ManofLeMooses

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Enjoying some morning sun on closed terrain, waiting for other patroller's to finish up another project so I can finish mine.

@mountainpilled I found a package of unopened, Halloween sized Reese's Pieces on the way down, so I've got that goin for me.

@manoflemooses Absolutely brutal your legs must be cooked

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@prfctsweetie I just found out a friend of mine won't eat corn or peas. We found this out over St Patrick's Day dinner when (STG) he didn't order corned beef & cabbage because he thought it had corn in it. Layers of concern.

adults who call themselves picky eaters and don’t eat vegetables are subhuman to me

The duality of man.

@myMTthoughts This is the way.

@manoflemooses i got rid of all my structures books last summer. mine went straight to the round file.

Marie Kondo-ing my stuff and I found all my old engineering text books. Currently distributing them around town to all the little free libraries. That brings me joy.

@frogg_gurl Great Sand Dunes, Colorado

I really wanna go to white sands as one of my next ones. But I have the national parks pass now and I need to use it so give me your recs PLEASE

@THEJaxEsq There are three ways I don't want to die, I participate in activities that could kill me two of those ways and I only avoid one of them actively... and this is it.

I can’t crawl through that. I’ll die. Thanks for understanding.

@Jolarson12 The whitening power of SPF 50!

Feel like Meredith is really trying to get me to brush my teeth with sunscreen

@JonCaldara This is the absolute dumbest fucking thing I have read in a long time. You should check your ears for CSF leaking out.

Are they conditioning us to power outages on purpose? #copolitics #coleg I’ve lived in Colorado since 1970. And you know what Colorado had back in 1970? High winds blowing down the Front Range. I moved to Boulder in 1984 and have been there ever since. And you know what Boulder has had all that time? A freakin’ lot of high winds. I remember as a college kid walking around the CU campus after windstorms, stepping around uprooted trees and massive broken branches that made the sidewalks impassable. I’ve seen rooftop shingles go flying off Boulder buildings, signs ripped down, and semi-trucks overturned. All of which is to say that for the last 55 years I have personally witnessed a crap-ton of high winds in our mountain state. But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.” Behavior modification Apparently the windstorms of the last few months must be the worst in Colorado history. Because this is the first time anyone has decided the solution is to turn off grandma’s lights. Is Colorado suddenly windier than it has been during my entire life? Unless our eyes have been lying to us, the answer is comfortably: no. Yet, I type this under an official warning that my power might be turned off because of another rather normal day of high winds. Is it too tinfoil-hat to wonder if this is really about preventing fires? Is it too “QAnon” to think they might be conditioning us for Colorado’s future of intermittent electricity? Are these power shutoffs more about behavior modification than fire prevention? I mean, why now? For half a century windstorms were something you complained about while chasing your patio furniture down the street. Now they apparently require turning off the state. Bureaucracy understands that behavior modification must be incremental. Some 20 years ago, the City of Boulder changed its ordinances to remove the term “pet owner” and replace it with “pet guardian.” A silly, laughable change meant to modify our speech — and therefore our thinking — about property rights and animals. And today there is proposed legislation to outlaw the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores statewide, those modern-day slave auction houses. Incremental. The Transportation Security Administration is the grandmaster of incremental behavior modification. They make airport security lines so long and inefficient that you’re willing to pay them — your airport captors — to get into the shorter “PreCheck” line. Of course it’s not the cash that costs the most. It’s your autonomy and privacy. Join TSA PreCheck and you essentially grant the government a detailed record of every flight you’ve ever taken or plan it take. No troublesome judge-approved warrant or subpoena needed. They’ve trained you to trade sacred privacy for 10 minutes of convenience before getting groped by a stranger in blue gloves. (Which some of us just call “Saturday night.”) That’s behavior modification. Energy math not adding up Colorado’s energy elite understands the math. They know sizable power disruptions are in our future — because they ordered them. So, they’d better start getting YOU used to it. Currently about two-thirds of Colorado’s electricity comes from fossil fuels. And already our power is becoming less reliable and more intermittent. Thanks to state mandates, by 2050 — and the legislature is already flirting with moving that deadline up to 2040 — none of our power can come from fossil fuels. This isn’t optimism. It’s fantasy. Now add the fact that electricity demand will likely triple by then thanks to data centers and the forced conversion of appliances from natural gas to electricity. So: fantasy squared. Remember how Denver Mayor Hickenlooper promised we would permanently end homelessness in 10 years? How Barack Obama promised if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it? “All renewable energy in 15 years” belongs in the same museum of political fairy tales. But the power outages as we stumble toward their fantasy — those are a lock. Backup generators and home battery systems aren’t new. But have you noticed the explosion of interest in buying them? Have you noticed the flood of advertisements? That’s not a coincidence. It’s a growth market. Our leaders — and the corporate energy leeches who feed off them — know they need to prepare you for wildly intermittent, Third World energy. So they normalize the outages. Welcome to the future. Please keep a flashlight handy.

TLDR, the absolute irony of these fuckfaces believing that a private utility company (that they advocate for, YAY FREE MARKET!) are shutting off power so politicians can control the population is so much schadenfreude I just spit my beer out.

Nothing to report except it's going to be a rough couple of weeks trying to make it to closing day. 2526-67,68,69,70.

Four more days in boots this week, got to hang with my favorite local film maker on Sunday. She's off to India to finish filming for a documentary on the first women raft guides! 2526-63,64,65,66

First day of the 25-26 ski season finally in the books. Wolf Creek and I found a spot for my dudes to take remedial lessons. 2526-01

Plume from the 24 fire as seen from my ski patrol shack. Such is this year

@La_PsyChiq @KittyBombBee This has been added to my Friday on a Thursday playlist

@KittyBombBee youtu.be/acKCgLseDC8?si…

What’s your fav song rn???

The USPS when I have to call and ask where my package is:

Really cringe that Pi Day has overshadowed the Ides of March. And people are already drinking Guinness, but fuck, that's not for two more days, people!

@DelReid @sciencegirl Half-Life on the LAN server with the whole dorm in the same space.

@sciencegirl Half-Life, fps storytelling groundbreaker. Not to mention the infinite replayability of HLDM

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@THEJaxEsq @buffys Fabulous

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