CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@GerardThornley @nexta @loke It surprises me someone actually made them take mitigation steps - Florida Power & Light used to gleefully deal with things like a new shopping mall overloading feeders off a particular substation by cutting power to the residential customers on that sub during hot summer afternoons then shrugging their shoulders and walking away

@GerardThornley @nexta @loke Hah, I don't think I've even been on a roller coaster that has that kind of acceleration. The fastest I've been on is The Hulk which launches from 0-40 mph in 2 seconds. That thing is wild, apparently they had to install a flywheel generation plant to keep it from dipping the power to the entire Orlando metro area every time it launched.

@nexta
I feel like I'd want to have full motorcycle safety gear just in case the velocity didn't match and you wound up unceremoniously yeeted into a slide

@cdarwin I'm like

@dianea
I'd like to meet the hen who laid that

@foone
Nowadays thankfully I don't have to do that and I generally only look up at what's on the air when cute animals are doing their thing like goats eating our reporter's hair.

I'm not even kidding. One of our reporters now has what look like grown out to about cheek length bangs because a goat bit off some of her hair live on TV.

That's just silly though and she wasn't even mad (I wouldn't be either!)
@munin

@foone
This has even gotten me while I've been working in TV engineering. I could have done with exactly zero of those helicopter shots of people being killed by Miami police that I had to watch for signs of microwave shot breakup while we were live
@munin