Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 6 hours ago:
I would expect more mishaps from a regional turboprop, flying ten 45-minute flights a day, than a widebody flying a single 12+ hour flight a day.
Mishaps are most prevalent on takeoff and landing. The aircraft that make the most takeoffs and landings are going to have the highest mishap rate.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 6 hours ago:
The risk of a mishap is greatest on takeoff and landing. Inflight mishaps are extremely rare.
A “flight” is one takeoff and one landing. The largest aircraft have the longest duration flights. They might be airborne 12+ hours at a time. They might fly fewer than 10 flights a week.
Small commercial aircraft flying local and regional routes might be shorter than an hour. These aircraft might have 70 flights a week.
A student pilot in the smallest, single-engine GA aircraft might spend all day shooting touch-and-goes to build time and experience. Each touch-and-go is a landing-and-takeoff. These aircraft might have 300 “flights” a week.
Yes, the smallest aircraft are going to have the highest per-airframe mishap rate, simply because they experience the most risky phases of flights much more frequently than large aircraft.
Per-flight, the risks aren’t significantly different.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 8 hours ago:
A320 seat configuration is 3-3. ATR-72 is 2-2. I’d take a guaranteed not-middle-seat any day.
- Comment on Japan can't seem to catch a break 9 hours ago:
Exists. I won’t link, but I can assure you: It Exists.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 1 day ago:
Like sticking an alcohol drenched tampon in your booty hole.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Well, you’re not exactly robbing the cradle, and she’s not exactly robbing the grave.
Go for it.
- Comment on Realistically 3 days ago:
Sure, but it’s skidding across the pavement, not flying at my face at 75mph. I can stop faster than it can.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 3 days ago:
I’ve seen slings used to throw things. Either ropes attached to the projectile, or pouches on ropes designed to release the projectile.
I’ve also seen those slings not throw the “grenade” 200 yards away, but straight up in the air, or wrapping around branches or arms or flying backwards…
Slings require just enough skill that they would probably be more lethal to friend than foe.
- Comment on The Witcher 3 dev says "one of the longest email threads in our company history" was about "how naked Geralt should be" in the iconic bath scene: "When he gets up, how much butt should we show?" 3 days ago:
- Comment on Realistically 3 days ago:
Inertia says that the log is moving roughly the same speed as the truck, so I’ll apply the brakes and move to the right.
- Comment on Anon measures up 5 days ago:
Looks like some weird AI slop to me.
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 5 days ago:
Plausible deniability. The real part of the security clearance is the background check they perform, including the interviews. If they find out from some secret source that you immigrated from North Korea, they won’t tell you they figured that out. They’ll just tell you that you didn’t pass the polygraph and send you home. Your North Korean handler will report back that they need to train future spies how to defeat the polygraph, but fail to close the actual hole in their security.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 5 days ago:
Caveat: none of these are formal definitions. This is what I am thinking of when using or hearing these terms.
I wouldn’t call it an “urban” area unless I can see a privately-owned 4+ story building with an elevator. Government buildings don’t count: they might be the sole example of a 4+ story building within 50 miles. Partial elevator access (intended for handicap compliance to the lower floors) doesn’t count.
“Suburban” extends from the limits of the urban area, out to where the farms or forests are larger than 100 acres. Suburban areas are primarily comprised of single family homes, but you may also find 1-3 floor apartment complexes.
“Rural” is anywhere outside of both urban and suburban areas.
A commercial or mixed commercial/residential area - that isn’t large or congested enough to be considered an “urban” area on its own - would be a “town”. A “rural town” would be a town not connected to a suburban or urban area: you can’t get to a city without passing large farms or forests.
A town won’t have its own police force. They will rely on the county sheriff’s department for law enforcement activity. Once it is large enough to have its own police, it becomes a “city”.
In my area, a “village” is a town populated exclusively by people with twice the median income.
- Comment on Paw Police 6 days ago:
Body cameras should be used as punch clocks. You’re not on duty unless your camera is running. No pay, no qualified immunity unless your body cameras is on and running.
Without a body camera running, you are not a cop; you are impersonating a cop.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 week ago:
Glad I’m not alone on that. I love reading about him, but I can’t watch his videos.
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 week ago:
Love and kisses, feddit.uk
Ah. The original treaders. Now it’s making sense.
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 week ago:
Please tell me that you’re joking.
Please tell me that the original meaning and intent of the Gadsden flag isn’t completely lost on America’s youth.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 week ago:
If you have to ask, don’t do it.
The proper way to connect a generator is with a breaker panel interlock. This gives you a circuit breaker for the main, grid power; a second breaker for the generator; and an interlock device that only allows one of those two breakers to be active at any given time.
Trying to use a suicide cable can get power into the house; disconnecting the main breaker would prevent the generator from back feeding the grid. However, the circuit you are plugging the breaker into is only rated to 15 or 20 amps, and you’re backfeeding it with a lot more. You can easily overload this circuit without actually blowing a breaker.
There’s other problems as well: your house wiring is designed for two opposing hot, 110v phases. These are combined to provide 220v power to major appliances. Improperly backfeeding your wiring can potentially damage those major appliances.
You are better off with a nice, heavy-duty extension cord than a half-assed suicide cable.
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 1 week ago:
The absolute maximum that Bernoulli can suck is 14.7PSI at sea level. Not even your mother can generate a greater vacuum.
There is no fundamental limit to the pressure that can be generated under the wing.
With sufficient thrust and proper angle of attack, a brick can produce sufficient pressure underneath it to generate lift.
- Comment on Easy decision 1 week ago:
Multitrack drifting!
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 1 week ago:
Alex Murphy. Aka: “Robocop”.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
(a) Then how did Tom Hanks get involved? “Starring actor” was included in the premise.
(b) If he knows he’s the last black man on earth, sure. But that would suggest a predictable, but unavoidable tragedy, known months in advance to give enough time to actually produce the movie.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if its a documentary on the last black man on earth, it couldn’t actually be played by a black man.
Unless it was produced in space, or on another planet, I suppose.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
Kevin Hart.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 3 weeks ago:
She uses windows.
- Comment on Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use 3 weeks ago:
All use is fair use. Copyright should not exist.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 weeks ago:
I used to get this all the time. Now, if I get a hangnail, I liberally drench my hands in lotion, and put on nitrile gloves for an hour or so to force it to soak in.
A family friend gets me Gojo Hand Medic, which my fragile masculinity appreciates.
I also found it works well for breaking in leather work gloves.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“We’re gonna need some more buttons in here.”
