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rma92 4 points ago +4 / -0

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_blackout_of_July_2019

I was there when it happened. It was a Saturday afternoon. Had walked from Penn Station to roughly 10th and 42nd, and noticed power was out above 42nd (initially).

I went to New Jersey because I didn't want to be in Manhattan in case it got a bit too 1973.

(There wasn't really any looting or unusual crime as far as I heard).

Port Authority Bus Terminal was running on generators, and the fire alarm was going off, although fire alarms in there was such a common occurrence that no one cared. Someone explained later that there had been smoke in a power vault in the PABT that set the alarm off. The official story was that a malfunction occurred at a substation around 57th Street on the west side, first taking Manhattan between about 42nd and 96th, as well as a piece of Queens down. Power went out below 42nd some time later. Grid layout was weird - there are pictures of half of Times Square being out.

Sorry for the shitty ABC link. First picture caption is inaccurate - power is out on one side of Broadway:

https://archive.is/emfHN

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rma92 7 points ago +7 / -0

There was the strange NYC 2019 power failure in Midtown Manhattan during the height of the Epstein stuff. A lot of strangeness surrounding that incident - some people think it had something to do with exfiltrating something from Epstein's house, which was in the blackout area.

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rma92 1 point ago +1 / -0

A quart is 2 pints... that doesn't seem terribly unreasonable... but maybe they didn't know the units either!

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rma92 3 points ago +3 / -0

Not to mention... this would probably cause rioting and wake up a lot of people.

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rma92 1 point ago +1 / -0

295 is the Baltimore-Washington Parkway which runs between DC and Baltimore. The bridge that fell is in DC.

695 goes around Baltimore, another 695 goes across DC (entirely in DC) 495 goes around DC, 395 goes between Tysons Corner, VA and the Mall in DC past the Pentagon, and 895 is the Baltimore Harbour Tunnel Thruway.

Edit: there's another 395 in downtown Baltimore that is a short spur to Camden Yards, and a 795 spur off of 695 (MD). To clarify, 3 digit Interstate numbers can repeat across the various states, but there can't be two separate instances of the same number in a given state. There are more I-295s than any other number (FL, NC, VA (Richmond Belt), DC/MD (BW Parkway), DE/PA/NJ, NY (Clearview Expressway), RI/MA, ME). 395 and 695 repeat within the Baltimore-DC area, but not within a state. 295 is an interstate south of US-50, and a state highway (DC/MD) north of US-50 all the way to Baltimore (trucks cannot use this road north of there).

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rma92 3 points ago +3 / -0

There are even older things floating around. SPSS has been around since 1968, and you can run it on your PC...

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rma92 6 points ago +6 / -0

There was a period of time after he was no longer involved and when Intel purchased the product.

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rma92 8 points ago +8 / -0

I did some work in a shop where we all called each other Assholes and Cunts all the time... so this can work lol.

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rma92 1 point ago +1 / -0

Actually, many sites partially depend on the public cloud services from Amazon AWS and Microsoft, sometimes others. If AWS became completely unavailable, a lot of things would break, sometimes in weird and not obvious ways.

For example, some sites use their own server for the text, but store images in AWS to improve load times and reduce cost. In this case, the page would partially load...

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rma92 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yes, because black and brown people can't find the DMV, how will they find a vax site!?

( /s of course )

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rma92 2 points ago +2 / -0

Was having a brain fart thinking of other English speaking countries that Drive On The Left.

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rma92 5 points ago +5 / -0

They drive on the left. But it doesn't seem to be the UK (yellow rear plates) or Australia (state plates). India usually has more characters than that. Japan uses US shaped plates...

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rma92 3 points ago +3 / -0

Maybe a couple of people at the airport?

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rma92 3 points ago +3 / -0

I've flown a few times. Usually they say for "safety reasons we will not demonstrate the use of oxygen masks" and remind to remove your own face covering if you will use the oxygen mask.

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rma92 3 points ago +3 / -0

FYI, you can't archive youtube videos that way. Use youtube-dl to download the video, then upload it to BitChute or somewhere that isn't shitty.

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rma92 4 points ago +4 / -0

"C'mon fren, do a terror."

"NO!"

(Couldn't find the picture for this meme but seems relevant)

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