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  • No, I don’t think that will do anything but mildly inconvenience them.

    We had these chiller units at the lab I used to work at. They are built like a tank, the only vulnerable part is the two pipes carrying water in and out of the building. Plus our security people insisted we surround the chiller with a twelve foot fence topped with barbed wire.

    But even if you do shoot out one of the pipes, all that happens is an alarm goes off the and the system does and orderly shuts down. Our system was installed by the lowest bidder and failed all the time, no really problem.

    So if you were to do this, all you have done is risk your life and liberty to mildly annoy the powers that be. You’d be more effective running for local government and cutting them off from the municipal water system.

    Plus these building aren’t wood, they are steel and concrete, you can’t even burn them down. Only a transient power event, that overwhelms the surge protection would do any harm.

    Say like covertly putting up a lightning rod and running a wire to the building.

    But they know they are hated, and these places are well guarded. You will never get close to one. I just don’t see a realistic way to do any damage except through the power line running into the building. Maybe via a substation.

    As nice as it is to fantasize about this stuff, you’re attacking a fortified fixed position. They know you are coming, and law enforcement and government is on their side. Seems like a suicide mission.








  • Such a shame. I was hoping it would be more.

    Edit: A little bit of context. I have a friend who is Russian and every year travels back there for a couple of week to see to her 80 year old mothers needs.

    The Russians are not some poor oppressed people who were dragged to war against their wishes. They are overwhelming in support of Putin and everything he has done. (up to now at least). They are the Russian equivalent of maga. They drank the koolaid and only now when things are going bad do they regret it. If the war turns back in their favor with will be out cheering in the streets. I have zero pity for these people.








  • Big thumbs up to regular exercise. It helps more than any meds. “Motion is the best lotion”, the doctors always say to me.

    On the other hand, since this is a retirement community, with so many exercise options, new arrival always do the same thing. They think they are 18 and do all the sports they did as a kid. Their next stop is the orthopedic surgeon to put things back together again. So don’t over do it. I think half the people on my street have had a shoulder, hip or knee replaced.

    That is the beauty of the ebike. You can adjust the torque setting and preserve your knees, while still getting some exercise. When you get tired, you use the throttle to get home. One nice thing about the Villages, tons of places to bike.


  • Not really an option any more, use to do that a lot, when I first retired.

    I’m on some really expensive meds that require refrigeration. They don’t travel well. Plus all the medical equipment I have to haul around with me.

    I make one trip a year now up to NJ in the summer, to visit my brother then spend a couple of months there. Come October or so he comes down here and bring Harley the wonder dog with him. It’s a GSP and just such a happy destructive puppy.


  • I am fine; everyone else seems fucked.

    That seems like a good way to summarize things.

    I try to help people as the situation arises. My nephew, my brother, some of my neighbors. Always good to lend a hand, makes me feel better. There were a lot more opportunities to help during covid. Not so much now.

    The problem becomes there is less and less stamina every day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m getting by, no where near having to go into assisted living. But I don’t think I could do any kind of organized volunteer work. On the good days I do long bike rides, on the bad day I just want to sleep.

    Really I should be doing my rehab exercises for the arthritis in my back right now. After a while maintaining an aging body is like owning a late model car. I spend a good part of the day just trying to keep it running.