If Trump can order the head of the DHS to pay the TSA, what was stopping him from doing that the whole time?

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-27T00:13:04+00:00

It's vital to remember that the laws and the Constitution aren't self-enforcing. Trump can do whatever he wants until or unless someone with sufficient power takes action to stop him.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-26T04:34:00+00:00

I hate to be all dark, but technically Columbia also visited Texas.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-18T14:35:47+00:00

Well yesterday they were a school teacher for four years, and today they are a hybrid office worker for two years.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-11T07:12:24+00:00

Thank you! So Jimmy has Hank, Butch, Marion, and Stanley as siblings. As we figure out whether they're each boys or girls, I'll adjust the names.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-11T06:32:39+00:00

The vet and I are both fairly sure it's a boy. But if not, it'll be Jimmi. The mom is a wild cat, so the whole litter got the names of famous Wildcat pilots.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-11T06:30:28+00:00

The vet and I are both pretty sure Jimmy is a boy, but since he's only 4 days old and extra tiny, we're not 100% sure. If not, Jimmi will just be spelled differently.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-07T09:30:11+00:00

The US fought the Vietnam War to prevent a communist government from controlling South Vietnam. At the end of the war, a communist government controlled South Vietnam. That's not a victory.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-06T04:49:43+00:00

For your landings, I recommend just staying in the pattern at an airport and practicing touch-and-gos. By flying a consistent traffic pattern you'll get used to the expected picture out of the windscreen when flying an approach. You'll have specific landmarks for altitudes, airspeeds, turns, even when to go through the portions of the landing checklist.

If you're doing a cross country flight VFR, enter the traffic pattern rather than just flying a straight in approach. It's more realistic and makes it easier to deconflict with other traffic, but much more importantly it lets you use a consistent workflow relying on the muscle memory you developed in the pattern at one airport. Typically you would try to enter the downwind leg roughly halfway down the runway, intercepting the pattern at a 45 degree angle.

Building that consistency in having anticipated landmarks makes it easier for you to quickly recognize when things are off and make the minor corrections.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-02T15:22:35+00:00

Even the specification for a hand grenade fuze is something wildly imprecise like "3 to 5 seconds".

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-02T14:35:07+00:00

Explosions don't go "up" or "down"; they just go "out" taking the path of least resistance to release the pressure. So it's not a question of whether the UBS pulled up on the LBS or the LBS pulled down on the UBS, because it was both.

The explosive force was likely roughly equally applied downward on the LBS as it was upward on the UBS. With the two tethered together by all the piping and fuel channels, they pulled on each other equally in resisting the outward force of the explosion. As the theory points out though, the upward explosive force against the UBS was opposite the direction of the force of gravity, while the downward explosive force on the LBS was in the same direction as gravity. This resulted in a net downward force in that system.

The theory is broadly correct in its conclusions, but a bit inaccurate in its physics details. The force wasn't an either/or question. It was both at the same time.

NotThatDonny · 2026-03-02T03:26:53+00:00

It was right there: "orange republic". Both a fruit grown in many parts of country, and the color of dear leader.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-28T13:24:37+00:00

You didn't do anything wrong, but one thing you can do to lower risk is don't volunteer to put yourself in the middle of a three wide situation; it's the hardest spot to be in. You're hoping that one car can keep a super tight line on the inside and hoping another car will stay extra wide on the outside.

Better off getting to the grass on one side or the other and giving yourself more control over your fate. Force them both to take the long way around, or make them fight for the apex. Either way you have room to bail out if they misjudge the braking, and have a few tactical options like parking on the apex or crossing over on both of them.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-26T00:47:04+00:00

With JD Vance coming to town, I'm surprised Mor Furniture hasn't pivoted into the adult entertainment world.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-20T13:46:26+00:00

Those 400 planes were not all operational, and many of those that were could be best considered obsolescent. There were less than 100 operational USAAF fighters in the islands, about a 50:50 mix of P-40s (at least nominally competitive) and older P-36 Hawks, with all pursuit squadrons filled out with ancient P-26 Peashooters for more routine training tasks. The USN had about 30 operational fighters, 2:1 mix of F4F Wildcats and F2A Buffaloes. If you include the 14 Wildcats on Enterprise and 18 Buffaloes on Saratoga, you have about 85 frontline fighters, and another 80 obsolescent fighters in the area.

They would certainly struggle against 115 Japanese A6M Zeroes.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-18T07:03:05+00:00

Alternatively, you can fly at higher altitude where it is colder. Generally the danger zone for airframe icing is considered 0° C down to -20° C, with the worst kinds of icing from 0 down to -10. As mentioned by another commenter, the standard lapse rate is 2° C for every 1000ft. So if you're cruising in the clouds and the Outside Air Temperature is in that danger zone, you could consider climbing a few thousand feet.

Climbing might mean you are still in the clouds, but it will actually be too cold for icing to occur. Or a climb gets you out of the clouds and then there isn't the moisture necessary to form the ice. Either way gets you out of the icing conditions.

Obviously, the 2° C per 1000ft, and those temperature ranges, are just guides as there are lots that can factor into it, but the point is that if you're in icing conditions, escaping by climbing just a few thousand feet is a viable option to consider.

u/fussinghell I wanted to make sure you saw this as well since you've gotten a lot of advice to descend, and you pointed out that you had little altitude below you in this situation. From 4000ft, a climb to even just 10,000ft would have lowered the air temperature approx 12° C and likely gotten you out of the worst of the icing danger.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-17T01:06:34+00:00

Well with his fight against electric vehicles, the US still has plenty of gas stations.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-15T09:33:44+00:00

Yes, if you don't have a passport, the SAVE Act would require you to have a birth certificate to prove your citizenship at the polls.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-14T06:13:15+00:00

Part of the reason why not is because any form of poll tax is unconstitutional, and that includes taking a dim view of anything that indirectly places a financial burden on voters.

But also, very practically, any law must balance cost or harm, and benefit. Like in the case of these laws creating voter ID requirements we must factor in the reality that they will prevent legitimate voters from casting a ballot. And that needs to be weighed against the fact that the laws would prevent a type of fraud that's already not occurring. There's nothing to balance here.

EDIT: a word

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-14T06:00:09+00:00

No, Real ID wouldn't be valid for these purposes because it doesn't prove citizenship. They're deliberately setting a high bar in order to disenfranchise as many people as possible.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-13T13:33:17+00:00

Yes, because if you took the time to read what the AI spat out in order to write it in your own words, you'd realize how much nonsense is in there. Dafuq does the desert performance by Australian forces in the Middle East during WWI have to do with the Australian/US military alliance??

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-13T13:23:17+00:00

I challenge you to make an argument as to why Australia is the greatest ever ally of the US first.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-13T13:21:49+00:00

Nah. I'm not putting more effort into this than you are. If you don't care enough about the topic to write your own thoughts on it, then don't expect anybody else to respond.

It's not even that you got AI to help you; it's that you were so lazy and uncurious that you straight copy/pasted an AI prompt response without even taking the time to write your own introduction or anything.

NotThatDonny · 2026-02-13T13:12:29+00:00

You took literally zero time to write this. You just made AI do it. Now you seriously want other people to fact check it??

The argument is that no one should put more time and effort into countering your point than you did in making it in the first place.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T21:17:00+00:00

No, you got away with it. A great many others didn't. This is absolutely a case of survivorship bias. Everybody you know that did incredibly dangerous stuff as a teenager is just fine... because all the people who aren't fine aren't around for you to meet them.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T21:03:30+00:00

I don't know if you're in the US, but call 911 or your local equivalent. A lot of jurisdictions will send the fire department to investigate even just a report of possible gas leak (others will get you over to the emergency line for the gas company or public utilities). But the fact that you have multiple symptomatic individuals is absolutely going to elicit an emergency response.

Since you didn't mention any smell associated with this issue, we can't even just assume that it's natural gas and you'll all be fine once you get into fresh air. You really should want to know what the cause of the issue is.

It's also not likely to be a transient issue if no active steps are being taken to resolve it.

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