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Paper_jam

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  1. Those were oxygen generators, which (AFAIK) don't contain gaseous oxygen like a cylinder, but they generate O2 through a chemical reaction when activated.
  2. When mass layoffs happen in business, there is usually** (OK, sometimes) a plausible business case as to why it's necessary, or how it will improve the organization. And, usually**, there is a rational basis in the methodology of selecting who is retained and who is terminated. No good business would just arbitrarily cut XY% of the workforce for the hell of it. Does anyone really believe these federal RIFs are going to improve the effectiveness of the government, at least towards the goals these agencies are intended to perform? This is a naked attempt to degrade institutions that serve and protect the public, and redirect those institutions to instead protect corporations, oligarchs, and other large political donors.
  3. Sorry for your loss. My dad died about five years ago and, like you, my strongest connection with him was through time we spent together fishing. Although to be honest, my dad didn't really give a crap about actually fishing, he'd just prop up his pole and read the paper, or enjoy a Michelob. He wasn't doing it for himself, he just did it to spend time with me.
  4. I would literally rather have Mack Brown. Or Major Applewhite. Or Tom Herman. Fuck, was Charlie Strong not available?
  5. What kind of shitheel thinks, "Hey there was a disaster here. I can use that to extort something I want from these suffering people." Disgusting. Trump is incapable of cooperation because he sees everything as a transaction that he has to "win." Fucking grotesque.
  6. If we're gonna have religion in schools, that means we can post other religious shit on the wall too, right? Like the Seven Tenets of the Temple of Satan, or Anton Levey's 11 Satanic Rules? Also if we do school vouchers that fund religious schools with public money, I sure hope someone opens a Lucifer Charter School or something similar. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say.
  7. Very nice of God to save that one Christian when like 5,000 other Christian families had their house burn down.
  8. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Trump wiped his ass with the Constitution (especially Article II, Section I and the 12th Amendment relating to the certification of electoral votes) and the people let him get away with it.
  9. Game checklist: Alcohol inventory status: GO BP meds taken early: CHECK Snacks prepositioned for deployment: CHECK
  10. Our early season jitters are out of the way now, everything is gonna come together. Sark is going to have a strategic game plan, and not kill drives with silly fancy plays that take ages to develop. Quinn is going to scan through his progressions like a Cray supercomputer, throwing laser bolts to the best open man. His pocket awareness will be Jedi-level. He will decisively use his mobility when necessary. but not in a panicked or haphazard way. Our OL will open huge holes that our RBs will gash them with. Blue will not fumble. Our special teams will be ready to jump all over any stupid fakes. Auburn will have calibrated his leg and fixed his hair with a Johnny Unitas cut. The defense will continue to be excellent and will pressure and disrupt their quarterback without losing containment. We will make solid tackles, limiting yards after contact, and not give the opponent extra downs through defensive penalties.
  11. This was a win? It's been several hours and sveral drinks later and I still feel like shit. My voice is hoarse and I hurt my foot when I repeatedly kicked the fuck out of a chair when Bert missed the 2nd FG. My friend said my face turned so red it was scary. There should be a class action suit over the cumulative damage, mental and physical, this game inflicted on us older fans.
  12. Can we infer anything from the apparent loss of ADS-B data at basically the same time as the (first?) bird strike? Does that suggest a major electrical failure or disruption? Also, kinda weird that as far as I've seen, there were no comms at all past the first go-around. I know flying the aircraft comes first but you'd think they'd at least say something about a second landing attempt. Nothing about this makes sense unless they actually had a dual engine failure, or shut down the wrong one as user t-eight posted above. But the video seems to show some thrust (blurry heat waves) from the #2 engine at the time of landing, while showing seemingly nothing from the #1 engine. Although those could be compression artifacts in the video. And "some thrust" from one engine would not necessarily be enough to hold altitude or go around again.
  13. Looking at it again, I also don't see them using the spoilers/speedbrakes on the top of the wing surface. Which seems kinda odd but probably would not have mattered without gear/brakes. But may all go back to a major combined systems failure with hydraulics or something
  14. Yes, but it's possible that the same thing that kept the gear from deploying also kept the flaps from deploying (hydraulic or electrical issue). Although jets like this normally have quite a bit of redundancy and flexibility to let you work around some of those problems. Or maybe SOP for a gear-up landing calls for a lesser flap setting for some other reason... no idea.
  15. So does that leave the carrier group with a degraded air defense? It's a Ticonderoga, dunno if they have another air defense ship as capable** as that in the group. ** when shooting at enemies
  16. Of course the line of storms forms just east of Travis County.
  17. Some people almost deliberately pick the most dangerous and or most critical places to park their broke-down shitbox. Oil pressure light's been flashing red for 20 miles? Time to get on the freeway! Oh no, the motor locked up--who could have seen that coming? And even when a car is dying, it's usually not instantaneous---you should be able to feel it sputtering or misfiring and maintain enough momentum to get it to the shoulder instead of just stopping in the fast lanes, etc..
  18. This video has a good discussion by two experienced former-Navy pilots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYOsX2GpX4 Not a pilot, but imagine being basically on or near final approach, low and slow, at night, and you see a missile launch from a cruiser right under/in front of you. For the plane that was hit, the crew saw it coming and ejected pre-emptively. The second F-18 either dodged the second missile, and/or its guidance was terminated by the ship before it hit. But his was all happening at short ranges so the missile flight time (and the time the crews had to react) would have been only seconds.
  19. I think gun manufacturers can make huge gains in market share with women by making guns a branded fashion accessory, like shoes or purses. Get co-marketing deals with leading fashion brands like Coach, Gucci, Prada etc. and make the guns with custom finishes and trim specced out by designers from that industry.
  20. From the article: "The statement described the move as a shift "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" to a stance in which "immunization for any vaccine, along with practices like mask wearing and social distancing, are an individual's personal choice." Oh, so now personal choice is the key factor in determining medical care? Except for, y'know, that one thing. Also, LOL at a state health agency not wanting to issue "paternalistic guidance" when it's literally their fucking job to inform the public how to minimize their health risks.
  21. Can't wait for the USAF/US Army to blow up some $300 drones with million-dollar AMRAAMs or 4-million-dollar Patriot SAMs. Even more so if they miss the drone and hit Southwest Airlines Flight 1313.
  22. We had a Holiday Inn booklet that detailed the amenities at each location, including whether there was a Holidome. I'd always try to steer my folks towards those locations, with some success. Thinking back we stayed at a lot of Holiday Inns that were like $35 a night, and a really nice one in a good location might be $50/night. For a long time that figure ($50) was fixed in my mind as the price for a "really nice" hotel. Now a Motel 6 is that much, most locations. Fuck I'm old.
  23. Maybe he will just decide his best option is to continue playing here another year and get better to enhance his value for the NFL.
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