How come the 131 foot altitude in the headline is never mentioned in the article? These turbine operates at 4,921 feet, a number that makes a lot more sense when you convert it to metric, 1.5 km. The article is littered with these odd imperial measurements that should have just been left as nice round metric numbers, or least re-rounded after conversion. 130 feet would have read better, but the original number was 40 m.

“Try the grey stuff, it’s delicious. Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes.”

The A-10 can also sling depleted uranium instead of lead. Doesn’t make a difference when firing at infantry, but helps punch through armor when trying to stop Soviet tanks from pushing through Central Europe.

The titanium armored cockpit is also great to have when you’re frequent called in to do close air support.

Congress members got access to the unredacted Epstein files this week. I’m sure he’d love to reset the news cycle.

Did you just assume that bug’s gender?

The Daily Beast includes Trump’s age whenever his name is in a headline.

You’ll need a lucite engine block to show off your shiny new pistons.

The article is about ski jumping, not racing. This will be the first year the women are allowed to compete on the larger hill, so we’ll see, though I suspect their lower average body weight will mean they’ll carry less momentum into air.

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this fits with my understanding of cybersecurity and why we don’t mix data with directions.

Didn’t we learn this lesson 60 years ago when phone phreakers used their blue boxes to make free phone calls?

Embassy security is provided by the Diplomatic Security Service, a separate agency that operates under the State Department, not Homeland Security.

It’d be a shame if someone use AI to generate an image to upload. You’d just be feeding AI data into AI, and that could ruin what Facebook’s trying to do.

JS minification can make debugging much harder.

The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.

Yes, the ICE agent used violence to try to affect political change, he could be considered a domestic terrorist.

This is called the Jesus nut. It holds the main rotor onto the helicopter. It doesn’t have any redundancy, so if it fails, you’re going to be meeting Jesus in moments.

The Mario 64 70 Star, 70 Person Relay doesn’t sound like a competitive category, but does sound like fun.

I know now why you fry.

And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.