When the West was settled it was widely believed that the act of building a town attracted rain. The 'atmosphere' of human buildings in an area would naturally attract and collect rain from the heavens. Many of the original methods used to estimate water, rainfall, and other essentials for human survival were wrong.

Most of them are catalogued in the outstanding Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - an excellent book with an outstanding audiobook too.

https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing...

I’ve heard this idea referred to as “rain follows the plow”, which as they found out in the 19th century, does not hold true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow

Meh, everyone knows that if you need rain you call in the Wizard: https://wizard.gen.nz/adventures/the-rain-dance-kid/

Yes, New Zealand has an official Wizard: https://wizard.gen.nz/photo-galleries/official-documents/

19th century Law of Attraction

Wasn't that the result of active misinformation by companies with vested interest in transporting everyone out West?

In part, yes.

It begs for a video too!

The headline is just clickbait, no such product exists to be videoed.

because the fibers are denser than wood and hydrophilic - so the pockets between the fibers fill with water that displaces the air.

Air pockets become water pockets = neutral.

Fibers denser than water = sink.

How would we represent this as a sticker on a vehicle?

White outline around the clear field w blue dot?

> Which in turn means, in their mind, every part of the system needs to be firing at 100% all the time

This is a classic Goldratt / Theory of Constraints mistake.

Can you expound on what makes it a mistake?

Several months ago, ChatGPT swore to me it had interoperability with both excel and Google Sheets. I spent 90 minutes thinking I was an idiot, trying to follow its guidance before asking the internet.

I had a similar experience with the US EPA while in undergrad. It was a shorter experience, but it really changed my view of the organization.

It's common. People would rather work in a Wal-Mart as it is more social and less demanding. The physical space is nicer.

> 8) Abuse is abuse, and people negligent in doing anything about it are participating in it. Get toxicity out of your life.

This needs to be taught more actively in school. Negligence in stopping abuse, or fostering abuse = just as immoral as abuse.

Exactly. I left high school over abuse. Another student spent the whole period sitting next to me staring at me muttering about how he was going to tie me up in the middle of the desert, and all the things he was going to shove up my ass, serious serial killer vibes, and the teacher just acted helpless, despite seeing everything. When they started stalking me after school, and it started getting physical, and the school did nothing, I left.

Thankfully that level of toxicity did not follow into the workplace, but I did have a car vandalized by a coworker.

Truth be told I was a bit of a punk, and had a knack for pissing off the wrong people. We all have our flaws, but nobody deserved what I went through. I'm a man now, not the insecure boy who tried to act like he was better than others to compensate, and I reject toxicity immediately. No room for it. Hard lessons to learn when you grew up with abuse.

we moved into a home that had wired speakers installed in every room all to a central Sonos enabled device - it is all old. It worked perfectly until this.

Funny thing is, we thought it was silly when we moved in - then we grew to love it. Now I hate them!