WTH, Australia is real.

It’s New Zealand that’s fake. That’s why it’s not on half of the maps out there. Even the accent is made up. No one in their right minds speaks a dialect where “no” has three syllables

Shouldn’t the RAT automatically deploy with a power loss? Can the APU be turned on if there’s a total power loss?

I imagine with four minutes and already at task saturation they may have just forgotten to deploy the gear. I also wonder if they had a single engine when they decided to go around, and then lost power and decided to loop back to runway 19. I also wonder if they decided to keep the gear stowed until final to improve performance, then lost power and forgot to deploy the gear.

I guess some of these things we might never know, especially without the CVR

TouchMoreGrass

Kindness is free, try it

To be clear, “important” in this context is how much companies are affected financially by your death.

You could have a raft of friends and family that would be devastated by your passing, but if none of them have political or financial influence, it would purely depend on how overworked bored the police are and how easy it is to solve the case.

The reason for that is that is… The side left to me (where the rest of the couch is), is unobstructed and leaves enough room to place and operate the mouse there.

Suuuuuuuure buddy, your overly detailed explanation is very believable.

More like a Boeing

‘Was there anything else on the dinner menu?’

‘Vole-au-vents and Cream of Rat,’ said Gimlet. ‘All hygienically prepared.’

‘How do you mean, “hygienically prepared”?’ said Carrot.

‘The chef is under strict orders to wash his hands afterwards.’

The assembled dwarfs nodded. This was certainly pretty hygienic. You didn’t want people going around with ratty hands.

• Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is “Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today! And So On! Hurrah!

• Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett

Ya it’s in the name. Google is synonymous with tracking and lack of privacy. Just another bit we give up to live in the most advanced and free country in the civilized world, governed by it’s its citizens and not a conglomerate of corporate overlords selling our minds by inches.

Yup.

Ah, I see you also have that’s Gboard

(I literally swiped “ghosts Gboard” twice to get the advice above. Oh look, it happened again)

Truly a mystery

Police say the man pulled out a knife.

Doubt

Gemüt brewery in Columbus Ohio has a black shirt with matching lettering that says “Helles Real”

I love it

TBH if they had damaged the painting I’d be pissed, but if oil execs started suddenly falling out of windows Moscow style I really wouldn’t care. I don’t know if your opinion is actually unpopular, but I agree with it

This was really interesting. Thank you OP!

If you’re not in a position to watch the video, the tl;dw: is that plant xylem cell structure allows water to pass but is too small for bacteria to pass, creating not just a large particle filter but a bacterial filter as well. Note that viruses can also pass

There’s lots more, he talks about a study on this, has the water tested for e-coli, and talks about some of the conditions that optimize this filtration method, asking other things. Go watch it if you can

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Ray Belli is amazing and I’ve failed to learn so many things from his podcast because as soon as he starts speaking my mind wanders. It’s like the audio version of reading the same paragraph four times because my brain decides to think about something else while my eyes move across the page

It took me a depressing amount of time to realize he didn’t have a blonde ponytail coming out of his hat