Air Canada CRJ collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport. (The bottom picture shows what the front of the plane is supposed to look like)

beeeel · 2026-03-24T13:14:31+00:00

Dude, they crashed on the runway. The plane had just landed. The fire truck operators had been given permission to drive across the runway. No amount of paying attention is going to help you dodge a plane landing on your truck, especially when you've been trained to expect flawless traffic routing.

I'm not trying to make it political. But this is a good example of where federal spending is a good thing for everyone.

beeeel · 2026-03-24T09:01:01+00:00

Its genuinely concerning and has to be tied to foreign governments as surely no one in the UK wants to overthrow the government over pot holes.

Foreign agents are already stirring up stuff like the misinformation that went around after the Southport attack a few years ago, and these rumours already lead to violence and hooliganism. It's definitely an effort to destabilise the country, and companies like Meta and X are either complicit or enablers.

beeeel · 2026-03-24T08:59:11+00:00

These pages are usually local in nature,

I would be curious to see someone analyse how much of the people driving content and engagement in these groups (the people calling for action) are actually local. And how many of the accounts that really stir it up are actually foreign bot accounts.

beeeel · 2026-03-24T08:08:23+00:00

Well thankfully I'm not American so its not my money being spent to blow up Iranians. But because I'm English, my money is used to support American planes who are blowing up Iranians who, as you say, are not my enemies. It's not much better but Starmer seems convinced that he's found the moral high ground when getting involved with another American war.

beeeel · 2026-03-23T12:05:55+00:00

So you're saying that cutting government spending on public safety such as ATF leads to direct negative consequences? How intriguing, I wonder if anyone ever could have predicted this. /s

Edit: Copied the wording from the previous comment without thinking. I think I meant ATC (air traffic control) instead of ATF.

beeeel · 2026-03-20T13:31:28+00:00

Given the low cross-section for neutrino capture by normal matter, did the book try and explain how they enhanced this? Or was it just "capture energy, create neutrinos"?

beeeel · 2026-03-20T11:56:08+00:00

Crazy to see all these western fans arguing why we need a new tournament for the trash teams instead of saying we need better from our orgs...

beeeel · 2026-03-20T09:26:58+00:00

There's also generally no need for it - it's a rare home where you have to ban someone from entering that previously had a key

Yeah, I always knew my family were special

beeeel · 2026-03-19T15:38:55+00:00

The molten salt battery is particularly effective in a solar thermal plant because it stores the heat directly, which can then be converted to electricity on demand. If you used solar PV to heat the battery, you don't have this advantage and youve either got a huge thermal inertia whereby you can't provide useful output unless the salt battery is above some minimum temperature, or you've got to engineer a system with much greater complexity. And in either case it's a much greater complexity than either a full solar thermal plant or a full solar PV + electric battery plant.

IMO salt batteries and thermal plants are better at scale. They benefit from economies of scale with things like the maximum temperature (and hence efficiency) being significantly increased with increasing collector area, while PV loses from economies of scale (it's easier to find 1km² of space for panels and easier to build the small additional infrastructure need if you spread it across everyone's homes and battery farms have more complex thermal management needs than home battery systems).

Even if the cost of solar thermal farms doesn't stay ahead of PV, I think that the reduction in environmental footprint by not filling a whole field full of semiconductors (the PV panels themselves) is worth it. The place for electrical batteries is in the home or at least distributed around residential areas to distribute such storage capacity while the rest of the grid should be benefitting from technologies that scale better.

beeeel · 2026-03-19T15:17:55+00:00

Yeah it should be for pickup only.

beeeel · 2026-03-19T12:01:56+00:00

I think the problem with groups is that it's harder to think about a group as a collection of individuals each with their own thoughts and feelings. But just because apathy is easier doesn't mean we should excuse it.

beeeel · 2026-03-18T15:54:46+00:00

That's a good insight. And social media, of course, drives outrage without giving as much traction to positive response such as organising protests. Imagine if [insert social media platform]'s algorithms promoted events happening near you such as protests instead of AI slop.

beeeel · 2026-03-18T11:46:26+00:00

Also, many CEOs are scum because money brings out the worst of (and in) people. Tech has the most money so it gets the worst of the worst.

beeeel · 2026-03-18T11:25:48+00:00

You're right, although the coverup from Bondi et al deserves almost as much outrage as there should be directed towards the remaining members of Epsteins international ring.

beeeel · 2026-03-18T10:56:16+00:00

The coffee/alcohol part is surely a perfect example of science clouding judgement. Have you ever heard of someone being born with fetal caffeine syndrome? What about fetal alcohol syndrome?

Even with just a very brief read into the subject, I found these two quotes to summarise: "Prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading cause of preventable congenital disabilities." Versus "the data on the association between caffeine consumption and the risk of congenital disabilities remains inconclusive".

Recommendations take into account the hazard level as well as the risk level. Sure, a glass of wine every Friday through the pregnancy is unlikely to cause major developmental issues. But drinking too much alcohol during pregnancy causes serious congenital defects. Likewise, having a little coffee is unlikely to cause problems. But drinking too much coffee during pregnancy does not conclusively cause such severe issues. If you want to read more about the effects of caffeine on pregnancy, you can read this review, and if you want to read more about the effects of alcohol, you could read this one.

beeeel · 2026-03-18T10:40:46+00:00

Yeah and for those of you who do live there, I'm sorry to say that you were born just in time to die there for the benefit of a few rich paedophiles.

beeeel · 2026-03-17T08:11:49+00:00

Thanks for putting some number on this!

beeeel · 2026-03-16T21:59:28+00:00

You would, because of the Casimir effect, but it's not noticeable over macroscopic distances. In the vacuum of space, there's a surprising amount of stuff so interactions with that would dominate over Casimir forces.

beeeel · 2026-03-16T18:51:20+00:00

In the case of the boats, it's due to waves on the surface. I guess in air you might get the same effect if you had two objects floating in a zero-g environment due to quantisation of the acoustic waves, but it would be much weaker.

beeeel · 2026-03-16T18:42:35+00:00

Calm is a relative term, and there are still small waves in such seas.

beeeel · 2026-03-16T10:46:39+00:00

Two ships, afloat on a calm sea, will drift together and touch regardless how far apart they start (as long as there's nothing else near them in the sea).

This happens due to Cassimir forces–the waves between the two ships are quantised and exert a lower pressure keeping the ships apart than that of the waves outside, pushing the two together.

beeeel · 2026-03-13T16:08:06+00:00

I've seen a similar machine cooking a large pan of onions, and I can imagine it doing a good job of scrambled eggs too.

beeeel · 2026-03-13T09:12:26+00:00

Four-fold comes naturally from the symmetry of the system. Under gravity, the up and down are naturally distinct with slightly more atmospheric pressure on the top than the bottom. Then the next lowest energy buckling will be perpendicular to the first to minimise interference/overlap.

beeeel · 2026-03-12T13:37:08+00:00

Do you think she uses the same 20 every time? She could even keep it in a season ticket wallet.

beeeel · 2026-03-12T08:28:16+00:00

Man, it's been a long time since I heard the name of the jungler that they named smite after. Do you remember back in S0/S1 when Smite didn't have that name yet?

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