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That's art. I have some of Dad's, but it's not the complete set.

Ya know, you could have just said it tastes like ass.

They have the right to be sunk by 50,000 ton cargo ships headed their way.

"more intelligent" as in higher quantity, or as in a higher level? I'm guessing level, as higher quantity would assume a minimum of one already

So, nothing on this scale, but the same difficulty in changing momentum on cargo ships. MANY years ago, in my dad's crappy boat on the Delaware, first trip of the year. It was a water/water cooling system, a hose on the fresh side split and dumped all the coolant. Dead in the water. Tide going out, so it pulls boats into the channel. And there's a cargo ship bearing down on us. My brother grabbed the paddle, but couldn't really make any progress. I managed to cut of the split and reconnect the hose, put my T shirt over the filler neck for a filter, used dad's hat to dump river water into the radiator. We were just about at the abandon ship call, the cargo ship was blowing a horn by then when I had filled just enough water to get the engine started back up and get out of there. I'm sure that pilot thought he was drowning a few people that day.

They didn't need this example. They tried to blow up a Hudson river tunnel a few years back. HSA stopped them. It actually got down tot he wire and they had to close the tunnels Who know how many more they've caught. Terrorists talk, we hear things. power just goes out, no warning

We referred to those as "scum bags" Probably the only thing I don't still have. I have 3 generations of tools laying around

Certainly this had to happen before future terrorists could realize the chaos. Actually, a terrorist attack like this would be far easier to thwart than the power going out accidentally

Dude can PLAY. Up there with Roy Clarke and Bela Fleck, at least.

I saw a longer video. while there were a few cars on the bridge when it went down, it seemed like quite a few less than just moments prior. I don't know if that was intentional or just fortuitous.

Not just the ships and the channel: The I95 and I895 tunnels do not allow hazmats, not even propane tanks on RVs. They must all use the Key bridge. Now, they'll have to route through town. Most trucks serving the port also use the Key bridge.

A river pilot would still be at the helm there, the ship's pilot would just be watching. Tugs are only for docking. Once the prop went dead, the only extra knowledge a river pilot had was the name of the bridge they were about to hit

yeah, I guess too soon. I do deal with things differently. The workers were my first thought. People driving were just driving, hey, cool a ship. But the workers saw it coming, but there was absolutely noting they could do. There might be a possibility to survive that jump, only to freeze in the water. The pilot saw it coming too, knowing that with no prop, there's basically no steering, thrusters are useless when under way, he knew people were about to die. Notice how those bridge supports had no buffers. There are a couple pilings, but so far from the supports that the ship passed them and still blew into the supports.

And once you DO get the cat in a bag, do you know if it's dead or alive?

Put the bag at one end of the room. Herd the cats into the bag.

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CAN kids in the next generation succeed, through hard work and intelligent money management? Sure! But the opportunites will be far lower. They will be the first generation to not do better economically than their parents. There are too many headwinds. The good news, they seem to be OK with not having so much stuff, reprioritizing. So, in cases like my kids - all bought houses in cities in their late 20's. They all have retirement accounts started, as well as investment and savings. And still take nice trips, have nice things But (time to brag a little), they are all quite intelligent, have well paying professional jobs, stable home environments. We taught them to be frugal, to plan ahead, research decisions thoroughly, prioritize well. They are already doing better than their parents. Now let's look at the more common situation. Graduate from college with $!00K in debt, get an average job that covers expenses, pays off a little of the college debt. But since housing is so scarce and expensive, if they can buy, they can't save for the future. Or, kids that couldn't do college, end up with a low income job. Health care costs are crushing. They barely get by.` There ARE changes finally starting to address some of this. But the momentum is so strong in favor of the very wealthy it's going to take more than 1 generation to change that wealth distribution to a more equitable - and historically normal - level. More of the things we do backwards: Home ownership is by far the defining factor in financial security. But the only people who can take advantage of that are those who are already financially secure.

And THAT is a whole 'nother issue. Not sure that anyone has an answer to it. But at least they aren't trying to live in SoCal on $8 and hour. We were just discussing the free busses in Baltimore. all over downtown. Where the rich people live and tourists show up with disposable income. The poor people who work there? They have to PAY for a bus to get from work to almost affordable housing. We do a lot of things backwards.

Yeah, we've been doing this capitalism thing for a while. It was working out pretty well until the 80's, when the deck got stacked in favor of the wealthy business owners. Now we're taking some of those cards off the bottom and giving them back to to workers. Some businesses won't figure out how to make it work and will close. And the workers will find other jobs. Coming out of COVID, restaurant workers saw a quite large increase in income, amidst warnings that restaurants were all going to go out of business because of it. Some did. The rest are understaffed, trying to hire, and offering even more pay. Our economy is the best it's been since post WWII. We can handle paying poor folks enough to feed themselves. Incidentally, that boom also saw better wages for lower classes.

There are well over 1 million more open jobs than there are people seeking jobs. Most of them are in the lower income jobs. It will increase the cost of some things. But a small price to pay to lift so many out of poverty.

The Applebee's Rule: Don't eat at any restaurant with pictures of their own food on the menu. For about the same price you can go to an independent restaurant with a real chef instead of some greasy kid looking at the menu to see what the food is supposed to look like. Around here. the chains are closing. People have discovered the Applebee's rule. Now, granted, Philly being recognized as one of, often THE best restaurant city in the world has a huge impact on this. We are spoiled. COVID actually did the local restaurant scene a favor by thinning out the choices. It was getting to be too many to support with workers and customers. Cracker Barrel, maybe once a year, is the only exception. Because it is quite unique

It won't be long before they hire them back, and raise their prices to cover it. Or, shut down because 2 people can't keep up. Right now, it's an employees' market, so those $20 rates are here to stay. It will straighten itself out, and low income workers will benefit greatly. Finally. It's also about time we pay waitstaff the full $20- and stop tipping to make up the difference

The process was the same, but backwards. Originally, the prints were blue background, white lines. Pretty old and rare. Someone quickly figured out how to reverse that and make the paper white and lines blue,

Blue PRINTS or Blue LINES? yeah, one of dad's pet peeves. Once I got out of high school, it was mostly mylar. Be REAL careful erasing with an electric eraser! Anyone use Crolux to reuse existing drawings for new designs?

There's another way? I currently work 3 mice (yes, they're blind) and a keyboard. But, learning a new PCB program, I keep mixing up the left hand commands with other programs' commands