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[F-14 Tomcat]

They could actually disable it, but it also disabled the normal trim system and they'd have to spin the trim wheel manually.
And, they'd have to know about it.
It was an also option for having multiple sensors on the system, and some carriers didn't get the 2 sensors so there was no way for the computer to know if there was a sensor error.

Right, I misremembered that part. Another clown show aspect I couldn't fit in was the FAA allowing Boeing to self certify the airplane in house.

 

[Ensok]

What's the obsession with "third places" anyways? And why does it seem like the definition of them will change to whatever they need it to be?

 

[Midwit]

What's the obsession with "third places" anyways?

It's the argument that urban density results in there being more places to socialise, but dressed up in more academic terms in order to appear more legitimate and disguise the fact that the vast majority of those places are bars.

 

[ilovejews]

vroom

Flying cars are bullshit and here's why: they don't make any sense.

It was exceptionally well run and is one of the very few Olympics that made a profit.

And then you have Tokyo, with it's cool $7.2 billion loss. Remind me guys, are they carbrained or not?

It's the argument that urban density results in there being more places to socialise, but dressed up in more academic terms in order to appear more legitimate and disguise the fact that the vast majority of those places are bars.

Just another instance of slapping a spankin' new term onto a subset of something we already have a term for.

 

[DavidS877]

It's the argument that urban density results in there being more places to socialise, but dressed up in more academic terms in order to appear more legitimate and disguise the fact that the vast majority of those places are bars.

And it's trying to normalize that you don't actually have enough space in your modern prison cell apartment to do much of anything except sleep, shower, cook boxed meals in the microwave and maybe watch TV from your couch/bed.

 

[Baraka Obama]

What's the obsession with "third places" anyways? And why does it seem like the definition of them will change to whatever they need it to be?

These people want to live in perpetual high school where they run into their friends every single day. Very few of them have loving families to base their life around.

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars member asks for advice on how to troll the carbrains:



It's probably also a bad idea to do this in certain Chicago neighborhoods:




Own the carbrains by...not running stop signs?

This totally happened:





All I can say to this is:

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[DavidS877]

/r/fuckcars member asks for advice on how to troll the carbrains:

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"make sure to drive exactly the speed limit and follow every law"
"make sure to give way to pedestrians/cyclists"

So, which is it? Are you going to follow the law or are you going to be an asshole to both other cars and pedestrians/cyclists and not follow the law?
(Yes, I think I missed this rant earlier)
When I bicycled to work I always hated people trying to let me go as usually I was already timing it to go legally behind them and then they go and fuck it up.

 

[Active User]

You can't win with these folks:
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Honestly I kind of agree with this one. Things are easier and safer when people just behave predictably, and it'll usually save more time for a car to just keep going anyways. That being said, ascribing malice to this is dumb, and you do also have to consider that some pedestrians take this for granted now and as such a lot of people are just going to say "better safe than sorry" and stop.

 

[quaawaa]

Honestly I kind of agree with this one. Things are easier and safer when people just behave predictably, and it'll usually save more time for a car to just keep going anyways. That being said, ascribing malice to this is dumb, and you do also have to consider that some pedestrians take this for granted now and as such a lot of people are just going to say "better safe than sorry" and stop.

That's true, but they're constantly complaining about drivers not yielding. Now they're complaining about them yielding. That's why I said you can't win with them.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

737 max's crash issues don't come from inherent instability in the design. Rather they come from too much stability. The larger engines shifted the center of gravity forward, which creates a more stable airplane. As an aside, aerodynamic instability is actually beneficial to efficiency in certain regards. This is due to a stable aircraft's tendency to nose down, which requires downward pressure on the tail to keep it level. This downward pressure robs the airplane of some of the lift it generates. On the other hand, an unstable (or rather relaxed stability) airplane has a tendency to nose up, which requires an upward pressure on the tail to correct. This adds lift instead of taking it away. Anyways, 737 max's forward shifted center of gravity caused a change in how the airplane handles. Rather than adjusting the design to compensate or requiring pilot retraining for the new type, Boeing decided to throw in a half baked program that pitched the nose up automatically to make it feel more like the older airplane. The issue came from bad sensors feeding erroneous data to the computers, which started pitching the airplane up automatically. The pilots were uninformed about this new system, and even if they knew it existed they couldn't override it. There's so many layers of incompetence to the 737 max story that it makes me upset, but it wasn't due to an unstable design.

The 737max does have some design decisions that makes it unstable though. You're right that the larger CFM Leap engines moved the CG slightly forward, but there are also some additional changes that affects flight performance a lot. Because the CFM Leap engines are so big, they had to be massaged under the low wings of the 737, which caused the nacelles to sit a bit higher than the leading edge of the wing and consequently change the angle of attack when the plane is already pitching up. That's the whole point of the MCAS. It's basically software fix for an inherent flaw in the airframe.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

You can't win with these folks:
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Easy solution if you are a pedestrian you time your walk to show up at the crosswalk ready to cross after the vehicles have gone through. Also a pedestrian can wave the cars through and when you cross the street put some hustle into your step instead of walking across the crosswalk like a Nigger lollygagging.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

What's the obsession with "third places" anyways?

It's the fundamental logical flaw of urbanism. These people think they can cram 50,000 people into a square mile of land like rats while somehow still having casual communal spaces where you'll organically have conversations with your neighbors, like you'd see just by going outside in a small town

 

[quaawaa]

They're literally kids:



First time having a paper graded?



Muh SUVs:


Playing dumb:

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Tucker Carlson says that he likes how Moscow doesn't let criminals run free. /r/fuckcars takes this as an endorsement of their plans:

Tucker Tweet:

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He confused MAGA with the WEF:

This is hilarious because Buckhead wanted to secede because they pay most of Atlanta's property taxes yet received no services from its government:



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[Coo Coo Bird]

NYC cyclists rage about horse carriages blocking new bike lane to Central Park (Archive)​

“The horse carriage drivers are using our bike lanes as their personal express lanes to the Park. We just had a bike lane put in on 10th Avenue and we’re getting lots of calls and people sending in photos of the horse carriages in the bike lanes,” Bottcher said in a statement. “It’s called a bike lane, not a horse lane.”

Saw this article and thought of this thread. Imagine having to maneuver around a much slower mode of transportation.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

NYC cyclists rage about horse carriages blocking new bike lane to Central Park (Archive)​

Saw this article and thought of this thread. Imagine having to maneuver around a much slower mode of transportation.

But muh pre-car streets were a safe wholesome third place for kids to play in and definitely weren't full of horse-drawn traffic! People never got trampled crossing the giant horse sewer!

 

[Xarpho's Return]

First time having a paper graded?

Maybe our education system isn't a lost cause after all. He should be thankful that she didn't give him a failing grade on his sources being falsified garbage.

I wish he posted the entire essay. It wouldn't be on the tier of "The war was a very tragic event with guns, insults, and... yuck!" but I'd like to see what this kid's brain is on.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

These are the same people who call white people "karens"

 

[Registration]

This thread is too funny for me, every bit stuff that you guys complain about, actually works where I live (an island with very few space to do shit like infrastructure and with lots of hills and made mostly of granite).

When I moved here, my neighborhood was did not have many services unlike my former home, nowadays you have lots of options and things that we had to go to the center of the city to get, we can get around here by walking.

Different realities tho, we dont have option, we are investing in public transportation, bike lanes and so on, but american cities have so much space that you guys dont ever predict the idea of not having enough space and having so many people that most of your time would be stuff on traffic inside a car.

I fucking wish we had a metro, but to make an underground one here is so costly, and one above the soil would need even more money.

Still love to bike around here, as much I hate cars, pedestrians angers me the most, they move like Complete retards, impossible to predict what they do, cars usually go straight, now the amount of pedestrians that tries to cross the road out of nowhere, even when they can clearly see me coming pisses me to no end.

Also get the fuck out of bike lanes when you can walk on the path next to it.

 

[quaawaa]

This thread is too funny for me, every bit stuff that you guys complain about, actually works where I live (an island with very few space to do shit like infrastructure and with lots of hills and made mostly of granite).

Since you speak Portuguese, I’m guessing you live in Madeira?