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Thank you for sharing that. The Big Boy is such an amazingly impressive loco and I just love that whistle, 2102 is a nice loco as well. I'm amazed at the antics of the railfans at the start of the video, standing in the 4 foot and wandering all over the tracks with the train approaching, try doing that in the UK and it's a £1000 fine for trespassing on the railway and all trains would be stopped until the line was cleared again.

Defo a protection scam 

Until I saw the pic, wasn’t sure if we were talking food or stocks 

No stocks for now.  I'm not one to try to catch a falling knife.

Not sure what I'd buy anyway.  Stocks are ridiculously expensive, even after the "dip".

The dip wasn't cheap either.  I drive by a grocery store these days and my wallet's $100 lighter.  If I actually go inside and buy anything....

Another bad day in the market.  At this rate I'll be able to retire sometime around the year 2092.

“I’ll be working here forever, at least until I die”

Everything seems to have bacon flavours these days lol have you tried bacon donuts?

@Sakura bacon makes everything taste better. 

I have not tried bacon donuts.  I have tried Irish boxty - sort of a potato croquette or pancake - fried in bacon fat.  That was yum.

It doesssss, I love bacon lol ~ Bacon donuts are pretty good, and recently me and my sister discovered something called a "Bacon Explosion" that I want to try lol Never tried an Irish Boxty though, sounds good 

Yea that sounds crazy :0 Geez hopefully it doesn't overflow and damage or flood homes by it 

It's not so much the amount of water that does the damage, it's the speed of the current and the pressure it generates, and water will find any weakness or way under a structure.

Yes.  And once it finds a weakness it will exploit it fully.  This happened at the Oroville dam in northern California about a decade ago too.  The water flowing down the main spillway found a crack and tore a big hole in concrete of the spillway.  Flowing water is an extremely powerful force.

I wish I'd read this last night I'd have been banging on your door for dinner LOL chicken Alfredo is one of my fave foods ~

@Ayame I will take the 5th on that.  All I will say is I am dangerous in the kitchen.  

@Sakura I'll remember that for next time.  I will not blame you if you decide to reconsider however.  I'll admit that things did go well... this time.  <knock on wood>

Just remember what you did this time that went right and repeat the process lol 

My head is so much thinking about bean dip thanks to @Sakura that I thought this was about actual dip for a minute...... before I realized it meant stocks.

Bean dip works too.  

I honestly, thought of bean dip too and the 3 cans I have XD I definitely bought the dip lolll

 Yeah that's fair tbh because I would LOVE for something to do my shopping for me so I don't have to fight crowds or lines. Dishes and laundry, that's even better. I just don't wanna wake up to a robot/ai apocalypse because I feel like there's already been enough weird things so far this year and it's only February.

At least this year is better than last year.  Last year (for me) started with high winds, power outages, a brushfire that took out half the city, and JPL shut down.  That was just the first 2 weeks of January!  This year it's already February and I still have power and nothing has burned down or blown away.  I'll take what I can get.

A lot of the East coast was so far without power due to that crazy snow storm in the last weeks. Luckily I never lost power but the ice was so heavy trees were exploding

WOO EXCITINGG!!! ITS ARTEMIS II RIGHT?????????????? is a wet rehearsal when they fill it with gas?? I'm looking this all up hehe

Haha.. correct.  The rehearsal is about testing out the ground equipment - pipes, valves, computers, etc. - and launch procedures to make sure everything works as intended and the vehicle can be operated safely to liftoff before putting humans on it.  That of course does involve pumping fuel into (and out of) the vehicle, as well as running a countdown and simulating various problem scenarios.  Often it includes finding actual unexpected issues that will have to be understood and solved before the actual launch can proceed.

Hopefully the unusually cold weather won't cause problems or delays.

good luck!!! YOU GUYS GOT THISSS!!!

DSN => Deep Space Network.  Sorry, I live in an acronym sea and sometimes forget that normal people don’t have a clue what I’m talking about.  

thats okay!!!!!! thats insane - does it affect everything that much?

Not sure about affecting everything but basically nobody was getting tracking data for anything beyond LEO (Low Earth Orbit) for about 3 days.  For me personally it was a lot of overtime hours, most of them with management asking "is it fixed yet?" every 5 minutes. 

Hopefully it's all good now.  The fix is tested and deployed and the data recovery is done for the users for which the data is critical.  Still a lot of work to be done next week but it can be done during normal business hours.  I'm looking forward to some dedicated game time this weekend. 

https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us

Cool.. thanks.  Where did you find that link?  I swear I searched everywhere.

(Which probably means it was in a perfectly obvious place.    )

Kind of a pain to use though.  Thousands of "if this is the problem click here" links that weren't the problem.  Had to dig a bit to get to a free text box where I could just state the problem.