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Restaurant worker refuses to rent someone a yacht ;)
One of my very smart coder former coworkers had a saying:
"What you said was wrong. What you meant to say was also wrong."
From 0 to 200 km/h (124 mph) in 1 second
It could be, but the size of the props makes me think it's pretty heavy with the motors required to drive all 4, and the angle of tilt it maintains (you can step through a bit) without losing altitude requires a lot of thrust. It looks pretty legit to me, and with the proper power to weight ratio, this is pretty much how I'd expect something like this to be built and look and sound. I mean, none of it looks impossible -- the control is the hard part.
What makes you all think this isn’t just sped up?
I Crashed My Plane
He absolutely faked it. Consider:
- Happened to wear a skydiving parachute for the first time on YT on this flight
- Fuel selector line to the right wing was visibly disconnected, accounting for an empty wing, short intended flight, and the lack of fire
- Left door was ajar when prop started to sputter
- Down/up pitch inputs during "engine failure" add drag and slow the plane, whereas basic pilot training is to put the nose down to gain airspeed
This pilot had some good points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=724JxkwWqA8
When you confuse a pregnancy test for a vape pen
"Mommy, when did daddy find out you were pregnant?"
Disagreement About Masks at Christmas 2021 in Math Class
Yeah, he completely lost me at the sermon. "We can all agree", because there were no Muslims, Jews, Pagans, Wiccans, atheists, etc. in the room.
The Gecko Visits Portal - GEICO Insurance
They should have hired a writer. A more creative storytelling playground in games doesn't exist.
When lighting a match goes wrong
This is literally EIA. He did almost everything wrong you could possibly do:
1. Drop the lit match into a pile of garbage while focusing on the burning box of matches.
2. Piling dry cardboard onto the burning garbage as if somehow that would smother it.
3. Repeatedly fanning the flames with a heavy blanket instead of trying to smother the flames and cut off oxygen.
4. Hitting a large uncontrolled pile of burning materials with a small amount of water that really just served to scatter the burning materials instead of putting them out.
I need to buy a new fire extinguisher. I actually just bought one for the kitchen (which specifically smothers without scattering grease or oil) but the package was stolen out of the mail room before I could pick it up. /rant
Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work
In my M1 (motorcycle endorsement) class, we learned this as "breaking the plane". There's a lot more force involved so you kinda have to consciously do it above a certain speed. Knock the front wheel in the "wrong" direction so that the bike falls into the turn in the direction you want.
When you're the only person in band that practices ;)
This feels awfully familiar to me.
Around Cape Horn (1929)
They went round the wrong way? Jeebus, Chile is a huge leeward shore to avoid... That bit about having to then fight the current to go 200 miles further west before you can turn north so that you have enough sea room not to get smashed onto the rocks of the Chilean coast when the weather turns rough... We had engines at least as a backup, but just in case of emergency. Plus we had weather radar and modern forecasts so we could plan a route to avoid the worst of what was to come. Respect.
I especially loved the part about how sailors on the upper yards like the royals or the masthead being "as close to heaven as a sailor ever gets".
Around Cape Horn (1929)
I've actually sailed around Cape Horn on a tall ship, and am a full member of the International Association of Cape Horners (IACH). She was SV Tenacious, and it was Auckland, NZ to Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Thankfully, we timed it well and got VERY lucky with the weather and had a clear rounding. We did have a force 11 (just short of a category 1 hurricane) one memorable night somewhere east of Point Nemo, but for the most part it was a pretty smooth passage. Of course I got the tattoo (full rigged ship) on my right upper arm.
China’s New Bio Weapon Targets Race and Ethnicity
Here's the entirety of what the Reuters article says that could be considered at all pertinent to the utterly false and clickbaity video title:
That does not come anywhere near supporting the claim being made without tremendously more specific, pertinent evidence. Starting with your chosen conclusion and working backwards is a clear sign that you're probably wrong.
Religion, in a nutshell
Such a waste of human effort.
I’m 100% Serious
It's pretty well-documented that Trump got into the 2016 presidential race as an act of self-promotion, not out of any love for America.
This misguided gentleman's premise is incorrect, and hence the only thing to come out of such an exercise would be clips for OAN and funds for Trump's legal expenses.
Rick and Morty S5:E1
This episode certainly isn't the best the show has to offer. The "Keep Summer Safe" sequence certainly springs to mind, though it needs context...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYvrziE4feI