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beerandt
·21 hari yang lalu·discuss
The key to understanding all of this is that a huge set of Americans 'want' to pay more as an exclusionary benefit.

With section 8 (fed housing welfare) rules, any multifamily structure has a better than not chance of becoming slum housing in a time frame less than the average span of homeownership.

Which is both about property values and not wanting to live in/near section 8 residents.

"Planning" and zoning aren't the problem, they're the enforcement mechanism. (Since police and other public enforcement of quality of life issues has been all but neutered in the name of equity/civil-rights/whatever.)

Same reason for the seemingly inexplicable popularity of HOAs that everyone seems to hate.

High prices are one of many resultant 'enforcement' prongs.
beerandt
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It generally means something is out of balance, which doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. Usually not.

But if something is wrong, yea you can bet they will be burning off with big flares.
beerandt
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yea while $ viability is true, it's better to think of as

1) using some potentially useful products as fuel to burning off things you don't want and

2) the buffer to keep non-steady inflows in a suitable ready condition for steady-state processing. (When real world steady-state is less than ideal.)

Number 2 is really what dominates the equation, as shutting in gas sources or even just turning off pipelines is incredibly more complicated than just an 'off' switch.

And turning back on is even more complicated. In the case of wells, once you shut in, turning back on may never result in the same level of production as before.
beerandt
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
No- making a fake endangered species to shut down operations that don't actually harm the species (endangered or not)...

Is hardly the same as objecting to activities that distress pretty much all animals in the vicinity long term.
beerandt
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This is more preemptive I suspect- 'they' have been reclassifying different species trying to get a bona-fide Gulf endangered one to use against exploration and production. Especially that one whale subspecies.

This kills that on multiple fronts.
beerandt
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This common sense mindset would invalidate so many 'safety' laws and I'm all for it.

Studies make so many invalid assumptions (and usually don't even state them) to force the data / statistics to fit clean a/b or null testing.

But to put a dent in the status quo, we really need a greenlight to just dump however many kids in the back again, no matter the number of kids or seatbelts.

And before anyone gut reacts to this- ask yourself why doing that with schoolbuses still isn't a problem?
beerandt
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Most HVAC contractor counters carry packs of longer ones for insulating ductwork (though not as heavy duty as what's pictured).
beerandt
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yea couldn't install gps, then realized the package manager only had maybe 10% of what most gli.net routers have because of the 'special' chip in this one.

Still a great travel router, but had to buy a BerylAX for what I wanted to do with the usb gps.
beerandt
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
3) manufacturers placing energy star improvement quotas over safety in programming the cycles.
beerandt
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Deadweight or no-weight engine is a relatively negligible problem in terms of the weight-balance envelope.

Cut fuel & hydraulic lines near that engine (that affect the other engines/ apus) (or less likely structural or aerodynamic problems) is what's going to shift this from "engine failure" recoverable problem to a global nonrecoverable one.
beerandt
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
>like it wasn't the extension of a European war...
beerandt
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Was always weird to me how "the French and Indian War" had Indian involvement almost over emphasized to pretend like it wasn't the extension of a European war...

While all the other American conflicts with tons of Indian involvement (both sides, esp civil war) had it downplayed.

One of my first realizations of slant put on history.
beerandt
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Dixie cup / glassware divide will tell you a lot about the type of party, but not always along the lines you might think.
beerandt
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Samsung marketplace on the phone used to have this- now it's just 'don't show this again today' button.
beerandt
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Directional drilling is a game changer and has become accessible in the last decade.

You're looking for advancement in carriages unaware of the 'automobile' that made 5g and ftth deployment at scale possible.
beerandt
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Overgrazing can be a problem, but undergrazing can be just as big of one.

Healthy pasture requires a certain rhythm/ amount of hoof traffic to stay healthy.

It's why land restoration in the (US) Midwest/West tends to do much better if it includes a reintroduced (managed) grazing component.

And why even wild pasture in Africa typically has a cycle of trample and/or natural burn as part of it's life cycle.

This may or may not apply to previously forested land, depending on what's in-situ, but grazing should be seen just as much as a positive requirement, as overgrazing is seen as a detriment/negative.

Now if your goal is reforestation instead of just healthy pasture or other sustainable ecotype, that's different .

But don't assume just because land can sustain forest, that forest is the 'natural' ecosystem. See: the US history of pasture vs forest. There's more forest now than there was pre-euro settlement.
beerandt
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Canceled mine after ad-free stopped working on YouTube Kids of all things (on ShieldTV). Was probably a bug, but with practically no customer service options, no real solutions besides cancel.

I was also a holdover from a paying Play Music subscriber, and this was shortly after the pita music switchover to youtube, so it was a last straw.
beerandt
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Still miss the keyboard on my HTC Tilt2
beerandt
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
And we do pretty much the same with stonework now compared to the ancients.

There are a few that know how to do it by hand, but mass production has evolved.
beerandt
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yea this is economics, not tech.

We also don't build carriages as well or have an army of craftsman doing it, but it's lost/regressed because there's no economic incentives.