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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • A proper septic system is carefully engineered but they can still be quite low tech. Many houses still just have gravel trenches and pits.

    My own home doesn’t have any pumps, it just pushes water out as water comes in. My tiny strip of land has deep trenches and the right native soil (deep sand).

    More modern systems just need some pressurized lines and only three feet of the right sand to achieve proper treatment of effluents.


  • A lot of people don’t realize outside sewers and cities, septic systems are a thing and all the sewage goes to a tank that drains out into a patch of soil. A hundred feet/30 meters and usually even a wellhead is considered at a safe range.

    Soils do a lot of biological treatment just as the enzymes and bacteria in septic tanks break down and dissolve solids.

    UV disinfection and other treatment of sewage on-site is only common in areas with high water tables or proximity to waterbodies under that 100ft/30 meter range.

    The majority of modern wastewater comes from other fixtures for laundry, showers, and the kitchen. Toilet sewage is relatively small volumewise.










  • Some operational security questions: What’s this trainee doing? Why was it a trainee noticing things being put in backpacks? Why was the trainee the one notifying security?

    Are there protocols in place for media being brought in or out of the facility and its workstations? Why or why not? Was the trainee the only one who reviewed them recently enough to notice a breach and alert?

    But most importantly and at any rate you don’t do the grand heist on the last day. Rookie move.





  • I sold my 2015 but I kept my 2004. That things fully manual and just keeps going. It’s growing things inside and out from being street parked but there’s no computers, no fobs, no screens.

    I’ll invest thousands keeping that thing going until I can bridge the gap to EV. It still gets 35-45 MPG which is better than what’s out there anyway, even most hybrids