𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 @ spicytuna62 @lemmy.world

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As of my writing this comment, the last EF-5 was the Moore tornado in 2013. It was one of the biggest tornadoes in history. It was 1⅓ miles wide, had winds of 210 mph, and tracked for about 17 miles. It hit a school and a hospital in a populated suburban area. You can get on Google Earth Pro and look at the damage yourself. It's like precision annihilation. Blank slabs were left behind in the worst cases.

And while it's tragic that 24 people died, consider how many people were in its track and survived.

The thing is when a tornado passes through a populated area, it's gonna hit someone. But the odds of it hitting you specifically are low. The odds of it being big enough that sheltering in place is not enough are low. The absolute vast majority of them are extremely survivable. I'd rather live in Oklahoma where tornadoes often start and end in unpopulated fields than in the southeast where they also get lots of tornadoes and hurricanes that inflict equal devastation over vast swathes of land. You can hide from a tornado most of the time, but in a hurricane, the hidey hole is about to be full of water. If it's bad enough, the only thing you can do is run away with a million other people or ride it out and end up on The Weather Channel.

I have a brother who moved to Moore a few years after the tornado. His house was two houses away from a house that was leveled by it. Half of the neighborhood was rebuilt, but the house he rented was perfectly fine. It's funny how a tornado can do that.

My wife let me buy a Prelude for my birthday last year. It was a big deal because we don't normally have the cash on hand to just buy a car, and she put off some house projects she really wanted to get done to let me do it. The car does need some TLC, but it still runs and drives good half a year later. Sometimes people throw me a shaka sign or a thumbs up. I love getting to drive stick again. It makes driving fun, like I'm 16 again. Feels good, man. I'm one lucky guy, and my wife just gets me.

Fair enough.

I'd been watching Steve for years. I came to a realization that you go to Linus to be entertained. You go to Steve to learn or make a very informed purchase.

I kinda fell off the bandwagon after the "salary discussions are frowned upon" WAN show ep. Said screw that guy when the Billet Labs prototype was auctioned off. And I quit watching entirely after learning what happened to Madison. She was a huge breath of fresh air and way too funny for her own good, and I choose to believe her because I just don't know what she would have to gain.

To anyone who felt strongly enough to downvote this, which part(s) of my statement do you disagree with?

Do you believe:

• It is acceptable to suppress employee discussions with regard to compensation;
• It was okay when LTT's inventory management allowed a trade secret prototype to end up in the wild; or
• Madison should have kept quiet about being sexually harassed by her colleagues and disregarded by HR, which was run by the CEO/owner's wife?

Do you also believe it was okay for Linus to trash GN or HW Unboxed? Or that the Billet Labs prototype review was conducted correctly and/or scientifically? Do you believe LTT's initial response to Billet Labs was apropos?

The fed subsidizes the shit out of our fuel because the car industry is lobbying it to because the car industry knows that if Americans pay what the rest of the modern world does for gas, then chugga chugga choo choo motherfuckers, we're finally building some goddamned trains.

That, or they won't get to sell their huge, overly marked up trucks to middle class suburbanites anymore.

Either of those things would be good for everyone.

I'd also support regulation that bans modifying the ride height of a vehicle. All bumpers should align as a factory spec. We made 70s cars ugly because they required 5 mph bumpers, but we won't tell Cletus he can't make his truck bumper sit at neck level so that he doesn't wipe out a family of four in a Toyota Corolla when he blows through a red light? Horseshit.

I'll give you that caveat. My brother lives in the rural town where we grew up in the butthole of Oklahoma, and his water is so hard that they justified spending thousands of dollars on a whole home water softening system. My in laws pump their own water and it's foul. I think they need to be filtering it. I think there's something in their groundwater.

As for the water in the urban and suburban parts of Oklahoma City, it's pretty hard to find truly bad tap water.

I can. Don't mean the tip is at the top, though.

Ever pick your nose?

Actually did this for O Green World by Gorillaz when I was 13 in '05. When the bill came in, my dad beat me senseless with those old jumper cables. Man, I loved that funky little ringtone.

Good black coffee is a low S or high A tier drink. Sure, it makes me poop, but it tastes great and makes me productive.

Sun tea is fantastic.

If I go more than a few days without it, I will literally die.

I feel like that number is slowly creeping toward 0%. Maybe it'll take a billion years, but I bet it'll get there.

Still tap water is better than sparkling water, and I will die on this hill.

You wouldn't find a terawatt in everyday usage, but a terawatt-hour is pretty commonplace when talking about the energy usage of entire populations.

This Reuters article states US power demand will climb to "4,027 billion kWh in 2022." Yeah, just say 4 PWh. Or even 4,027 TWh. It's a little more easily digested.

It's already an incomprehensably high number. No matter which way you state it is going to fly over peoples heads.

And the entire electricity consumption of the planet is something like 25.5 petawatt-houts.

While I agree, most people know tera- at this point. Most people probably do not know zetta- yet.

I graduated college in '14 and got my first professional job that August. I made $17.09 an hour and I was an 85% FTE. I was still in grad school at the time (never finished, whoops). That inflates to right about $22 today, if the BLS' inflation numbers are to be trusted. Or about $39k at 85% FTE

My rent was $800 in uptown Oklahoma City.

Again, I was doing alright for a single guy with a bachelor's degree at 22 with little work experience. I kept my bills and rent paid. I got to buy a PC component every once in a while. Sure, I wasn't going on vacation every year, but I wasn't starving.

But I was a long way away from hiring cleaners. I couldn't really afford a therapist back then. Which I desperately needed more than I realized.

Oklahoma's minimum wage still follows federal, but most places do start at $9 or $10 anymore. Still not nearly enough. And that's really in the city. Out in the sticks, you're making $7.25.

My mother seriously recommended I hire cleaners if I wasn't able to always keep my place clean at a time in my life where I was super busy.

I made like $30k in 2014. I wasn't poor by any stretch, but suggesting I hire cleaners was a clear indicator of how out of touch she was with the lower half of the middle class.