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[01:39:33] <Runaway1956> Observation: My neighbor is an electrician, and has buddies stay with him all the time. Four of those heavy duty electrical trucks have been parked over there since Dec. 20.
[01:40:23] <Runaway1956> I've though about wandering across the road, and asking how they can layabout so long. It's just not right that working men can have two weeks off like that!
[01:40:53] <Runaway1956> Alas, I haven't really felt up to either the walk, or the banter.
[02:00:50] <chromas> Maybe they quit electricianing to become Somalian day cares
[03:35:26] <halibut> I was reminded of the gopher protocol by AlwaysNever posting some gopher links. I never really played with it much, but the last few days, I have been learning a bit more about it and poking around.
[03:35:58] <halibut> It has the feel of a ghost town. There are pages with links to a lot of phlogs, most of which have not been updated in a long time.
[03:36:49] <halibut> There are some that have recent posts, but most of the ones I have found (not counting the ones by the person linked by AlwaysNever) seem like gibberish to me.
[03:37:03] <halibut> Still, kind of fun to poke around.
[07:36:32] <janrinok> I have had a similar experience with usenet - that is if you can find a source that doesn't charge you to access it, and isn't simply a way of getting around pornography laws.
[13:14:16] <fab23> Runaway1956: In the world where I live it is pretty normal to take 2 continues weeks off, even mandatory at least once a year. For the remaining 2 - 3+ weeks you are free to take only a (few) single days or week.
[13:43:34] <Runaway1956> fab23, it's a joke for those 'in the know'. Those electricians work when required, weekends, holidays, whatever. We are having a rather calm season for weather, so they don't have work to do. I know, and they know, they have missed many another holiday season.
[13:44:46] <Runaway1956> Wherever you live, there are people with similar jobs. Disasters have to be addressed immediately, not at leisure.
[13:44:47] <fab23> Oh, one of that country where some heavy storm can take out electicty for whole cites.
[13:44:59] <fab23> Runaway1956: that is true
[13:45:02] <Runaway1956> Yes, exactly.
[13:47:06] <Runaway1956> All joking aside, my hat is off to those guys. It's a rough life, I would say rougher than cop's lives, and almost certainly more dangerous.
[13:50:01] <Runaway1956> Also - you say "for whole cities". I drove one night, lights were out for all of southern Ohio, all of Kentucky, and much of northern Tennessee. It's more regional than individual cities.
[13:51:22] <fab23> oh
[13:54:50] <fab23> here for the high voltage long distance lines on towers they are cutting out whole forests to avoid any damage caused from storms.
[13:56:51] <fab23> looks like this https://fly-foto.de or this https://www.nabu.de
[13:58:15] <fab23> or https://www.waldwissen.net
[18:54:34] <AlwaysNever> halibut: the blogs/pholgs in Gopher are quite active, but there are also many which have been abandoned
[18:55:32] <AlwaysNever> If you go to some random personal gopher page for example hosted on tilde.club, chances are high there is little activity there
[18:56:21] <AlwaysNever> however, gopher://sdf.org list more than 400 phlogs "recently" updated, of which about 20 or 30 are updated at least weekly
[19:39:11] <AlwaysNever> these may be the last years of "real" Gopher befor AI slop invades Gopher too
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