Some Random Dave
@somerandomdave.bsky.social
As seen on LJ, FB, Xwitter, and posters in the post office. Firefighter. Fella. Sometimes technie (for that sweet, sweet techie money). Thought I was deeply cynical, but it turns out that I was an optimist. For external use only. Apply directly to forehead
Firefighter Dave gives the annual reminder that drugs are expensive, kids at trick-or-treat age are supervised and don't have the disposable income to be worth 'hooking', and cops get all excited about that sort of thing... Ain't nobody handing out drugs to random trick-or-treaters.
The reason I'm not driving the first-responder-standard personally-owned urban assault vehicle is because I don't want $50 fill ups. And yet, here we are...
I'm gonna mark myself safe from the great Ruzzian trollfarm outage.
Happy Dolly Parton Day (9/25), to those who celebrate (or just those who live in places where date conventions make that possible)
Ultimate man has seen things you people would not believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. He has watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
Clark Oliver@tk9582.bsky.social · 2mo agoUltimate man will tell you how he wore your grandfather's watch up his ass for two years
Guys, this is for real. Senate GOP and the administration want to pass a law that outlaws bikelanes on the 160K mile National Highway System. Imagine if adding protected bikelanes to many arterials would suddenly be against the law. Let’s not allow this.
League of American Bicyclists@bikeleague.org · 3mo agoACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
science.org
Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
hermit-tech.com
Firefighter Dave would like to remind folks that, if you see an emergency vehicle running lights and sirens do the dance to go though the intersection on red, please look both ways before entering the intersection to make sure there's not a second one behind it.
Went outside. Smells like I'm about to get charged $50 for a mediocre pizza the cook scorched.
App developer suggestion: Make a voting app for karaoke bars. Every singer pays a deposit to sing, and the audience votes on if it gets refunded or dropped directly into the bar staff tip jar.
The nice thing about being the semi-retired silverback at the station: When a 4-year old makes you an ice cream sundae with seriously excessive sprinkles, you can just say "oh, how pretty!" and enjoy it in front of probies who would die before enduring insufficiently manly ice cream.
Russia's most reliable air defense "Vanka360" holds all-around defense and guards against NATO drones 24/7.
Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x
"Countries that relied only on the normal tools (voting, suing, legislating) climbed back to democracy seven percent of the time... But! Countries that added a civil resistance movement on top of that... climbed back fifty-one percent of the time."
Why Just Voting Isn’t Enough to Stop a Dictator
Three reasons to remember we are the only guardrails we have.
thefarce.org
Sitting in the outskirts of DC, listening to the (average of) $68k/flight hour (per plane) being spent announcing the entry of the US into the third world.
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5mo agoRIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas
Because I got asked "so what would you do?"... Pump the pool dry. Put as many people as I can find in there 24/7 with scrapers (powered ones) to get as much unbonded liner out as possible. Refill in consultation with the water quality folks from DC water. Treat for mosquitos. Done by the 4th? Maybe.
Thought for the day: If he's not controlling the algae, he's probably also not controlling mosquitoes (it just takes longer for that to become obvious).
The whole "sweaty-muscular-scantily-clad men cuddling aggressively on the White House lawn" thing has to rank as the creepiest Presidential observance of Gay Pride month ever.
Nothing more frustrating than driving past the downed trees and getting reminded that Fire only gets to play chainsaw games if the downed tree is preventing us from getting to a call, and otherwise, it's either DOT or DPW. (Or a landscaping company, if it's on private property.)
Suggestion: Don't oppose datacenters because "AI Bad!". Oppose it because AI is very clearly a bubble, and given the time it takes to finish build-out, it's likely that a number of them won't get completed prior to the bubble popping. And they're even less reusable than a big-box store.
It's telling that my activity tracker only recorded 4 minutes of activity during a day of running around after professional athletes damaging themselves, but it's recorded 15 minutes of activity during the 30 minutes of (sponsored!) happy hour following.
Thought for the day: Pretty much nobody actually takes the time to fill out the "are you satisfied with your service" survey, especially when it's buried in a footer of the "your ticket has been closed" email. So if you take time to use your words, your comments are probably going to get read.
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
