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Captainant

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  1. In fairness, the shit birds were flying in America then too. The nazis had a rally at MSG for chrissakes! There were loads of folks that wanted "America first" and hated the idea of providing material support for allies defending their homeland. It's pretty crazy how history sometimes rhymes, and sometimes repeats itself.
  2. By the time they get to book 6, the series will have gone PLAID - straight past ludicrous
  3. It's not near to this depth, but I recently came into possession of my late great uncle's folio from his USAAF service and it is remarkable! It has some original marked restricted documents from 1944 for his ferry missions taking B24's to Europe, and then getting his type certification on B29s and flying copilot in Europe in 1945. His record didn't indicate any combat missions but its humbling to hold onto history like that. I've got it another couple of weeks before I'm handing off to his daughter that teaches at a university here in Houston, it's been a treat to look through it
  4. IMO, if you're buying new and plan to keep the car past the age of it's note it's usually worth it to spring for the extended warranty. In my experience, cars start to get gremlins around 70k miles and a transmission repair on a "non wearable part" like the chain is usually covered (read your Ts and Cs though). Have you driven a CVT car yet? It's a different experience behind the wheel, and I found that I preferred a stepped transmission to a CVT. The biggest reason they're so efficient is that they're tuned to always be on the power curve of your engine, but that also means it doesn't really like to go high RPM for a punch of speed like you get from downshifting a gear or two
  5. IIRC the main problem is that the chain that's the primary means of converting RPM's is quite prone to stretching over time and reaches the limits of the tensioners, causing a major service to replace the chain
  6. /r/atetheonion material right there. Except he's one of the most powerful and wealthy individuals on the planet
  7. I certainly can't disagree with your assessment lol, but it's ridiculous to try and hold this incident in a vacuum. In 2017 the FAA was stripped of a bunch of it's power and directed to give more leeway to aircraft manufacturers to "find new efficiencies" and "reduce time to certification". Jump ahead a few years a Boeing is killing people by the hundreds because they programmed their airplanes to lawndart, and they were allowed to do so because of regulatory capture. There's a reason we have rules and laws in place to compel for profit entities to do the right thing. Otherwise they'll start cutting corners and incurring grester and greater risk for lower costs, exactly like how Boeing got themselves into this mess.
  8. Hah and like clockwork my YouTube recs popped this up It seems like it's likely a mechanical failure in the rocker switch and/or cover for the pilots seat in a 787. The video also includes a clip from a latin pilot demonstrating the failure while the plane is on the ground. Basically the rocker switch actuates and sticks in the "on" position and moves until it's all the way forwards. This commercial pilots best guess is that the autopilot resisted the nose down input from the pilot seat moving forwards into the yoke until it finally disengaged and dumped ALL the nose down pressure at once resulting in the violent negative G maneuver for the passengers. So yeah looking like less electrical, but the cockpit glass going dark is a major thing if that's actually what happened. I'm assuming it did because the pilot in command said, but the investigation will (hopefully) find the truth
  9. Electrical failures can happen such that power is applied when it should not be. It just seems like an exceptionally unusual coincidence that the cockpit glass would go dark and the seat moves "uncommanded" at the same time, and that the two are completely unrelated
  10. man I really didn't need to know what her "O" face looked like
  11. [WARNING: SPECULATION] It is consistent with an electrical control system failure that all the panels would black out and then the electronic seat starts sliding itself forward unprompted. It seems like a pretty important datapoint that the fly by wire plane was having electrical gremlins
  12. The FAA's comprehensive audit identified a ton of unapproved and unsafe techniques used in their factories, including using dawn dish soap as a gasket lube on untested materials and shimming panels with fuckin hotel room key cards. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-says-boeing-737-max-production-audit-found-compliance-issues-2024-03-04/ Small issues like that add up and compound until a door blows off an in flight airplane. It is absolutely something that would qualify shutting down a production line. Profitability should never come ahead of safety for critical products like aircraft fuselages. Give me a fucking break.
  13. So in response to asking about a stock or precious metal that has been as volatile as BTC, you choose natgas as your example. Natgas has historically been extremely price volatile, thanks in large part to speculation, but it's ALWAYS been volatile. You're not really proving a good thing to say that BTC is safe because it's only as volatile as natural gas futures prices. That's gambling and speculation, not investing. And that's ok! Gambling and speculating is fine. But be honest about what you're doing, because presenting BTC as an ETF is laundering its credibility - despite the acknowledged risks of fraud for people who """invest""" in them.
  14. Barnett apparently told his family that "if anything happens, it's not suicide" JFC.
  15. I can't imagine that more people are coming in at a higher interest rate than a lower one lol, but also the inflated home values from the 2020->2023 run up are what's really making the monthly payments out to reach for hourly wage earners. It's wild that pretty much the entire market shot up 50% or more, for really no reason aside from speculation. Every attractive house my wife and I have looked at (we would love a yard and not 3 stories) is $700k-$900k in 2024 but had a market value in the $400-500s pre-COIVD. Heck, my parents sold their old house in NE San Antonio for $175k in 2017. Last year it was on the market and sold for $300k, and judging from the listing photos of the flooring I installed, they didn't put money into the property to improve things THAT much. That ain't inflation, that's gouging.
  16. Wow what a fucking finale. From the horrors of the nazi war machine and the Holocaust to the thrill of freedom and victory. Goddamn it's good to see Americans killing a fuck load of fascists.
  17. Historically speaking 7% is pretty low. My folks first mortgage back in the 80s was at 9.5%, but their principle amount was less than most pickup trucks nowadays. Interest rates and principle amounts this high don't really jibe with a national median income of $41k, but the free market will adjust or something. Just like after the 2008 black swan event lol
  18. And let the private equity firm thats partially owned by the donors for the fuckers killing our school system collect the rent on teaching our children. Monetize everything. Everything should be ran like a business right??? Profit is always more important than education.
  19. Your casual acceptance of almost certain fraud in a market instrument animated solely by BTC speaks volumes. As long as line keeps going up it doesn't matter if the new money gets screwed right?
  20. Damn those dirty Democrats for forcing those godly Republicans into fascism!! [/Slorch]
  21. The same irrationality and circular logic that drove up CDO's and other rubber dog shit during the 08 crash are the same forces driving up the BTC price. It just pure optimistic speculation. "The number goes up because people are investing in Bitcoin!" ... "People are investing in Bitcoin because the number goes up!" The funniest thing is gonna be when large banks and financial institutions end up being the majority holders of cryptos through these ETFs, and you no longer have a decentralized currency and are back to trusting and dealing with the banks
  22. ACKSHUALLY that was the Saudakar with the mass human blood collection and crazy throat chant talking, the Harkonens all tend to be smooth and bald and morbid. The crazy black and white scenes on Geide Prime are the Harkonen home world, and Seluca Secundus is the homeworld of House Corrino (the Emperor) and their personal guard the Saudakar /nerd
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