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  2. This thread makes me both hungry and shameful at the same time.
  3. I took an Uber last week where the driver had her 16 week old puppy in the front seat. I plop down in the back seat, after a bitch of a week, can't wait to get home, and there's four legged tailwagging happiness looking at me. We just had to put our pup of 13 years down about 4 months ago. It just hit right, but that was fucking awesome. I loved on that doggy all the way home. Not sure I'd be cool with cats or dogs in the car all the time, in fact, i know I'd prefer none; but at that moment, it was fantastic!!!
  4. In dallas, 82 degrees with no humidity feels great but it's all wrong. Everything is wrong with these temperatures.
  5. You all have seen many pics of O&G facilities, and their maze of pipes in the pipe racks. With any fire, you shut the valves on either end, and make a decision to put the fire out, or let it burn itself out. Fire water systems are designed for smaller, localized fires; not a catastrophic explosion. There are fail safe procedures in place, starting with fire detectors and an Emergency Shut Down (ESD) system, a big red button that sends pre-programmed instructions to open and close whatever needs to be opened and closed in an emergency. They are located in the control room, around critical pieces of equipment, and around the perimeter of the process areas of the plant. Some times, it becomes a bit more complicated. Like a drone, or a big bomb exploding in the middle of a pipe rack, like the one in the picture below. Usually the ESD will isolate everything within the plant. Okay, the valves at the plant fence are closed, now what? It depends, on a lot of things. A lot of the larger pipes and block valves have motor controlled actuators that are controlled remotely, or at the valve. Once all the automatic control valves are closed, or opened, now the rest have to be done manually. Most equipment is always in service, so they only have manual isolation valves that are needed for routine maintenance. Why are the big oil companies so cheap? Why don't they automate everything? Sometimes that stuff breaks, or fails, or goes off by itself, and automatically goes to fail safe, either opened or closed. Each decision to automate is made case by case. After that, the remaining valves are closed manually. The first priority is protect personnel. Muster is preselected places, and count heads. Then, make decisions on what do do. Is the fire under control? There are drawings on every pipe in the plant. Lots of them. It is hard enough tracing a specific pipe, looking at the drawings, then the pipe, as you walk through the pipe rack. Obviously, you can't do that during a fire, and when everything is a pile of twisted steel, good luck with that. Even when everything is done right and operating okay, O&G plants are dangerous, and intimidating places. The sounds of high pressure steam and high speed turbines is not a natural sound, and they have a blend of strange smells. By design, you are putting extremely hazardous and volatile fluids at high pressure in a large steel vessel, and adding heat to it. I don't think those would be the preferred places to be in a war.
  6. NBA was well on its way on its own before all that.
  7. I did like Boardwalk a lot. I knew Chalky before I knew Omar... It might also change the way you view Steve Buscemi, with regard to his range.
  8. Todd ripping up my old college hang
  9. FS Set of 10 NOS pennies 11-13-2025, 07:29 AM Set of 10 NOS pennies. Variety of colors, dates and mints. They don't make these anymore so the value can only go up. These go on ebay for hundreds of dollars. $29.99, cash only. I know what I have, no lowballs!
  10. I mean, doing this right before a guy kicks isn't helpful. And even with his shitty year, Bert still hit 40+ yarders at a higher rate than Dicker for his career. Bert's misses just stung because they were big moments.
  11. Damn, this sucks.
  12. This era's Deep Throat
  13. Born and raised in Austin, lived here my whole life, went to UT undergrad and grad school... ...it has not affected my life in any way. The only things I know about Joe Rogan, other than seeing him on Newsradio 30 years ago, are what I hear on this forum.
  14. Some espn idiot called this a coaching mismatch
  15. I have never seen those fuckers, and fuck you( jk) for bringing them into my life.
  16. Can you give us a real quick summary of your take on vaccines and maybe any tips on hot crypto buys? Thanks.
  17. Seems like recruiting is now going to be won on the fringes, where you can coax a really good player to leave money on the table from a mid-level P4 (like a UNC) to come to Austin for much less because you know, program upside and overall college situation. The elites are more or less gonna be “highest bidder” scenarios but not every player is going to automatically take the most money.
  18. 1. that point is absolute fact. I'm counting on the driverless cars to actually improve conditions. 2. The trucks are the way they are mostly because 4-wheelers give not one single solitary fuck, playing into your point #1.
  19. How many people are on it is different from having an account, which is all you would have needed, dipshit. Also niche over nazis every day of the fucking week. Either way you could have simply asked instead of letting your inner cunt roar.
  20. All good on the Last Frontier. 5 by 5. Enjoying Saban's insights, as usual.
  21. Is he wearing safety classes?
  22. Does OD Wyatt still hold the 4x100 national record, or was that broken recently (I think it was) . My coach when I was at Central always told us the story of that race.
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