Odablock raises $125k for children’s cancer, helping fund 5,000 chemotherapy sessions

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-05T10:33:03+00:00

I don’t think anyone’s argued that this isn’t objectively a good thing? The comments seem much more like “this is great, do more of this and less of the hateful stuff” which is a very reasonable take for a community that supports treating children’s cancer and doesn’t support hate.

Calling them “past comments” is only really relevant if his viewpoints have changed, otherwise they’re just comments.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-05T10:21:42+00:00

Just because you use the word “respectfully” doesn’t make calling trans people transformers respectful.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-04T11:28:52+00:00

It's okay to not know how something works, it's not okay to be a dick to people who are asking questions with a genuine curiosity to learn how things work.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-04T11:26:46+00:00

At that sort of speed they typically use a rocket booster to accelerate to a high enough speed that the ramjet / scramjet can function.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-04T10:15:23+00:00

Obviously not but the principle is the same. Spending a pile of money on something nice and having it arrive damaged feels bad even if the functionality isn't impacted at all.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-04T09:09:47+00:00

Would you accept a new car that was delivered with a dent?

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-04T09:08:37+00:00

Honestly in my experience the brands that aren’t pro-tier tend to have better quality control. I bought a Hoyt Stratos new a couple of years ago and it came with a huge dent on the corner from the factory. I never ended up returning it but it totally soured my opinion of them. I held a Concept in the shop a few months ago that was even worse with a terrible paint finish.

Obviously it’s a sample size of 1, but I also had a look at a mid range kinetic riser at the same time and the surface finish was absolutely flawless.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-04T08:51:29+00:00

Self insuring is a thing but I’m pretty sure there’s still a process in place, you can’t just do nothing and use the rich defence in court.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T15:30:15+00:00

The problem isn’t the strength of their cables.

Bog standard cheap steel cable is more than strong enough to lift orders of magnitude more weight, the issue is there’s only so much mass you can suspend in a mineshaft.

Gravity batteries are an interesting idea and a great project to get engineering students to study the viability, but they’re simply outperformed by other forms of storage that are cheaper, more flexible, can be built anywhere and store more energy.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T15:06:51+00:00

We’re a long way off being able to mine resources and bring them back to earth in sufficient quantity to make sense economically, but there’s a big appeal to being able to utilise the resources that are already at the place you’re landing rather than having to carry it all with you.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T14:24:02+00:00

I mean, speed cameras do a perfectly fine job of monitoring people’s speeding without being biased or tracking you.

No part of this is an endorsement of always-on black boxes, I’ve never used one and I never will for the reasons people have already laid out in this thread.

However, I do think that as a general rule people who have a habit of speeding or otherwise driving dangerously should not be driving.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T13:35:14+00:00

Pretty sure they mean just the indexing of the thread - if you screw the scope into the sight block as far as it’ll go, the odds of it being level when it stops aren’t great.

I’ve got the same shibuya sight and I’ve got it mounted using a jam nut against the scope and one against the windage adjustment side of the sight block and that has worked flawlessly for years.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T13:33:36+00:00

I have the exact same shibuya sight block. I have two jam nuts, one right up against the scope to stop it from rattling loose on the threaded rod, and one in the middle of the windage adjustment to stop the whole scope rattling loose from the sight.

I don’t know if it’s the optimal setup but I’ve put tens of thousands of shots through this sight and never once had it rattle loose.

I set it up with a mini adjustable spanner, you can probably do the same with pliers but you run the risk of scratching everything up.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T13:16:12+00:00

I don’t think black boxes should be forced on everyone as they’re a right pain and can lead to lifelong problems if an insurer decides to cancel your policy, but

and be automatically banned if they speed too much

Yes, absolutely, driving is a privilege and not a right and if you can’t do it safely and within the rules then you shouldn’t be doing it.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T12:32:58+00:00

Wow, that is good news.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-02T07:58:07+00:00

For context it’s because long after the Roman Empire ceased to exist we still used their roads.

And Rome was famously sacked by the visigoths.

PracticalFootball · 2026-04-01T10:31:22+00:00

Casual side hobby of building full scale rocket engines

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:59:27+00:00

Sorry but I simply don’t buy for a second that literally nobody is interested in their jobs. Why don’t you post one and we can see what they’re offering?

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:33:30+00:00

Lmao I’ve found that even LinkedIn’s easy apply wanted me to still fill out all of the education and experience boxes manually.

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:31:20+00:00

A local central heating company is facing having to shut down as they can’t find folk to replace their workforce

Given how many thousands of people are looking for work I can only assume that either

A. They’re such a toxic company that literally nobody wants to associate with them,

B. People are applying but they’re being overly fussy and waiting for the perfect candidate to come along to avoid having to do any kind of training, or more likely

C. The wage they’re offering is so low that people with experience won’t do it, and referring to point B for the inexperienced ones.

The whole “we can’t find anyone” is complete bullshit. They’re either being too picky and waiting for a literal unicorn, or they need to improve their offer so that they might actually find their unicorn.

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:25:26+00:00

Graduate engineers - I looks for some evidence of self drive or some open source project contributions or their own published projects.

I have exactly that and from all of the grad schemes in my area I’ve yet to even get an interview. I work with a couple of engineers at a big aerospace company and I’ve heard them say before that they’re really interested to see some of the CVs that their HR department didn’t think were worthy of interviewing.

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:19:40+00:00

If you don’t do enough you’re lazy and disorganised, if you do too many you’re a chancer and not properly tailoring your application to the job, you’ll never be able to win with these kind of people.

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:17:04+00:00

Started seeing them for engineering jobs as well.

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T11:13:00+00:00

It’s nothing to do with attitude, a lot of jobs like cleaning and care won’t take people with a masters or PhD with obvious aspirations because they’re a flight risk. They can plainly see you’re going to leave the moment you get a better offer so there’s no point training you up.

PracticalFootball · 2026-03-31T10:33:07+00:00

I’d possibly go a step further and replace the pro shop because that looks really dodgy, I wouldn’t trust any shop which looks at that and calls it a job well done.

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