Ah, yes. Boneless mice, also known as terrestrial quadropodes. I’m pretty sure they’re related to the chickens we get boneless wings from.

*Unvirgins your boots

I have a company van I take home every night and a gas card for it. Also my paid hours start the moment I leave my driveway and stop the moment I pull back in my driveway.

But the best perk is that I have an excuse to spend all my money on tools. I would have done that anyways, but now it’s justified.

They already are. The US has been following along about a decade behind in refrigeration tech for a while now.

Exactly! There is way too much fearmongering about things like hydrocarbon refrigerants. I find it kind of funny how the EPA says you can’t have more than 1lb of R290 in a hermetically sealed refrigeration system but doesn’t give a shit that a large portion of the population has leaky 30lb tanks of the stuff sitting under their BBQ grills right next to their house.

Plus there’s CO2 although the main obstacle for that is just how heniously expensive those systems are. But a large part of that expense is just making transcritical refrigeration work. If we started building buildings with CO2 refrigeration in mind and started mandating installing geothermal heat exchanger loops for all new construction then you just use that to cool the CO2 and eliminate the whole transcritical issue and a massive chunk of the cost for those systems.

Also old ozone depleting gasses are still used. They just can’t be manufactured or imported anymore. But prior to being banned, enough were stockpiled that they’re still only moderately expensive. We do still ocasionally get places like old grocery stores blowing 500lbs of good old ozone depleting R22 into the air when leaks happen. Hell, it was only in the past decade or so that R-12 finally got too expensive to be usable.

That’s actually the most anoying thing about the ban being delayed. We already know from experience that it would have taken decades to have a real effect and now it’s just going to take longer. We don’t have decades.

Also we’ve already been selling equipment with the new shit for years in anticipation of phasing out the older stuff. Now we just get a few more years of limbo where noone knows what’s going to happen.

But also let me take this opporitunity to get on my soapbox. The new refrigerants are a BS half measure. We should just be going all the way to A3 hydrocarbons instead of this A2L crap. Hydrocarbons are way less environmentally damaging, and vastly superior refrigerants in every way except flamability. Sure it’s a risk having a couple pounds of liquified propane in your house, but there are easy ways to mitigate that risk. A2Ls already require leak detection and pump down mechanisms so it would just be the same in that regard. Plus how much more risky is it than the 30lbs of liquified propane a bunch of people already have sitting under grills directly adjacent to their house.

Authoritarianism is when the government does stuff.

Unrealistic Male Fantasy #532: Being the loyal henchman of a mafia boss that actually takes care of their people.

Same, except I actually understood them perfectly. I just want to hear them talk more.

ADHD here. Nothing puts me to sleep like straight amphetamines. I regularly take a nap after taking my meds.

8000 people who were morally bankrupt enough to work for facebook.

Utility knife for general scraping or a tweezers if something is actively poking me. But mainly I just try to keep my nails trimmed short enough that its not an issue.

It was a route I drove basically any time I needed to go into town so autopilot is my best guess too. But I’m also not sure how much of me not remembering anything is caused by me not actually noticing anything durring the crash vs post adrenaline dump amnesia. Maybe the course of events that lead to the crash made perfect sense and I just can’t remember any of it because of the adrenaline dump immediately after the crash.

But yeah not much point hyper analyzing it now. Besides any way you lay it out rearending someone is never not your fault. I screwed up, I just wish I knew in what way.

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I can believe it. I’ve only ever had 1 major accident (not counting deer). I rear ended someone and I still don’t know how. It was on a bright clear straight road I’d driven down hundreds of times before. I had no distractions that I can remember. I know for sure my phone was in my pocket because I remember having to dig it out with a mangled finger after the crash. I wasn’t in any rush. I leave more space behind other vehicles than most people do. All I remember is driving like any other day, suddenly noticing brake lights, and then stomping on the brakes far too late.

Thankfully it was only 30MPH and nobody was hurt except me. All I had was a peeled finger and a seat belt bruise. Still don’t know what actually happened that caused me to not notice. I bought a dash cam immediately after that.

Exactly, would you rather an accident kill a dozen innocent students or 1-2 dumbass(es) who rear ended a bright yellow bus.

Correct. The only way to know for sure is to walk out the airlock and see with your own eyes.

The AC systems use adiabatic gas coolers to minimize their footprint and electricity use. An adiabatic gas cooler works very similarly to a standard AC condenser except that there is an aditional piece of media on the air inlet side of the condenser coil which is kept perpetually wet. Basically as air is pulled through that media it evaporates water and cools that air basically down to the local dew point. This means colder air cooling the refrigerant condenser and thus a smaller more electricity efficient condenser.

Adiabatic coolers are especially popular on CO2 based refrigeration systems because of the low critical temp of CO2. Basically once the ambient temp gets above 75-80F a standard gas cooler can no longer liquify CO2 because it just goes supercritical instead which results in a more inefficient refrigeration process. Adiabatic coolers can largely mitigate that issue.

Of course this whole process could be done without using water but it would require more electricity. Basically someone did the math and found out that using water was cheaper than using more electricity so that’s what they did. If we want data centers to stop using up all our water then the easiest fix is to just start charging them more for water.

You’ve never had an infection which needed treatment, or broken a finger/toe, or needed some stitches?