Watched a video about that fateful Air France Concorde flight. It took 121 seconds from the point they lit the afterburners to start rolling to the point everyone died. For most of that it was probably profoundly obvious to the flight crew that they were going to die: the plane had two engines out, their wing was on fire, they were on the verge of a stall, their landing gear was fucked, they could not gain speed or height, and the aircraft was becoming uncontrollable.
They HAD to know they were going to die, and yet right to the point their short flight ended impacting a hotel at 200 knots, inverted, with the plane yelling, “pull up, pull up, pull up”, they acted utterly professionally.
So impressive. So tragic.
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It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the cis are at it again.
Pilot dies after plane crashes during gender reveal party in Mexico
Alan Francisco Rangel of the Sinaloa Red Cross told CNN that paramedics treated the pilot at the crash site in San Pedro, Navolato and then took him to a local hospital, where he died.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/04/americas/mexico-gender-reveal-plane-crash-scli-intl/index.html
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Oh well. Didn't want to use this for the next day anyway,.
I am in the showers at the marina (yes, TERFs, the women’s showers. Go fuck yourselves). They have the radio on. They are talking to a “psychotherapist” who explains how, because of the iron in your blood, you can get rid of “negative energy” by touching a radiator to “ground yourself” for 20 minutes a day.
Did the Enlightenment actually happen, or did I imagine it?
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Dear Vodafone. That you managed to make registration for your site not work with the built in password manager for iPhones, one of the most popular mobile phones, is deeply unfortunate. It’s also an impressive achievement, because iCloud Keychain works nearly everywhere. You actually have to go out of your way to bugger it up.
But you, a mobile phone company, have managed to make your mobile site not work with this most common of mobile phones. I am impressed with the amount of effort it must have taken to be this incompetent.
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Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable!
Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.
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US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy
Conservative lawmaker Chuck Grassley likes the look of Rachel Reeves’ tax proposals.Jones Hayden (POLITICO)
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You can tell your covid requirements are pseudoscience tickybox woo when they emphasise “hand gel”, which is completely fucking useless against covid, over “face masks”, which are not.
And also when your activity is outdoors in the countryside.
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@Adam With the caveat that a lot of the orthodoxy around those viruses also originates from the same utterly wrong assumptions that made the WHO state that covid couldn’t possibly be airborne until they evidence that it was became overwhelming.
I’m not saying personal hygiene with regard to hand cleanliness isn’t important: it is. It’s much more an issue for gastrointestinal stuff though, and is unhelpful to focus on with diseases (including the ones you mention), that the vast majority of people catch through inhalation.
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Things are pretty good for me. Lots of people care about me and it seems to me that when I spend time with them I like myself a little more. I even had a moment of actually appreciating how I look. Some of my fears about the future have started to seem more manageable and navigable, and I've had a pretty good day today, organising for a day's walking in the Peak District next weekend and lounging around before watching what was a pretty exciting Italian Grand Prix.
And so why do I find myself suddenly feeling slightly low and on the verge of tears? There's nothing to sadden me, I'm sitting in the summerhouse with the laptop and the new bureau I rescued from Ravensworth Gardens. It's a lovely afternoon. And yet there are tears welling up and something catching at the back of my throat.
I've taken antidepressants as usual, per schedule, and similarly hormones. Whyyyyyyy.
@ceb Could well be though I rather expected most of that to be over and done with by now! Bloody hell I’ve been on hormones for three years now. How did that happen?
Walking on Saturday 9th.
Ah yes, the Four Quartets! (Roses in Four Quartets; hyacinths in The Waste Land).
At the start of 4Q I always think of someone a bit like Eliot himself, a bit like someone like Bertrand Russell or Whtehead, wandering through an autumn garden of a dilapidated stately home maybe after some great sadness and shattering, perhaps the great war (1), kicking up leaves, kicking up dust, running your hand along the sheets covering the furniture in the west wing remembering the great Edwardian dances, etc.
(1)via a linking image of my own: the way people can and have dry-drowned in disused fountains filled with leaves, from the CO2 of the decay, like the trenches in the war).
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Apparently I have a controversial belief about the modern software industry. I don’t think it should be controversial.
The belief is this: writing new code in C in 2023 is like installing plumbing in a new house using lead pipes.
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Some people’s partners leave crumbs in their bed.
My darling wife leaves a chicken carcass, like she’s some sort of cat or some shit.
Just genocidal fucks openly planning a genocide. Nothing to see here.
I hate posting $#!t like this, but people keep buying it when these same people say they 'just have concerns.'"Ellis said that we should 'have the moral conversation' about whether trans adults 'should be permissible in the United States...'"
On Salem Media, Jenna Ellis and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey push states to ban health care for trans people | Media Matters for America
mediamatters.org/salem-media-g…
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*goes to add to kindle*
*finds it's already in the pile*
Somewhere around the coal layers...
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Britain and France are sibling countries: We spend a thousand years fighting like cat and dog because MUM SAID I COULD HAVE CALAIS, YOU COW!
And then Germany comes along and messes with one, and the other is like, "HITTING MY SISTER IS MY JOB! DIE!"
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@Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ @John Macintosh UUUUUUUULA!
And presently they came to Tillingham, where, if Wells had done his research properly, he would have known it is basically a mudflat and far too shallow to float a torpedo ram, which had a draft of 6 metres.
Going through moons of the solar system, and I get the naming scheme, but it's still funny that Uranus has a moon called Margaret.
My aunt is called Margaret.
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I now have a Welcome To Paradise earworm! (~2:30) Wonderfully cathartic song for those brought up in that world.
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Front 242 Welcome To Paradise V 1 0 V
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise. 1988 Wax Trax Records. A slick track by a slick band chastising tele evangelists. Great industrial example of angst and rebe...YouTube
Seeing someone on Reddit saying that they never used the maths (specifically, “pi”) they learned at school, and that it was pointless learning it.
I have used trigonometry and calculus in my everyday life to make short work of problems, mostly relating to DIY. If you reach middle age without m any this stuff, then I can almost guarantee that you have done several things the hard way when you didn’t need to.
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I’ve used very little of the math they tried to teach me and forgotten an awful lot of it:(
But my opinion wasn’t that it was a pointless thing to be taught, but that school did one hell of a bad job at doing it:( At one point I was good at maths (at least compared to my peers) and slowly they sucked every bit of fun and wonder out of it:(
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Green Party 'At Risk of Going Bust' Amid Trans Row Legal Challenge from Former Deputy Leader – Byline Times
The party's accounts suggest there is "significant doubt" about whether it can continue as a "going concern" due to a series of legal challenges.Josiah Mortimer (Byline Times)
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Standard British things that you don’t realise are creepy and authoritarian as fuck when you grow up in the UK.
These are meant to frighten you. You can safely throw them in the bin.
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@rachel_norfolk There are three of us???
Also I said day one that Google having a browser was to further their own goals of stealing information and forcing ads everywhere.
People were quite upset with me for having that opinion. But here we are, and I have no joy in being right about this or anything else negative:(
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Hang on, Dorries told Sunak, “history will not judge you kindly”?!?
Girl, get some self awareness!
Lost most of Thursday to a migraine.
“That’s odd”, thinks me. “Haven’t had a migraine in ages”
This morning: depression and extreme fatigue.
This evening: joint pains in my index finger.
Aww crap, I ate gluten, didn’t I?
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@Ted don’t even know what it was. I’m pretty careful.
And so many doctors are like, “non coeliacs don’t get extra-intestinal responses to gluten”.
Bullshit.
“If we can’t do crimes, there will be a civil war”
Grow the fuck up
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New flat has a halogen hob
I hate it. It’s total bullshit.
It’s got to go.
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Unknown parent • • •@alastair One of my favourite facts about the Shuttle is the Return to Launch Site abort mode. Literally “spin ‘er around and blast back to base”.
The Shuttle would spin around, with the external tank still attached, and execute a burn until it has nullified its down range velocity and can start to head back to Kennedy Space Center. It would then jettison the ET and try to land.
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in reply to Katie Fenn • • •@alastair There was once a plan to test this abort scenario for real, but the astronaut office vetoed it. They thought it was so dangerous it wasn’t worth testing even once.
This is how the Shuttle stack ended up being tested, “in production”, on STS-1.
The astronauts would rather fly an untested stack than try the ridiculously risky abort mode.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@alastair Apollo 12 was also struck by lightning, which wiped out the guidance and the telemetry. A single flight controller was able to figure out what had happened, and instructed the crew to flip a single switch that saved the mission.
If they hadn’t have fixed it, they would’ve had to abort.
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