J.P.

@jpr602.bsky.social

Geriatrician. Rocketeer. Amateur astrophysicist. Ski patroller. In my free time I have anemia. 🇺🇦 🌈 🇵🇸

They recently suffered a historically terrible earthquake. Also we're sucking hundreds of billions of dollars out of their economy.

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I watched all of the World Cup from the quarterfinals on. At the end I predicted that I wouldn't remember who won by 3 months out. Well, I couldn't remember it yesterday. I guessed England.

When I was in college (early 1980s), my buddy and I would loan each other money for dates (or laundry, etc). Usually less than $5. Literally "I have a date; can I borrow 3 dollars?"

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Something I love doing is talking about fossil fuels as "19th century technology". Coal plants and gas plants are machines from CENTURIES ago. The combustion engine is silly. It gets people thinking about what modernity means but also, importantly, it makes fossil fuel guys mad online

After 2 weeks, got my new Tivo Edge’s Xfinity cablecard re-activated. The card had been in a Tivo Bolt that died. Reactivating the card took 2 hours in chat with an agent on reddit r/comcast_xfinity. Every other method …