SirSamuel @ SirSamuel @lemmy.world

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Is this dialysis? Or a high percentage transfusion?

The only way this makes sense medically to me is if they are filtering the pfas out of the blood or doing blood replacement.

GNU Terry Pratchett

I don't think I would introduce someone to NG's work if they were unfamiliar with him. So in that sense, yes, talking about them gives them relevance. However, i disagree that pirating in some way benefits the artist. Promotion does.

Where I do see an alignment with Sir Terry is from Reaper Man. Until the person's works come to a finish, they continue to live. The thing is, will they live on loved, like Terry Pratchett, or hated, like Jimmy Saville. I didn't believe in hell. But I think, particularly for an artist or entertainer, the knowledge that after you die your memory will be hated, well, that's a living hell of it's own for a certain type of person. I genuinely hope Harvey Weinstein the rapist is one of those people.

But back to the point. I'm not paying anything in mental energy if I watch Sandman again. If NG is a cunt, it doesn't change the fact that Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, is a BAMF and I'll watch the shit out of his show

Perhaps the first impeached and arrested under the rule of law and not by coup, revolt, assassination, or regime change?

I dunno, this isn't Star Wars so I know very little about it

🟩 me when accosted by an irate middle aged woman while exiting the pointlessly gendered single seat bathroom (I am a fully housebroken husband)

ETA: by housebroken I mean i sit when i pee and clean up anything left on the bowl or seat that flushing doesn't handle. It's just good manners

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ETA: man I'm glad i responded as i did, the poster I was replying to is clearly a troll.

Annual vpn subscription: $75

20 TB home server: $450

Enjoying the art while the shitheel artist doesn't profit: Priceless

When you want an artist to benefit from their creative works, support them directly. For everything else, there's piracy

Naouwre! Stop it!

This is just plausible enough to be an actual Wheel of Fortune puzzle.

Like, i doubt this is an actual screenshot of the show, but it's like 40% doubt

WTH, Australia is real.

It's New Zealand that's fake. That's why it's not on half of the maps out there. Even the accent is made up. No one in their right minds speaks a dialect where "no" has three syllables

To your point, it's funny how we frame things depending on the circumstances.

Growing up I always thought the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was some huge slaughter where hundreds of people died. Turns out it was seven people. Mobsters, actually, so it could be argued it was "gang violence", but still. Seven people executed by a rival gang, and it's a massacre.

At least 37 die, over 800 injured, and over 10000 were left homeless, but Tulsa ignored it for decades, then called it a,,"race riot".

Twenty children and six adults are murdered by a nutter and it's still not a massacre, but at least it's "tragic", which is a step up from the average school shooting, which is normally called "Tuesday".

Over 45,000 Afghan civilians died from 2001-2021, but that's not a massacre, just collateral damage.

But that's over twenty years, of course that's not a massacre, plus they're, you know, foreign. Now if 45,000 Americans died in one year, well, that would be different. Except they do, but because they lack insurance coverage. So, you know, that's their fault for dying of preventable illnesses on account of being poor. That's not a massacre, just good business.

But one CEO is murdered and it's a tragedy again

History, and a soupçon of paranoia

Shouldn't the RAT automatically deploy with a power loss? Can the APU be turned on if there's a total power loss?

I imagine with four minutes and already at task saturation they may have just forgotten to deploy the gear. I also wonder if they had a single engine when they decided to go around, and then lost power and decided to loop back to runway 19. I also wonder if they decided to keep the gear stowed until final to improve performance, then lost power and forgot to deploy the gear.

I guess some of these things we might never know, especially without the CVR

Yikes.

The RESA should absolutely have engineered arrest materials at the end of the runway. And breakaway towers for the ILS antenna

Dima's reply caught most of your questions.

Like if they were forced to come from opposite side instead of did the full go around or if it was pilots choice.

They may have been losing power or thrust, or had another problem that basically told them "get on the ground ASAP". And this change in status could have happened after the go-around was initiated. Also if there is not a significant tailwind a plane can land from either direction. It was likely a number of factors that lead to this decision

Is that normal?

Yes

Why are they so angry about the concrete barrier,

Runway overruns happen from time to time. A concrete barrier in the overrun area is the equivalent of have a 90° curve on a motorway/highway with a reinforced wall beyond the curve. Bad design and destined for a fatal accident

To build on Dima's excellent reply, the majority of runways are designed to be approached from either direction. Runway numbers are assigned based on a clockwise 360° radial, dropping the first number [edit: from the right] . An airport with a runway oriented at 10° East of North would be Runway 1. This airport will have Runways 1 and 19, but they're be the same runway approached from the north or the south.

There's a few things that are weird about this particular incident. Even if there was a full loss of power (indicated by the CVR losing power) the landing gear can be deployed by gravity drop. If there was a full loss of thrust from the get-go, they wouldn't have attempted a go-around. Here's my armchair hypothesis:

Bird strike. Loss of thrust on an engine, possible warnings to shut down the engine. Mayday mayday mayday. Attempted landing (full of fuel, likely overweight) comes in too fast or too high, or both. Go-around initiated. During climb, loss of power in second engine, but still some thrust. Announce intention to land on opposite runway. Decide to wait as long as possible to deploy landing gear in an attempt to increase glide slope. Second engine dies, total power loss. Complete task saturation means they don't/can't attempt a memory item dual engine failure checklist, which would include turning on the Auxiliary Power Unit or Ram Air Turbine to restore some power. (RAT should deploy automatically but perhaps it happened too fast to make a difference, also I'm guessing on the checklist, I'm not a pilot). Power loss means gear must be deployed manually. (Alternatively, with task saturation, they just forgot to deploy gear, and power loss was late and just another scoop on the shit Sunday they were served) Still coming in too high/fast, they touch down late, and overweight, and without braking action from the gear, and with no reverse thrust. They overshoot the end of the runway. For a belly landing, it was perfect. Wings level, no rolling, coming down the center line of the runway. Probably survivable for at least some. Then they hit a concrete barrier

I loot the body

Dude it's a complete music video and you need the context. But since you asked:

"You're a short muthafucker and nobody likes you. Everybody says 'look how fuckin short that guy is' and it stops you from forming meaningful relationships. When you were born everybody thought you were just a head, but then the doctor said 'wait this tiny fuckin short-ass baby got a tiny little body and I hate it' " persistent flute music

But ya know, lemme give you one of my favorite vicious mockery

You're a whiny bitch that complains when people contribute to the conversation in a format you don't like and everyone is too polite to tell you that your presence drags down every conversation you're a part of. The world would be slightly more enriched if you would just shut your goddamn mouth for five seconds and appreciate people for what they bring to the table.

It's like prison, except you're more likely to get shot

Usually the truck pulls right up in front of the business. Depending on the size the building might have a loading dock, but for most businesses a box truck pulls up and materials are delivered by dolly directly to the business. Some delivery trucks have a lift gate, but most deliveries are by dolly, not pallet truck.

Half a block isn't bad. Is there a designated loading/unloading area? I know here downtown street parking is restricted but deliver drivers will stop wherever they like, up to and including in the center turn lane. I kinda miss the NYC loading zones tbh, although i didn't own a car for most of my time there. I wish we had a fifth of that public transit infrastructure here.

This seems like the most practical solution to pedestrian centered design. I just didn't see a reality with 0 vehicle traffic in a densely populated area. Roads existed before automobiles, and exist for a reason.

Thanks for the reply