Hah! My mom was my ride to work, and since she started her work day at 6 am, that meant I got dropped off at a little after 5 am, several hours before the park opened. And the music was still playing then. I got so sick of hearing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (at least, La Primavera. I don’t remember if they played other music from The Four Seasons).

I did close on occasion, but I was usually opening. I admit it was one of the better jobs I had when I was young. I tried transfering to other stores the following season (one in Germany, then one in France). I should’ve stuck with the Emporium.

Italy was one of my favorite places to go for lunch! It was a long walk, though; I was in the Emporium in England. So we probably did meet!

Huh. Small world. I worked at BG that year. It was my first job. Didn’t keep the name tag though. They kept putting your home state or country on badges for a few years after.

I was amused to learn it existed. I worked in a cold warehouse but the battery room (where they charge the forklifts) was always too cold, so they put a Big Ass Fan in to push the warm air down from the ceiling. “Wait, is that really its name?” Yup.

The assembly shop I work in now has two of these fans. Feels like once I learned they existed, I started seeing them everywhere.

I still play XCOM 2. The mod Long War of the Chosen really breathed new life into the game for me. I’d love to see the series continue.

Here is mine.

I am surprised that Symphony of the Night isn’t on there.

Started a campaign in XCOM 2, using the Long War of the Chosen mod, along with Mod Jam. XCOM is one of those games I’ve revisited regularly over the years, and mods help keep it fresh. Found out the person who made Mod Jam is taking a break and someone else made a replacement already - TedJam. Maybe I’ll play another campaign after this one using TedJam instead.

Oh? Would getting shot in the head protesing in Israel be more productive? I donno about you, but I work my ass off and would love to take some time at the end of the day with a game or movie. Unfortunately, I’m not rich enough to stop a genocide half a world away.

So Israel deployed snipers using lethal ammunition to target protesters with excessive force. In this case, a US citizen. For some reason, this event reminds me of the Boston Massacre. Protesting the slaughter means you get slaughtered too.

I’m guessing we’ve abandoned all pretext of a red line that Israel can cross and they’re free to do whatever, and the whole situation just feels like we’ve decided that we’re on the side of evil because we keep supporting this. Might as well start putting skulls on our caps.

I have a similar story, except the people I asked about it convinced me it might be a scam. I bought some later, but it wasn’t the lifechanging amount it could’ve been.

Biggest, not all.

I used to work in HVAC. I remember we had a small cold room that was struggling to maintain temperature, as in, design was supposed to be 0°F but it couldn’t get below 36°F. There was a large hole in the box that was undoubtedly the cause of the problem, so I asked the installer how they accounted for that. “Oh, I doubled the infiltration value.” When I tried calculating the actual losses it was way, way higher than the infiltration value. Like, the room needed someting like 3-4 times its total refrigeration capacity to reach target with a giant fucking hole in the box.

No idea who thought putting a giant hole in the box was a good idea.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

I have some in my closet. They’re still good, I checked them yesterday!

Sounding is measuring the depth of something. Sounding rods used to be a stick you put into a tank to identify how deep the liquid was in the tank, sometimes with marks on the rod. Maybe I’m just old.

In part because traditional farms scale better than aeroponics or hydroponics. In part because farms don’t pay for the environmental damage they cause. Because of these two points, there is little incentive to industrialize aeroponics or hydroponics.

What is true right now is that traditional farms use more water, fertilizer, and space, cause more environmental damage, but require less labor. And the labor problem can be mitigated with robotics, if we’re willing to invest in that.

With an adverse event rate of 0.06%. Meaning only 33 per million people required hospitalization.

The device you’re thinking of might be a peltier or thermoelectric cooler (TEC). But yes. They’re way less efficient than a vapor compression refrigerator, though.

Oh man, been doing that for 10 years!