@Just-Jeepin Thankyou for posting the link. I really liked Lance in the Wick series and I would not have seen this had you not posted it.

bob

The software was Swedish, so we must conclude the pilots are bad at flying

@Just-Jeepin I do have a price alert set on this:
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Behind-Maps-Ben-Farrow/dp/1733875905
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@xsnowpig And depending on where you’re at in Colorado, you might have gotten a dose of plutonium as well.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant

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I read about him in an article in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.

@Just-Jeepin that was a really good read. Thanks for sharing that here.

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera Those are all good points, and I do remember watching a show about aircraft and engines and how the bolts are supposed to shear in the right circumstances - if the turbine seizes up quickly it puts a huge torque on the mount and thus the wing, so the bolts are supposed to shear rather than pretzel the wing.

Though I think your comment was better directed at @ash78 since he's the one that brought up the jettisoning the engines. I was just playing along with it.

@ttyymmnn said in Toy airplanes: how in the world was this safe for kids?:

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"We're just packaging what the kids want."

Aykroyd at his best.

@Just-Jeepin From the article:

“I’ve Never Filled Out a Permit”

Jersey City is the rare municipality that has embraced the spirit of tactical urbanism — a practice where quick DIY fixes are deployed to nudge officials to make more permanent changes. That approach is what attracted Street Plans, a design and planning firm that helped the city write its ambitious bike master plan, which followed a similar approach.

“I’ve never filled out a permit here!” Mike Lydon, the firm’s co-founder, told me as we walked around Jersey City’s downtown. “Typically you’re convincing engineers for months at a time, and they’re hemming and hawing, arms crossed. The only thing I’ve had to do is sometimes let the parking department know to go bag the meters or put up signs that say you can’t park here in the morning. That’s it.”

What?? Reducing bureaucratic red tape actually fosters innovation? This must be a mistake

@CarsOfFortLangley The reality of our climate dystopia will do that.

This article could and probably should be taught in management school. How to save the large organization from itself seems to be a perennial problem.

@Just-Jeepin There's some gems in there!

@Just-Jeepin Wow.

@ash78 said in How the B-52 was born in a Dayton hotel room:

It was a hotel in Akron in 1949...or maybe it was Dayton. These memories all tend to run together after a while. The war was over and the the world -- especially America -- was riding high on a newfound exuberance that pervaded ever corner of every town in every little place in the whole great big US of A.

This hotel was nothing fancy. There might have been a television in the lounge, but the rooms just had radios, the kind where you'd put in a nickel and listen to Orson Welles or Howdy Doody through heavy static for about 15 minutes. The kind of place where a guy would just end up drinking his Jim Beam and staring at the paneled wood walls until sunrise.

When I came in , I saw her spread out on the bed like some kind of angel. I had seen her many times before, but not like this. Something was fresh and new in my eyes, a spirit of adventure. She had a look -- sort of a Germanic charm, even though she was born and bred right here in America. It was at that moment that I realized I just needed something new. I still loved her, but the spark was just gone. So I mustered up some courage, bent down, and folded her violently in half just as Chet said "Hey, Jim be careful with those B-47 plans, that's a master copy."

And that's how the B-52 was born. Or at least conceived.

I wish we had a comment of the year award, but I'll have to settle for a @cotd nomination

@Just-Jeepin I can't remember if nytimes has a limited number of free reads (which I've surpassed) or if this is perma-paywalled...

@Just-Jeepin Let the donkey eat the grass supplied along the journey.

@Vondon302 It’s a great read, worth the time.

@flatisflat said in The Dymaxion: Fuller lied?:

@Just-Jeepin Delusion fuels the best(?) of them....

...at 40 mpg.

@john-norris Mmmmmmm Purple Porsche goodness.

@tophercrowder Rick Astley, the most influential musician of the era, set record after record on Youtube.

@Just-Jeepin seen them waddling across the road on a drive, and they hear/feel you coming and curl up into a ball.

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Next thing you know, they'll let women ride bicycles and then we're all going straight to hell.

@kiltedpadre that's how fighter jets did it for a long time

@duurtlang said in Traffic accidents and fatalities:

@BicycleBuck said in Traffic accidents and fatalities:

ADA compliance would be somewhere around 10%, or about $1.6M per project

So while building/restoring infrastructure, if you want to go from merely functional to safe it requires an extra investment of 10%? This sounds like a great deal to me to be honest. Almost like a bargain.

In general, yes. That's why all federally-funded projects have ADA, environmental, etc. compliance requirements. However, those aren't required if the project is state or locally funded. While 10% may not seem like a lot, when the whole program is a billion dollars, 10% becomes a lot. And those are funds that are being funneled into road projects when we still live in an area where the 54% of the population lives in an Area of Persistent Poverty, a Historically Disadvantaged Community, and/or is classed as Low to Moderate Income. Those three definitions are used by different federal agencies to identify areas that will qualify for additional funding (i.e. 100% federal funding for a road project instead of 80% funding with a 20% local match requirement). In the map below, the black boundary is East Baton Rouge Parish and anything colored in meets one or more of the definitions above.

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Thanks for sharing; that was an excellent read!

Ben and Jerry's has a golden spoon for taste testing. Also, one of the founders had an issue where they lost a portion of their sense of taste/smell. They hence had to up the flavor profile to be more pronounced.

Now you have that useless piece of information in your head.

@Just-Jeepin said in Oh my God, the derpiness:

frogs are deaf to their own mating calls.

Yep, such calls are definitely headed my way; I just can't hear them. That's it.

@ForSweden I think there is a Simpsons episode about these…

@StreetsofPerth You underestimate my tolerance of the stink eye from other shoppers

@Roadkilled I don’t think anyone’s claiming it would be a simple nut to crack. Per the article:

“ One could for example fill the launcher with a liquid metal, add an injection mechanism and an expanding ring, and produce the mirror in space. “It is a fantasy,” admits Bercovici. “My mother asked me, ‘When will it be ready? I told her, ‘Perhaps in about 20 years.’ She said she doesn’t have time to wait.” ”

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Let's eat, grandma
Let's eat grandma

Commas save lives

Edited to add, always read the comments on the two day old post, because someone has almost certainly said the same thing you planned to

@DipodomysDeserti He deserved so much better than Dingbat.

@davesaddiction Muir Woods, just for a short visit. I’d love to take a vacation to California someday to spend time exploring, but to this point it’s always been work-related.

@Just-Jeepin
Wow! Thanks for sharing these. I just read through the engine and lens/camera ones and those have to be the best explanation I have ever seen for those topics. Showed a lot of tech info but explained it very well.

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Thanks for sharing. I love walking and exploring, and look forward to do more again when my schedule is more my own.

My oldest helping with shuttling duties may help with that next year.

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@facw it’s written so conversationally, I bet it was perfect for audiobook format

I got onto it because I was looking at the prerequisite lists for a classics degrees actually, trying to get some readable introductory history and philosophy from the ancient world. Not that I want to get another degree, but I figured it’d be about the right level of writing! Also interesting but a little more challenging was “democracy and classical Greece” by JK Davies.

@DipodomysDeserti said in Voices from the past:

The major fear at the time was that the newly independent Soviet States would turn to nationalistic authoritarianism, spreading smaller scale conflicts throughout Europe. This already happened in the Balkans (albeit with non Soviet States), with Russia now following suit.

Also, the frozen conflict zones in Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan, and the long lasting civil war in Russia over Chechnya. Essentially, the Soviet Union's dissolution was never officially completed, and Putin is now trying to patch it all together into his vision of a multiethnic Russian civilization united by language and culture, which he believes that the Communists artificially undermined by breaking Russia up into distinct ethnically-based republics. Further bloodshed was barely avoided in the '90s when Boris Yeltsin worked out power-sharing treaties with Ingushetia and Tatarstan, because those places seemed ready to fight for awhile there.

@Just-Jeepin said in P.J. O’Rourke, a tribute:

“How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink” was a representative piece.

Ah, what a title. Alternatively, some know it as "Libertarians are Bad People"

I think insulin pumps and sensors are game changers but they need to be available/affordable. And as the author says you need to get the kid to teenage years manually before that's an option
Max Domi is the best case scenario I can think

@just-jeepin Yeah, ok. Fair enough.

@nicky-chagrin-janitor-of-shield Not a Metallica fan, huh?
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@just-jeepin the same thing may well happen to the Miracle on the Hudson Airbus eventually

@just-jeepin He's dead; coping is dead.

@tophercrowder simple, the muppets in charge over the years killed off Holden. Mary Barra is straight up incompetent. she needs to be ousted.

@engineerwithtools yeah, in 2022 all the employers want people that have 2 years more experience than for similar positions in 2019, and want to pay wages from 2017, then spend all day pissing and moaning about how people these days aren't interested in doing any work when the government pays them to stay home or some fucking nonsense. They are literally offering less money when used cars are 30% more expensive, housing is 30% more expensive, and gas is $3.75 a gallon. They think it's a favor they have a position available during the pandemic, without looking around at the 15 other people who also have positions available right next door. It's an endemic issue in the industry at the moment, but the prospective hires aren't buying it. I am planning to tell my job because they're only paying me 60% of a salary that I'm only working 60% of the hours, and if they want me to work more than that or come to the office then they can pay more or fire me. They have had postings for PM's up for 6 months, I have them over a barrel, and if they let me go I won't miss the 60 hour workweeks. PM is a hard gig, you are right about that.

@urambo-tauro Didn't Armand Assante have one of those in Fatal Instinct, like 30 years ago?

@kiltedpadre said in Public staircases:

@chariotoflove They do, but only the small ones. I seem to recall there’s an Oppo that does serious rocketry. Maybe he can hook us up with a couple options to make the most of it.
We’ll get you up that ski jump of an incline before we give up.

Just write me a nice obit. Use lots of puns.

@ranwhenparked Ah, reading is fundamental.

@bicyclebuck said in The magical miniature worlds of terrariums:

That was when I learned that transporting fish in glass aquariums was a bad idea. Yeah, I've made some pretty dumb mistakes....

Lol. 5 gallon buckets but you know that now. I cracked a 65 with just gravel in it so yeah been there.

@just-jeepin said in Building the universal flu vaccine:

@dipodomysdeserti The article references a piece calling out WWI as the start of a century of ongoing flu pandemic enabled by global travel, but certainly yeah, it's been around for a while.

There’s no ongoing flu pandemic, although we’ve had a few over the last century. The most common flu viruses (including the one that caused the Spanish Flu) are now endemic. The world had documented flu pandemics and global travel long before the 20th century. The research paper I posted says we can trace flu epidemics and pandemics with high certainty going back 300 years.

Fauci seems a bit shortsighted in calling the 20th century the “age of pandemics”. I think that age probably got rolling in 15th century when Europeans started crossing the Atlantic, or even before as colonialism started to develop. The Chinese and Indians first started trying to inoculate against smallpox in the 1500s, and that virus is suspected of first emerging in north Africa some 12k years ago.

@bbg2d said in Cool video, but watch out for jumping spiders:

@drvantraveler https://www.galleryofguns.com/genie/default.aspx?item=PF-LRT&zipcode=
These Long Range Torches are pretty cool, and they make a backpack for them... Source: We sell them at my friend's gun shop.

I would need one of those if I was in OZ, @pip-bip 's fuzzy friends are terrifying

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We get probably one or two cars in the shop per week with stolen cats. The vast majority are Elements, followed by CR-Vs and then Pilot/Passports. I think we've only had a small handful be small cars. The SUV and CUV cats are just so easy to nab. We haven't had much trouble getting cats through aftermarket to replace them but some do have to go to exhaust shops for repair due to a lack of direct fit. Then you suffer the follow ups of shitty install and inferior parts. If you want an OEM one you'll probably be waiting several months. We have a 2021 Passport parked at work waiting for an OEM cat. I think the truck only has 1500 miles on it and its been sitting for at least a month now. Unsure what the ETA is, but it's probably next year.

I have a used cat out of a CRV at work that our scrap guy will pay $150 for. I can't wait to hear what the twin TWC cats I took out of my Pilot are worth. Might buy me some new tires.

@david-tracy But also such a GOOD COMBO!

@urambo-tauro Jesus Christ, my eyes.

@ike808 so a water closet?

@dipodomysdeserti That’s awesome. My dad has been a pretty decent musician his whole life, and it’s such a huge quality of life boost.