No you can follow the link right through to Bloomberg’s website.
This one was easy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/19/medical-mystery-invisible-threat/
We had a similar one a few blocks from my house.
Simona Wilson could not have been much happier in her south Redondo Beach home until the day earlier this year when a new shower was installed in her master bathroom.
Her life since has included an agonized series of trips to emergency rooms and doctors as well as the recent relocation of her entire family away from their home. Wilson would only later discover that she was suffering from what is sometimes described in medical literature as low voltage electrocution.’
Wilson called Southern California Edison that morning and reported an emergency. She told S.C.E. what had been happening. That night Edison sent out a crew to investigate, but not the house. The crew didn’t even stop to talk to Wilson but instead went to the substation next door, formally known as the Topaz substation.
“That,” Wilson said, “was our first clue that something was seriously wrong.”
“We saw a lot of meetings of minds, people just standing around talking,” Stelle said.
Finally, Edison officials met with the couple on April 27 and disclosed the home’s unusual history. The Topaz substation had what is known as a stray or escape voltage problem for at least two decades. The substation apparently was not sufficiently grounded – despite an intricate underground system of the sort that is generally able to contain electricity, the sandy soil underneath the facility was allowing an escape current – meaning electricity leaked onto Wilson’s property.
“So what we thought originally was just a shower situation we started to learn, when all the field technicians came out here, was actually a property-wide problem,” Stelle said. “The entire ground of this house is charged with electricity.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-wins-4m-verdict-stray-electricity-article-1.1294855
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That is super weird and something I’ve never heard of.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is no fucking home. Make sure you have a co detector
There was a state election here on Saturday, I spent 4 hours in the morning handing out Greens how to vote cards in the seat of Badcoe, where my girlfriend lives. Labor thrashed the incumbent Liberal (centre-right) government and Badcoe had the biggest swing to Labor in the entire state:
I loled at “key marginal seat”.
I actually feel kind of sorry for the outgoing Liberal Premier (who as well as resigning as party leader after the thrashing is also in danger of totally losing his seat). I think the state’s response to COVID was very good and he did not run an ideologically conservative government. Bills allowing voluntary euthanasia and liberalisation of abortion were passed on conscience votes (that is, waiving the strict party-line voting which is usual in parliamentary systems). The reality is that both major parties are very centrist in the state, more so than for the federal parties. It is just hard to get credit for something like COVID because people have negative associations with it even if they think you handled it well and it’s just always hard to get credit for preventing something rather than actively bringing it about.
The Greens increased their vote percentage over last election but it was more or less entirely off the collapse of another minor party, who scored 20% of the vote last time and 1% this time as their figurehead leader abandoned them. Unfortunately one upper house seat may end up in the hands of One Nation, who I was going to say are best described as the Trumpist wing of politics here but Sarah Palin or Marjorie Taylor-Greene are probably better analogs.
not good
Apparently the cap on the front of the plane just falling the fuck off is…not completely abnormal for a 737? Which, uh, what the hell?
bloody hell.
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So that’s clearly the pilot doing that by choice, right?
I mean how do you crash that way by accident?
av geeks speculating here:
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1471347&start=200
Good recent comment:
Looks like a somewhat controlled descent, a sharp climb and an uncontrolled descent. Something happened to start an emergency descent which was botched, then a rapid pull up then a even more rapid descent. That means conscious pilots with operable flight controls at least during the recovery.
That looks like a structural failure where it’s the wings or a stabilizer. It’s tough to hit those descent speeds without 1 or both engines operating.
2G’s isn’t enough for structural failure, but 2G’s when you’ve exceeded the maximum airspeed should be enough to do it. A scattered debris field would be hard to find in that terrain though.I also wonder at which speed 73’s experience Mach tuck. That could explain the high speed, steep nose low descent.
I think my definition of “uncontrolled” is probably different than a pilot’s definition, but I was an aeronautical engineer in my earlier life.
From a physics of flight/engineering perspective, I can really only see two possible explanations for the flight profile that was posted in that thread:
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1505856329994457092?s=20&t=fI6YKZIjIEFbt8RLv1nfdQ
The first is in line with the quoted comment from the other board. Others were saying this happened just after the “normal” descent point for landing at their destination, so the data would suggest something fairly catastrophic happened shortly after they began their initial descent, then the pilots overcorrected (the sharp climb). This probably exacerbated the issue, which then caused the second, fatal descent. My engineer hat leads me to believe that something happened to the horizontal stabilizer here.
The second is intentional action. This is probably less likely, but would also explain the profile.
Also, a second video was posted in that thread which shows the angle at more like ~70-80 degrees:
https://twitter.com/ChinaAvReview/status/1505856305495351296?s=20&t=4CVhajuMd5y-JShG1nULYA
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This is a quarter mile from the Wisconsin state capitol. I have so many questions, but I think I know the answers.
I was wondering whether the first clip was actually vertical or not - second clip helps a lot.
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The answer is probably UW college students, which are also a quarter mile from the Capitol
Seems pretty simple to me, boobs and 'Merica are good, ldo.
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Yeah yeah yeah of course. But still…
Americans who have the time and inclination to answer political polls for The Hill think…
BTW, afaik dentist is about the most highly compensated standard profession.
You would truly be astonished at how much some very ordinary people make in commercial real estate.
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