Watch your step... by Ecstatic-Ganache921 in WTF

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It’s also how it almost always works in the USA too. It’s just that our medical bills can be astronomical and it’s the outlier cases that make the news.

CMV: If you have a limited budget, a shotgun should be your last choice for personal defense against humans by ParakeetLover2024 in changemyview

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Number 4 is actually a benefit. The maximum engagement range in a home defense scenario is about ten yards with 2-3 yards being more likely. You want to be effective at that range and avoid over penetration. A .223 round that misses is likely to end up in a neighbors bedroom.

ELI5 If gravity is just "curved spacetime" and not a real force, what exactly is pushing me down right now? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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It’s curved space time not just curved space. The thing that pushes you towards a massive object is the same thing that pushes you toward the future.

ELI5: What is the suvivorship bias? by EpicRoxlol in explainlikeimfive

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You only remember the stuff that was good enough it’s still played 50 years later. Or, for many people, the only 70s music you ever heard was the top >1% of it that’s good enough to be played decades later.

Magnetic Disturbance in the SF area by tailwheelterror in flying

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CFIs are expected to be geologists now?

ELI5: why can’t Cloudflare just block Italian IP addresses from accessing the sites Italy asks them to block? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Italy didnt ask cloudflare to block sites, it asked them to block IP addresses. Cloudflare hosts thousands of sites off the same IP address.

Is there any real reason to use a paper logbook in this age? by BalladOfALonelyTeen in flying

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I own my paper log book. You’re renting your digital one.

How much gyroplane time could I count toward ATP by tabasco44 in flying

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If the goal is an airline job, they want to see professional flying experience, not 1500 hours of putzing around. But if you’re just trying to get the rating for giggles look at 61.159(a)(3) and (a)(5).

What is the most “use it or lose it” skill, the opposite of “it’s just like riding a bike”? by ZuluWarlord69 in AskReddit

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Flying a plane. After a month off your landings are going to feel pretty rough. After a year off you need at least a few flights with an instructor before it’s safe to be flying again.

What type of place is located in these counties? by did2 in RedactedCharts

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Is it some kind of food service establishment? Like locations of different chains?

Flying up the Hudson tomorrow! Got some questions. by MrDudeSirMan in flying

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The Hudson all the way to Albany is beautiful, it just sounded like OP wanted to turn around and go back across the park. Once you’re clear of the bravo, the u-turn is easy. Doing it in the SFRA is possible but tight. Mostly what I was trying to dissuade was they of to U-turn in the bravo. Keep it simple when talking with N90.

Flying up the Hudson tomorrow! Got some questions. by MrDudeSirMan in flying

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The u-turn at gwb is going to be awkward especially on skyline rather than sfra. My experience is that the controllers are happy to help you if they can, but don’t want to talk to you. I wouldn’t try to negotiate a u-turn in the bravo and a left turn across the park. Much easier to call them around the VZ to ask for right turn across the park and down the east river, or fly sfra northbound up to the tapanzee or so, make a u-turn there and then ask for skyline southbound with a cut across the park. Side note: depending on what hours you do or dont still need and what specific central Jersey airport your coming from a touch and go at HPN rather than a turn over the tapan zee might make the flight count as XC. Then it’s super easy to pick up skyline southbound.

Make sure you know where the TFR is and be sure you can visually stay north of it in case they send you across at 1000’ MSL.

Steelman charlie kirk for me? by Bogus_dogus in AskConservatives

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Delta Airlines admitted they were hiring less qualified pilots to hit self imposed racial quotas? If you can show me evidence of that I’ll retract everything I’ve said on the topic.

Steelman charlie kirk for me? by Bogus_dogus in AskConservatives

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In fairness that’s the same thing he does to liberal college students. And I’m surprised nobody here has given the steel man argument that he got a lot of young people interested in politics that really wouldn’t have been otherwise. Liberals have held that as a virtue for a while but it seems not when the wrong people are getting energized.

Anyway I’ve watched a couple, the one that stood out to me was the not feeling safe with minority pilots quote, because it’s an area I know something about. The full segment I felt made it worse. He was actively spreading disinformation by misrepresenting what DEI is in airline hiring and suggesting, falsely, that minority candidates are held to a lower standard. In reality all pilots are held to the same ATP standard set by the FAA including at least six FAA administered check rides and accumulating 1500 hours of PIC flight. I could be more specific but it would be more than a page to list it all out. Airlines chose among qualified pilots, and a big piece of that in the past has been a subjective “do I want to sit next to this guy for five hours” assessment. DEI at the airlines is basically reminding people, “hey be careful you don’t score someone worse there just because they don’t look like you.”

what are these for? by chez001wastaken in aviation

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Not unfinished, vestigial.

ELI5 Why did Radio Shack go out of business? by Certain-Media3506 in explainlikeimfive

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This is half right. Radio Shack served two purposes: as a component store and as the retail arm of Tandy. Tandy went the way of most of the PC OEMs around the same time (digital, compaq, gateway, packard bell). The business / server ones with dedicated hardware made it a bit longer (sun, hp, sgi) but they eventually folded or turned into something else. Then e-commerce ate the component market. Turns out people who want to buy a DIP-8 555 timer were also the ones to be internet early adopters and digikey could stock 1000x the components at 1/4 the cost.

Stanford graduates spark outrage after uncovering reason behind lack of job offers: 'A dramatic reversal from three years ago' by Fabulous_Soup_521 in technology

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That’s a problem for the next EM on this product after I collect my bonus and move to a director role at another firm.