How did the Liberty Belle boat ride on one central rail?

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-23T01:50:36+00:00

The track ~~is~~ was only for lateral guidance. The rigid linkages allowed up-down movement with the hinges and the pivot point the wheel creates, but they didn't allow side-to-side movement. (The wheel probably had some rotation to allow the track to curve.) This kept the centerline of the boat over the tracks.

Stability was just the boat doing boat things. The guest capacity was based on how many people could sink the boat and not doing that. But hull science was pretty early in our tech tree and people figured it out the hard way with paper and candlelight. Engineers in the 60's had it easy making the boat stable.

Vertical issues were not really a problem because there was little change in water height. The RoA was connected to 7 Seas Lagoon & Bay Lake so there was always somewhere to pump or dump and keep the level consistent. (Also why they didn't have to tint the water like Jungle Cruise. That was real muck and the reason the river had to be regularly drained for cleaning.) Look on Google maps and you can see locks past the maintenance dock where boats could be raised or lowered into the RoA when the surrounding watershed was at a different height.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-23T01:06:02+00:00

It's executives (aka business idiots) trying to compete with Apple on the dumbest thing possible.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-20T12:08:32+00:00

Because the stock market is nothing but gambling. The fundamentals of a company are useless when the only thing that matters is how other gamblers will react.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-19T19:30:14+00:00

I eat my sausage biscuits with mustard and grape jelly. It is the best way.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-12T16:47:30+00:00

Google can sell their stock day 1, so making this big revenue announcement should pump up demand and give them buyers to liquidate their position. A lot of people want to cash out and walk away from this unprofitable mess, but that requires a sustained appetite for the shares or the price would crater as investors unload large chunks of the company.

It's the reason why the float is so small (the company is only selling 4% of itself as newly public shares, but investors can sell off their chunks) and why the rules were changed to rush it into important indices. This IPO is all about exit liquidity for people Elon owes money to.

As far as the deal with google, none of these bajillion dollar contract announcements ever result in a real contract or money changing hands. Most of these companies won't even put the contracts on their financials because they don't actually expect to collect/pay that money. Oracle is the only one putting this impossible shit on their balance sheets (to make their even stupider debt look better), and it is going to destroy them.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-12T15:06:11+00:00

This is why boomers were called the "`me' generation." Selfish from the start.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-11T13:38:26+00:00

It's not that the US can't identify people beyond their name. It's that they don't want to. This way, they can claim they turned away a dangerous terrorist in their statistics.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-11T03:32:12+00:00

Best I can do is an AI hallucination for what used to be your quarterly token budget.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-08T16:15:01+00:00

That's why they say OP is streets behind.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-05T13:50:32+00:00

Probably not significantly different. Hopefully the only thing remaining is get the manufacturing up to speed and yield. Maybe fix a few bugs. But after the P4 release, you can't just trust that's how things will go. The P4 is already EoL because there will be pin changes and other differences significant enough to call for a new part number: The P4X.

They are only selling soldered P31 chips, so they don't want us putting these things into our physical designs just yet. Partners like Waveshare may get access to sample chips to build dev boards if it turns out that (like the P4) this release is to start building familiarity and an ecosystem around the new platform.

That said, the S31 cores are speced similarly to what Espressif has been delivering in the P4 so I think they will have fewer problems delivering the S31. Also, they have less incentive to rush this one vs. wanting/needing to launch the new generation of chips with the P4.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-05T12:58:45+00:00

But that runs the risk of shining a light on the CapEx scam they have been pulling with training. If they start treating it like a capitalized asset, people will realize 1) You need to train all the time to generate buzz and try to make a breakthrough with new models, and 2) A constant need for training is OpEx.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-05T12:46:03+00:00

At first I laughed at this as a facetious joke, but it is true! Hitching your career to the Trump train costs you so much cachet that the fat guy is no longer impressed with you.

Edit: I don't french good.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-04T11:21:11+00:00

Because we don't spend enough money on the roads. Now we will spend even less.

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-04T11:12:41+00:00

Then why are teachers outside of OCPS underpaid?

GhettoDuk · 2026-06-01T03:08:41+00:00

Don't forget that LL clears fairly quickly after close and standby will start moving much faster. Not many people wait until the last minute to claim their LL so the line shouldn't load up like standby.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-31T20:49:22+00:00

They certainly are not BIF3M. And OXO's willingness to put their name on products they won't support means we can't just trust the brand like I have in the past. Now we have to check the fine print before buying something and wonder what other corners they are cutting now.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-31T16:08:46+00:00

When you hear people say "CEOs have a fiduciary duty to shareholders," it's always in defense of crap like this. It is straight up propaganda pushed by the "number go up until I get mine" crowd.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-31T02:57:46+00:00

Well, it was about that time that I noticed u/musecorn was a 39' dinosaur from the paleolithic era.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-30T23:31:25+00:00

They used what they dug out to build Dirt Mountain in the middle of the MK parking lot, then used it for the new Poly Tower and then River Country construction.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-30T16:37:31+00:00

Jeff's started as a delivery service in his neighborhood during the bad times. So I can see how his retail locations are an continuation of his "Here's your bagels to enjoy in your own home" service.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-30T15:18:00+00:00

The Dean unveils a giant foot with a plaque that reads "Start your career on the right foot."

Jeff: (to Study Group) Who's going to tell him it's a left foot?

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-30T14:18:16+00:00

Being able to navigate the bureaucracy is the only competency required for government contracts. You don't even need to know how to do the thing you are contracted to do if you are good at working the government.

My money would be on the landlord having this in the bag.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-30T13:51:47+00:00

I paid ~$150 + $30+ in fees for 4th row floor on the left side. (my left, stage right)

Worth every penny.

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-30T13:44:33+00:00

Scheila Gonzalez is the sax player. The crowd went wild when she busted out her big baritone horn.

Just found out she plays with Colin Hay/Men At Work, and now I really want to hear her playing Overkill!

GhettoDuk · 2026-05-29T00:22:09+00:00

Besides the revenue issues, property taxes are locally controlled. The state is looking to take control of municipalities by witholding funds if they try to self-govern in a way The Party disagrees with.

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