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To be fair though we're not talking freshly-brewed coffee. This is coffee that has been sitting around in a vat, but specially heated to keep it just below boiling. I guess it depends on what your mental model of the coffee is. McDonalds were serving the coffee hot so that people could drive...

McDonald's fault was that they were serving coffee much hotter than most coffee is sold, that hundreds of people had been injured by their overheated coffee, that they had known that their customers were getting third degree burns from their coffee for over a decade, and that they decided they...

My understanding was that you should never test your sensor directly on the tailpipe of your vehicle as it may well damage it.

Out of interest, where were you renting your plane from?

I imagine there's a large number of student pilots who do not have enough assets to cover the cost of the plane.

Isn't the point here that with non-owners insurance the insurance company is normally able to get some other insurance company to pay most of the damage? Hence the comment about the deductible. Aircraft A gets damaged by pilot B with non-owners insurance. Owner's insurance company on A wrangles...

The Oculus Quest is a standalone headset. It requires a phone to run the Oculus app on, which is used to manage some aspects of the device. Other than that, everything is done in the headset, no cables to any external device required. If you have a reasonably powerful gaming PC, you can connect...

A 172 in 1972 cost $15,000, which is around $100,000 in today's dollars. They've never been cheap, although they've been a lot cheaper than they are now. Also, back then GA planes had more utility - cars were less comfortable and reliable, and not as well suited for long journeys. There was...

Tach hour or Hobbs hour? Clubs seem to be more likely to charge Tach as compared to FBOs. I made a spreadsheet comparing prices for a bunch of places near me recently - it helps you fiddle with numbers like how many hours per month you expect to put in. I think when I was doing it I used 1 Tach...

Latest video: He describes it as 'rock solid', although my impression from the footage was that there still might be a bit of oscillation there. Big improvement on his first flight, though.

I think something people tend to ignore is the wide range of outcomes if you get COVID. People tend to think of it as either 'a bit ill for a week or so' or 'dead'. The reality is that it for some it's taking many, many months to recover - 'long covid'. My cousin got it early on, and he's only...

I was really talking about communism in the US. You said it was shocking how many people support it, and I was wondering aloud if it was really that many people. I was also noting how often the term 'communism' gets applied to even only slightly left-wing things.

Are there really that many people? Wikipedia reckons there's somewhere between 5000 and 10000 people in the US Communist party. I feel like communism is a word that people like to throw at anything slightly left of center, like socialized healthcare, which is an entirely unremarkable idea in...

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O_O The useful load on that thing is bonkers! SPECIFICATIONS Length 22' 4" 6.8 m Wingspan 26' 4" 8.02 m Height 7' 10" 2.4 m Cabin width (interior) 43.5" 1.1 m Wing area 110 sq ft 10.2 sq m Aspect ratio 6.4 Empty weight* 1279 lb 600 kg MTOW (Normal) 2756 lb...

I find this notion that not joining in with the national anthem is political whereas singing the national anthem is not political kind of hilarious.

The nice thing about taking someone else with you is that they can sit in the back and take pictures, but you do probably want someone back there who will just shut up and leave you to it.

Oh, also I get the impression they're not very warm if you're flying them in cold weather - somebody on the Bushcat facebook group was saying air would rush in from the wing roots and he was designing some perspex covers to fit in there to prevent it from happening. Even if you did that, I can't...

They did have an issue a year or two ago where after doing a retest of their stall speeds etc, they found that the stall speeds were coming in a lot higher than expected, and they released a DA limiting the gross weight to 1235 lbs while they looked in to it. Since then they have redesigned the...

I'm slightly disappointed that you can't fly a steam 172 on the basic package. I'm also curious as to whether you can buy the airplanes in the upper packages on an á la carte basis if you have the standard edition.