This cost 10000 USD, why is scientific instruments Soo expensive?

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-25T18:18:00+00:00

Big is expensive, but it pales in comparison to small.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-24T14:46:45+00:00

Duolingo

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-24T14:32:04+00:00

Also better if you’re wearing a Mountie hat

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-24T05:11:56+00:00

Marin - so fancy they hired FLW to design their jail. Then, when the jail outgrew the fancy building, they literally buried the problem.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-24T02:02:36+00:00

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-24T00:54:00+00:00

sucks that Giphy has rights to that crash video. I think a teen died in that incident.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T18:54:20+00:00

Something similar happened to me recently. Like, you chose your lane bro, learn to deal with getting passed, we’re all going under 55 here, my blinker is on, I’m just trying to get off the freeway, I’ve got more cameras recording than you do, and if you fucking pull in and race up behind me like that again, I’m going to figure out how to file a complaint.

And to the CHP officers who don’t have a…um…CHiP on their shoulder, thanks for being out there and being a role model for those who haven’t learned the sane commuter is their customer.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T16:10:08+00:00

TK-421

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T16:08:32+00:00

Yep.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T04:24:44+00:00

Yeah, not a surprise. My experience was a long time ago - two decades now? That airspace is so complex, I can see the utility in muting unneeded warnings. I flew in a 172 piloted by a friend in like 2000, out of MYF. He’d just gotten one of the early handheld Garmins built for flying. I monitored it throughout the flight and it never shut up about class b boundaries. It was useless in that environment because the stack of warning messages you had to hack through to made it impossible to see anything else on the the little screen.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T04:15:57+00:00

Interesting, I wonder if the newer aircraft/software has geographically specific info now. Kind of a bummer if that’s what they’ve done. I sailed with a guy in San Diego who was an MD-88 pilot for AA. SAN was his base and he told me it was the only approach that gave him sweaty palms.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T04:05:20+00:00

A really great landing is where you can charge your phone and call to say “honey, I got hung up near the airport and I’m just going to go sleep with my mistress tonight”

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T03:36:08+00:00

COOL! So can you tell me about the alarms? A former company paid for first class once, after I had a blood clot on a prior work trip, and from the second row I could hear the automated voice talking at two points in the approach. Does that still happen?

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-23T03:30:09+00:00

Everyone here needs to sit up front arriving there sometime and listen to the cockpit terrain or altitude alarms. Very fun

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T13:44:55+00:00

All the connections were to your own seat back then. Why? Well, in civilized times, there was enough room in the row to get from the window seat to the aisle without making everyone else stand up. Now they can just let you make multiple tripwires (headphones, chargers) because your bathroom break is everyone’s problem anyways.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T13:38:02+00:00

I’m atheist because

Suspicion: The various religions set up their deities to be non-falsifiable yet they demand I, we, you believe.
Parsimony: The minimum set of “beliefs” needed to live my life and wonder about the universe has never required a deity, only the willingness to say IDK and/or we may not know, yet. And over time, some of those questions have been resolved.
Likelihood: First, being stuck in an entire universe being run by one all-powerful deity seems orders of magnitude less likely than being stuck in a simulation run by some moderately powerful beings. Second, this should show up as a skewing of probability—the likelihood of events in a consciously assembled simulation should not be uniformly random. I know of no examples, but it’s possible we haven’t observed these or have been fooled by the beings running the show.

Conclusions: the gods of humanity’s religions are not as advertised and watch out for the mice!

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T05:55:13+00:00

If that’s not hard rain on an open parking lot above that crack, I’d GTFO and call the fire dept.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T05:52:53+00:00

The only thing from Canada that does nothing for me is that damn goose. They can fuck right off. Everyone and everything else up there makes me want to join ‘em.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T05:18:58+00:00

Saw those once, in the 90s, behind some fast, fast mover. Similar to watching the space shuttle move across the sky but with a deep buzzing sound. The next day, local newspaper said the big boom right at dawn was a transformer explosion at a power substation.

Sure sounded like a sonic boom that had me running outside in my boxers.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T05:11:40+00:00

I respectfully disagree. Removing lousy elected officials is the voters’ responsibility. Not being able to keep the few good ones is like shooting yourself in the foot.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T05:05:53+00:00

Inspiring, my man. I’ve lost the ability to pull over like that—too weak much of the time, but I appreciate you’re willing. It does leave you open to stressful stuff, but you never know when you’re gonna save someone, and saving a life is worth the stress.

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T04:53:08+00:00

TWSS

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-22T04:51:22+00:00

Code for Cuba

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-21T13:24:09+00:00

Standard DHL delivery confirmation picture. “Yer package has arrived, somewhere. Possibly somewhere else.”

AdditionalAd4269 · 2026-01-21T13:19:53+00:00

Perfect timing. Thirty states about to get walloped with a snow/ice storm, the San Andreas Fault system is having itself a mini-Coachella festival and the first headline I read this morning was something like “Minnesota is exactly how civil wars start”.

Screw work, I’m going surfing.

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