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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct. The public only receives written transcripts of the relevant sections of tape only. Off-topic conversations, meaning anything that is not relevant to the air accident, are not released. The audio files are not released to the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real geopolitical problem for Russia. Russia got screwed by geography in terms of natural harbors that don’t freeze over in the winter. It’s why they’ve always had a crap navy, going way back into the imperial days.

  Right now, the Russian Navy is based in Murmansk (brrrr. limited routes to get out into Atlantic) and the Black Sea. The Black Sea is bad for them because Turkey (a NATO member) makes sure to maintain total control of what passes through the Bosphorous.

  Part of what Russia did in Syria during the civil war netted them a lease on a base on the Mediterranean. That could have had some use for power projection, but I think they lost it when a certain opthalmologist was expelled.

  Anyhow, it’s hilarious when the trolls posing as MAGA Americans bring this up, because real Americans just take their total abundance of ports that don’t freeze over completely for granted. That’s why I point out secondary, less busy port cities on the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is actually pretty warm (instead of just not freezing over). Just to highlight how good the US has it. Even if we were forced to give up Norfolk and Coronado, there are plenty of other suitable places we could have naval bases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes. As a patriotic American I love our warm water ports like Corpus Christi and Tampa. Don’t you love warm water ports as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, these two letters, thorn and eth, dropped out of English a long time ago, but they’re still in Modern Icelandic today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hilary can't catch a break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I went to a Mardi Gras parade that year, and every single float was a joke about Bill Clinton’s penis. Very family friendly that was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.

  On airplanes that don’t do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.

  (This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We might never know. Subway has been accused of bread shenanigans in the past (in addition to short-selling their footlongs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The FBI crime lab didn’t even do any forensic analysis on whether the sub measured up to the full 12 inches or not.

  It was such a shoddy investigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some more practical tips.

  • if the autopilot is engaged, you can’t physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
  • That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It’s got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
  • if the plane tells you there’s a “stall, stall” you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
  • the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it’s set up.
  • most important: the switch for the “fasten seatbelt” sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the “no smoking” sign).
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty “dark” for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.

  For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court.

  This is not true at all.

  Federal courts are part of the judicial branch, not the executive branch. So they don’t shut down when the executive branch “shuts down”, because the shutdown laws don’t apply to them. As a practical matter federal courts can keep running for a while using saved up court fee revenue. They will eventually run out of that money and gave some tough choices about what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty well settled mathematics that infinities are “the same size” if you can draw any kind of 1-to-1 mapping function between the two sets. If it’s 1-to-1, then every member of set A is paired off with a member of B, and there are no elements left over on either side.

  In the example with even integers y versus all integers x, you can define the relation x <–> y = 2*x. So the two sets “have the same size”.

  But the real numbers are provably larger than any of the integer sets. Meaning every possible mapping function leaves some reals leftover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FlatEarthers will work around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a rule that the flight has to be within so many minutes of a diversion airport at all times, and this is hard to do in Antarctica.

  Nowadays, 180 minutes is fairly common, and there are some planes and airlines that can go to 240 or even as high as 370.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.

  Yeah, NP hard problems don’t get easier just because the AI is doing the “thinking.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US presidents are getting younger over time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about the same time as the Know-Nothing party was pushing nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably fully recorded. Everything in and out.

  That way if there’s a mishap it’s possible to go back and reconstruct the entire sequence or to replay high fidelity simulations of the network traffic at the equipment to reproduce problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t wanna risk getting detained re-entering the US and this racist ass administration denying your citizenship.

  Since OP stated they are a natural-born US citizen, this scenario would be a significant escalation towards authoritarianism if it does happen.

  Even doing this to a naturalized citizen would be an escalation.

  Right now, most “border surprise” cases involve green card holders, not citizens, who have old criminal charges that rendered them deportable a long time ago. Just no previous federal government has cared enough to go find them and put them into removal proceedings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To condemn NASA a little bit further: NASA engineering also insisted that Sally Ride absolutely had to have a flight makeup kit. They went to the trouble to design one and make sure everything would work in zero-g. It went up and came back down completely unopened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the fifth circuit described as “a collection of 4chan posts wearing robes,” so yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I recall correctly, the photon sphere orbit is unstable, so there may not be a ton of photons there. “Unstable” in this sense means that photons in adjacent orbits tend to diverge away from the photon sphere orbit rather than toward it.

  For Schwarzchild holes, the lowest circular orbit for massive objects is at 3 event horizons, which is above the photon sphere. There are unstable circular orbits down to 2 horizons. Black home rotation reduces this altitude for prograde orbits asymptotically down to 1 horizon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you went to some asteroids that have low escape velocities, a spacecraft still has all of the mass of a spacecraft–probably a few 1000 kg. So you probably can’t get it going fast enough, even if you can escape yourself by jumping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NCD is leaking again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Laser) Printer go brrrr⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the kids still printing things on paper for class these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly not, because $country did all this shit, and capitalism did not collapse, somehow…this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: the Big Three US American credit unions have a time horizon of seven years. This is set by law. This fucks me, because all my credit accounts are older than that. But the seven year horizon is good for this guy and folks who have declared bankruptcy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is letter edh, or eth. It’s a consonant in Old English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic that makes the th sound in “the.” There’s another letter thorn that makes the th sound in “thin.” Notice the difference between the two sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a relative that was in Nam and wears that hat, but he claims he was POG. I have another relative who lied about his age to get into Nam, who definitely was in the shit, and he doesn’t wear the hat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juneteenth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before the 13th amendment, Lincoln formally ended slavery in the Union with the Emancipation Proclamation.

  But even before that, from 1861, the Union Army made it a policy to seize slaves that it captured as contraband (or prize) of war, and then effectively emancipate then.

  In general, even after the emancipation proclamation, slaves did not get actual freedom until the Union forces reached them.

  So it was a complicated and messy process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The city is so lively⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can ride the Paris Metro in Paris, TX:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan has a major obstacle: Physics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are some recycled concepts from Star Wars. Some other parts are specific upgrade projects that DoD has been wanting to do anyway, that are probably worthwhile. I think the remaining chunk will be shoveling money to grifters for pie in the sky Real Genius projects that never work.

  I haven’t seen anyone seriously talking about actually using Iron Dome components for North American air defense. That’s a good thing. The geography and threat profile is completely different.