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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 23, 2023 14:27:01 GMT
I can only find season 1. Season 2, episode 1 is now up on YouTube. I doubt Paramont will be posting any more of season 2. As for season 1, I watched all but the last episode. Some were so-so but most pretty good. I'd say not as good as Next Gen or Voyager but hold their own with TOS and Enterprise.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 23, 2023 21:29:44 GMT
Texas is under energy conservation measures because their grid isn't robust enough to meet summer demand. surprisingly, texans are reducing their energy use just as they were asked to. no protests, no blaming the libs, no "they are coming for your thermostat" and most importantly, no knee-jerk disobedience that would crash the grid. It's no surprise, in large part because we do it almost every year. In Central, West, and South Texas, there's about a 1 - 3 week window each summer where temperatures cross 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In extreme instances, 110 can happen. And that's before the heat index kicks in. During this window, most people automatically keep indoors unless they absolutely have to be outside, and that means load on the electrical grid as people run air conditioning and the like. The state officials will therefore issue a preemptive round of "please conserve" reminders before this happens, and most people who are used to the routine understand that this is the cue to start a bit of demand-shifting wherein certain appliances like washers, dryers, and dishwashers are only activated during the overnight hours when demand on the grid is reduced. Some electric providers here in Texas already engage in demand-shifting by incentivizing people to focus their electricity use into the off-hours, so it's not a big deal. The issue in 2021 was that the government body in charge of the grid refused to believe a blizzard of that magnitude was possible and so failed to winterize the grid as they should have.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jun 26, 2023 21:50:00 GMT
Texas is under energy conservation measures because their grid isn't robust enough to meet summer demand. surprisingly, texans are reducing their energy use just as they were asked to. no protests, no blaming the libs, no "they are coming for your thermostat" and most importantly, no knee-jerk disobedience that would crash the grid. It's no surprise, in large part because we do it almost every year. In Central, West, and South Texas, there's about a 1 - 3 week window each summer where temperatures cross 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In extreme instances, 110 can happen. And that's before the heat index kicks in. During this window, most people automatically keep indoors unless they absolutely have to be outside, and that means load on the electrical grid as people run air conditioning and the like. The state officials will therefore issue a preemptive round of "please conserve" reminders before this happens, and most people who are used to the routine understand that this is the cue to start a bit of demand-shifting wherein certain appliances like washers, dryers, and dishwashers are only activated during the overnight hours when demand on the grid is reduced. Some electric providers here in Texas already engage in demand-shifting by incentivizing people to focus their electricity use into the off-hours, so it's not a big deal. The issue in 2021 was that the government body in charge of the grid refused to believe a blizzard of that magnitude was possible and so failed to winterize the grid as they should have. Even if there were protests and the like, no news outlet would cover or report on them as it wouldn't fit their agenda. And the few that would, would be called names and every attempt made to smear them.
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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 26, 2023 22:36:25 GMT
It's no surprise, in large part because we do it almost every year. In Central, West, and South Texas, there's about a 1 - 3 week window each summer where temperatures cross 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In extreme instances, 110 can happen. And that's before the heat index kicks in. During this window, most people automatically keep indoors unless they absolutely have to be outside, and that means load on the electrical grid as people run air conditioning and the like. The state officials will therefore issue a preemptive round of "please conserve" reminders before this happens, and most people who are used to the routine understand that this is the cue to start a bit of demand-shifting wherein certain appliances like washers, dryers, and dishwashers are only activated during the overnight hours when demand on the grid is reduced. Some electric providers here in Texas already engage in demand-shifting by incentivizing people to focus their electricity use into the off-hours, so it's not a big deal. The issue in 2021 was that the government body in charge of the grid refused to believe a blizzard of that magnitude was possible and so failed to winterize the grid as they should have. Even if there were protests and the like, no news outlet would cover or report on them as it wouldn't fit their agenda. And the few that would, would be called names and every attempt made to smear them. You saying the news is biased? Who’d of thunk.
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Post by the light works on Jun 26, 2023 23:25:12 GMT
It's no surprise, in large part because we do it almost every year. In Central, West, and South Texas, there's about a 1 - 3 week window each summer where temperatures cross 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In extreme instances, 110 can happen. And that's before the heat index kicks in. During this window, most people automatically keep indoors unless they absolutely have to be outside, and that means load on the electrical grid as people run air conditioning and the like. The state officials will therefore issue a preemptive round of "please conserve" reminders before this happens, and most people who are used to the routine understand that this is the cue to start a bit of demand-shifting wherein certain appliances like washers, dryers, and dishwashers are only activated during the overnight hours when demand on the grid is reduced. Some electric providers here in Texas already engage in demand-shifting by incentivizing people to focus their electricity use into the off-hours, so it's not a big deal. The issue in 2021 was that the government body in charge of the grid refused to believe a blizzard of that magnitude was possible and so failed to winterize the grid as they should have. Even if there were protests and the like, no news outlet would cover or report on them as it wouldn't fit their agenda. And the few that would, would be called names and every attempt made to smear them. there will always be one branch of media covering protests, sometimes even if there aren't any.
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Post by the light works on Jun 26, 2023 23:26:21 GMT
Texas is under energy conservation measures because their grid isn't robust enough to meet summer demand. surprisingly, texans are reducing their energy use just as they were asked to. no protests, no blaming the libs, no "they are coming for your thermostat" and most importantly, no knee-jerk disobedience that would crash the grid. It's no surprise, in large part because we do it almost every year. In Central, West, and South Texas, there's about a 1 - 3 week window each summer where temperatures cross 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In extreme instances, 110 can happen. And that's before the heat index kicks in. During this window, most people automatically keep indoors unless they absolutely have to be outside, and that means load on the electrical grid as people run air conditioning and the like. The state officials will therefore issue a preemptive round of "please conserve" reminders before this happens, and most people who are used to the routine understand that this is the cue to start a bit of demand-shifting wherein certain appliances like washers, dryers, and dishwashers are only activated during the overnight hours when demand on the grid is reduced. Some electric providers here in Texas already engage in demand-shifting by incentivizing people to focus their electricity use into the off-hours, so it's not a big deal. The issue in 2021 was that the government body in charge of the grid refused to believe a blizzard of that magnitude was possible and so failed to winterize the grid as they should have. also, for the record, ERCOT is NOT a government body. it is a collective of energy companies. the Texas grid is completely privatized.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 27, 2023 14:36:43 GMT
Reminder that this song exists because someone decided to make a musical about the world of competitive chess and how it was affected by the Cold War.
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Post by the light works on Jun 27, 2023 15:07:01 GMT
Reminder that this song exists because someone decided to make a musical about the world of competitive chess and how it was affected by the Cold War. I remember when the movie came out, and the song was released in 4 or 5 different versions.
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Post by ironhold on Jul 4, 2023 22:26:14 GMT
"You may have won the war for independence against us, but our music took over your charts in the 1960s and our culture has always been a part of your public consciousness since. Keep that in mind before you try to sass someone who is British."
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Post by rmc on Jul 5, 2023 11:48:49 GMT
Yes. Yes. I suppose it remains debatable, but in some small way, "America" remains yet another British invention.
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Then, I found this. Wholly unrelated.
Then
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Post by ironhold on Jul 6, 2023 14:29:22 GMT
Turns out that an animated video was made a few years ago:
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Post by rmc on Jul 9, 2023 15:07:41 GMT
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Post by rmc on Jul 11, 2023 16:31:29 GMT
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Post by ironhold on Sept 23, 2023 23:40:00 GMT
Someone was complaining that rock music isn't diverse enough.
Myself and several others have spent the last 48 hours introducing them to different bands, past and present, to demonstrate otherwise.
Consider Los Bravos. The original line-up had members from Germany, the UK, and Spain. This video is from 1967, the height of their international popularity.
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Post by the light works on Sept 24, 2023 0:56:09 GMT
Someone was complaining that rock music isn't diverse enough. Myself and several others have spent the last 48 hours introducing them to different bands, past and present, to demonstrate otherwise. Consider Los Bravos. The original line-up had members from Germany, the UK, and Spain. This video is from 1967, the height of their international popularity. what a coincidence, no other narrow genre of music is really all that diverse, either. it's almost like people who share a culture also share a taste in music.
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Post by ironhold on Oct 8, 2023 13:14:30 GMT
Since it's that time of year:
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Post by GTCGreg on Oct 9, 2023 0:56:20 GMT
Thanks, I needed that.
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Post by rmc on Dec 14, 2023 4:35:23 GMT
My presentation: 42 minutes, 42 seconds into this YouTube from MUFON.
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Post by GTCGreg on Dec 24, 2023 4:48:01 GMT
Now THIS is how you do a Christmas display. Watch it to the end. I guarantee you will be amazed. It also helps if you play it on a decent set of speakers or at least with headphones.
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Post by the light works on Jan 1, 2024 20:51:23 GMT
a recap of recent creative sentences.
the headliner got sentenced to 18 days in jail for a drunk driving crash - but it's WHICH 18 days that make it different.
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