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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Well, you are likely now committed a few more weeks of Tolkien, if you are limited to just LOTR. Back in the day (1966/7), I told friends that reading the first 50 pages of The Hobbit doomed them to read the other three books. Persons who opted out early escaped. Don’t show the movies!!!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Also cut back on your shower and drinking water. AI needs lots of cooling!!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

To not be jingoistic enough!! Damn verbs!!!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The organizers of The Ryder Cup found the proceedings to not jingoistic enough, so they invited Trump the master jingo!! Perhaps they will play excerpts from his UN speech on each tee…

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just a reminder: you cannot spell “Conservative” without “Racist”. Just sayn’

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Beat robophone spam! If you decide to pick up a call from a strange number, DON’T Speak First!! A robo system will recognize your response and send the call to a person who starts a taped message. However, if you don’t speak the robot will hang up. It’s your phone, polite is not required!!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Working with what you got: towel dispenser repair in a hospital restroom.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Careers: Long-wall mining! A Long-wall mining machine shaves coal off the mine face, hydraulically supporting the overhead rocks. As the machine removes coal and moves forward, the rocks are allowed to collapse. Where you stood today will be under tons of rock tomorrow… youtu.be/HHaUypSqdzM?...

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

since Elon killed the Ebola reaction group at CDC, it possibly could qualify under a different branch of the Irony Tree. The fruit of the Irony Tree can be either sweet or sour, depending on who picks it and who has the tree…

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Is the solution to RFK Jr’s problem with preventable diseases to give him some? Maybe mumps to start? I understand mumps in an adult male can be particularly painful. If the lesson is to support vaccination, Ebola is probably out of the question then. Although,

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Will no one rid me of this troublesome college student? Answer could be YES!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A real problem is how tenuous anyone’s grasp on life is in that prison. A nearly complete solution to DJT’s problem is for the man to die or further disappear. In that prison, not hard to accomplish. Since DJT is immune, some lawyer’s going to jail for conspiracy to commit murder (later).

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A related topic: Nuclear Submarine makers have ads ON TV for welders. Will welders be very well paid to build future nuclear deterrence?? Will they import welders? Is that a good idea? CE, B&W, Westinghouse, GE, among other US companies offered 1000 mw nuke plants in 1965; no US co. will today.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

When current US nuclear power plants needed parts (reactor vessel head, steam generator (s)) in the ‘90s no US facility could produce the required objects. The Rx head came from Japan, the SG from Korea.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

However, if you’re a religious cultist who sacrifices the life their 8 yo child for religion, all those men say “Meh”. Pregnancy complications, jail time; human sacrifice for religion, just fine, not a word said. Texas: back to the 18th century, and beyond!!!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Measles kills more!! The Texas Governor, AG, Lt. Governor, and much of the Legislature all will immediately jail and fine a woman and her doctor if her pregnancy ends in a way they (all those men) don’t like.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

when the fiscal climate was right has contributed to perhaps millions of extra or premature deaths in the intervening 47 years. For people who don’t like fracking, natural gas power plants, filling the nuke void, have increased demand for nat gas which fracking them supplied.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The failure of utility companies and regulators to properly operate existing nuclear power plants (allowing the TMI accident) and the further failure to complete ordered units, innovate new reactor designs, and order new reactors

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Coal mines continued to operate, poisoning communities and killing miners. People living near coal plants continued exposure to mercury and ash! Then there are ash pond dam collapses that can cause widespread environmental damage.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

You could really go back to ‘79 and TMI. There may have been 30 to 50 nuclear plant units, in various stages of planning and construction canceled. Whatever else may be true, 50,000 Mwatts of fossil fuel generation continued to operate and more was built.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Funding safety training faces this same problem: if the training is successful, bad things don’t happen. You’re asking managers to pay for things not happening. They must be forced to see the value of non-events.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Unfortunately, the answer is yes; the measles outbreak is not yet affecting other areas much. YET!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

SECOND MEASLES DEATH REPORTED The Texas legislature and the Texas Governor are implicitly granting religious fringe groups the right to threaten or kill other people’s children. Is there another area where religiously sanctioned human sacrifice is allowed or even encouraged by the state?

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I talked to my AI, ARGON!! Gives the purple glow.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Oops, several stars. The Hubble Deep Field had 4 or 5 “local” stars; the Webb one is different.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Yes, but better pic (every bright spots but one are groups of stars): www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

You seem to have an inflated idea of your effectiveness…

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Also, Prosecuting perjured testimony given during Senate confirmation hearings when discovery later. Lying judges, cabinet secretaries, agency heads, etc.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Wow, just saw a flying pig… All you have to do is fund it.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

You didn’t brag about your capacity factor before… Several things you mention have NO installed capacity. I’m having pie for dessert.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Most discussions of electricity production and climate change do not include “capacity factor”. This is the percentage of time power is available from a source. Solar = 25%, wind turbines = 35%, US nuclear plants in 2023 = 93.1%. The American consumer is unlikely to accept intermittent power.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A new generation of 50 Mwatt nuclear power plants on the grid but serving data centers may be an answer to reliable electricity for all. 2000 50 Megawatt nuclear plants equals today’s installed nuclear capacity.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Conservatives want free market, unregulated energy production and distribution which leads to no one being responsible for delivering power. Climate activists demand use of the least reliable sources of power. At the same time, data centers are set to DOUBLE the national demand for power.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

For a really long time reliability of electricity supply was THE major concern of both electricity supply companies and regulators at all levels. It is interesting that both ends of the political spectrum are actively working against that idea.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Traditional “liberal arts” education has been increasingly rejected, even by educators, for lack of utility. Apparently the idea of creating good people, rather than useful cogs, has died.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Many individuals reject training/education on the basis of current utility. Why they think they are in any way qualified to decide that is a mystery. Formal industrial training content is based on analysis; you should get exactly only what you need.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The question of creating lifelong learners seems unrelated to college; you may have a better chance, but not guaranteed. I posit the paradigm people have for “education” (eg high school) inhibits learning. They reject the form and too strongly dismiss the result. Will the home schooled do better?

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Safety training is required by OSHA, but the effectiveness is reduced by state administration. Generally, American industry is not interested in training at all. In fact, the H1B visas prove that. American companies could train American workers to perform the exact tasks needed, but they don’t.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

30 years as an Industrial Trainer says maybe. Formal, documented training, both initial and continuing, is required for all Maintenance and Operations personnel at nuclear power plants. The result of bitter experience. In other industries, the level of training is variable. Little is required.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Also the dancing around the peripheral dust clouds…

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I did not think the University of North Carolina football program would create a public display showing their reason for hiring Bill Belichick, but they are, right now!!

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

How can it be “Musk” era when there is/are no scents??

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Has this guy got a red book to go with that face?

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is giving his dick more credit than his brain. I believe they are equally defective. However, a quick statement expressing that idea does spring to mind. So, stuck with it! Also, aren’t we glad we only have to witness the public brain failure?

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It was pitched; they made “Anne Hall” instead.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Or little plastic envelopes containing anthrax spores, finally taking care of that Don Jr problem.

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jjherb.bsky.social @jjherb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Between the ages of 6 and 14 a man in our church choir, Roy Mast, sang “Oh Holy Night” so well (each year) it led me to dream of doing a similar performance myself. The voice needed did not follow the dream! Hearing a good rendition fills me with memories of Christmas joy and personal inadequacy.

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