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by all accounts mozart was a piece of work as well you can like someones art and still think they're a fuckup, in fact this is probably the best way to go about it
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# ? May 6, 2020 16:27 |
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Xakura posted:You're blinded by your love of her music. Sometimes subversive, thought-provoking actions are not planned, just a weird person acting naturally. Don't put people on a pedestal. I don’t consider it pedestal-placing to say most performance artists aren’t dipshits. It’s just the default. Dipshit to me means “dumb,” not someone you disagree with on various policies etc.
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# ? May 6, 2020 16:35 |
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Sometimes I am so happy that my life is more or less normal.
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# ? May 6, 2020 16:36 |
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mlmp08 posted:Dipshit to me means “dumb,” not someone you disagree with on various policies etc. quote:Claire Boucher and William Gratz had their sights set on the southern reaches of the Mississippi River when they packed their chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes into a houseboat they crafted from scratch.
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# ? May 6, 2020 17:26 |
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20-year-olds are almost inherently dipshits. At 20 I did nothing so publicly accounted by regulators/cops, but stuff that was more physically perilous.
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# ? May 6, 2020 17:57 |
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NightGyr posted:(Grimes river cruise) Haha, I had forgotten that was her
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# ? May 6, 2020 18:05 |
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They did a fly by with Doc, a KC-46 and a KC-135 today but the flight path was at least 5 miles east of my work so I didn't get any pictures ☹️
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# ? May 6, 2020 18:13 |
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mlmp08 posted:20-year-olds are almost inherently dipshits. IIRC they were lucky to have been impounded before a very hazardous section of the river in Minneapolis that would almost certainly have destroyed their boat, and given their documented lack of safety gear, it probably wouldn’t have gone well for them.
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# ? May 6, 2020 18:51 |
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Blue Angels just flew over the house. I'll be humming Van Halen all day now...
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# ? May 6, 2020 19:49 |
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PhotoKirk posted:
I appreciate this
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# ? May 6, 2020 20:14 |
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PCjr sidecar posted:IIRC they were lucky to have been impounded before a very hazardous section of the river in Minneapolis that would almost certainly have destroyed their boat, and given their documented lack of safety gear, it probably wouldn’t have gone well for them. Also they literally could have put in a few miles downriver and avoided all the rapids.
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# ? May 6, 2020 20:15 |
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https://twitter.com/AA_Pilot/status/1257788782818058245?s=20
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# ? May 6, 2020 20:47 |
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it looks a lot like a regular hornet
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# ? May 6, 2020 20:53 |
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you really need to see it parked right next to an -A model to appreciate the size difference
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# ? May 6, 2020 20:59 |
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They really need to rework, alter, or eliminate that "US Navy" along the side. It looks like it's written on warped plastic.
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# ? May 6, 2020 21:02 |
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Sagebrush posted:it looks a lot like a regular hornet The square intakes give it away. But to be fair, the Super Hornet sort of is the regular Hornet.
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# ? May 6, 2020 21:03 |
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yeah no I know the differences, it just has always bugged (ha) me that the Super Hornet is just a bigger chonkier hornet with worse proportions instead of looking like an actual upgrade. the leading-edge extensions in particular always make it look fat, where the A/B/C/D models are lean and pointy.
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# ? May 6, 2020 21:31 |
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I hope the engine intakes can handle all those compression artifacts.
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# ? May 6, 2020 22:00 |
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wow I heard the murder hornets were bigger than normal hornets but that's bigger and bluer than I was expecting.
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# ? May 6, 2020 22:01 |
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Curious to see how the routine changes. They're gaining quite a bit of power, but losing maneuverability. Edit; V Godholio fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 6, 2020 |
# ? May 6, 2020 22:10 |
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The part of the show where their improved radar switches scan modes will be a visual feast.
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# ? May 6, 2020 22:23 |
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Sagebrush posted:yeah no I know the differences, it just has always bugged (ha) me that the Super Hornet is just a bigger chonkier hornet with worse proportions instead of looking like an actual upgrade. the leading-edge extensions in particular always make it look fat, where the A/B/C/D models are lean and pointy. The Super Hornet is a completely different airplane that looks like an F-18 so it could get funded by Congress. It'd be like selling the Macross planes as the "F-14C."
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# ? May 6, 2020 22:31 |
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I know, which is why it pisses me off even more. It's a brand new plane anyway so we could have had something cool looking instead of a fat hornet that congressmen can squint at and believe is just an upgrade despite being 30% bigger with less than 5% parts commonality.
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# ? May 6, 2020 22:36 |
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Sagebrush posted:I know, which is why it pisses me off even more. It's a brand new plane anyway so we could have had something cool looking instead of a fat hornet that congressmen can squint at and believe is just an upgrade despite being 30% bigger with less than 5% parts commonality. Also see: Boeing B-29 vs B-50
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# ? May 6, 2020 22:42 |
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Sagebrush posted:I know, which is why it pisses me off even more. It's a brand new plane anyway so we could have had something cool looking instead of a fat hornet that congressmen can squint at and believe is just an upgrade despite being 30% bigger with less than 5% parts commonality. Use this One Weird Trick to get a whole new plane by the Senate appropriations committee instead of an upgrade! Congress hates it!!!!
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# ? May 6, 2020 23:22 |
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I mean if it gets us VF-1s as part of the fleet I'm down to clown.
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# ? May 7, 2020 00:03 |
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:It'd be like selling the Macross planes as the "F-14C." God I wish.
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# ? May 7, 2020 02:03 |
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Midjack posted:God I wish. You say that now, wait until we have to fight giant aliens with the power of the most annoying pop singer in the history of mankind.
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# ? May 7, 2020 02:12 |
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Is this the right place to ask about PPL? I've been watching too many youtube videos, and combined with my unemployment, has made me interested in going for my PPL. With the current situation of trying to maintain social distance, I thought maybe I can start preparing for the written exam on my own. Once I pass that, I can get my physical, then I can head to the airport and try to line up instructors and flights. Thoughts on doing it this way?
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# ? May 7, 2020 03:25 |
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aviation megathread might be your best option.
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# ? May 7, 2020 03:42 |
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NightGyr posted:aviation megathread might be your best option. Thanks!
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# ? May 7, 2020 03:54 |
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Hughmoris posted:Is this the right place to ask about PPL? Ask in the aviation thread for sure, but JFYI you will do a lot better with the written exam if you study for it alongside the flying portions. There are a lot of concepts that you can learn by rote but which will make 1000% more sense after you've experienced them in the cockpit. Similarly, studying the underpinnings of your flying as you're learning it will give you more insight into what you're doing. Pretty much all flight schools will structure the learning this way.
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# ? May 7, 2020 04:00 |
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priznat posted:Interesting side note tied to Aeronautical Insanity, I remember reading a Discover magazine article when I was a kid about how being a fighter pilot correlates to a higher number of girl kids, something about the effects of g forces on the nads. It's not a g force thing. Apparently guys who ride AWACs all the time skew toward girl kids so supposedly it's RADAR that causes it, but it's never been studied or proven.
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# ? May 7, 2020 05:21 |
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Carth Dookie posted:It's not a g force thing. Apparently guys who ride AWACs all the time skew toward girl kids so supposedly it's RADAR that causes it, but it's never been studied or proven. I’ve heard the same from B52 crew.
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# ? May 7, 2020 06:07 |
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There are many myths among the submarine force about sailors on submarines/certain subsets of submarines trending towards daughters due to radiation and The Balls. It's superstition mixed with confirmation bias, nothing effects how many of one's sperm carry X or Y chromosomes. E: my dad always told me that the reason he had 4 boys (me, my brother and 2 half-brothers) was because he lost a testicle when he was a kid (true) and that was the one with all girl-sperm (absolute bullshit). Fertility myths have been ongoing since before Christ's birth, they're as untrue now as they were back then. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 07:43 on May 7, 2020 |
# ? May 7, 2020 07:34 |
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# ? May 7, 2020 11:48 |
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Same myth exists in the surface navy, every ET I've ever talked to believes that stupid idea. Non ionizing radiation isn't gonna hurt your nuts people!!* *At low powers of radiation.
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# ? May 7, 2020 12:29 |
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https://twitter.com/lennythepen/status/1257705936661200899
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# ? May 7, 2020 13:10 |
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Fatty can fly. Speaking of Australian planes, Boeing unveiled the first Australian designed, engineered and manufactured aircraft in over 50 years. An autonomous combat drone with a hotswappable nose to suit various mission needs (sensor arrays or whatever) quote:The 11.5-metre-long, artificially intelligent device will now move onto ground testing, followed by test flights later this year.
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Lou Takki posted:Same myth exists in the surface navy, every ET I've ever talked to believes that stupid idea. Somewhat timely with the whole crazy 5G/Covid thing right now and might be worth a quick sidebar: Risk /= Hazard A Hazard is something that has the potential to cause harm. A risk is the chance of it happening. Non-ionizing radiation in day to day life has basically virtually no risk. However, it does have a hazard. Standing in front of a high power transmitter 24/7 is probably not the best thing. Likewise, a shark may very well be a hazard, but if it's in a tank at an aquarium the risk is tiny.
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