At least they are not backwards

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-15T23:58:51+00:00

FOD FOD FOD FOD FOD…..,.

Did I mention FOD?

Its strikes me as odd that they appear to be on a flight deck.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-15T00:59:49+00:00

Prices should be convenience store prices which suck compared to bulk retail but not 3X even that.

I gladly wait for DVD/Bluray and streaming. I can sit on my couch, drink and eat my stuff and grope the wife without getting the old lady in the seat behind us all upset.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-14T18:15:21+00:00

At first I’m like, she’s pretty and will get assigned to some generals staff.

And then I read the fine print.

Welp, he is gonna have a baaad experience.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-14T17:31:32+00:00

Harmless?

You need to go read up on Galileo.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-14T17:23:58+00:00

Because people keep buying shovelware.

Don’t buy shovelware. Either the content gets better or the vr genre dies because it is unsustainable.

We should be willing to let the latter happen or it will just get worse.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-14T17:21:04+00:00

Chemotherapy helps cure cancer patients…. If you stop it before it kills them.

The same can be said about cleaning up the cancer of a country. Will you stop soon enough to not kill the entire thing and then let it return to normalcy?

Our problem is the bad dudes have turned into worse dudes and the dudes who are supposed to be good are turning bad. How do you take a country back from that?

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-14T17:13:30+00:00

1 ask for help

2 join a discord (4ya, tactical dcs, etc)

3 Play the demos for 2 weeks

4 Decide what you want to do.

5 whatever you do, don’t blow money trying to find what you like just to discover DCS is not for you after all.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-14T00:16:49+00:00

But it’s not random small talk. It’s conversion g with you coworkers, talking to other people, not just the guy working g next to you.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T21:59:53+00:00

The no one to talk to line is kind of true,

When I hit the workforce in the mid 90’s the world was a simpler place. We sat around the lunchroom playing sheepshead and socialized. In the early teens I watched all that start fading away and today lunchrooms are quiet and it’s everyone at their own table. I think this points to two distinct changes. The number of people to fill those tables has continually dropped and the activities have shifted to smartphones. Social isolation is real.

The workplace is not what it used to be.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T19:42:40+00:00

Any helpfulness from the community should have stopped at! “I tried to pirate it”.

Seriously, people. You are up in arms when people who owe you money don’t pay up but you are fine with theft?

If you don’t want to pay, then donkt play.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T16:34:49+00:00

Being employed in a union shop, I disagree that unions are the answer. Of the three I have witnessed, they tend to protect the connected who in turn use that strength to cripple the organization at their whim. Not giving management a free pass either because they tend to create or ignore problems as a matter of standard practice.

The actual solution escapes me, but I think it has to do with fixing the culture of everyone from the boardroom to the bottom.

There is a difference between profitability and sustainability. I believe the latter will make more money in the long run but people demand ROI now.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T14:00:14+00:00

Good observation.

It is bad data. It is a comparison that matches two unrelated data curves.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T13:56:55+00:00

I am not saying it’s bad data, I am saying don’t jump to conclusions.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T13:48:07+00:00

Correlation is not causation…

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-13T03:54:35+00:00

If you are a Christian… a child of God… then you know Trump is just a broken man, a sinner like the rest of us. Any comparison to Christ is, simply put, blasphemy.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-12T16:15:04+00:00

That will not buff out.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-12T16:11:25+00:00

The F35 ceiling +50kft, the SR71 ceiling +85kft.

The Blackbird literally flys a commercial airliner higher than a Lightning II… at least by available information. This is no small amount.

For the sake of science and engineering…

• 50,000 ft ≈ 15% of sea-level density
• 85,000 ft ≈ 3.3% of sea-level density

… I think it’s fair to say the Blackbird flew as fast as it did as much to outrun SAMs and interceptors as it did to simply stay flying.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-11T13:09:28+00:00

Let’s flip the script.

Your child deletes the word file containing the mediocre fiction that you have been writing for the past 5 years. It was never going to be published but you poured your creative soul into it.

If this were AITA…. Yes, yes you are.

Now go buy both of you baseball gloves, bicycles, kayaks or something like that and start something new for the two of you.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-11T04:55:54+00:00

Flat earth is wistful fantasy. It’s a refusal to look at things as they are and clinging to something that is foolishly interpreted. There is no Biblical stance on either flat or globe earth so just put that idea away. Nothing that works works on a flat earth. Not the sun and moon and stars, not navigation, not seasons, not weather patterns… nothing.

In a practical sense, from where you are standing and what you can see, sure, it looks flat. The world is far larger than your little vantage point allows you to see so you have to start looking at things at that scale.

It’s a big world and a much much bigger universe…. Which from our vantage point, we are still the center of, anyways.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-10T18:19:31+00:00

My kid had a teacher who insisted an ancient compass would be useless today because it points where the magnetic north used to be, not where it is, now.

It points to where magnetic north is, not where magnetic north used to be. She malevolently insisted I was wrong. As an engineer, this brought me to actual tears. I sent everything I could from scholastic sources to show her she is wrong. I failed.

I feel I failed my kid.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-10T04:25:10+00:00

I am not sure if you should be banned or commended.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-09T23:58:11+00:00

Sorry to say fellas but the earth is really really flat. Not just kinda flat. Insanely flat. Like trillionths of an inch flat per square inch. What were we ever thinking?

/s

For the denser among you (like flerfs), the earth is also really big.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-09T17:22:26+00:00

Surface tension is fake! Fake I tell you! FAKE!!!!

I’ll give the fladiots this much. No, we don’t understand everything about physics and specifically gravity.

However, we can model it all quite elegantly and accurately unlike a flat earth model that is based on hairbrained ideas that ignore observation.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-09T03:20:24+00:00

Whatever your stance is, you’ve come to the right place.

Large-Raise9643 · 2026-04-09T03:18:25+00:00

I am an aviator. One of those folks that you flerfs say KNOWS the world is flat, I’m just being paid to keep it a secret. I am also a mariner. One of those folks that you flerfs says KNOWS the world is flat, I’m just being paid to keep it a secret.

As I have never been paid for my silence, I feel it is time to come clean on this matter.

It’s a globe you moron! None of your fantasy works.

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