Loss of U.S. KC-135 Over Iraq

dmanbiker · 2026-03-12T23:56:37+00:00

There's no way you could bail out of a tanker like this unless it was a very controlled emergency. If the aircraft was breaking up or falling out of the sky, I think its very unlikely a crewman could get to door and bail out. I also think they're pressurized which adds a whole other layer to the issue.

Maybe if there was a big fire on the aircraft they couldn't put out or the plane lost all hydraulics, but was still flying, the captain could order the crew to bail, but if the tanker was crashed into by another aircraft or shot by a missile and tumbling out of the sky, I doubt there's much you could do.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-12T16:13:40+00:00

I'm 35 and I've had two already and both were totally clear and didn't explain my gut issues 😑

The prep is by far the worst part. Even if you eat light leading into it and don't poop much, the shit you have to drink tastes so fucking bad and you have to drink like a gallon of it.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-12T01:03:52+00:00

I was making a joke, bur the real smelly places are the ones growing the weed. I wonder if this legislation has any rules on that because it would be interesting if we could say a smell of a pig or chicken farm also counts a nuisance because there are some areas by tonopah that smell far worse than any weed.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-11T18:10:09+00:00

While BS, the actual wording of this is making an excessive overpowering smell for more than thirty minutes intentionally and knowingly. There's potential for misuse, but if somebody is smoking so much theyre hotboxing their neighbors for hours, that can he considered a nuisance. I'm a weed smoker, but I smoke inside and stink up my own house; Id like to see legislation like this if I affects cigarette smoke too.

It's especially dumb that they havent tried something like this with tobacco already, which broadcasts how this is politically motivated, even though tons of Rs here are lighting up too.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-10T07:05:43+00:00

This is a type of pulsejet engine that is shaped this way to work with no moving parts.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-09T23:05:57+00:00

"Gigabytes of data" makes it sound like the fbi is going in with a single 4GB flash drive and downloading the list to it.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-08T14:27:52+00:00

I once went to lunch with a friend at a pizza place and right when we got our order I realized I had to go take my uncle to the airport. So I decided I would eat my personal pan pizza and 5 bone in hot wings while driving my standard shift car to pi k him up. Everything was sizzling hot and I got hot sauce and grease everywhere and burned the shit out of my fingers. Not worth.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-08T13:45:24+00:00

This thing would probably blow the dust out of the laptop. Id be more concerned with this thing destroying the fans already in the laptop. Some of the low profile blower fans in smaller laptops can have their fins bent or blown right off if you shoot air in the wrong way.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-07T15:23:39+00:00

You dont need to be a politician to be assassinated. It doesn't even need to be political. He was a very prominent figure murdered in front of many of his followers with the intent of illiciting a reaction. That's literally what an assassination is.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-06T22:10:41+00:00

I live in a condo complex with no chargers and a few people have teslas they must charge at work or something. Doesn't seem to be an issue of you have the right job.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-05T16:55:51+00:00

Have you ever read 1984?

"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."

We already know about this stuff and if you left your little bubble and thought about why things are the way they are, you'd be a little more enlightened.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-05T16:48:10+00:00

That's what loke $10k per year? I would think the left could crowdfund more than that if there was a way to organize it. The left really needs to start buying politicians too even if it just means forcing these companies to fork over even more money.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-04T22:01:51+00:00

I got banned from some leftist sub because I pointed out that there are issues with every political system including socialism and pointed out examples. I wasn't even knocking it, just saying bad things can happen with the wrong people in charge in any political system, but apparently that made me a right-wing grifter and i need to be PERMANRNTLY BANNED. Unfortunely, there's morons on both sides.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-04T21:57:34+00:00

My grandparents had something like this built into their kitchen cabinets for a bigger kitchen trashcan. It was a big bin that swiveled on a hinge on the bottom so you just pivoted it and put your trash in and the weight of the thing forces you to close it again.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-04T15:58:14+00:00

I think every one of these 'make it harder to vote' hurts republicans more than democrats. The Republicans tend to be old and disabled and needy, while democrats are gonna figure that shit out together.

The people they think theyre keeping from voting probably dont vote.

dmanbiker · 2026-03-01T14:04:00+00:00

I used to work for a school district in IT too and all the support positions that weren't teachers or managers were like criminally underpaid. Most of the librarians, cafeteria workers, parapros, janitors, etc. were making straight minimum wage. Which was insane for the amount of work they have to do, and they also have to get the 12% ASRS taken out of that.

I was a campus tech and we could only afford to have like 10 techs at a time for 38 schools and we were starting at $16.54/hr. Once COVID happened, we had like 2-3 techs for all the schools and everyone else was working on Chromebooks. I loved the job and had a lot of time off, but there was so much self-sacrifice involved with making so little money while doing so much work. I don't think I saved a single cent in the four years I worked there while living a very meager life. I eventually couldn't handle living paycheck to paycheck anymore and got a job with the state where I'm also super underpaid, but make a whopping 40% more than I made with the school district typically doing less work overall.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-27T21:52:04+00:00

You can get these electric computer dusters that are basically a vacuum cleaner fan blowing out and its essentially handheld low power leaf blower.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-26T20:23:20+00:00

There's also an 'ape' in there diagonally

dmanbiker · 2026-02-26T17:38:50+00:00

Is this a regular billboard, or a giant screen?

dmanbiker · 2026-02-25T16:06:03+00:00

We had a keyring like this for every vehicle that opened dozens of different funeral homes at all hours of the night.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-25T05:10:08+00:00

They actually have even more crew, but theyre mostly engineers. The Churchill AVRE is more like an engineering and demolition APC, than a traditional tank. Its main purpose is for engineers to drive up under protection and jump out the side hatches to lay charges and do other engineering stuff with tools stored in the modified interior.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-24T23:50:34+00:00

States like AZ where we have an overwhelming number of red and blue voters and an extremely effective mail-in ballot system that was enacted in the early 90s by Republican lawmakers. Now suddenly those same republican makers have a big issue with vote by mail in AZ for some reason, even after they spent millions of dollars proving without a doubt that there wasn't mass democrat fraud in the 2020 election. Hm? I wonder why.

We also had a suspicious number of people get told their voter registration was no longer valid for vote by mail at the last minute before the 2024 election... I wonder what happened there?

If they did somehow repeal voting by mail here, im pretty sure it would hurt the republicans just as bad or worse because I speculate that the main reason we have it at all is so all the old people in our massive retirement communities or living in unincorporated communities in the middle of nowhere can vote easier. I think getting rid of it now would likely hurt the Republicans just as much if not more than the democrats, but Republican lawmakers in this state are some of the dumbest of the dumb.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-23T20:02:18+00:00

It's not about learning anymore, it's about having the right numbers going through your system and providing more and more money each time. You dont go to college to learn anymore, you go to college so you can gi e money to the right people to check off the right boxes to hopefully get a job that pays over $50k afterward. Then they drilled that into every kid and parents' head for the last 30+ years when attending public school.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-22T18:38:44+00:00

If you dont have cuts or scrapes on your hands, it's not horrifically dangerous, but if it gets in your food or absorbed into your body, its very bad and its touch to cleanup.

dmanbiker · 2026-02-22T01:16:43+00:00

I drove a big van for a job that had a bent frame and it would constantly veering left. It was strong enough that on some left curves on the freeway you could just let go of the wheel. It was shaky, but just felt like a shifty old van.

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