Last estimate I heard said that the contamination in Oak Ridge from the Manhattan Project and the Cold War would not be cleaned up until 2050 -- 100+ years after the end of WWII.

You think that's bad? That's nothing compared to Zone rouge in northern France and Belgium. It's been uninhabitable since about 1919, and is expected to stay that way for at least 300 years, possibly as much as 700 and not because of radioactivity. No, it's because of heavy metal contamination, unexploded ordinance and poison gas shells that didn't (yet) go off.

When I say "sweater" I mean a pullover....down here mostly just simple cotton sweaters, not terribly heavy....

If the long press isn't working, pull the plug. HTH, HAND.

They just turn off your water heater.

What good does turning the gas off to the water heater do....?

If you can cope at 12C in a T-shirt ... up to you, I wear a real jacket and a scarf.

Ugh...had to get on ChatGPT and find out what the fuck 12C was in F.

Ok, so about 54F...roughly. That's cool...I guess depends a bit on how high your humidity is. In the New Orleans area, it can be 54F and very humid...if the wind is coming in off the lake it can be quite chilly....but if lower humidity, more into winter months,...that's not too cold...I'd be wearing a sweater or a jacket....not both.

Last week it was high-90's and low 100's along the central coast (Santa Cruz & Monterey). It cooled down at night, but I also don't have A/C because I almost never need it, maybe for 3-5 days every 3-4 years it would be appreciated.

You can't get a couple window units to have AC when you need it?

You can put them up and take them down pretty readily......better than baking/roasting on those days when you really don't need to.

Also, people who aren't good at negotiating also deserve fair wages.

I'm not saying that they don't. And that's why sports figures have agents so that they don't have to be good negotiators themselves. My point is that being in a union doesn't stop you from negotiating if you think you can do better.

Why, then, does Major League Baseball have a union? These are very high skilled jobs, very well paid. The highest performers make FAR more money than the middling ones - having a union doesn't prevent that.

My father spent most of his working life in union supermarkets in Los Angles, most of the time in management. Except when he was just starting out, he never worked for union scale, but negotiated a higher rate because he was known to be good enough to deserve it. No matter what the unions say, you can always get more if you can make the boss believe that you deserve it.

Talk shows have been exempt from the equal time law right up until 2026.

Not quite true....

NEWS shows are exempt.....talk shows and other entertainment shows most decidedly are not exempt.

" an angry person following and harassing someone" - Didn't happen, it was a calm and rational news reporter. You Crossburning Treasonfucking IncestShit GOP KlanBitchtards just lie all day huh?

Do us all a favor DMB, end your life since you're a subhuman Incest-Produced Crossburning GOP Trashfuck.

A Klan Member in the neighborhood is dangerous. DMB should be removed from society since he's a Trashfucking America-hating Bitchboy KLAN TERRORIST SHITBAG.

The Technician is a Bitchboy for a fascist company. Fuck that.

He was harassed and SWATted and the Flock KlanBitchboy made a FALSE POLICE REPORT with ABUSE OF THE 911 SYSTEM both of which are actual crimes.

DMB is a Klanfucking Incest Produced Treason Ass RETARD who hates America and has never read the Constitution. Deport yourself or Cobain yourself, DMB, you Wortless Subhuman America Hating Klan Bitch Treason Cunt.

First Amendment: "...or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."

Freedom of the Press IS a higher protection, despite what America Hating RetardedKlan GOP Treason Bitch Cunts like the barely-human Treason Cunt DMB like to lie.

Get out of my country, DMB, you America Hating Incest Produced Retarded Fucking Klan Treason Cunt. You don't deserve to be here, you worthless traitor to everything our country stands for!