I see you, Beratna.

Then start one. Complaining about what other people are saying isn't productive either.

You mean more insight than reading the article gave you? Because I read it, and it pretty much explained the current theories about the cloud and even the history behind the observation. Not sure what more than that you're expecting.

Id est quod est, people like him will always think that education means "saw a meme on reddit" because it's the only way they know anything.

L'appel du vide. Call of the void.

Found the boomer.

Yes, honestly, he should. Because he called police about "a small black woman" and how he was "afraid." And he's a local politician, so there's a lot of pressure to respond. He painted her as a scary adult when she was clearly a child. He wanted her to be at the very least terrorized (for the crime of spraying stuff on trees???)

Despicable.

I liked it till I had a sambuca hangover.

As a frequent visitor to the OtomeIsekai subreddit, I got whiplash checking what sub I was on. XD

Yeah, I worked call center IT when Comcast was still in house customer service. My job went overseas and that's was that.

Happy cake day by the way! And it's just "I did IT for Comcast once but seriously turning shit off for an hour and then back on actually solves like 75% of home IT issues." I am not an expert by any means, u just have an HP scanner/printer that I love and sometimes I have to deny it electricity for an hour to make it stop fucking up.

Have you tried a hard reset? Sorry, I don't mean to go basic IT bitch on you. But sometimes it's an ass to me an I have to unplug the thing for an hour and then plug back in.

Oh shiiiit. I've declined the update to 11 every time. Now I'm extra glad.

Fuckin aces. Seriously, the amount of time this saved me back in the day when I was DMing D&D and printed a resource from my phone.... Totally worth it. And it's linked to the laptop too, so no cables needed.

My scanner/printer can print from my phone. That's the only reason it's allowed to connect and it's the only thing that connects.

I'll be honest, as someone who has a major "fight" response to stressors, it doesn't usually mean being a hero, and it does put you in danger. I got jumped once when delivering pizzas and I got DAMN lucky that they weren't expecting a skinny delivery girl to turn into a rage filled "fire spitting" demon (I carried pepper spray.) They easily could have killed me, because I'm wired to react even if it isn't the right choice. Pretty sure they were caught off guard and squeamish about hitting a woman until it was too late and I had the upper hand.

For every Brandon Tsay out there, you have dozens of people who get themselves or even others hurt. Life isn't like the movies.

Having the ability to stay calm, call 911, and do first aid when others are injured...... That's an even rarer talent in my opinion.

So I have the dumbest effective thing to suggest. Safeguard makes a "notes of coconut" liquid hand soap. This fucking thing's notes are like the 1812 overture played by Beethoven trying to hear the music. It is OVERPOWERING. We have a kid in diapers.... Someone washes their hands in the next room and ALL YOU SMELL IS COCONUT.

I imagine part of your senses is your brain playing tricks on you. If that's the case, death by coconut might actually be helpful, because you will have a new trauma, and that shit is "notes" of coconut.

Come on guys, stop throwing the horse out the window, it's already dead!

Actually "throw the horse out a window" sounds like one of those weird sayings people attribute to Germany or something, lol

No one is really sure. Apparently he was a new hire, shot one bullet at his boss and the rest at the telescope.

The thing with the JWST design, and big mirrors in general, is that they are built with the possibility of damage like that in mind. In 1970 a man unloaded 7 9mm shots point blank into the 2.7 meter MacDonald Observatory telescope mirror. The 7 holes barely reduced its efficiency by 1%.

By comparison, the JWST is 6.5 meters and the meteorite that hit is reported to be about the size of a grain of dust, so the damage has even less of an impact. More importantly than that, the JWST was designed to compensate for something like this, and it is still performing well above initial hopes.

Basically, while it was noticeable and is a good reminder that we can't get up there to do repairs, at least at this point there has been no damage that reduces its efficiency.

To answer your question directly: Places in the Midwest where the companies DON'T already do it need the regulation in place so that they START. Because red states cut cost and get away with it the way they don't in blue states. Seriously, this isn't rocket science here.

You seem to think these regulations cannot possibly be followed, and you were given examples of how it isn't unreasonable because it is already done in some areas. Then you wanted to say "why do the extra if it is already done," and the answer is that it isn't done everywhere.

New laws to make utilities in areas that DON'T already do it comply with what other places have shown is possible BY doing it already IS a way to reduce treefall damage to powerlines and reduce deaths.

If that isn't clear enough for you, then I can't help you, because you either don't want to understand out of fear or shame of looking bad for being wrong, or because you're deliberately stirring the pot. Either way, I treated you with respect and I tried.

This will be my last response, but I do hope you have a good holiday.

Why would they need to hire lawyers? The do the thing. Unless the government making the regulation investigates to figure out if they're doing it "right" AND they're doing it wrong, they don't need the legal process. Also utility companies are HUGE, I assure you they already have an in-house legal team for anything they might need, including compliance disputes.

Right? I literally live in the Pine Barrens. It IS a forest. Almost never lose power due in part to the utilities coming out and trimming any trees that would be a threat.

I live in a heavily forested area (the Pine Barrens.) The power company routinely has trimmers come out to cut back any trees that are a threat. Don't know if it's because of a regulation or just cheaper for them to do prevention instead of fixing, but I assure you if they can do it here, they can do it anywhere.

But they aren't fixed like math. Languages are ever evolving and adding words.

That's why we have etymology.

That's why 2+2 will always make 4, but the common word you use for those things in your head you see with are called eyeballs only (relatively) recently thanks to a guy named William Shakespeare.