Jokes on you, I don’t poop. I just use toilet paper to blow my nose.

To remain in a liquid state CO2 needs to be kept under several hundred PSI of pressure and kept fairly cool. Even at only 40F CO2 boils at about 550 PSIG. In above ground tanks you need to worry about elevated ambient temperatures and if that CO2 tank gets to be over about 88F then that CO2 just straight up can’t be liquified. Above 88F you suddenly have a tank of supercritical CO2 which gets a bit more interesting to store for various reasons.

The deep ocean it actually a fairly ideal place to store liquid CO2 because it is cold and already under an immense amount of pressure.

This is kind of related to something that’s been bothering me lately. I’ve lived with unmedicated ADHD for my entire life which was originally incorrectly diagnosed as major depressive disorder. So spent over a decade repeatedly playing pharmacology roulette cycling through various antidepressants none of which worked (because depression wasn’t the root issue). All the while I was just barely holding down a job I could barely stand, alienating myself from everyone I knew, and just barely avoiding giving myself a shotgun slug root canal. Needless to say I was stressed as fuck.

Then I got properly diagnosed with ADHD, put on meds that actually worked amazingly, got a new job I loved with my newfound executive function, and generally got my life into shape. This just so happened to take place at the end of 2024. So, despite the entire fucking world falling apart around me and everyone being stressed, I am relatively stress free for the first time in my life. It’s a weird thing where everything globally is more fucked than I can even fully properly conceive of and yet despite that I personally have never felt better. The two things aren’t related but It still feels weird being happiest I’ve ever been when the world as I knew it is falling apart.

Anyways, that’s a very long way to say that sometimes stress doesn’t coincide with the end of the world.

Fuck miligrams. Do grams of LSD. Meet god.

His listeners are the kind of people who smoke newports through a hole in their neck.

Don’t worry. A lot of places are also trying to privatize their public transportation.

Ah, yes. I too enjoy staging my road tripping vehicle like an interplanetary rocket.

It’s really easy to tell if a tourist is american. Just get caught while trying to pickpocket them.

You’re making me glad I’m single. Home is where the nekid is. Anything else is criminal. If I’m wearing pants at home it’s either because I’m waiting on a delivery or cooking bacon.

That still requires a turbine to turn the steam into electricity. If turbines are the shortage then nuclear doesn’t solve the shortage.

I’d rather be first than than anything after that. Because after one or maybe two, he’s going to be forcing it and it gets much more risky.

All at once?

I was actually tier 3 support. I just also happened to be the sole support for one specific area which meant even low level tickets from there got automatically directed to me.

Earlier hyperbole aside, I honestly fuckin love my job now. If I didn’t rely on having an income, I would still be doing this for free. But working a desk job drove me nuts. I’m sure it’s great for a lot of people but I just can’t do it.

The trades can attract fairly diverse people because you don’t have to fit into an office. Generally you’re just given your work and you’re expected to do it. Welders especially can easily be specialized enough that they can’t really be micromanaged.

As a current tradesman who is regularly burned, electrocuted, and cut on the job while rolling around in filthy crawl spaces, dragging 100 lb of gear up a ladder onto scorching rooftops, or freezing inside walk in deep freezers… working an IT desk job was way worse.

I would sooner stick my tongue in a 480V panel than have to go back to answering “printer don’t work” tickets.

They just want to bring back porno mags because the old gezers keep getting viruses trying to find it on line.

Really? I just get an immediate login wall on mobile.

From what I’ve heard, it’s less that the actual employer cares and more the the employer gets a discount on their insurance rates if they drug test employees.

My actual mortgage payment is probably just under $500. Taxes and insurance just put it at about $1000. I bought a nearly crack den quality fixer upper about 6 years ago in a moderately low COL area. In the truely low COL areas I imagine you might still be able to manage the same pricing today. It’s probably doable, just not anywhere most people want to live or with a house that doesn’t have a bunch of issues.