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Having lived in California, so much of their rain water actually just runs down the sewers. It's so hard for the water to absorb into their soil because it's become just baked into almost a crust. Having green space will probably make it easier for water to penetrate into the soil and be retained in the soil.

It was where a prominent member of my gaming community was killed.

RIP Sean Smith/Vile Rat.

Yep. Sometimes I can't even figure out what they pay me for.

PGE are crooks. Their entire board and execs should be in prison for the fires their failing equipment have caused and the subsequent deaths.

That said, I moved from southern California to Illinois recently. We went from 50-60 cents/kwh to something like 5 cents/kwh. I use a lot to power my servers, fans, and AC and don't fret if my bill hits $200 a month.

Maybe the company that makes the fire blankets used by fire agencies: https://bridgehill.com/news-insights/ev-fire-blanket-test/

A study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X23011954

Or fire response specific resources: https://www.firerescue1.com/electric-vehicles/articles/developing-sops-for-electric-vehicles-incidents-CbHhgn5759QnLDv3/

https://www.firerescue1.com/electric-vehicles/articles/electric-vehicle-fires-where-the-waiting-game-wins-f934UedqIpVqc1k2/

Oh man, I am so happy I blocked that community months ago because I just have no interest in it or their diet.

Not who you responded to, but that's an interesting source. I'm intrigued by a textile company claiming to be experts in lithium ion fires.

It sounds more like options for preventing a fire to spread. It's also including CO2 extinguishers under "foam" which they very much aren't, making me doubt the rest of their blog post.

Extinguishing fires can work largely in two different ways. Either by smothering a fire or by cooling a fuel below it's flash point. Quite often they put out a fire by doing both. A fire that contains an oxidizer cannot be smothered, but smothering can help prevent other materials in a vehicle from being able to burn along with the batteries. Cooling down a large, vehicle sized lithium ion fires takes an incredible amount of water. However, the cells themselves contain so much energy that their failure produces more thermal energy than water is able to remove.

Is water the best to put out large EV fires? Nope.

Is water good at preventing fires from spreading? Yep.

Is water easily accessible and carried on every fire truck and engine and available through hydrants? Also yep.

A lot of agencies are including car sized fire blankets as well that help smother the fire some and make burnt/burning EVs safer for tow trucks to move to a safe locations where they can be left to burn out. Sometimes for over a month! You might see fire engines literally escorting tow trucks because even with the blanket and being doused with tens of thousands of gallons, it's still at risk of reigniting during transport.

The other big issue that agencies are facing with EV fires is that the water used to suppress these fires essentially becomes hazmat. So there are issues with letting it just run off into the storm system or the environment.

The concert? I dunno it's pretty close. But the company to go to the show with, that I'll fly across the country for.

When I was living in California, I had a friend text me he had an extra ticket to a Bad Religion concert in Chicago. So I booked a flight and went to see the show with him. Flight was a few hundred bucks, the "free" ticket was worth like $35.

Honestly, it was totally worth it. One of the best concerts I've been to, probably because of who I got to see it with.

Restrict the number of accounts that can join that family group. And/or remove the ability to share the library from the main account for repeated offenses.

Or require multiple family members accounts to have to cheat before the owner account is banned.

At some point, I started noticing the same thing in a lot of Fox programming. If you watch Hells kitchen or tons of other fox shows. It's the toughest challenge, for the first time, most dangerous.

It's gotten to the point that I can't ignore it, it's like the Wilhelm scream.

I don't get the hyperbolic responses to fucking everything by Trump. It's always got to be biggest, best, worst, loudest. He fucking has no middle ground in any of the bullshit he spews.

I was so entertained when he brought up the immigrants eating pets and how he got called out for it by the moderator. There were a few times they straight up called him out.

She's had 4 years as VP. He's had 4 years AS PRESIDENT. And he only has the concept of a plan. He's fucking been there and his remarks are all about her not doing things when she wasn't even in that role.