All while burning huge swaths of land every year as well as pleading guilty to manslaughter for the deadliest fire of CA history.
We’ve got so many large fires raging that inspectors are spread thin; but I’d put good money on a few being caused by poor infrastructure maintained by PG&E
Also my favorite comic! I have a shirt using this still because my friend knew how much I loved the comic!
I wish I could find the full comic but it was basically small inconvenience leads to large rage haha
I appreciate it fellow friendly internet stranger! Luckily I’m on the other side of a lake for this, so not too much worry. Air quality is rough, but I’ve honestly gotten used to it growing up in Cali. Not the first (or likely last) time I’ve had to deal with raining ash. Closest we get to snow in our area haha
The Airport Fire is very close to me, and just crested the mountain range to be visible on our side. It’s not a CALFire Incident but thankfully they still update reports and evac zones. Fire.ca.gov is the absolute GOAT.
As someone who’s played Destiny since Beta; mood
I have space in my PC case, but it’s below my desk so it would be true banishment haha. Thanks for letting me know the manufacturer, may get myself a gremlin as well!
I thought it was just a photoshop, but something about the hand snapped my brain back to reality. That’s a hecka good quality Q! Kinda want one for myself haha
Most of the buses where I am have a bike rack attached to the exterior, I’ve definitely taken that for granted.
We had a 2 drinks limit at company after hours gigs. Not that bad, but it was apparently because someone drank a bunch and then walked onto a highway. There was also the time the FBI came into the building to ask about a sales guy who took part in 1/6.
There’s a really well done VR mod for this game. It’s actually the only way I’ve played it so far. If you can run Steam VR I highly recommend it! I had to do a reinstall of some stuff so haven’t finished the game yet, but it’s been high on my ‘to-do list’.
I started looking for confirmation a bit ago and really appreciate your source. A search for ‘Merchant Mariner Ship ruh roh’ led me to the El Faro, but no articles contained the actual quote. On my phone browser it was quoted on 339, just as a heads up for anyone else.
Tangential but also relevant; I worked in a larger construction company until a year ago and it was multi state. Imagine my surprise when word spread that the FBI was looking for an employee in another department regarding 1/6. Before Jan 6 he had been filmed jumping up on a table at the local Costco with a megaphone and spewing filth.
There are always signs.
Thanks on both counts :D
Also appreciate the extra info on the Tokyo parks, it’s been a few years since I worked there and just remembered they didn’t own it out-right.
I took a lot of pride in the work I put out while working at the Cali parks; but I don’t doubt it was a completely different atmosphere. We’d get quite a few guests from Japan via the Pacific and they were always a pleasure to be around. For better and for worse the American guests were a lot more casual (and to my chagrin the cast as well) so depending on the group I could tailor spiels. We ran a slightly loose ship, but if you knew how the system worked, you could make magic happen.
I worry it might be in bad taste to reference the major earthquake that they had to deal with, but that’s when I truly saw how phenomenal a response could be. We get trained on disaster scenarios but all I had dealt with was a 5M. Haven’t been yet, but that park will always have my respect.
Love the pics and the write up! I worked the Red Car Trolleys at Disney California Adventure and always wanted to visit DisneySea. Fun fact, when you work at Disney you could visit any park (and use your sign-ins) EXCEPT the Tokyo parks. My understanding is that it’s the only parks that Disney doesn’t actually own the land it’s built upon.
The Red Cars at DCA were a funny beast as the overhead catenary cable was purely for show. Both of the trolleys ran on boat batteries daisy chained together that would wirelessly charge at one of the stations and in the barn. That caused quite a bit of downtime due to one of the batteries failing and taking the whole daisy chain down. I got to know the mechanics pretty well working there haha. The attraction went down for a refurb a few years back and ideally they’d have switched out that particular system. We were considered a ‘Red Triangle’ (hazard pay) because we were the only attraction that had its ride path open to guests in DCA. We’d only go 4mph max, but you felt the jolt if the deadman’s switch went off at full speed haha.
The two trolley’s were both based off of the Pacific Electric line and their numbers were significant dates; 623 (called Veronica among the cast) was June 1923 - the year Walt Disney came to California and has a slightly more sedate color scheme being modeled after an older line. 717 - is July 17th, 1955 for the opening day of Disneyland. The original 717 is also still in operation at the Southern California Railway Museum and was used in the filming of Who Framed Roger Rabbit!
Edit; I only just now realized this was a community for Japanese vehicles specifically. Apologies! I thought this was the more general Trains/Trolleys/Trams community
My boi has the sitting and standing down, just one more to go!
I’m always for shitting on TERFs, but I have no idea what this meme is about. Probably because I try my best to keep ‘anti-woke’ things out of my orb. Can someone please get me in on this joke that I desperately want to be a part of haha
Oldie but a goldie; Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
It’s just so amazingly on point