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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I’m well aware after working in healthcare for a few decades but this is bad.
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It's terrible and won't be improving any time soon. Why would an OB practitioner (or anyone currently in range of the GQP's targeting system) ever practice in a GQP-dominated area? OB doc? murderer. Pediatrician? groomer!

Fuck the GQP.
 
Axial fractures on pipelines should be fairly infrequent. Typically that's something that's discovered very early on in fabrication or installation and inspection. Shouldn't happen unless there's a decent amount of corrosion and high stress loads (usually something like hydrogen embrittlement).

I read through the consent decree and the materials engineering consultant they hired said the pipeline has something in the range of 40 years from the 2017 inspection before the earliest possible failure could occur. So the 2037 would represent half that life.

I also read that this was seamless pipe so even more reason to think the lifetime is extremely long and axial fractures should be quite rare after hydrotesting and initial inspections. I didn't expect this to be anything other than seamless, but you never know.

That said, we also typically do annual pressure checks on our equipment. Would seem reasonable to me to require a pressure check annually or every other year for something like this. Based on this document from noted environmental organization, Duke Energy, it can take 3-4 weeks of pipe cleaning just to get the pipe clean enough to measure. I'm assuming the real number is lower, but still, I had assumed days instead of weeks to prep. Digging into this, seems like most oil pipelines are smart pigged every year or three years (Alaska). If that's the case, then I'm not sure why Enbridge is bitching.


Edit: Interesting. SO the portion of the line that runs underwater is apparently inspected several times a year. THat's more in line with what I expected. I assume the 15-year pipeline is probably lower risk sections that aren't exposed to constant water. Could be wrong though.

Edit 2: Holy christ. These pipes are 69 years old?! Holy moly. Yeah, these should absolutely be continually inspected.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Yankee fans giving Rafael a hello

https://twitter.com/wutangkids/status/1584371182492524544?s=46&t=CtdZMV6I4bW9exx2NjmBYQ
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Broken clock is right.

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https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1584629402503110656

NEW: Kim Crockett, the GOP nominee for Secretary of State in Minnesota, said (without evidence) that homeless people are being given bags of candy and driven via golf cart to polling locations: “I’m over at a friend's house right now, he witnessed it!”
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Leaving aside the fact that there is a zero percent chance this story is true...

Since when are Homeless People:

a) Easily bribed with candy and rides in a golf cart
b) not allowed to vote

Good lord the entire MNGOP is one big bag of mental illness.
 
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