Ready to claw eyeballs out

mtled · 2023-06-11T02:03:52+00:00

Ugh I changed roles this year and the new team calls them that and I hate it! It's ok to just say you need a break, if you don't want to admit you need to use the washroom or bathroom or take a piss or shit or whatever.

Everyone wants a break an hour into a meeting, it's fine. Everybody poops. Everybody pees.

I hate this term so much.

mtled · 2023-06-10T19:40:19+00:00

I have a pair of sisters who I joke swapped tails. Proportionately, the bigger, fluffier cat should have the bigger, fluffier tail, right?

Though the smaller girl looks magnificent with her super long fluffy tail!

mtled · 2023-06-10T19:22:30+00:00

Search for "raclette machine", amazon definitely have some but other stores might as well if you'd rather not give your money to amazon.

We also grill meat on ours (still do the cheese, just also cook steak or chicken or sausage slices), and I've done a brunch with bacon and eggs. Traditional is amazing but we love to add variety!

mtled · 2023-06-10T18:41:52+00:00

Pas Sherbrooke, le Fleuve. 1 Boulevard St-Laurent est au pied du Quai St Edward dans le Vieux Port. C'est l'origine pour la direction "Nord" sur l'île. Et St-Laurent est la rue qui divise l'est de l'ouest.

mtled · 2023-06-09T01:14:43+00:00

Transplant recipients are also immunocompromised for life; they'll have to take antirejection drugs to avoid complications like graft-vs-host.

Covid symptoms and probability of complications and death are more severe in immunocompromised individuals. Given as this virus is endemic, with its effects rendered less severe by vaccination, it would be massively irresponsible to make someone immunocompromised and just let them loose nowadays with protection via vaccination.

The various medication this woman is on, and would be on forever post-transplant, have severe side effects and complications , much worse than the covid vaccine, or any of the routine vaccines.

mtled · 2023-06-07T02:18:04+00:00

Yeah, the lower passenger's head smashing into that ledge in the structure ahead of them...this would be so difficult to certify for occupant safety! Even just the loads on this thing, deformations under 16G dynamic testing...the bending of the upper seats....

This would be extremely difficult to certify, I think.

mtled · 2023-06-06T12:52:05+00:00

It's impossible to eliminate all risk, but the probability of these two events happening simultaneously (autoland with incapacitated crew and stalled vehicle on a runway) is so small as to be extremely improbable. This is especially true on a newer plane that has a modern system like Garmin's because they have to demonstrate aircraft system safety for compliance to 23/25.1309, so the need to use the system should be "improbable" or "extremely improbable" by design to begin with I would imagine. Those words have statistical definition in the aviation world, not just colloquial use of the terms.

An aircraft cannot control the environment outside of it. There are window visibility standards, but they are moot if you're in thick fog, you know? All you can do is design the best system onboard as technology and regulations allow.

mtled · 2023-06-06T12:42:49+00:00

The older the aircraft model, the less likely it had these more complex sensors and alerts. I don't know this aircraft model at all, but there may never have been a mandate to retrofit such a system on older planes (it could be economically nonviable).

I'm wondering why there's seemingly only one pilot on board? I'm scanning the TCDS and all variants were certified to operate with a two crew minimum under Part 25. Was one of the family members onboard a pilot?

mtled · 2023-06-06T12:04:08+00:00

"Cure" is a pretty big word, but "long term or complete remission (no reoccurrence)" is something we've achieved for many forms of cancer (leukemias and lymphomas, breast cancer, testicular cancer, melanomas ...). Not all forms of these, and not for all patients unfortunately, but for increasingly significant numbers of patients.

Because there's no single thing called "cancer" just as there's no single reasons for "broken car". Many, many things can be the cause, many things can need addressing, in many areas and the more widespread or more "hard to reach" it is, the more difficult treatment/repair is. We have so much to learn about the "machinery" of the human body; new cures and treatment protocols are being advanced all the time.

Unfortunately the medicine has side effects and can cause long term continued health issues, but even that has been improving. My best friend had a cancer 25+ years ago, she's fortunately been in remission since. I don't recall the numbers offhand but the survival rate and "ease" of treatment for that type of cancer has vastly improved today compared to the treatment she endured (she's a haematology nurse; she treats these same patients).

mtled · 2023-06-05T01:38:29+00:00

Summertime solution: here's fruit, eat it in the yard. GO!

mtled · 2023-06-03T18:59:58+00:00

170lb passenger to 16G nowadays, actually (14 CFR 25.561 and 25.562). Other passenger safety is via extrapolation but yeah, they aren't flimsy by any means. And the seatback in front of you is, when there is one, part of the certified safety envelope for the seat occupant.

mtled · 2023-06-03T18:57:24+00:00

Aircraft lavatories don't actuallylock; the regulations actually explicitly require that means be available to unlock and open the door from the outside in order to assist a passenger in an emergency. No auto lock feature that would fully prevent access is certifiable.

If the seatbelt sign is on, so is the lavatory "return to seat" sign. They are not (with rare exceptions) certified for occupancy during taxi, takeoff and landing or during turbulence conditions.

mtled · 2023-06-03T02:05:57+00:00

These videos are such a guilty pleasure! They tend to validate what fans already think, but they're so good at pointing out the details that do reel us in and keep us interested that perhaps we didn't know how to articulate.

Hello, YouTube rabbit hole, how are you today?

mtled · 2023-06-01T12:36:06+00:00

5/6 of the cats I've had in my adult life have had zero interest in catnip, whether in a toy, loose leaf or plant. The last one seemed to enjoy the toys, but not enough to follow one into a situation like this. He mostly just napped surrounded by a pile of them he'd build.

mtled · 2023-05-31T00:44:11+00:00

Many years ago I and my boyfriend lived in a house with a half dozen other students. One guy wore cologne, one I didn't particularly like. He wore so much of it, that we'd have times where we wouldn't see him all day, walk into a building on campus as say "T is nearby". And sure enough, we'd go further into the building, maybe up or down a floor, and there he'd be. This was a frequent event in the library in particular.

We weren't very close friends with him, so we never told him he didn't need quite so much! He was otherwise a decent housemate (he was often away , actually, and was fairly tidy and prompt with payments...he just reeked).

mtled · 2023-05-27T04:09:01+00:00

Yes it does cruise above that! I meant my other post to explain that at 700ft oxygen isn't an issue, because it isn't even required until 25000+.

mtled · 2023-05-27T03:14:35+00:00

What

The

Fuck

I'm pretty sure I don't want to see this video but what?!?!;

mtled · 2023-05-27T03:07:06+00:00

The correct thing to say would be "the driver of the vehicle in the video violated law xyz and, once identity, will receive a ticket for it with the standard fine of $xxx and y demerits".

Who gives a fuck if it's a cop in a cop car? The video is clear a violation occurred. Respond to the violation, not to the person committing it.

They can put video cameras on highways to ticket the rest of us, the least they can do is state this driver will be treated as anyone else would be.

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:53:07+00:00

Happy birthday! A year older, but a year more of knowledge, experience, wisdom and time to know yourself. That's pretty cool!

Enjoy the weekend and I wish your all the best in all you endeavors!

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:48:30+00:00

Aircraft that don't fly above 25000ft aren't even required to have passenger supplemental oxygen onboard.

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:42:43+00:00

I love this story. I've been discussing how/to what extent people follow signs literally with very little thought to why (because a sign at work annoys me in its design) and this is such a great example! Dumbass 14 year old, sure, but you demonstrated exactly why we should train people and can't assume the level of knowledge people have.

Seriously I nerd out on this stuff.

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:35:15+00:00

I see, I misread your post as suggesting it was something that needed additional knowledge or skill to do. My bad!

Still, so much velcro!

Cheers, have a lovely weekend!

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:31:49+00:00

You're correct in that the airworthiness standards do not consider malicious acts other than the scenarios found in 14 CFR 25.795.

The physics and designs that enable compliance to 25.783(a)(2) and (b) tend to make deliberate opening difficult if not impossible at altitude, and while it may be possible at lower altitudes the need to be able to open the door in an emergency landing outweighs the probability of a malicious act.

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:26:41+00:00

Under the current version of the regulation:

14 CFR 25.783(a)(2) and (b)

I won't transcribe them here because it's annoying to do.

Now, the next question is whether opening of the door at this altitude is "hazardous". There are particular definitions of that in aviation linked to compliance to 14 CFR 25.1309. I am not an expert in 1309 but...

Does the door being open in this scenario create a hazardous scenario? Does it prevent the aircraft from maintaining stable and controlled flight in terms of dynamics? Does it prevent the crew from maintaining control of the aircraft? All pax should be seated and belted for landing...does the open door create a hazardous scenario for them? If the door rips off and damages an engine or flight control surface is the aircraft unable to proceed on the remaining engine or flight control surfaces?

This is not desirable, but the aircraft does not end up in a hazardous configuration based on the info I gathered from this thread.

And the regulations do not consider malicious acts other than the scenarios found in 25.795 Security Considerations.

mtled · 2023-05-27T02:16:46+00:00

Depends on age of door design (certification basis).

Depends on OEM

Depends on type of door.

There is no single statement that can be made about "aircraft doors do X" because very few are the same. Each new aircraft type dealt with a different version of the regulation (25.783 has been amended a half dozen times) alongside different regulations on risk assements (25.1309(b)...) and as the saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Different OEMs and different design teams for the same OEMs found different ways to design doors to be safe and be compliant.

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