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Also yes! And they’re very important!

I would love to be able to replace the teeth I broke in elementary school with regrown teeth, rather than crowns on posts through a dead root that I have now. I’d like to be able to bite into an apple without fear.

They fixed the MCAS issue a while back. It now requires data from multiple sensors, is only able to activate once per flight, and has a dramatically reduced strength on that one activation.

Mentour Pilot did great videos about the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines incidents that go into detail about that system and its flaws.

You can’t put a huge ass spoiler on your 737 to have it stick better to the ground

Just to “um akshually” a bit because I found this fascinating when I learned about it ages ago.

A spoiler on a car doesn’t help it stick to the ground better. Rather it “spoils” air, reducing drag and allowing air to flow around the car better. Like damming up the air between the roof and the spoiler, allowing other air to just flow from the roof to the spoiler. This means there isn’t a vacuum created behind the cabin, so you have less turbulent air and less drag.

A wing on a car increases drag, and forces the car down to the ground by creating lift (though since the wing is upside down compared to a plane, we call this lift “downforce”).

We often use the terms “spoiler” and “wing” interchangeably when referring to cars, but they’re very different beasts!

Yeah, sure reminds me of borderline. But also not a professional.

Because, similar to blackface in its time, people love to point and laugh at exaggerated caricatures of something different from themselves.

And CBS airs lowest common denominator garbage that the masses devour.

When the goal was stopping Hitler, Stalin was a friend of the West. Sure that friendship ended when Hitler did, but adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Don’t let ideological infighting prevent us from fighting MAGAts.

My enemy’s enemy is my friend.

he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades

Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).

I remember fucking around with magnets to pull or push a desktop image and being scolded by a supervisor. “You’re going to break it!”

Break what? The photons? All I’m doing is the same thing the monitor itself is doing.

And honestly not great at anything if we don't have tools.

Just goes to show what an amazing evolutionary advantage we get from the combo of intelligence and dexterity. The ability to make and use tools to fit any situation makes us capable of anything other animals can do and more.

Maybe. If they’re following the rules they need you to agree to their privacy policies, and to do that you have to connect to the internet. I know from the time I did have it connected (before they rolled all this shit out) that they would let you use the TV without those policies accepted. They would just bother you about it constantly. Since I factory reset and didn’t let it connect, it hasn’t asked.

But that’s assuming they follow the rules. I’m not knowledgeable enough to find out if they’re doing this or not.

Exactly this. I love my LG, but it doesn’t get internet privileges.

I have an LG TV. Absolutely love it.

However, it’s not connected to the internet so it doesn’t do any of this shit. It’s just a really nice dumb TV that has the potential to spy on me if I ever gave it a chance to be smart, and I still get to take advantage of the various picture improvements that come from having the processing power of a smart TV.

Just need something else to do streaming if that’s what you want. Like an Apple TV, nVidia Shield, Roku, or game console. Some of those will also advertise to you, but I’ve had good experience with my Apple TV.

I worked for my district’s IT department when I was in high school. I think my sophomore or junior year.

It was pretty cool really. Mostly it was transcoding VHS tapes into MPEGs, but occasionally I got to do odd jobs around the school district.

Once I got yelled at by a grade school secretary, and treated with suspicion even after she had called my boss at the district IT office to confirm I was indeed there to replace a graphics card on a computer.

While she was walking me to the library or classroom or whatever she took the box from me, pointed to the 3D orc on the box, and said in the bitchiest possible tone, “So what is this? Is this supposed to be part of the curriculum?”

I calmly said, “No ma’am, that’s just the advertising the manufacturer puts on the packaging. It’s a graphics card, it can be used to play games so they advertise that.”

“Well kids shouldn’t be playing these kinds of games in school!”

“It’s a graphics card. It’s how the computer displays any kind of graphics on the screen. The computer needs a new one. I don’t know why, I’m just doing what I was told.”

Man that woman was so much of a bitch I remember that interaction better than most of high school.

I’m excited to hear about this article in a future episode of MBMBaM.

I sincerely believe that there was a concerted effort to disillusion voters in 2016 and 2024. The whole push for Bernie bros to not vote for Hillary and the push to reject the Democrats for the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza felt so similar.

Obviously plenty of people did feel strongly that the Democrats weren’t worth supporting, but I think the initial push on both of those, and a large amount of the continued support for them, was perpetrated by people who wanted Trump to win. They didn’t have to convince people to vote for Trump, they just had to convince them not to vote for the Dems. These actors understand first-past-the-post voting well enough to weaponize it.

I can’t say anything about else that won’t get me a ban…

This is Lemmy, you have to worry less about banning for some stuff. But you do have to worry about things being really difficult to delete (potentially impossible, if any instances are maliciously recording things). And even upvotes and downvotes are public information in a Federated system.

Though comically, in Iceland they got the populace to convert to Christianity by saying it was okay to worship Thor in private.

Transmission failure seems likely, but I’m faaaaaar from an expert.