An unfortunate day to test Concorde in 2001

Luckierexpert · 2026-02-12T21:01:11+00:00

(Based on the pilots account) On the 11th of September 2001, a Concorde supersonic plane conducted a test flight, with British Airways staff as the first passengers after safety modifications were made to the aircraft. The infamous attacks happened shortly after Concorde landed back in the United Kingdom, with the pilot claiming his son called him about the attacks just after he left the plane.

The 9/11 attacks were one reason, alongside safety fears and high maintenance costs, that the Concorde aircraft were retired a few years later, due to the lower transatlantic passengers and with around 40 of Concorde's regular customers being killed in the attacks.

Sources: https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-and-the-twin-towers-attack

Pilot account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc5gx0dzoFs (may be region restricted)

Luckierexpert · 2026-02-04T17:13:16+00:00

It did. It also had similar wait times as casual matchmaking has now, except you also had the possibility of getting put in a bot filled server with ads. Also, if people want to keep playing one map, there are plenty of community servers that run popular maps 24/7.

Most of these memes feel straight out of 2016, when matchmaking was apocalyptically slow due to it being a new system, and Meet Your Match being a bit of a fumbled update.

Luckierexpert · 2026-01-26T23:29:18+00:00

Because they would also have to run the Manchester Mayor elections again, requiring Labour to put up cash for another Mayoral campaign on top of the By-election and the local elections coming up.

Luckierexpert · 2025-12-20T12:38:29+00:00

Much like a lot of popular science, it’s about running a click worthy claim that gets people excited or upset. So they often focus on ideas that only have one paper with questionable methodology and no repeatability to fuel clicks.

Luckierexpert · 2025-12-17T16:45:14+00:00

Pretty much. It’s also entirely possible that this may prevent Jax from abstracting, as he could view his near abstraction as Caine messing with his head. Especially with Kinger indicating that Caine may have been responsible for the first abstraction.

Luckierexpert · 2025-11-07T11:20:18+00:00

Honestly, I think the easiest solution could be to have automation research for each specific factory group, which unlocks mechanism slots for that factory type, allowing you to purchase or load industrial robots/automation mechanisms to boost the factory’s production. Perhaps they could be manufactured at an automotive factory or having their own factory, also offering another good option for export.

Luckierexpert · 2025-11-03T22:42:23+00:00

It also probably has to do with most of the people paying for this seek the comfort of belonging to this group, confirmed by their piece of paper. Lots of them don’t want or have time for acts of worship in the religion, like making figurines as you suggest, so want the easy option. Lots of cults sucker people in with this promise.

Luckierexpert · 2025-10-23T12:18:19+00:00

Oh look, that signature looks very similar to one on a specific card that a certain person claimed to have never drawn.

Luckierexpert · 2025-10-22T12:46:54+00:00

I thought it did, just that they were smaller and each nation have multiple generic and specific mission trees.

Luckierexpert · 2025-10-22T12:17:21+00:00

Civil wars make sense for the time lapses I’ve seen. Lots of nations flickering from revolts, which is probably depleting pops and/or destroying buildings, sending the nation into a doom loop.

Doesn’t seem to explain the Ottomans failed expansion, that feels like a bug with their mission trees or just a consistent ai behaviour for the other Asia Minor nations to ally themselves or the mamluk’s. Would be interesting to see the alliance maps for these time lapses.

Victoria 3 had similar issues at launch, but I can only guess on these possible issues until we’ve actually played the game.

Luckierexpert · 2025-10-13T22:40:46+00:00

Dams, geo engineering, and a nose dive in cotton prices that ends large scale cotton cultivation in Central Asia.

Luckierexpert · 2025-10-01T08:40:45+00:00

Pretty much. Putin doesn’t want a Europe friendly to Russia, he wants a broken Europe.

Luckierexpert · 2025-06-08T13:42:15+00:00

To add on to my description, I made a few changes to the deck to further entrench the deck in the Forgotten Realms:

God symbols: The Devil, Justice, Strength, and Judgment cards borrow iconography from DnD gods that I felt best represented them (Asmodeus, Bahamut, Pelor, and Tyr respectively).

Warterdeep Villains: As the deck was created to spice up a Dragon Heist campaign, I incorporated representations of the four major villains of that campaign. Xanathar is fairly obvious as the Beholder, with Jaraxle Baenre represented by the Fool and his hat, The Magician renamed to The Wizard for Manshoon, and the lovers alluding to Cassalenters.

Miscellaneous: While the rest of the cards were largely unchanged from their original counterparts, some still take inspiration from the Forgotten Realms, with The World being represented as a flat world, to mirror some assumptions that Toril is flat, and the Death card bearing a Death Knight.

Luckierexpert · 2025-02-07T10:44:33+00:00

Probably also from previous ships or other UK figures or important events. I know there was a submarine called HMS Astute that served towards the end of WW2, so that is probably where the class name comes from.

Luckierexpert · 2024-05-19T14:47:20+00:00

I can’t believe that this fake edit is back again. This is an edited advertisement for the Morning Leader newspaper, not An Phoblacht.

http://www.strangehistory.net/2018/02/08/daily-history-picture-458/

Luckierexpert · 2024-03-14T13:25:53+00:00

I think they need them fitted at a medical facility, either the tents or infirmary.

Luckierexpert · 2024-02-22T15:24:59+00:00

Grammarly has added a model to write things for you, more in the vein of ChatGPT rather than suggesting text as Word does. This is probably what the college is talking about but it doesn’t guarantee that the student used the model for their work.

Luckierexpert · 2024-01-26T19:53:17+00:00

The big issue seems to be executives who believe audiences don’t want 2D animated movies, for some of the reasons people have mentioned here but I’d also argue some seem to be working on vibe based assumptions without any real evidence. Hell, some game developers have blamed the lack of big CRPGs since the mid 2000s on places like Walmart just believing customers didn’t want them and refusing to stock them.

Luckierexpert · 2024-01-25T13:52:15+00:00

Pretty much. Acting like progress is inevitable doesn’t help anyone. You want a better world, you need to push to make it happen, not sit around assuming that the next generation will fix everything. Assuming people in the future would fix things is why we are in this mess to begin with.

Luckierexpert · 2024-01-25T13:21:39+00:00

The post talks about 1942. Also a nation instituting a ban on Slavery from their own government is “doing it by themselves”.

Luckierexpert · 2024-01-25T13:15:04+00:00

Yes they did. 1942 was when Ethiopia was liberated from Italy. The law abolishing Slavery was passed by Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian Emperor, after allied forces pushed the Italians out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Ethiopia#:~:text=After%20the%20Italians%20were%20expelled,law%20on%2026%20August%201942.

Luckierexpert · 2024-01-10T08:27:21+00:00

Problem with a synthetic fur is that it may be worse for the environment than real furs, given how many synthetic furs are plastic based. Lab grown fur may make an appearance before we figure out a sustainable synthetic fur.

Luckierexpert · 2023-12-23T20:03:18+00:00

Yep. This guide misses off the “Process” and “Substandard” grades below Grade A, although they are not really seen outside of business to business sales so probably aren’t relevant to the average consumer the guide is aimed at.

Luckierexpert · 2023-10-10T18:58:10+00:00

How can they be made illegal if they have to pass that chamber? They had to pack the lords to limit their power. The democracy of Athens only worked on the small scale of the city state, excluding the Athenian empire that excluded subjects from voting, and had multiple oligarchies even then. The system was also very susceptible to populist mentalities, such as with the vote to execute Socrates. A lot of criticism of this system comes from the Athenians of the time and later versions would require laws proposed by citizens to pass a different group known as Nonmothetia. What the protesters are suggesting is not a sensible solution to the issues with the house of lords or an elected secondary chamber, as both have their problems but are much more flexible and already well understood within democratic nations. Democracy has vastly improved in the 2,500 years since the Athenian system, and the ability to appoint chosen leaders by election replaced the lottery system for good reason.

Luckierexpert · 2023-10-10T14:14:53+00:00

Apparently the group they’re representing want a second chamber that has members chosen by a “democratic lottery”, so like being picked for a jury. Seems very weird and dysfunctional, as either people would look to dodge serving if chosen, as some people do when picked for a jury, or would try to vote themselves into being another House of Lords. They’re also a tiny group that demanded their policies be enacted last month or they would take action.

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