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Was a Goodyear, Akron, Ohio Goodyear hat Nice. Which is where Emily's from. Sure. So I wanted that. And then I saw this STP hat. Stone Temple Pilots. But I would get a champion spark plug hat too. Those are that's that's great. Okay. I'll let you borrow mine anytime you want. Just gotta give it back. If I've ever seen you in a baseball cap. It's a weird jam. Is it? Not what you wanna see. I've seen you in shorts, like, twice in 12 years. I keep the legs covered. I think one of them was when you came over to borrow my lawnmower. I remember that. Yeah. Like, 9 years ago. Sure. I've gotta mow the lawn sometimes. Now things have changed. You can buy a lawnmower. Yeah. That's where we're at now. We can afford lawnmowers. I can wear shorts too. I actually have one of those plug in lawnmowers. I have a battery powered lawnmower. Do you? Look at us stupid liberal hippies. Well, mine's mine's battery powered too, but you have to plug it in to charge it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which what kind do you have? I have the green one. Yeah. I think they're all green. No. There's a blue one. Oh, I've got the green one too. The Sun Joe? No. But I have a Sun Joe pressure washer. Do you really? Is it battery operated? No. You plug that in. I was gonna say, I'll bet it just goes like, tinkles out water. But they do make, plug in lawnmowers. Like, it's not a battery. You just Right. Like, have a cord that you walk around with. And run over with your lawnmower. I guess they're called electric. Sure. But, yeah, I got the battery one because I have so little grass now, and we may be done period with grass. Oh, yeah. That's right. You're zero escaping. Well, we're definitely doing the front, but the back, it just got smaller and smaller. Mhmm. And I my last lawnmower broke, so I was paying the guy to come cut it. Mhmm. I was like, why am I paying this guy to cut to do a 7 minute mow? There's just that one blade of glass that sees the lawnmower coming. He's like, mother. Yeah. But then I went and got the battery on because lawnmowers are terrible for the environment. Yeah. That's why I got it. They're one of the worst polluters. One too. Yeah. We're both also aware that we are charging our battery powered lawn mowers with coal fired power.
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Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out!
Thu Apr 18 2024
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Totally lost. But like we said, she was just about as prepared for this experience as a person can be from her upbringing. And she remembered after a while, like, okay, what did I learn as a kid about living in the jungle? And one of the things that came to her was her father telling her, if you're ever lost in the jungle, find water and just Yeah. Follow it one way or the other. Because eventually, you're going to find humans living around that water. Totally. And that's a smart rule of thumb, period. Mhmm. If you're ever, you know, lost in the woods or something. And at the very least, you have some water. And she lived on that water because she didn't have much food. She had a little bit of candy. Mhmm. It was a wet season there, so there wasn't like low hanging fruit literally that she could get a hold of. It was obviously because it was wet season. It was super hot, super humid, but she did get some water from that river, which kept her alive. And like you said, for 11 days, she trod that creek then stream, then it became bigger into a river. Eventually, she was basically at the point where she had given up hope, and she was, you know, kind of succumbing and to the idea that she might die. And she saw a boat on the riverbank and thought it was a mirage, but she went over and touched it to make sure it was real, followed a path from that boat to a shack where she found some forest workers who immediately were, like, you know, great. They gave her some, fruit and started taking care of her and taking care of her wounds right away. Yeah. I think when she came in the shack, their famous quote was, what the what? Yeah. This was this was gross. I can't remember which, article. I think it might have been for the New York Times article by a guy named Franz Litz. And he said that they poured gasoline on her wounds that had maggots sprouting from it like asparagus tips. I mean, she was
That that you can set essentially a house in on fire underneath 1. Oh, well, okay. But I'm talking about just the general lab version. Okay. Okay. Okay. They have they have them bigger than a house? Yes. I saw that in some labs that they have, like, house simulations in. They like, the roof will be the the, calorimeter. Oh, okay. So it's it's like all sorts of different sizes. We're both right. I think is the happy outcome of this. Okay. And there's also another experiment that, or another finding that these experiments yielded, which is Flashover. Right? Yeah. I thought I mean, I could've sworn in the movie Backdraft, they called that Backdraft. Maybe that's a similar term, or maybe it's the same thing. Or maybe it was a oh, it is? Okay. It's a backdrop seems to be a component of a flashover. Oh, okay. Well, I guess that makes sense. So a flashover is when, you've got a fire going in a house, you've got a big layer of smoke that's got all kinds of like combustible gases, all sorts of little particles that are super flammable up in that smoke. Mhmm. It's at the ceiling collecting and collecting, and then just getting more dense and going down, down, down as the room heats up. Mhmm. And then as it hits a certain point, basically, a high enough temperature to ignite it, there is like an explosion, basically. It can hit a 1,000 degrees. And when that flashover happens, you can see char marks and burn marks that, previously people were like, the only way to get that is if you like dump gas all over the room. Right. And that's a 1000 degrees Celsius, like 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. Right? That is really hot and it happens. There's a really steep incline where that temperature just increases like that and everything stuff just spontaneously catches fire because it's so hot. It's reached the ignition point for that couch or that TV or whatever. The whole room catches fire. And like you said, it does all sorts of it leaves all sorts of telltale marks that had long been attributed to arson for
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Selects: How Famines Work
Sat Apr 13 2024
At one point, the goal was, which they, you know, never met, was that not only would they have food one day readily available, but be able to choose what they wanted to eat. Right. Like, that's something you don't think about. You really take that for granted Yeah. Here in the United States and elsewhere. Yeah. It's not just having food, but, like, oh, I might like to eat this or that. Right. You know? Alright. So a lot of things can affect this food security, and we're gonna talk about all these as throughout the show as they relate to famine. But, obviously, you think of natural disasters first, and probably drought first. Yeah. That's a that's a big one. It is a big one, undeniably. If you don't have water and rain, you can't grow crops usually. No. Crop blight, which we'll talk a little bit about the potato famine in Ireland Mhmm. Later on. And but any kind of disease, pest, even, like, a overabundance of weeds could conceivably ruin a crop. Flooding, extraordinarily cold weather, extraordinarily hot weather. Mhmm. We'll just say weather patterns in general. Yeah. Severe weather. And then a big one, which a lot of people a lot of people, I think, mainly think of natural disasters or natural factors, and, political conflict is one of the big, big, big contributors. So here we'll see. This is what we're coming to though eventually is there's a big debate on what causes famine. And for many, many years, everyone said, well, don't be dumb. Droughts cause famine. Right? Mhmm. But studies much more recent studies have found that, actually, if you kind of peek behind the curtain a little bit, yeah, there was a drought and it started the famine, but what actually caused the famine Yeah. Or caused it to be horrible is usually government. Either government that, has bungled something Uh-huh. Or, just is it moved to actually care to do anything to alleviate the famine as we'll see? Yeah. What I gathered from reading this was most