good job mister president. another promise kept. https://t.co/pYy2HVI07j
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) May 12, 2021
More populated areas of US southeast with gas shortages “will see relief starting today, but not every area will. This is not like flipping a switch. It's a 5,500 mile pipeline,” @SecGranholm. “The rural areas, we hope will able to see normal hopefully by the end of the weekend." pic.twitter.com/M5RTdbnxWD
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 13, 2021
DarkSide is “100%” working in cahoots with the Russian government, former NSA hacker David Kennedy says — and the group is “ruthless.” pic.twitter.com/yEjphN44rM
— The News with Shepard Smith (@thenewsoncnbc) May 13, 2021
The ‘Darkside’ people went to great lengths claiming they were just a humble bunch of internet freebooters, seeking only plunder for their simple needs, nothing political about them at all. I personally misdoubt such a high-profile heist could be undertaken within his kleptocracy without some awareness on the part of President-for-Life Putin, so either he was testing the fences, or he’s under sufficient pressure that these GRU veterans decided a sufficiently large smash & grab was worth the risk…
Asked if US will inflict pain on govts who allow hackers to operate from their territory, @POTUS: "We are working to try to get to the place where we have sort of an international standard. … I suspect that's one of the topics that I'll be talking about with President Putin." pic.twitter.com/kjmvmY0qq1
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 13, 2021
The desperation to turn the pipeline shutdown into reenactment of the Arab oil crisis is deeply hillarious. https://t.co/gkLCpxBLLU
— Alex Hazanov. (@alexhazanov) May 12, 2021
https://t.co/U6ykXx7JQF pic.twitter.com/6d2yQOIFXh
— Zd (@Zeddary) May 12, 2021
1800 lb rated trailer, 1000 lb rated strap, 3000 lbs of fuel with no hazmat placard LET'S GOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/Q8zRmu0uOV
— Hunter Biden's laptop repair guy (@evren__7) May 12, 2021
Use only containers approved for fuel.
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) May 12, 2021
We know this sounds simple, but when people get desperate they stop thinking clearly. They take risks that can have deadly consequences. If you know someone who is thinking about bringing a container not meant for fuel to get gas, please let them know it's dangerous.
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) May 12, 2021
Middle class idiots filling their SUV trunks with Hefty bags full of gas because some oil executive clicked on the wrong email is as fantastic an argument for investing in high speed rail as you're gonna get.
— Zd (@Zeddary) May 12, 2021
Infosec Joe has cybermalarkey on the run https://t.co/FkFh2t6vt4
— Lil Brood X ?? (@pleizar) May 12, 2021
The absolute desperation the media has been reduced to by this administration https://t.co/DXDXw80bPQ
— Syndicalist Weedle Collective (@Weedledouble) May 13, 2021
"Is this Biden's Katrina?
No. Ok, it was nothing and it's already over?
Fuck it…we're bored. Just print it." https://t.co/vfmQrPn88H— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) May 13, 2021
This… doesn’t sound great, either:
I know a guy pic.twitter.com/I1KIc88l9m
— Jack Rhysider (@JackRhysider) May 12, 2021
just because you’ve been vaccinated it does NOT mean you can manipulate the stock market by creating a bag of gasoline cryptocurrency
— kilgore trout, junky horse (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 12, 2021
Government intervention to deliberately crash the crypto market is probably much less far away than people imagine. https://t.co/DFbFT59BFY
— Chris Pope (@CPopeHC) May 12, 2021
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
Does anyone want to buy my NFT of a bag of gas?
NotMax
Ethyl nertz.
Geoduck
Just for the record, it appears the specific “bags of gas” thing did not happen with the latest panic, but are recycled pics . A lot of the other stupidity is fresh and new.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
I hadn’t even heard about the pipeline until today. When did it happen? Ah, the joys of having a hybrid that gets 450 miles on a tank…
mrmoshpotato
@RobertDSC-Mac Mini:
Only if it’s a picture of a bag of gas. And only if it’s a picture of a bag of air – not anything that would be actually useful or valuable under normal circumstances.
Delk
I thought Rush Limbaugh was dead.
Pete Downunder
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): I haven’t been to a servo (Australian slang for gas station) in over a year. Thanks, Tesla.
Amir Khalid
I’m still amazed that some people are foolish enough to store petrol — petrol! — in plastic shopping bags. They’re thin, they puncture easily, and you never know what the petrol might do to the plastic.
mrmoshpotato
@Pete Downunder: Obligatory
Also, good on Red Rooster!
HumboldtBlue
@Delk:
Ba-dum-tssh
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: “Foolish” isn’t the right word. “Unbelievably stupid” gets a little closer.
L85NJGT
Colonial’s insurer paying the five million is the current flaccid line of attack. That’s why they have insurance, ya fucking morons.
Comrade Colette
@Pete Downunder: Ain’t it grand? My Kia Niro says hi from across the Pacific.
mrmoshpotato
I love how this pipeline doesn’t even come close to Floriduh.
Pete Downunder
@Comrade Colette: I totally love it. Fortunately I hate long road trips, which is good because Australia is still a little behind on charging infrastructure and has huge distances. But for my use it’s perfect. Mrs Downunder likes it because it is very zoomy.
Dan B
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): Ditto! But it’s even better to have an EV that gets 150 miles from an overnight charge on 110 household current. And with a lease we will get a larger range car in a couple years although my partner dreams of the Tesla SUV, the Y. 300 mile range and up.
Dan B
@Pete Downunder: We have a Leaf on a lease and a small Toyota truck my partner owns. We are forced to drive the truck at least once a week to keep the battery, and other systems, from dying. Forced to drive a stinky noisy ICE I say!
Dan B
@Pete Downunder: We love freaking out* friends by stepping on the “Zoomy”.
*We usually alert them first.
Jay
Pete Downunder
@Dan B: zoomy is the best. No one is expecting the instant acceleration. We have an old Isuzu pick up at the farm which reminds us what used to be
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
Somewhat OT, although it’s still about infrastructure—
You all, being jackals of an inquiring disposition, are aware that the Hernando de Soto Bridge, which carries I-40 over the Mississippi at Memphis, is closed because of a huge crack in one on the support beams (“crack” hell—the damn thing has sheared in two.) Not only is that bridge closed, with vehicular traffic re-routed to the bridge on I-55 and other crossings north & south, but the river itself is closed—apparently they’re trying to sort out whether pieces are likely to break off & land in the river. By Thursday, there were 47 tow boats handling 771 barges stuck on the River there. (For more details about the barges, look here. For a piece about the bridge and audio of the bridge inspectors’ 911 calls, asking that the bridge be closed, look here. To see why the bridge inspectors asked for the closure, google “I-35 bridge Minneapolis”).
If your post-Covid vaccination plans included a trip to Graceland or the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, you may need to for check alternate routes.
opiejeanne
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio: We just realized tonight that we were on that bridge in July, 2019, on our trip through the Ozarks from KC to Memphis, and down to Vicksburg. The crack was probably just a hairline then, just getting started.
That trip was quite the eye-opener for both of us and, even though we had a mental image of what it would be like, it was jarring to see it in front of us, especially the utter neglect of the citizens of those places by their state governments.
Mary G
Amir Khalid
@Mary G:
I remember seeing a wildlife show on TV where a cheetah decided to mess with the human tourists for fun. It climbed onto the roof of their truck, swung its butt over the sun roof, and went, bombs away!
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Huch!
Dan B
@Pete Downunder: We have made a game of trying to get as far as we can on a charge and Fast Chargers. We’ve found a fantastic Japanese restaurant at a casino (ugh) with decks overlooking a broad rural valley and the dramatic front range of the Cascades stretching in a line for 60 miles, a great brewpub at Snoqualmie Pass we spent time with a beefy handsome and very fun local resident, a resort in pine covered mountainsides on the sunny side of the mountains, and some okay outlet mall and a Taco Truck at a funky rural gas station. It’s been fun to see “drive past” places. Local roads with slower speed limits extend the range and have led us to an oyster farm with picnic tables on a tiny peninsula on Puget Sound with the mountainous San Juan Islands a couple miles across the water. It’s been a treat to skip the inevitably dreary gas stations and associated road food.
Washington State is installing many more fast chargers and may be coupling that with a friendly-to-EV’s tourism pitch.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: LOL! That’s a better outcome than a swipe into the car!
Geoduck
@Dan B: I was going to say, my local grocery (SW WA state) has installed a couple of free charging ports in their parking lot. Dunno if how universal-use they are, but good to see nonetheless.
Dan B
@Geoduck: All the early Fast Charger installs seem to be around shopping, gaming, electric car dealerships, or tourist areas. It’s weird that there are so few around grocery stores. There’s one at an organic and notoriously anti-union grocery on Mercer Island (suburb of Seattle in the middle of Lake Washington). I believe the grocery left because of bad publicity. If we ever go to Portland again we’ll be stopping somewhere near you unless you’re a long way west of I-5
We’d like to see many more in apartment buildings and parking garages, with better reporting on which ones are available or when the ones in use will be done charging. At present they’re reported by the vehicle owner and it’s pretty useless – people fail to report.
Tech companies should be able to work this out.
BTW We were surprised how many EV’s were on display at four dealerships we visited last week. They’ve having trouble getting enough between demand and supply chain / chip issues it’s tough at the moment.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
It’s so bad people are filling their inflatable sex dolls with gas.
Jay
@Dan B:
there are BC Hydro fast chargers on the Coq, ( The Highway From Hell),
they just stuck 2 fast chargers outside our apt building, and there are 22 in all 4 floors of our garage parking.
Jay
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
which gas
inquiring minds want to know.
Jay
Dan B
@Jay: It sounds like a trip in an EV around SW BC would be easier than a trip in an EV in WA or OR.
There are many apartment buildings and condos in Seattle with no chargers. Condo associations are notoriously change averse.
Geminid
@Dan B: EV charger scarcity may change a lot if and when Congress passes the infrastructure bill. I believe that the administration’s version has a target of 700,000 new charging stations nationwide.
There is also a target of converting 20% of the nation’s school bus fleet to electric by 2030. That goal may well be exceeded. Once people understand the benefit of the cleaner air kids will breath, every district will want them. Rural areas withonger distances to travel may end up with hybrid vehicles, just as UPS intends to supplement electric vans in its planned fleet with hybrids.
When Vice President Harris visited North Carolina a few weeks ago, one of her stops was at an electric school bus plant in Rocky Mount.
Booger
@Dan B: Been to that oyster farm! Eaten oysters there!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
The Soviet-born honey pot and her handler were really easy to spot (photo)
Cameron
I haven’t driven a car in almost 50 years, but I suppose I could run around with my hair on fire if it would make anybody feel better.
Ken
News media: This is Biden’s Katrina!
chopper
@Booger:
me too
Uncle Cosmo
(sigh) Voilà, a classic illustration of why, when (typically) late to a thread, I hold off on the snappy comeback to a post before scrolling through the rest of the replies in case some Jackal got there foist. Usually someone has. Typically not as quickly as 6 posts farther down, but still…