I go with the flow.

You’re good, just trying to prepare you for the spirited debate lol

To make it worse, I was working full time at the time. It was the only way I could get to the next course in the schedule since certain classes were only offered in certain semesters so if I had missed that window, I would have been set back a year. It was awful.

Nah, Old Gregg has standards or at least some kind of code he lives by.

I did a summer “mini-mester” for my undergrad Fluid Mechanics class where the class was condensed into 4 or 6 weeks but you met every day and it was FUCKING BRUTAL even though I was only doing that one course. I can’t imagine doing that for a full 15hrs of coursework. This smells more like a click through the classwork once randomly, figure out the right answers from the online quiz when they pop up at the end, then click the right answers the next time type of situation but for a whole program.

How this got accredited (if it actually is) is beyond me.

I had the zen touch as well for the same reason. Sadly that one got lost in Highschool.

Real talk, do you get hella gassy and if so how do you deal with it? I’ve been making an effort to eat more fiber and it’s created levels of gas that has me concerned that the US might bring me democracy soon.

100% a question to get angry answers on both sides. I use anti-sieze on lugs but I also use an adjusted torque value with that to compensate for the reduced friction, and check my lugs frequently.

There are two possible failures here, you overstretch the stud and yield it from the reduced friction in the thread increasing the tension in the stud threads which weakens the stud and either pops it off when you tighten it or it fatigues and pops off later. The other failure is that the nut comes loose later when you are driving. I’ve never seen that actually happen.

Reason for me using anti-sieze is, I tow a trailer in salt water and have had lugs rust to the studs then snap the hex off the lug leaving me to drill out the little nubbin that got left behind. Luckily it was in my garage that it happened and not on the road.

Thanks, I figured it was low risk because they were already fully dead, cheap(ish) experiment. I did watch it like a hawk while I was charging and put it in a lipo bag in case the spicy pillow got too excited. It’s been running well for a week and no fires so far.

Look, I get feeling angry about it but it’s really reductive to say that about everyone, when not everyone voted that way. You are saying fuck you to a bunch of people who voted against that. Texas is unfortunately full of sadistic or ignorant people who vote against their and our interests. But, its also full of good people who don’t want this and vote against it. Those of us who vote against this shit get screwed just as much as those who vote for it. No one needs your anger, we need compassion for those stuck in a shitty situation. Use your anger to make change, not blame people who got screwed by their shitty neighbors.

The city and state have utterly failed the residents. By not curtailing the industrial users or even having a limit on them to start with, the government allowed the city to get into this position. I am ashamed of how this state is run and what it is doing to these people. Since they are not handling it responsibly, they are going to do permanent damage to so many more cities and individual well users in the area. Without some dramatic shift in rainfall pattern (for the better which isn’t gonna happen) or dramatic aquafir recharge effort, they are going to create a situation that will make the dust bowl look like a walk in a rainforest.

The temps in Houston are now firmly in the dangerous range during peak summer. When you reach a certain humidity and temperature, your body can’t regulate its internal temperature by sweating anymore, you essentially have to have some kind of external input to cool off, that can be cold(er) water, air conditioning, fans (where you can have lower humidity or temperature air blowing over you, or something similar.

If you can make changes to your structure, doing a radiant barrier or some kind of false roof (even a solar shade or something that doesn’t block all the sun) over your existing roof to limit the solar heat transfer to your structure can help.

If you can get some insulation for the windows, especially if you can get the foil lined version and direct the foil outside, that will also help.

Local air conditioning (mini splits or single room units) are often less efficient but if you are just focused on making it tolerable, you can do a single room as a cool down room for less money (upfront and in energy cost) vs a whole house or multi room unit. There are 12v units that can be run on a decent size solar setup like used in RV’s or campers.

It’s not really noticeable imo.

I have done that before but it collects chips when I am working with steel.

On portable stuff I do the same. For grinders, I use zip-ties.

Hey, different strokes for different folks.

There is a pretty good series on youtube for maritime stuff. Brick Immortar

If you are into car stuff you should checkout Squidd

I highly recommend the Well there’s your problem episode about this.

Reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

Listening to: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

It’s not even really about the refineries not getting any oil supply. Refineries are setup to use SPECIFIC oil feedstock chemistries, if you try to substitute that oil for a different type (light sweet vs heavy sour or mid mid, etc) the process either doesn’t work, or it wastes a significant chunk. To convert a refinery to use a different feedstock, it takes a significant amount of engineering time, then you have to effectively SHUT DOWN the whole unit, redo parts of the equipment, then run it back up, test it, and tweak the process variables. Refineries plan this years out and it takes 6+ months to do if nothing goes wrong. Then, they are basically locked into that new feedstock again.

Doing any kind of supply shock like this is dumb for any number of reasons. It’s even dumber when the critical components to rework the refineries is in shorter supply because people keep blowing up the existing equipment. Lead times on some of this stuff is in the 20+ month range duing normal times.

There will not be an easy adjustment, the 10-20% loss in supply figure is misleading at best. This is going to impact everything that uses oil, plastic, fertilizer, lubricants, valves, electronics, etc and its not going to be a 10-20% impact…

We should encourage more one on one time between P and VP. Let’s see how the trend goes. It’s the only responsible thing we can do as researchers.