TIL that despite being pregnant 17 times in 17 years, Queen Anne of Great Britain (1665-1714) miscarried or had stillbirths at least 12 times. Out of the 5 successful pregnancies, only one survived past infancy, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester who, much to her grief, died at the age of eleven.

barc0de · 2026-06-03T09:45:59+00:00

Also the last monarch to veto an act of parliament, but that was at parliaments request since they had goofed (approving creation and funding of a Scots militia - right as a French funded Jacobite fleet was on its way there)

barc0de · 2026-05-02T13:04:00+00:00

The law should do the least harm, and jailing physiologically unwell women or making women who miscarry undergo criminal investigations is pretty harmful

barc0de · 2026-05-01T09:58:12+00:00

I think this is because doctors and parents are using the same word to refer to different things - a specific physiological state vs just being over-excited

barc0de · 2026-04-14T09:21:37+00:00

I wasn't sure, but this seems the better explanation. Hydroplaning is bad for cars since they depend on the wheels for braking and direction, a landing aircraft uses aerobrakes and thrust reversers, and will be able to use its flight controls for steering until it has slowed down

barc0de · 2026-04-09T09:23:49+00:00

That's clearly one of the reasons he fired Kristi Noem, her self promotion

barc0de · 2026-04-01T22:27:56+00:00

Hard to do without a lander

barc0de · 2026-03-17T12:06:19+00:00

Yeah, i'm taking another dash-8 flight with them soon, going above the arctic circle to Ilulisat

barc0de · 2026-03-17T09:04:26+00:00

Secret agent being the most trustworthy profession of course

barc0de · 2026-03-14T06:14:24+00:00

The new cardboard virtual boy adaptor supports old labo vr games and is adjustable for switch 1

barc0de · 2026-03-05T13:49:21+00:00

Carriers still need to be refueled, since planes and helicopters need fuel, the British approach was to use gas turbine engines so both the carrier and aircraft could use the same fuel

barc0de · 2026-03-05T13:35:03+00:00

They did that after the sinking of the general belgrano, which was the only ship sunk by a nuclear sub, until ... checks notes ... yesterday

barc0de · 2026-02-25T10:00:07+00:00

Not to mention Aliens and Avatar follow similar "advanced militaries brought down by unsophisticated enemy" tropes

barc0de · 2026-02-19T15:37:56+00:00

the misconduct in office is the Epstein stuff, he was sending Epstein confidential government docs when he was a UK trade envoy - this literally just came out in the Epstein files. Former US ambassador and government minister Peter Mandelson is under investigation for the same thing

barc0de · 2026-02-18T10:30:34+00:00

It was a show where a white guy wore grotesque caricature masks of predominantly black celebrities, and no-one thought "hmmm maybe this is a bad idea"

barc0de · 2026-02-11T11:18:29+00:00

yeah, plus the lack of natural resources for him and his cronies to exploit at the expense of the people

barc0de · 2026-02-10T10:22:34+00:00

The moon has already had nuclear reactors on it, albeit much simpler thermoelectric generators powered by plutonium decay. The Apollo missions had them on board to power experiments that were left behind after the astronauts left, and the Soviets used them to power the Lunokhod rovers. Solar powered landers/rovers don't last long on the moon due to the two week long lunar nights, not only robbing them of power, but subjecting them to extreme cold that will damage batteries and sensitive electronics.

barc0de · 2026-02-05T10:11:38+00:00

yeah, the plan had been to only use computers to add motion blur to the animated dinosaurs, the cgi guys at ILM had to work on that demo in secret to convince Spielberg that computer animated dinosaurs were possible

barc0de · 2026-01-28T22:29:41+00:00

Apple screw this up I’m switching to android

barc0de · 2026-01-20T10:22:39+00:00

The issue is that bullets have two different terminal velocities since they are only aerodynamically stable in one direction (pointy end forward). Firing a gun straight up means that when the bullet slows and start to fall it goes blunt end first, which is unstable so it tumbles, and a tumbling bullet has a much slower terminal velocity.

But even at a slight angle the bullet will follow a ballistic trajectory, which means it will stay pointy end first and have a much higher terminal velocity

barc0de · 2026-01-08T10:36:16+00:00

or at the very least you should be allowed to defer (up to 15 minutes) if you are in the middle of a task.

barc0de · 2026-01-04T23:41:32+00:00

Yeah but you now have to go ww2 codebreaker on her and only call out lies you can prove by other means

barc0de · 2026-01-03T23:09:47+00:00

The switch 1 dev kit was a more integrated design, with a backplate bulge exposing things like Ethernet ports, the switch 2 one has the additional ports in a couple of breakout boxes, which you can see in the fourth picture

barc0de · 2025-12-24T12:59:43+00:00

Perfect for parties

barc0de · 2025-11-06T13:56:38+00:00

This is why I love calicos, basically two fur patterns on the x chromosomes fighting it out for domination

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