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My jaded view of all non-science (business) majors. 1974 ME freshman... average of 1 girl in my Engineering classes, got lucky one year, had all 3 in the same class. "It's a public University, we have to let you in, We don't have to let you stay. Look to your left and right, one of you won't be here next year." "Are there class notes available? No, go to the business school!" "Is there a curve? No, go to the business school!" "Do we get a walk for OU weekend? No, go to the business school!" Took economics classes for my non-technical electives in the BEB, 2 to 3 ratio, girls to guys. F*ck all those 4 function calculator F*cking F*cked F*ckers!!! Graduated in ME, without a sweet thing on my arm. Guess I wasn't as smart as I thought I was.

Giorgia Meloni is my Hero, my Benchmark for what a leader should be; Passionate, Dynamic, (Duh!!!), Articulate, (I don't know what she is saying without subtitles, but I'm 100% behind her), Believable (is there any question as to how she really feels?), Respectful (She says her piece, says "Thank You" and sits down), and the "Damn the Torpedoes" approach in choosing her words.

Not the same, but ... My grandfather used to give me a Silver Dollar every time we saw them; I was an Air Force Brat and we lived out of state for 8 years, so it wasn't a lot of money. When he passed in '79, my dad gave me my "Paw-paw's" 1889 Silver Dollar money clip. In 1980 when Bunker Hunt tried to corner the Silver Market, I sold all my silver, except the Money Clip, for ~$46x face value. I'd like to think that I used the money to buy my Porsche in '86, though some of it may have gone to shorter term "recreational entertainment." (BTW, 1980 Houston, TX was the most fun place in the history of the world.) As long as I have some line-of sight to the truth, I don't feel bad about selling the Silver.

Let's try it with pics.

Charleston, “… a drinking town with a history problem.” Just spent 5 days there. Highest temp was 88 F. Nice city. Clean, smallish, not commercialized. Packs of wedding parties, golf “widows”, etc. all around. Church & Union Restaurant, an old converted non-denominational church. Not the Sistine Chapel, but they painted the entire “The Art of War” on the ceiling. This is for the Ukraine posters. Sullivan Beach. Public beach. The “resort” is on the far point in the picture. Reminded me of Port Aransas, ~ 50 years ago. Not sugar white sand, but no high rise condos, no crowds, no sea weed, or no tar balls. No glass or plastic allowed, which I guess means silicone and Botox. This was Friday at 2pm.

ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki 17/ "For example, in the program 'Evening with Vladimir Solovyov' there is every time essentially a gang rape of the authorities. The speakers are constantly kicking the authorities for various shortcomings in their activities." 18/ The report notes that many of the 'ultra-patriots' have criticised difficulties in military operations, 19/ It complains that "a large number of war correspondents who are sent from our official media ... [should not] spout all sorts of rubbish in their Telegram feeds." 20/ ... these figures think that at this stage it is necessary to drum into the heads of the population the existence of a huge number of problems and the traitors who create these problems." 21/ It warns that 'ultra-patriots' have created "an image of a so-called "fifth column" around Putin, which creates problems and which does not let the right information and true patriots reach Putin upstairs." The report forecasts an erosion of confidence in the government. 22/ ... "when confidence in the institutions of power in the institutions of power is lost, [they will] strike a final blow to the president and declare that "the fish rots from the head," preparing the way for Putin's overthrow. 23/ The next Russian presidential election in March 2024 is highlighted as the moment when the blow will come from "the information troops of NATO and Ukraine." Ukrainian propaganda is said to have become much more sophisticated and aimed specifically at Russians. 24/ "At this point, "the public, tired of the flow of negative news and failures, will be convinced that the "fifth column" and enemies of the state are in charge of our president. 25/ Then it will be possible to tell the public directly that Putin is an undesirable figure in the leadership of the country, that he is incapable of securing victories, or to effectively manage the army, has brought the country to a dead end, has quarrelled with the international community, and so on." It advises that the Kremlin should "talk to those of the major information players and stakeholders who are able to hear." 27/ "Kartapolov, Gurulev, Prigozhin, Tsarev, Simonyan, a number of political analysts - they all need to be persuaded to stop whipping up critical hysteria and talking about the shortcomings and so on. 29/ "We must explain to them firmly that now you are clearly working for our enemies, ... give them clear instructions that they should curtail this hysterical activity ... 31/ "We need to hold a big high-level meeting with them and demand to lower the temperature, to turn down the thermostat, so to speak."

I'm really glad we got this one. If anybody ever reeked of screw the star rating, he is it. His OV video was very telling; a very large human in street clothes, that looks "normal" in a uniform, until you realize how big he is, the slow, deliberate pan across his hotel room, taking it all in, every detail, the looks from his mom and GF, like "Yeah, ... this is the place", his photo op at DKR, takings lotsa pictures, Can't miss that smile of his, he's gonna have some fun wearing Burnt Orange!

Fired usually means you no longer work there. He will "remain as a professor at the university's philosophy department."

"Surly Horns - The more you dig in, the dumber you are going to look."

I usually only use Elisha for um ... Longhorn commitments, but NATO's commitment to Ukraine feels appropriate.

I have 'em on the equivalent of speed dial. The leadership in Europe is inspirational to say the least, and a refreshing benchmark of the depth that American politics have reached. Kaja Kallas Estonia Ursula von der Leyen EU-Germany Sanna Marin Finland Giorgia Meloni Italy Annalena Baerbock Germany And some bonus footage of Giorgia Meloni's rendition of a romance language. Even without the subtitles, Anybody with that passion is deserving of unmitigated support. You best not be leaving the toilet seat up in her house.

Good comments, by all. Terrible Business Decisions ... Exhibit 1: Westlake? ...location, location, location. Are you stupid or what? Exhibit 1-a: Is there a clause in their Westlake Lease Agreement that requires them to honk all the Austin "Lake schools" stuff ad nauseam? Shut the f*ck up already. Exhibit 2: FM/AM signal quality is a deal. It is Talk Radio, which I'm guessing is primarily people in cars. The signal does not even make it to 281, which is pretty chicken shit. This is the worst/weakest radio signal I've heard since FM rescued the world from AM radio. Exhibit 3: Each 2-3 hour "show" starts w/ a 2-3 minute instrumental lead-in. Motown perfected music by grabbing you in the first 10 seconds. 2+ minutes of Dead Air equivalent (wasted advertising revenue) is pure stupidity. I hate commercials, but don't play the same tired songs every damn day. Exhibit 4: Gambling and bookies should be on Sunday mornings, if at all. Exhibit 0: ... there is tons of fucking content out there, just waiting for eyes and ears, but they left most of it out there on the table. This is what they have to sell, and they blew it. A captive audience between Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, and they called the Greg Davis "3rd and 5" play. I like Rod, his analytics and insight, and the fact that he worked his ass off to be on the field w/ Quentin Jammer, Nathan Vasher & Michael Huff. He knows what it takes to win at Texas. Another in a long list of the idiocy of Austin administrators.

Erdogan look like someone shit in his Cheerios.

DaHobbs; my post was not meant to flame. I was just trying to correlate your post with the data I could find, as I was not able to access the data that corresponded to your post. Regarding Capacity Factor, I have seen others state, not necessarily on Surly, that renewables need to replace fossil fuels 100%, PERIOD. I look at Capacity Factor as a benchmark, at the extremes. IF, and that's a BIG IF, If the entire grid (`80,000 MW) was powered by Solar, you would need ~ 53,000 MW of storage capacity (@ 90% efficiency) to power the grid on a full 24/7 cycle. My gut says industrial batteries may not be the best choice for power storage. I actually said, "... Gas & NGL facilities that generate their own power can run at 95% of demand 24/7 for 350+ days/year", which is not the same as "gas power plants do not run anywhere near at the capacity factor you suggest". I meant Gas Processing & NGL Fractionation Plants (they remove the Natural Gas Liquids from the gas stream and separate the NGL stream into 5 different commercial products), NOT gas power plants (fueled by natural gas with the intent to generate commercial power). These are Gas/NGL facilities operate on economic criteria and not political ones. Gas/NGL facilities are supply driven; if the supply of gas, and recovered NGL are available, these facilities can and do run at capacity 24/7/350+. Due do the redundant capacity installed, actual production is routinely in excess of the 100% "nameplate" capacity. We would joke at the end of the year that we already met out 350 day target, "Can we just shut down the plants and go home for the rest of the year?" To be clear, most Gas & NGL facilities built in the past 20-30 years rely on purchased power in lieu of generated power, with a keep "smoke stack emissions to a minimum" mindset and "save & bank" the emissions for routine maintenance and emergency situations. As such, they are part of the electric grid, on the demand side, not supply. If power availability is not an issue, these facilities operate at a 350+ days/yr, and at capacity, if the supply is available. To be clear, does this mean that during the 5 pm peak load hour, solar is producing at 86.5% of the daily peak capacity and wind is is producing at 57.2% of the daily peak capacity? I don't get the % values. Does this mean that Solar is producing "near peak power?" during the 1 hour peak load (5pm) 75.3% of the time in summer, or does it mean during the peak hour, Solar is producing at 75.3% of that days peak production? From the graphs, Gas combined-cycle new builds basically ended in 2017, and for the foreseeable future, the super-majority of new build power generation is all Solar. This has positives, and negatives. This plays to the strengths, "Solar in the summer is going to be closer to peak level of production at peak demand time." During the summer, when days are much longer and much hotter, the supply from Solar will dovetail with the peak demand. Unfortunately, this does nothing to provide the same reliability in the winter. Solar will have significant zero-power periods during extreme cold weather events, meaning the power generation we had in the past few years is all we have to rely on in the future. That is a separate can of worms. "Winterizing" steam generating power plants includes a reliable source of power being delivered to the plant, meaning gas fired power plants, and the gas processing plants that provide the "commercial" natural gas to the power plants, are prioritized, along with hospitals, fire departments, and other essential services. Prioritizing "for profit" private facilities is problematic, but if you don't, they freeze.

I cannot download the 5 minute data for Jun 28 (chart date), so I looked at the 5 minute data for Jul 1. Peak Solar + Wind was 21,956 MW @ the 1:04 pm "5 minute increment", ~ 70% of the record of 31,468 on Jun 28. Why such a big difference? Was the Jun peak of 31,468 an attempt to set a record (bonus calculations) or was there sustained production near that total throughout part of the day? On Jul 1, the peak Solar production was 10,198 MW at the 1:04 pm increment. For the entire day, there were 18 5-minute increments at 95% or higher, or 1. 5 hours at 95+ % of available capacity. All these increments occurred between the 12:04 pm and 1:34 pm increments. The peak demand hour on Jul 1 was between 4:09 and 5:09 pm, averaging 65,936 MW. Solar accounted for an average of 8,107 MW, or ~ 11.7% of the total, while Wind accounted for 11,915 MW, or 17.1% of the total. Total Wind + Solar averaged 20,021 MW, or 28.8 % of the total. The peak Wind + Solar was between 12:24- 1:29 pm, averaging 21,697 MW, or 32.6% of the total of 66,522 MW. As you would expect, peak demand on Jul 1 was from 4:09-5:00 pm in the hottest part of the day. Peak Solar production was between 12:04-1:34 pm, and peak Wind+Solar production was from 12:24- 1:29 pm. At least on this particular day, the peak renewable production occurred mid-day, ~ 3 hours prior to the peak demand. For the 24 hour period, Solar averaged 3,840 MW, or 37.7% of the peak of 10,198 MW, and Wind averaged 11,780 MW, 73.5% of the peak of 16,028 MW. For this 1 day snapshot, Wind generates almost twice the power as Solar for each MW of installed capacity. Not to go CR, but I know from personal experience that Gas & NGL facilities that generate their own power can run at 95% of demand 24/7 for 350+ days/year. They could run at 95% of rated capacity 24/7/350+ if they have the available feedstock (gas or NGL supply), which is usually provided by a mix of 3rd parties, to warrant running at system capacity. A power generation plant is nowhere nears as complex as a Gas/NGL facility; and water hardly ever catches fire.

They have an incredible history, and a beach, and have instilled a want in every civilized person to extend a hand in friendship, and ..., I'm just spitballing here, a desire to extend a hand full of tourist $$$.

This SMO, war, litany of atrocities has challenged by core beliefs in a big way. What we see here damn near every day makes me want to throw in the towel, say "Fuck it!", and just ... "...just wipe it clean off the map. Knock everything down, every city, every castle, all the bridges, all the roads. Everything. Don't leave two stones standing together. Just wipe the slate clean. Turn Germany Russia into a prairie, then ship over a few buffalo and let them start from scratch. Now, what do you think of that, Colonel Surly?" - Major Wolenski My desktop reaffirms my resolve, every day I turn on my computer. It also allows me watch karma personified, without guilt.