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CuriousRefugee

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  • A little closer...

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  • Is this done in the style of A Softer World?

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  • Yeah, more an aspect of where I've lived than everyone. Although I've yet to see a farm on the beach, which is what I really want. Drinking fresh milk while you watch the waves...the dream!

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  • Yeah, but having done both, it's equally weird that people can just...go to the beach? Without making it a whole week trip! But then they can't just go to a farm for fresh cheese and eggs on a Thursday afternoon?

  • Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses.

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  • But then they might be kidnapped by a bulging, beastly man in a blue leisure suit!

  • Time is a circle

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  • If tomorrow we banned non-self-driving (NSD) cars, sure. But in most countries, grandfathering in old cars is going to happen for a while. Which means that self-driving and non-self-driving cars will have to share the road.

    I could see some transitions possibly. For example, on a 4-lane highway: "In 2027, lane 1 will be separated by a barrier and only allow SD cars. Lanes 2-4 will be for NSD cars only. In 2029, lanes 1-2 for SD. By 2033, NSD cars will be banned on this highway."

  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind | Release Date Trailer

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  • What YEAR is it? My 10-year-old self would be so excited for this

  • Yep, it's me

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  • Yes, there's a bit of a myth around Bernoulli's principle (faster moving fluids have lower pressure) and how much it matters for lift in plane wings. It came up in the conversation because I was trying to describe what air pressure is in general, and made an analogy to a pan flute (he plays flute in band).

    Disclaimer: I'm an aerospace engineer, but I do not claim to be an expert on topic.

    But for plane wings, the myth is really that the air above the wing moves faster because the curved surface is longer. That's pretty much dead wrong, but is still in tons of textbooks. The air above the wing does move faster, but it's because of a bunch of complicated physics that to be honest, I don't really understand any more. I may have even been taught wrongly in college. But the result is that there is a velocity difference on a cambered wing even when it's flat, and thus Bernoulli's principle does apply, and there is a pressure difference giving you lift.

    But that speed difference is mostly important at cruising altitude, when the wings aren't angled, and it's positively correlated with airspeed, so the thrust matters way more. When you're climbing, the angle matters more. The camber (curvature) of the wing, the airspeed, and the angle of attack all lead to that pressure difference, along with a few other things like circulation, which is also caused by a sharp edge at the back of the wing. But everything kind of works together to generate that pressure difference and hence the lift that can combat gravity. It's actually pretty hard to try and dumb it down without saying things that aren't wrong.

  • Yep, it's me

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  • I recently taught my 11-year-old nephew "how planes fly." A bit oversimplified, of course, but words like camber and lift and circulation were tossed around along with Bernoulli's principle.

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    Punching Nazis is good

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  • I think that's also the problem today, albeit of a different sort. I had a friend who was very seriously into the "punch Nazis" meme on the internet a few years ago. But he would often talk to us about it and finding someone to punch. He sometimes said shit like "I could just go to the Republican national convention and start punching people."

    If it floats your boat, punch Nazis. But don't punch everybody you disagree with because "not supporting universal healthcare" is not being a Nazi.

  • Musk Petition Signers Still Waiting for $47 Payments

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  • It's just an homage to Trump, who is famous for not paying bills!

  • 41% Plurality Of Republican Voters Agree That GOP’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric Is ‘Sad And Shameful’

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  • Because people are rarely single issue voters. There are a few here and there, but given the dominance of the US's two-party system, you often have to make a choice. If I imagine 2 candidates: one who is strongly pro-choice but overtly anti-gay, and another who is strongly pro-life but also pro-LGBTQ issues, that would actually be a pretty tough decision for me.

    As much as I want to hate Trump supporters, I can still sympathize with them. A lot are lifelong Republicans who are choosing between someone who will probably try to enact 90% of their personal beliefs but is an authoritarian crazy person, and someone who seems sane but disagrees with them on 90% of issues and will do everything to stymie the things they believe to be right. It's not a simple choice.

    I'm ignoring third-parties here as a caveat, so apologies if that's the crux of your question. But my opinion is that you should push for and vote for a new system while accepting that the rules are what they are now, and you have to strategize with the current situation.

  • Get good.

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  • Oh wow, deep cut! I had that buried somewhere in the back of my brain.

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    Kamala Harris Overtakes Donald Trump With 'Most Accurate Pollster'

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  • Do not pay a lot of attention to single polls. Poll aggregators (even with flaws like RealClearPolitics) are so much better, and a predictive model (Nate Silver or the new 538) is even better. Great pollsters don't herd and are not afraid of publishing outliers.

    If we see the overall aggregate start to tend more toward Harris, that's significant and this poll was an early sign. If it doesn't, then this poll was just an outlier.

  • Working class hero.

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  • And he (Admiral Motti) got the first name of Conan by George Lucas while on the Conan O'Brien show!

  • Any day now.

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  • To be fair, they're not always spoilers. Sometimes they're irrelevant! Probably spoilers this time, though.

  • Android 15 update is bricking some Pixel 6 devices

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  • Just updated this morning, shit. Working okay so far, though.

  • The cars should just cooperate and it'll be fine.

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  • "Stop laughing," the department chief said in an interview with WLMY. "This is a wheel problem for us."

  • Beri

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  • What a gorgeous kitty!

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world

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  • Yeah, swing states are where it's at. From Nate Silver's forecast, the states most likely to tip the election (as of today, Oct 9).