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That's looking uncomfortably like being surrounded. o.O
HOLDDDDDD
Sorry 😣
but it's also super fucking annoying because there's finite energy and every task takes a ridiculous amount of energy and so I can only do like 4 things in the game before I'm out of energy and the only way to get more energy is to pay. and I don't wanna.
most annoyed
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I'm not sure I agree that the one time fee back in the day is more than a subscription these days for all cases.
Where it all falls apart is that 99.999% of subscription software models are for software that really should be a one-and-done cost, or where the company holds your data hostage if you can't pay-up (e.g., they won't let you download or export in a common and usable format).
For tools, I really like the perpetual fall-back license that JetBrains does. Can't afford to subscribe to 2024 products? Ok, well, you can still use the original 2023 product you paid for back then, but lose access to the updates.
Like, I wanted to try Fantastical since it was recommended, but it was all subscription based - so if I couldn't afford to pay (possibility if I get to a point without an income and need to truly tighten my belt) I would lose access to a productivity tool that I had established my habits around - very disruptive in the wrong ways.
I do not want to forget this image, and she won't let me take a photo.
No, it's logical, "when fire, add water", and there's a lot of water, here, and it would work for some people, but extrapolating out, it wouldn't work for the whole city.
In shadow land the earth is water and water is the earth.
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The sogs are too many!
Staying home tomorrow. Hopefully will feel better enough to clean tomorrow. This nausea is a trip.
Can’t believe I’m gonna say this…but I miss the normal UTI symptoms. I mean, yeah, it hurt to pee but I didn’t feel like I was doing unfun spinning all the time
Toss a coin to your Notepad++, oh valley of plenty
Can they ("they", mobilized residents?) dig an emergency firebreak?
I've been paying for Kodable for like 3 months because of this. I said 1 month child!
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I imagine this is what the state of emergency is about. Local businesses are unable to stop work on existing contracts and help, unless authorized by something like this. So this is probably to recruit workers and equipment from the businesses without their own liability ruining them.
Obviously not in a haphazard way but in an organized attempt to clear out the approach vectors
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Bonus we are getting a high efficiency model which will be a marked improvement over the 21 year old builders grade model. So hopefully that will cut down my HVAC costs by a good chunk. And I’ll get a tax credit.
Yeah, there's multiple techniques being used to try to create firebreaks. One of those firebreaks is what got breached. So they'll have to do another closer to the city.
This was my thought
begin emergency construction of firebreaks, begin backburn operations as well, and preposition resources for response and structural protection
The Lahaina people that jumped in the water were lucky to be alive even though they immediately scrambled boats to go get them.
I doubt the water where you are is very warm.
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For example lunar cycles, which for some reason are not included in the Calendar app even though they include every minor holiday from the Feast of Assumption to Zarathustra’s Birthday
Or on Maps, they never include mile markers which is like the first thing emergency services/ roadside assistance ask for when you call them/i]
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if you upgrade to our platinum medevac package, your exact coordinates will be sent automatically to responders.
Yeah you'd think it'd be all hands on deck pretty quick here. Like on a boat.
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Yep.
If the fire reaches the city, my expectation is they will move people into the city center, and set up sprinklers and use fire retardant gel to protect structures (This is what they did in Behchoko). I feel reasonable that my place is safe-ish in that event. It's at the edge of the city, but it's right at con mine. There's not a lot of vegetation, so it forms a rather large firebreak.
Do you remember that hostage service from pre-pandemic where you could get military rescued?
Lahaina had hurricane force winds. Combine that with a fringing reef and you have a recipe for a Bad Time regardless of how warm the water is. Plus a lot of people didn't know they needed to be a fair distance offshore to be clear of the gas and heat.
Hypothermia would be gentler, but still very dead. Going by Google that lake is 50 degrees.
1) Ham is a ninja when I have headphones on
2) He's a shoe-chewer
I never even knew about something like that. That's wild to think it was a thing and not just a fictional service like in Cyberpunk.
- white cheddar mac and cheese with spicy roast cauliflower and roasted walnuts
- soy and scallion noodle bowl with minced pork and soft egg
- cheese tortellini in butter, garlic + basil sauce with a kale salad on the side
- on the weekend, wife made bite size key lime cheesecakes
- I made a few sherry Manhattans
- my mom has been more excited about cooking in a multigen house and has been whipping up porkchops stews and bacon and egg breakfasts
Looking to gain some house weight ngl
We already ruled out highway and swimming. Presumably wandering into the on fire forest is not a great call either.
Perhaps he just needs to steal a helicopter.
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Jet pack.
or major holidays for religions that still follow a lunar calendar. you know, like Islam and Judaism.
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Unfortunately it’s a mess of state and local things for rebates. I never got to the federal side of things to know what the tax credit situation was, though we were looking last year so it might be different anyways.
We were looking at $6k for the AC unit and $12k for heat pump + new furnace. Then found out the $12k included a $6.5k rebate that we weren’t eligible for due to our town. There was an equivalent program we could have done, but it required a bunch of (good in theory) steps first and use of an approved brand that was out of stock.
Basically it was 6k to get our AC back in mid-July, or 12k for a heat pump and furnace combo sometime in November. If the AC wasn’t broken already … well, maybe.
One thing I think a lot of people don't understand about Yellowknife - this is the end of the highway. The is one road out. It's impassable wilderness otherwise. It's a six hour drive to the border of Alberta. Along that drive you pass Rae/Behchoko (Community of a few hundred people), Ft Providence (Community of a few hundred people) and Enterprise (Community of maybe 100 people). Once you get to Alberta, it's another 2 hours to High Level, and two more to Peace River or, going in a slightly different direction, Grande Prairie.
It's 8 more after that to Edmonton, literally the nearest city with the capacity to house 20,000 evacuees. So 18-20 hours of driving, in ideal conditions, to the nearest city capable of taking us. How long would it take 20,000 people to file out on a single highway, all trying to go the same direction?
Do we get out via the lake? Well, that would take us to Hay River, which is currently evacuated.
By plane? The airport is at the edge of the city most vulnerable to fire and will be the first thing to burn.
There will be no evacuation. We make our stand here.
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There is no where to go.
With the airport being in a vulnerable area, feels like authorities should be using the emergency declaration to order evacuations and chartering as many planes as possible to get the people out before everyone is completely trapped.
Maybe that's an emotional/knee jerk thought.
That shit is wild, Nova, very much nervous for you and the folks in the town. I hope the next fireline does it's job.