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  1. 3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Full disclosure- i know nothing about airplane engineering 

     

    Planes pressurized at altitude, why would something going from high pressure to low pressure be fascinating?

    again not trying to be a dick or any kind if plane expert 

     

    7 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

    The crazy thing is that plug even with all the bolts off is designed to press in.  The fact that it blew out and off is fascinating and scary as fuck

    Pressure/depressurizing cycles puts alot of fatigue on connections, and id bet my bottom dollar one of the bolts that held the plug in place wriggled it's way free. Since it was a recently manufactured place, off the line in Nov 2023, there's gonna be one hell of a maintenance and torque checking regimine to recertify those airframes. Manufacturing defects like that rarely happen as a singleton

  2. I really doubt there would be this much acrimony towards NYT if trump had not targeted them so relentlessly. Because genuinely, I haven't heard a single addressable complaint aside from the usual "well they're just a RAG, ok??? MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING!!"

    If y'all had something more than boohoo victimhood it would be much more interesting 

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    Why would anyone do that?  One set of accidents had a design flaw along with some clear cut flaws in basic airmanship, agreed upon and documented by every entity that investigated it. The other is pretty clearly a quality control issue having nothing to do with flying. 

    Glad to see you still hold grudges like a woman though. Enjoy your trip next week. 

    🤣🤣 Such poor airmanship it caused them to ground the entire fleet? Gimmafugginbreak. Both were matters of quality control - the lawn dart incidents were because of slapdash programming by Boeing and a failure to properly integrate multiple systems, compounded by regulatory capture. 

    Not sure why you're seeing this as a grudge though, just laughing at how fierce the defense of Boeing was in light of their continued negligence towards their customers. 

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  4. Well at least the fascist sympathizers are honest that they don't give a shit about empirical fact and a history of fucking lying to prop up a fascist coup attempt. 

    Look, NYT sucks dick. They have been at the heart of many yellow journalism incidents, and frequently "sell their soul" for access to power. Maga Haberman sends her regards and all that.

    However, fact still remains, fox is an instrument of the fascist movement. Using fox as a totem to equivocate ALL media as bald face fucking liars is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty. 

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  5. 19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Did Elon/Tesla says something about the quality or performance of their product? If so, they were almost certainly lying.
    Which, according to the Elon simps, is just “business geenyus!”

    "Of course he lied! He'd be stupid NOT to lie! The fines won't be as much as he makes from the sales anyways"

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  6. 3 hours ago, slorch said:

    16 negs on a football topic.  Gimme a footbal thread in which said poster has 5 fucking posts... Also LOFL at the little socks and hangers-on who have since added in negs  on page 1 of the thread.

    triggered is  bombing a rando thread in defense of the fucking NYT of all things.  Again, for no reason other than politics.

    There was absolutely a snowflake involved, and a neg from penelope just means bitch got triggered.  It's a confirmation, not a bullet.

    Again people in this thread denied that there is pushing of politics or cloaky behavior outside of CR and even DT.  They are lying to themselves.

    Dude it's amazing how upset you are at getting some (-1) internet points lol. You and your betters aren't doing yourselves any favors when you describe just being mean as "cloaky" lol. 

    Just try to be less of a victim, yeah? You'll survive, I promise

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  7. 8 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

    No, it’s a consequence of fifty years of NIMBYist housing policies obstruction. Institutional investment getting into single family housing is a sympton of the supply-demand imbalance, not the cause. 

    I think it's more of a "yes and" than the "or" as you're framing it. If they're buying up homes, then it's necessarily going to drive up prices for everyone by shrinking supply and aggravate the imbalance to further profit off of it. 

    5 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    An interesting question is why are large corporations now investing in SFH when they hadn’t previously, at least in the last 50 years.

    I'd argue it's because there's less people able to buy a house now than ever, and corporate power and wealth is at an all time high in America. They couldn't before, and now they can

  8. 6 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    The majority of investment homes are owned by Mom & Pop LLC

    If Mom & Pop LLC are buying their 25th SFH to let renters pay off and siphon off that wealth, they can fuck right off. It's ridiculous to allow investment firms to buy up perfectly good homes just to drive individual buyers out of the market and convert them into renters.

    Ending up in our current state of lolwtf inflated rent and home prices is a consequence of letting homesteads be converted from family property into private equity investment vehicles. It rips away so much stability from families and steals their opportunity to build wealth themselves. 

  9. Weird that an Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy was the group to spot this and blow the whistle. Crazy that aggy sold their control over academic research and standards, faculty, students, curriculum, and budget to the Qataris. Those memes about needing high oil prices to fire their corch were no joke lol

    Jimbo is one hell of a drug

  10. 20 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    “Would we have had prices go through the roof? Probably not, because we would have had more generation in the north. It gives you options. It gives you flexibility, which is what we need,” Glotfelty said.

    I'm surprised that a measure to reduce prices to consumers actually made it through - how are they going to justify adding arbitrary fees to my bill each month if there's stability in the power supply??

  11. 55 minutes ago, Goredho said:

     

    There are a good number of people who are just fucking tired of the constant politicizing of every. god. dammed. thing.  I am one of them, and it is why my involvement here in the CR has relaxed, even though I have a pretty strong opinion as to who the bad guys are in this timeline.  Here's a hint: the bad guys aren't our children who are struggling to reconcile the gender they were born into.

    People are being kept in a constant state of worry if not terror over where things are going in the US, and that is true whether you lean right or left.  It is not mentally healthy to remain in a constant state of agitation and fear.  We are not being groomed to be gay, or straight, or conservative or liberal.  We are being groomed to be anxiety ridden supporters of an ongoing cold civil war against "them", because there is a lot more money to be made from the war than there is from the peace.

    Counterpoint: as a millennial, I have only seen shit get progressively worse since 9/11 with little reason to be optimistic. I do agree that there is too much of "us" vs "them" but fucks sake man, "they" are measurably making my state and nation a worse place to live in. 

    My representatives don't listen to their constituents unless they come with a 5 figure donation, and literally every company in America is only out to boost next quarters profits and exploit the shit out for their customers. And none of that is going to change any time soon, no matter how much people try and push. The monied powers that be don't want it, so our oligarchy won't change to be less exploitative 

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  12. 56 minutes ago, Viper said:

    And we're back!

     

    First tweet should say "without liquid nitrogen"

     

     

    One of the biggest challenges with validating the LK99 finding was how inconsistent their methods for creating it were, exactly along the lines of random untracked contaminations and whatnot. I hope more material science labs are able to replicate this finding - it would be world changing

  13. 12 minutes ago, slorch said:

    The problem with ted Cruz attending your team's games is that they fucking lose.

    /Astros fan.

    He should be rebuked for that jinxy shit.

    Unfortunately there's no room for that because snowflake righties reflexively defend Cruz and shout "muhCR!!!" to kill the opportunity for dunking and shitting on that jinx 

  14. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

    Saw a few YouTube car channel videos about the coming pickup truck Armageddon.  Dodge can't even sell trucks at all. The average Dodge price was over $85,000 with probably half of them over $100,000.  Ford wasn't far behind.  Chevy seemed be the best priced but you were still looking at $60,000 for a trim level that would've been considered a $30,000 fleet vehicle 5 years ago.  The dealers are keeping them on the lot instead of discounting them because they have to incur that loss when they do.  Until then it's just on paper, so they're kicking that can down the road as long as they can.

    It's not just trucks - I paid off my 2019 jeep Cherokee last summer and for kicks I looked up what a comparable car would be brand new, and it was about $12k more - a 30% fuggin price increase! That ain't inflation, it's automakers getting a piece of that sweet price gouging action

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