 

Thank you.

 

Uh, oh ... what did I miss?

 

I think he's referring to the oncoming snow storm?

We already know you have lots of coffee and bourbon, and peanut butter. But will it be enough?

 

Eh, so far at least, it really hasn't been a big deal. We will see what happens overnight.

The important thing is that I've got plenty of coffee.

 

And now my power is out. Great ...

 

It was only out for about an hour and a half!

 

My son and his friend are driving up this afternoon for a couple days snowboarding at Northstar. I’m hoping it’s a little mellower by then. At least the snow should be epic once they get there.

 

It was a good storm. I got around 2 1/2 feet overnight and it's still falling.

 

Accurate

 

Probabily in the review he details the low quality of the actors.

 

Sadly, the Reno NWS hasn't been doing their Freak Out Charts lately. An old example:

 

I was 16 the first time I drove in snow. I was fortunate not to hit anything that morning. We really should have been kept home that day, and there was plenty of warning, because it had snowed that night. They ended up letting us go home at noon, but the snow had melted by then, so no real point.

 

With this global warming I'm afraid of getting out of practice.

 

When my brother was in college at Urbana-Champaign, he had a Chemistry T. A. from Georgia. That guy had a REAL hard time with snow. My brother wound up giving him lessons in the parking lot of the football stadium at U of I (after the guy's 3rd or 4th fender bender). Also gave him the useful pointer of putting some serious weigh in the trunk. They wound up borrowing sandbags that they found laying around the Chemistry building. The next year, that guy was giving his fellow T.A.s lessons in the same parking lot.

 

Yeah, y'all have real snow. Ours melts by mid-afternoon most days. Even when we get 8"-9" overnight, it doesn't last long.

 

I remember the time I went to Chicago for a 2-week business trip... the drive from O'Hare to Lincolnshire was uneventful, but it was Sunday evening, so the first thing I noticed was that the liquor stores were open. The second thing I noticed were the huge snowdrifts and places where plows had come thru and you could see the lines, like a cake with several layers... "this snow fell in late October, this snow fell in early November, this snow fell in late November..."

 

I really miss those 2 footers as I've been in SoCal for the past ten yrs. Snoblowing my 200' driveway a half doz times a day in a 30mph wind was exhilarating.

 

We have nuclear fusion, mf'ers

CNN — For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN.

The US Department of Energy is expected to officially announce the breakthrough Tuesday.

The result of the experiment would be a massive step in a decadeslong quest to unleash an infinite source of clean energy that could help end dependence on fossil fuels. Researchers for decades have attempted to recreate nuclear fusion – replicating the fusion that powers the sun.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html

 

Guys. Guys. Guys.

I think y’all need to calm down about this fusion thing.

It’s a very small step.

This kind of reporting is irresponsible. It’s clickbait.

 

It's a breakthrough but it is clear that it will be decades before commercial fusion energy and I think the article made that clear.