Flex Fuels and conversion kits are a thing but not widely adopted here.
I wonder if we can start calling it “conflict oil” or “blood oil” like in the dimond industry. Probably not a new idea.
I never heard of California stockpiling oil.
The current trend is closing more refineries, lessening offshore drilling, and bringing in EV battery makers.

Horray! Another Wonderfalls fan!

–jim benton shots comics

I’m curious why target common silicon dioxide (silica) when cheap $100 air quality monitors (including detection of static VOCs) exist that measure down to 0.3um. Wide application ranges at that low (unfilterable) range. From steam discharge monitoring, to oll vapours, to chemical fumes, to residential air quality on weather stations.

I’m not a masonry\stonework expert. Someone more knowledgeable may correct me. This issue may be lawyer overreach and or overreacting. Worker respiratory safety gear is standard on processing engineered stone, natural stone, cement, resins, and or anything requiring grinding, polishing, even in the sandblasting business.

If OSHA is finding employers harming their employees – that is a litigious thing. If OSHA is finding a trend increase in the trades skill industry – then the entire trade (stonework) is scrutinized. If migrant workers, in the trades, are harmed more often then that is another 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 issue.

The cultured, artificial, or engineered stone product was invented so we don’t have to quarry the real thing – where silicosis risk is highest.

That block of houses on Adriatic Rd. may never experience snow ever again.

In California, Meta is proposing data centers back in January. The fight today is currently inside with the states administrators. Senators want to change existing laws and propose loopholes. But local municipalities of desirable data center build sites are fighting back with “not in my backyard” laws.

https://cagazette.com/california-moves-to-regulate-ai-data-centers-sb-886-and-sb-887-pass-committee-as-communities-resist/

Hummingbird phobia.

I wonder how many intended to live fast and die hard, only to find out they were vampires. And now they have to live forever.

Opps. Poor choice of wordplay. 🥴

Explanation… an old pre-2000 USDA sticker placed on by grocery stores to indicate “this is a 100% certified meat product”.

My twist… this photoshop is a 100% human-made product.

Excellent photoshopping.

Can you look up hhh:\\www.sony.com

I may have a false memory Mandela Effect on that “hhh” instead of “http”. I once collected websites into a binder as I found them in the wild, along with AOL keywords, CompuServe rooms, ICQ handles, etc.
Up until I purchased a Sony Discman with the new websites printed on the packaging, I updated my web phonebook entries by strikeout and write new ones in. The Sony company sticks out only because whenever they put out new gadgets or service, I had to evermore new ones down.

That binder was a feudal effort as time went on.
But I remember seeing a few more “hhh:” sites, before I learned computers and there’s no such triple-h protocol. Just early advertisement typos perhaps. But funny how may have spotted it more than twice.

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Human eye pros:

• sensitive to greens in low light.
• sensitive to pickup tones and textures whereas a computer may detect solid colors.

Human eye cons:

• no infrared, but just maybe a tiny tiny bit.
• no ultraviolet.
• no radiation types, except in specific extremes of certain types like cosmic rays.

Yeah that was a nonscientific sentence they said.

I just had an awful thought. What if we reach the next ai generating chapter where its programmed to make “freshly photoshopped” images; and getting better and better.
Oh gawd… are those clipping boundaries… too perfect??

I went down a brief rabbit hole on the zip+4 and the IMb (intelligent mailer barcode). The +4 was originally a local division inside a single zipcode, like a neighborhood or mail route. +4 and the barcode was then called POSTNET – decommissioned and now upgraded barcode encoding to IMb, which can contain like 2000 bits of data. The zip +4 technically now has a length of 11 digits, and is inside a IMb barcode.

Conclusion, barcodes have sensitive data too. ~✍️

edit add: i wanted to see if my phone’s barcode app could scan too see if OP’s post office really calls him Mr. Off, but it cant natively read mailer codes and I fell asleep and the rabbit hole ended.

What’s currently inside Microsoft Outlook these days? I have not used Outlook as an email client since the Win98 days. I’m guessing Artemis crew is using a calendar or synced tasks feature of some kind.

I remember a biology teacher said this about human folical mites… they’re symbiotic, they live off whatever naturally builds up on hair follicles, and a story of someone whom had a phobia and used a iodine wash to attempt to eradicate mites only to get a bad case of warts that took a long time to go away because the skin environment\biome was so sterile-like.

JACK: I can’t make it on a coupla high-altitude f😭s! You are too much for me, Ennis! I wish I knew how to quit you.
ENNIS: Have you tried cool refreshing Tokeback Mountain sugar-free nicotine chewing gum?
JACK: Really?
ENNIS: Hell yeah, partner. I don’t go up here for fishing.

A stop by the I.S.S to pickup their one ape suite would help that.

10 billion costumes in 9 days?
How about 3 costumes plus one layover stop to the I.S.S to pickup their one ape suite for the Artemis crew to recreate this moment…