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I felt selfish for years for never checking that box
These days I understand what my subconscience feared
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I rode our Honda ATC 110 rather often and aggressively. Never came close to a mishap.
My brother spent 1/10 the time on it and did all the damage.
The television had to tell me they were dangerous.
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Betterized idea, I turn on the Bose speaker, which already automatically starts the music I sleep to, but it also sets alarms and confirms they’re set
#nerdalert
I tend to not wake up easily
I have a Shortcut that turned on alarms for me for both morning and night so I didn’t have remember which shift I was working
I should modify that for current needs
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Interesting
The way things are learned and improved to iteratively make things safer
In aviation and in nuclear power, I enjoy watching this happen, and I let it inform things on a closer personal level
this video is a must-watch if you’re following the Florida Learjet crash:
A meteorologist and pilot wanted to know how is it that a plane equipped with Doppler radar did not see the storm ahead?
Turns out that the onboard radar can tilt and if the pilots had tilted it downwards, they would have seen that stronger storm building up.
How did they figure this out?
They took the actual National Weather Service Doppler radar data from the storm, then recalibrated and resampled it to simulate exactly what a Learjet’s onboard Collins WXR-840 X-band radar (the 3 cm wavelength system many of these jets carry) would have seen at 35,000 feet in −47 °C air.
The result is striking. At a normal 0° tilt, the returns look like faint ice-phase echoes. A nothingburger, basically.
Tilt the same radar down roughly 5° and it suddenly lights up with the stronger lower core of a rapidly intensifying storm directly ahead.
NWS data shows the storm tops were around 31,000 ft just before the jet penetrated, shot up to 40,000 ft while they were in it, then collapsed back to ~33,000 ft after they exited.
This confirms that they flew into a storm cloud with explosive growth and collapse with violent updrafts and downdrafts, exactly the kind of thing an X-band radar looking straight ahead at cruise altitude can easily under-sample.
@EricBurrisWX walks through the radar geometry, the crystal reflectivity at those temperatures, and low-key gives one of the clearest, most technically grounded explanations out there.
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Lesson
Plan to give the guy $100 for his time, tell him you suddenly have other plans
We’re selling an old ford ranger.
Listed for $12,500.
A guy wanted to look at it tonight at 6 pm.
A dealer was interested in a Tacoma that were also selling.
The dealer realized we were also selling the ranger. He offered $14,500 for it.
I’m a man of my word so I texted the first guy and said I had a better offer but if he still wants to see it at 6 he can buy it for $12,500 but I’m firm on price.
The guy shows up and offers me $10,000.
I will never understand how the human brain works. What a waste of time.
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1987/88
I know because my brother’s class was all about hacky sack. Don’t remember anyone in my class partaking.
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Listen to @JesseKellyDC
This is how it works
crazy how Russell Brand got thrown in prison by the same liberal regime he spent most of his professional life running cover for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Notification sounds bother me
And then I’m sitting with multiple iPhones, 2 iPads, a Mac
“Who duh fuq just dinged?”
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Amazing technology
23 years ago, glass cockpits in general aviation were still a dream, now some will land themselves in an emergency
My Vision Jet has Safe Return, Garmin's emergency Autoland. If I'm ever incapacitated, a passenger can press the red button on the cabin ceiling and the airplane takes over.
It can also start on its own. If cabin pressure is lost, the jet begins an emergency descent, and if I don't respond, Autoland can take over from there.
Once it's active, it picks a suitable airport using weather, terrain, fuel, winds and runway length, then flies a GPS approach to the runway.
It squawks 7700 and an automated voice tells ATC on the active frequency and 121.5 where it's going and which runway it'll use.
The displays turn passenger-friendly: a simple map, destination, ETA and fuel remaining, with plain-language updates instead of pilot screens. Then it lowers the gear, lands, and brakes to a stop.
I've shown my wife and kids how to use the button, and I practice Autoland in the sim every year during type-rating training.
Single pilots, do you have a brief for passengers should you become incapacitated and don’t have autoland? FYI I got these photos off the cirrus/garmin website, not from my aircraft, not sure what plane the cockpit picture is from. #AviationSafety #privatejet #Aviation
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Points to ponder, there
My desires were never rejected, ever, in any relationship, so I can’t specifically relate
If she doesn’t want you then maybe learn how to touch her. It’s a crazy-fun skill to have.
If sex matters enough to make betrayal devastating, then it matters enough for chronic sexual abandonment to be treated as a serious marital injury, not a selfish complaint.
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