ONI: c404. The sky is 100% sealed with bunker doors. I've started to recover from the steel push, and have 3.5t of it. The three oil wells are capped & tapped "ish", as you can see.
Oil wells are a pain in the ass, but they're valuable, at 3kg/s of oil. The problem: they're often submerged, and when you unload them, you get steam, unless they're in >2k gas pressure. That one on the left is still WIP, and I *just* got the one on the right cleaned out.
It's energy-positive tho, once stabilized. 10kg/s of oil = 5kg/s of petroleum = 2.5 petroleum generators = 4kw per second. Even all tricked out with separate pumps the way I have it, that's a lot of net+
Of course, if we go for a petroleum boiler later, that's *5* petroleum generators = 10kw/s.
All it takes is a lot of water, which, guess what, on Terra asteroids you got more water than you could ever possibly use. My infinite reservoir of hot-water, 400 cycles in, has a million tons of water in it, and I'm not using it for anything but this right now.

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I got one of those messages I sometimes get from a reader, telling me that including my politics in my muses/blogs is off-putting.
As a general rule, I don't bother to respond to these. I gain and lose followers all the time, everyoen who makes content does, for all sorts of reasons, and that's just one more.
Today, though, surrounded by <waves hands> all of this, I feel like I want to give a more full statement on the matter.

So.
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ONI: Off to bed at 11, so I gotta little bit of time, and doomscrolling is breaking my heart. I accidentally walked away and left things running for five hours, so we're back at c380. <sigh>.
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I am going to use a switching loop this time: run a pipe through all three wells with the cold ph2o, but have it on an inline thermo sensor, and let it loop through them until around 80c, then dump it to o2 supply. That oughta do it, but it may take a while.
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Before we can make the case that microtest TDD is an effective change strategy, there's a few high-level aspects of it that we need to highlight. We tend to take these for granted in our case, but newcomers won't already know them.
More even than before, geekery seems irrelevant. We're living the natural outcome of a politics of hatred & deceit. This content is one way I find respite, and maybe it will help you a little, but...

Stay safe. Stay strong. Stay anrgy. Stay kind.

Black Lives Matter.
Today, I'm writing for the newcomer. It's going to be a little rambly, because the ideas aren't partitioning a single conceptual level into its component parts. Think of me as going over a text with a yellow highlighter, bringing out some points newcomers might not readily see.
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Sippie Wallace, w/Albert Ammons and his Rhythm Kings, "Bedroom Blues".

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I sometimes admire a pianist for having a left hand as strong as the right, but with Ammons his gift was that his right hand was as strong as his left. I got takes, kids, serious takes, that make a person gasp.
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This is called "Life in a Northern Town". It's by Dream Academy.

I mean, idunno, sometimes ya ring a bell. And if you ring the bell one time in your whole career? Well. You know what, you rang the fucking bell, dint you?
I bought the collected William Carlos Williams, and I put it in the bathroom. And I read it, all of it.

He rang the bell a dozen times.

Can you imagine that? To ring it *twice*, to ring it more, to ring it and ring it?

I can't.
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Did ignorant, misled, wrongly angry white people elect Trump, aided by his many enablers who believe ends justify means?

Yes.

But it's a dreadful over-simplification to suggest that ignorant country people can account for 74 million votes.

You might wanna check yourself.
If every single rural voter in America was pro-Trump, a laughable notion, they could not possibly have made him competitive. Even with gerrymandering, even with the electoral college.
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