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    Were there always this many wildfires?

    It is getting worse, particularly on an acreage burned perspective. https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-wildfires
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    What were YOU doing at 14 y/o?

    Flying and fixing cars with my dad, building computers for flight sim and VATSIM, learning Java/PHP/MySQL, cooking a lot with my mom. Normal nerd stuff
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    More sensible MIP policy

    Insane that we even have a 21 drinking age. How many people have BS charges like this because some cop was in a bad mood or decided to use this to go after someone.
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    Initial CFI failure rate

    pilots in general…
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    UFO? UAP? What are your tax dollars finding out?

    Not that I believe any of this UFO nonsense, but if a species is sufficiently advanced to conquer intergalactic travel, they probably would be smart enough to observe us for a while and figure out who to deal with. The US would likely be on a short list of super powers they would make contact...
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    A trend of First Officers not wanting to be Captains

    Sounds like the business needs to adapt to changing labor conditions. Funny how some always argue labor needs to adapt to the needs of the business but not the other way around.
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    For reasons of national security, please kindly don't fly so low

    Meanwhile the missed on the LOC 28 at KPTW makes you get within some half mile Limerick Generating Station. Remember shooting that under the foggles on a hot summer day in the 150 and my non-IR safety pilot father asking “you sure this is right?” It was but damn we got close.
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    What is your most valuable paid membership?

    I call it our “millennial coffee service” (yes I’m a millennial) because it features an IoT scale you put the bag of beans on and it automatically orders a new bag when we are running low. We selected a light/medium roast rotation and get a wide variety of roasters which is quite nice. We can...
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    What is your most valuable paid membership?

    In terms of daily use: coffee delivery service and YouTube premium. Pre-covid would’ve included my climbing gym but haven’t started that again. Library card would get a mention but thankfully that’s free (what a concept)! Otherwise probably some advocacy orgs like ACLU, PP, HRC, UCS, AOPA.
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    Hotel usb charging port safety

    The human is almost always the weakest in any security system but this is a pretty simple case to guard against. Just don’t make a habit of blindly tapping “Trust this device” whenever you plug into anything and you’ll be fine. If you’re really paranoid, get a usb condom...
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    Hotel usb charging port safety

    Stealing data is highly unlikely with modern mobile OSes that are much more wary of random USB connections than the early days. That threat model requires a sophisticated attacker to pull off. I rarely use public USB chargers simply because they are often providing crap DC 5V power which can...
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    How do you spend 87 million on strapping a dozen electric motors onto an existing four seat airframe

    The production side of the military industrial complex does a fine job of sucking money out of our pockets… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/weapons-contractors-price-gouging-pentagon-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-21/
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    Well, this is annoying

    Contrails are hot, moist (one of the primary products of combustion is water vapor after all) exhaust gasses mixing with the cold ambient air and condensing into liquid water. Wing tip vortices and prop/rotor vortices (fundamentally the same thing) can become visible in high humidity air due to...
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    What temperature do you like your bedroom?

    Why not get a dehumidifier and separate these two factors? 71F for me, although our thermostat is in another room of our apartment so I’m guessing the actual bedroom temperature is more like 68-69F
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    Sub lost contact over Titanic

    No they probably use something that is 100x the cost and a tenth as functional or intuitive.
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    Lipo battery fire containment bags

    I’m no expert on Lipo handling, but in general when there is a two order of magnitude price difference, you generally get what you pay for…
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    Honda HA 420 hydroplanes off runway @ KDYB

    Off topic but man every news site, but especially small, local ones, have so many scummy ads at the bottom it’s insane. 3 paragraphs of text and then an infinite series of ads with random, often gross, pictures to try and get clicks. </rant>
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    Fourteen pounds

    Where have you seen that out of curiosity? The only alternate force unit I’ve seen in SI is the Dyne for those physicists who love CGS over MKS. Wiki lists the kgf as largely deprecated.
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    DA20 as an instrument training option?

    It always struck me as strange that this is permitted. Seems like it would very disruptive to have a plane operating within the IFR system but not able to do what everyone else can do and needing essentially a special affordance. Also seems like it wouldn’t really be great instrument training...
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    Disney Perm Flight Restrictions going away?

    Flash forward 20 years and Disney has a contract with Blackwater, through several shell companies, who install SAM sites around the park.
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