--- Log opened Thu Feb 24 00:00:05 2022
05:58 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
05:59  * aestetix hugs DOl
05:59 <@aestetix> er
05:59 <@aestetix> Dolemite: 
05:59 <@aestetix> seems that Europe is about to be in war again
05:59 <@Dolemite> Yep, expected.
05:59 <@aestetix> Well
06:00 <@aestetix> The big difference between now and 1939 is nuclear weapons
06:00 <@Dolemite> Funny how one region of about 200 miles in radius seems to be responsible for the two (and possibly third) World Wars
06:00 <@aestetix> yeah, that one region is also one of the most unstable in the world
06:01 <@aestetix> And always has been
06:01 <@aestetix> The big question is, will NATO allies use military force in response
06:13 <@Dolemite> Yeah, because Ukraine isn't technically a member yet...
06:14 <@Dolemite> Which is why Putin was having his puppet talk smack about NATO for the previous presidential term
06:15 <@Dolemite> And there goes China, refusing to criticize the invasion and starts importing wheat from Russia
06:15 <@Dolemite> China + Russia becomes a very worrisome adversary
06:22 <@Dolemite> The Ruble has collapsed overnight, but Russia has been stockpiling ahead of this, knowing their currency would flatline until it's over...  and then it will be worth as much, if not more than before
08:01 <@Dagmar> Doesn't matter how much it's worth if no one can trade with you because you've been blocked by sanctions
08:21 <@eryc> https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1496807049203642375
08:21 < PigBot> No Title (at twitter.com) 
08:30 <@eryc> https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1496814734426968066
08:30 < PigBot> No Title (at twitter.com) 
08:43 <@opticron> oh good, more interesting times to live through
08:43 <@opticron> the global pandemic *was* getting a little stale
08:46 <@Dagmar> Yes, it's about time murder by military took back the #1 spot in the causes of death charts.
08:46 <@Dagmar> ...like you really expect to fire missiles into inhabited areas without killing just a bunch of motherfuckers.
09:51 <@Evilpig> annual performance review time.  we have three questions to answer
09:52 <@Evilpig> 1) 1.What is the biggest obstacle that is preventing you from performing your best work and reaching your goal?
09:52 <@Evilpig> 2.How can we better use your skills and abilities in your current role?
09:52 <@Evilpig> 3.Where are our greatest opportunities to improve service around VUMC (i.e. teams, patients, internal customers)?
09:53 <@Evilpig> 1) incompentence of other groups causing me strife in my daily activities.  having to stop to explain how a certificate store works to another group despite me not being a developer.  i'm literally doing their job for them
09:54 <@Evilpig> 2) having other groups evaluate concerns raised by me even though I am not considered a SME or a Director so my ideas have no merit
09:55 <@Evilpig> 3) drop the dead weight, stop promoting them because they've managed to not quit for greener pastures over the last decade
10:13 <@opticron> I feel like every job has meat puppets that need to be dropped
10:13 <@opticron> only one where I work
10:14 <@opticron> and he has nepotism armor
10:16 <@Dagmar> If you really put that in there, you're my hero for the week
10:27 <@Dolemite> ROFL
10:27 <@Dolemite> Deja Vu is now having Mystery Shoppers
10:27 <@Dolemite> Where's NotLarry when I need him?
10:28 <@Dolemite> Reimbursable Expenses:
10:28 <@Dolemite> *Cover Charge: $25.00 (Cover may exceed $25 depending on location)
10:28 <@Dolemite> *Lap Dances: $100.00 includes 3 dances
10:28 <@Dolemite> *Drinks: $25.00 includes two drinks
10:28 <@Dolemite> *Tips: $25.00 maximum
10:28 <@Dagmar> holy shit I need two jobs
10:46 <@Evilpig> Dagmar: I can already tell you that will be my answers.  they'll goto my manager and he'll tell me that can't be sent on like that but he understands and will reword them in a way that is acceptable to our director
10:46 <@Evilpig> last year I was asked what goal I wanted to set for the coming year and I told him "not get fired"
10:48 <@Dagmar> Is it any wonder the place collects fuckuppery
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11:10 <@Mirage> Wife got to work OK.  Only spun out once as she was turning in to the hospital parking lot.  She was like, "Yeah, I think I'm just gonna stay here tonight.  It was so cold that the drizzle was freezing on the windshield while I was driving even with the heater on full blast." 
11:11 <@Mirage> Of course I'd warned her about that same thing yesterday when I went to put gas in the car before it got really nasty.  I was trying to convince her to either stay at the hospital or one of the 3 hotels close by last night, but she didn't want to.
11:13 <@Mirage> Forecast has changed.  Yesterday they were saying it was going to clear up a little after noon and the high was going to be in the mid-upper 30s.  Now they are saying high of 32 and not clearing until tonight.
11:40 <@Evilpig> well aint that a bitch
11:41 <@Evilpig> emergency team meeting from our director, and a private message before that meeting saying "rotate the root password"
11:41 <@eryc> time to play the hacked or fired game
12:00 <@Dolemite> LOL @ the play during this week's Resident Alien
12:08 <@Dagmar> "the" root password.
12:08 <@Dagmar> lol
12:08 <@Dagmar> Dafuq is wrong with your people
12:13 <@Evilpig> Dolemite: look at your phone
12:14 <@Evilpig> Dagmar: our root password is only usable on the local console so, meh
12:16 <@Evilpig> Dolemite: the song absolutely got me laughing
12:17 <@Dolemite> yes, that was the best part
12:18 <@Mirage> Seriously...fuck this guy.  https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/abbott-floats-clemency-for-indicted-austin-police-officers/2898448/
12:18 < PigBot> Abbott Floats Clemency for Indicted Austin Police Officers – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth (at www.nbcdfw.com) https://tinyurl.com/y8nfd8ul
12:20 <@Mirage> Im liking Darcy and the Mayor's Wife much more this season than last.  Definitely doing a lot of character building for all of them this season.
12:29 <@Mirage> Just saw on the news that the TX grid utilization was getting "tight" this morning due to lack of sun/wind to drive the green power sources causing a deficit in the projected/expected capacity.
13:13 <@Mirage> Apparently, per a post on his FB page, a guy I went to HS will be celebrating/honoring his dead father by smoking pot laced with his ashes.  wtf..
14:13 <@Catonic> yup, interesting times. 
14:17 <@Evilpig> Mirage: oddly not the first time i've heard of such a thing.  that was also the plot of a movie  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278488/
14:17 < PigBot> How High (2001) - IMDb (at www.imdb.com) https://tinyurl.com/yf5kdbxz
14:24 <@Mirage> It sounds like someone in this zoom meeting has a smoke detector w/ a low battery.  About to drive me nuts.
14:30 <@Mirage> Evilpig: haven't seen it, no desire to
14:30 <@Dolemite> You need to get one of those soundboard apps that also has the beeping and every time you hear it, you make yours go off.
14:36 <@Mirage> https://news.yahoo.com/war-comes-to-chernobyl-raising-nuclear-fears-in-russia-invasion-of-ukraine-170528013.html
14:36 < PigBot> War comes to Chernobyl, raising nuclear fears in Russia invasion of Ukraine (at news.yahoo.com) https://tinyurl.com/y82abvk4
14:37 <@Mirage> So them taking control of the site of a defunct reactor is worrisome, but them having god knows how many thousands of nuclear weapons isn't?
14:50 <@Dolemite> Due to the Ukraine invasion and the increased risk of phishing attacks, all emails are now having "http" replaced with "hxxp" so that nothing is clickable, anymore.
14:51 <@Dolemite> I expect this to raise issues for me in that I'll have some Windows admin put in a ticket that they can't download their SSL certificate using the links sent in email.
14:51 <@Dolemite> I already had one of them asking me to check the IP address for sending email in their app.   It was 127.0.0.1.
14:51 <@Dolemite> I only wish I could blame that one on Pootin'
14:52 <@Dagmar> Check yer geiger counters
14:53 <@Dolemite> Dude there's so much fissile material in storage around here that if it got targeted I'd be covered by the initial blast radius.   No nuclear winter for me.
15:46 <@Evilpig> Mirage: any shit going on around the elephants foot should be troubling to everyone
16:55 <@Dagmar> Pig knows what I'm talking about
16:56 <@Dagmar> I remember when that shit happened, and how folks on the internet were saying flat out "No, the government is lying because this shit doesn't just fall from the sky like frogs or somethin'"
16:57 <@Dagmar> A couple weeks of news media not saying a _damn_ thing because Russia wouldn't confirm the story and they didn't want to spook anyone
17:08 <@Dagmar> Tanks are rolling in now.  They'll have the capital before morning.
17:43 <@Mirage> lol.. here's a snippet from a post my mom put up on FB.  "The threat of snow (or ice) from the weatherman is your prompt to head to the grocery store and buy milk, eggs and bread. It doesn’t matter if you need these items. It’s just what we do. Everyone in town will be there. 
17:44 <@Mirage> You’ll also need to make a mad dash for faucet covers and finding them and getting out of the store will be like an episode of the hunger games. You’re in the redneck district. "
17:45 <@Mirage> "If you happen to slide off the road or get stuck, turn your flashers on, take a deep breath and wait. Two guys in a four wheel drive truck will be along in no time to offer assistance. Don’t try to help them, they live for this stuff, and will do what they can to get you back on the road. If either one of them screams “hey y’all watch this” just get back and get your phone out and start recording, 
17:45 <@Mirage> you’ll probably have a viral video."
17:54 <@Evilpig> heh
18:46 <@Dagmar> heheh
19:01 <@Catonic> Mirage: you should totally get a powerwall or two.
19:02 <@Catonic> https://upriseenergy.com/blog/2021/12/17/costs-of-running-a-diesel-generator 
19:02 < PigBot> Cost of a Kilowatt - Diesel Generator Analysis — Uprise Energy | Portable Renewable Energy  (at upriseenergy.com) https://tinyurl.com/y3ylxcxl
19:03 <@Catonic> To summarize, diesel generators can range from $0.80 - $5.00 per kW. For comparison, our portable wind turbine produces power between $0.05 - $0.30 per kW depending on wind conditions
19:03 <@Catonic> blah blah science: https://upriseenergy.com/blog/2021/11/4/environmental-impact-and-carbon-dioxide-offset
19:03 < PigBot> Comparing Costs and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Diesel Generators vs Wind Turbines — Uprise Energy | Portable Renewable Energy  (at upriseenergy.com) https://tinyurl.com/y9e5qry4
19:04 <@Catonic> A power wall lets you charge when the grid is on base load, not peak load. If the peak cost goes high enough, it's cheaper to make it yourself if you can get your hands on a cheap diesel generator and a grid-tie inverter.
19:05 <@Catonic> Obviously, being in the south, those are some damn big numbers for daylight hours.
19:05 <@Dagmar> Looks like maybe someone got very, very stupid today
19:05 <@Dagmar> https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1496991213819412482
19:05 < PigBot> No Title (at twitter.com) https://tinyurl.com/ycuejahg
19:05 <@Dagmar> Might explain why they were in a hurry to send troops over there
19:07 <@Catonic> I hope that's a sensor error. The whole fight over Chernobyl reminds me of the opening scenes of Crimson Tide.
19:08 <@Catonic> Fortunately, all of the non-Russian states expatriated thier nuclear weapons back to Russia after they broke away from Russia.
19:09 <@Dagmar> Well, they were throwing missiles out like free t-shirts today
19:09 <@Dagmar> I wouldn't be terribly suprised if some numbnutz managed to target it because it was simply marked "important location"
19:10 <@Dagmar> By the way... bookmark this in case you feel like you're going to want to have a good night's sleep and want to stop that
19:10 <@Dagmar> https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#16/51.3910/30.1054/gamma/comp+cams+fire
19:10 < PigBot> Radiological maps in Ukraine online: radiation monitoring - SaveEcoBot (at www.saveecobot.com) https://tinyurl.com/ycarxydn
19:11 <@Dagmar> Probably not a sensor error
20:01 <@Dagmar> Evilpig: A-ha... I *do* have a Pichu
20:07 <@Evilpig> I have one now.  I'm annoyed.  I thought you just had to finish the pokedex, apparently to get arceus you have to CATCH every damned pokemon
20:07 <@Evilpig> so I guess I have 10 to go now
20:12 <@Dagmar> hah
21:03 <@Catonic> Well, that's just awesome. There's not just one at 65,000, there's three in the 50,000s so clearly the Russians have popped the sarcophagus. 
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