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If the helium gets warm, you have to vent it outside before it goes kaboom from the pressure.

https://radiology.ucsf.edu/patient-care/patient-safety/mri-s...


Damn, that's intense:

> If the scan room door is closed when a quench occurs and helium escapes into the scan room, the depletion of oxygen causes a critical increase in pressure in the room compared with the control area. This produces high pressure in the scan room, which may prevent opening of the door. If this should happen, the glass partition between the scan and control rooms should be broken to release the pressure. The scan room door can then be opened as usual and the patient evacuated. In such a case the patient should be immediately evacuated and evaluated for asphyxia, hypothermia and ruptured eardrums.


note for hospitals: doors into MRI rooms should open outside

That's precisely how you close the straits; by making everyone scared to go through.

You don't even have to scare everyone. You just have to scare the insurers. Without insurance ships won't sail. The exposure is huge, so a small blip in risk makes all the modeling go kerplooie. Traffic stopped when the insurers said drop the anchors.

To restore traffic, we need that risk to return to previous levels, which requires diplomacy and trust. I don't expect resolution any time soon.


Impeachment, and then we could get there. It's not impossible.

With JD Vance things will go even worse

From all I've seen, he actually argued against this war prior to paying lip service to it. He'd be an improvement.

I thought Vance was the actual isolationist America first guy? Not Trump kind who's opinion changes based which authoritarian he last had a phone call with.

In this specific case maybe Vance is least worst option.


> At least the US and Israel have a chance of improving their position in the geopolitical landscape.

This seems, uh, awfully optimistic.


They’ve gotten largely more repairable since then, including adhesives you can electrically debond.

That's a relatively recent development. Repairability has been very poor for quite a while, but now they're finally starting to improve the situation somewhat.

...electrically debond, are you serious? More details please, this sounds very interesting.


They're CEOs of fairly large organizations, often managing thousands of employees and budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars.

That’s spending that is all on autopilot; how much time does any CEO spend on payroll? Approximately zero.

They aren't being paid the big bucks to sign off on a payroll run.

They're being paid to manage the parts of the organizations that do that sort of thing, among others.


Yeah, but a good portion of that is making sure they keep the football team going.

In the Dolton school district (Chicago suburb), their superintendent makes $530k / year. Is that for the football team?

Having never heard of Dolton before, I certainly can't speak to their specifics. School systems can be pretty huge orgs requiring significant management expertise; no one blinks an eye when a CEO gets pay for similar responsibilities.

I've heard enough about Texas's high school football culture and the pressures on administrators over it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Stadium_(Allen,_Texas) for example.


My kids went to a big football high school in Texas and it wouldn't surprise me if the admins there felt a lot of pressure around football. It generated a lot of money for the district and proceeds funded a lot of the arts programs (especially marching band which was huge).

The thing they're trying to combat is people claiming residency in a better school district. We had a case here where the parents were driving their kid to grandma's so the kid could go to school there instead of in a bad local school.

she owns and pays for a home in the school district. the school knows and admits this.

if she didnt, i would (sort of) agree. but she does.


Yes. I'm saying there's a legit interest in combatting a real challenge. This is a false positive and a stupid bureaucratic hole of the school's own creation.

So what? Grandma's paying taxes there.

Real solution is to loosen regulations on private schools and provide equivalent tax return to parents who choose private over public.


> So what? Grandma's paying taxes there.

But the parents aren't, and grandma's tax contribution may have already gone towards funding the parents. The system's structured with local revenue; letting people change their locality too easily messes with that structure a lot.

(I pay, for example, about $3k in school taxes annually, but I have two kids in a $21k/year district. If they have kids, I may be still paying for their education, let alone the grandkids.)

> Real solution is to loosen regulations on private schools and provide equivalent tax return to parents who choose private over public.

Yeah, privatization always results in better results and zero scammy abuses of the system.

(One hopes the /s can go unsaid.)


Feels like now we're getting into "falsehoods programmers believe about family." My cousin effectively lived with us when he was a kid and went to school in the district for our house, not his mom's. My niece was raised jointly by my sister and my parents, but my sister's housing situation was so unstable she lived with my parents more often, and went to school in that district as well. What exactly do they even do if a parent has no stable housing at all? Make the kid change schools every month?

> Feels like now we're getting into "falsehoods programmers believe about family."

Sure, but that's why a level of human intervention with a touch of empathy is required for cases like this one and the unhoused example.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver

You build a little factory and use chunks of the asteroid itself as thrust.


The top comment in this thread calls this "wild" and expresses amazement that this is possible; clearly it's not what "everyone expects and knows".

The nitty-gritty details are what the article is for, not the title.


> He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional.

If I get a note from my boss like that, I consider it mandatory.


Yeah I don’t understand why people are pretending not to understand this -

> He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional.

Clearly means that while normally the meeting would be optional, this time it’s not


But it gets less mandatory the more layers up you go. If I get an email from an SVP that is CC: the entire division saying everyone should go to a meeting I will almost certainly be able to ascertain the contents of that meeting in 10 seconds from someone else who did attend

Surely your boss notices your non-attendance.

If it's actually really mandatory, my manager will probably also relay that directly to me. And that resets the count for "less mandatory the more layers up you go".

Starting to wonder if some people who complain about all day meetings just don’t realize they are optional.

The bosses function is to shield you from random time wasting junk. Either you haven't had to survive in a borg corporate environment or you have and you had a bad boss for it.

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