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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

I tried crossposting it but Mlem has a bug right now (I think it’s fixed in the beta). Have at it!

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 42 minutes ago

!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve never been anyplace where you can just touch a wild bird, let alone determine they make a crunching sound when touched!

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

How to make your pet tax deductible

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

I couldn’t find specs skimming through the article, but it doesn’t look like it would fit in any normal parking space. Driving around might be as unwieldy as a motorhome or box truck, without the height advantage when you inevitably drive over a curb while turning. Doing that might also make it un-airworthy.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

This looks to me like yet another in a surprisingly long line of airplanes that are also designed to be driven on roads in someway, but they’re basically all noticeably worse at either task than vehicles designed specifically for one of those tasks. It also invariably ends up more expensive than two specialized vehicles, so there’s never really any reason to build these.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Way more expensive than most private aircraft, though.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Helberg only discovered the unexpected visitor when a panicked neighbour who had rung his doorbell repeatedly to no avail gave up and called him on the phone.

“The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don’t like to open,” Helberg told television channel TV2.

Relatable

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It is understood the same vessel has run aground three times previously within the last three years.

That sounds excessive; at some point it seems like that should cost someone their job?

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Context on the pic? Did a ship run aground recently?

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

“Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.”

 

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SpoilerOverheard in the Newsroom post from May 18, 2016

Editor, while reading a viewer email: “Huh. A guy with an AOL email address doesn’t like the new graphics. Imagine that.”

 

And another bad driver will not be looking at the road and plow into multiple people.

Here’s a source from People magazine.

Drivers involved in the crash suffered bumps and bruises but no life-threatening injuries, [Fox 8] reported. Their vehicles were extensively damaged.

 

Need for Madness was a series of ridiculous and fun games that originally ran on Java in a browser. Now the devs are back with a new game that isn’t what they originally planned as Need for Madness 3 but they’re saying it can be considered as that. Need for Madness - Re-Lit is written in HTML 5/WebGL and can run not only on desktop computers but also mobile devices. They devs have also licensed some music from RetroWave bands including LazerHawk, Wice, Jeremiah Kane, and Dreamhour.

If this works as well as they hope then they want to work on creating NFM 4 and 5 in the same system.

 

Onboard camera in rear-facing engine recorded the event. No one was in that engine, apparently the last of 4 hauling the train. No one was hurt on the train.

 

It’s kind of worse when you see it on the map, because it appears to be running parallel to an existing developed area, like they built a bypass through the rainforest for the climate summit, not a road for someplace previously unconnected.

 

This track popped up in my Facebook memories today. The note I had with it said I was listening to a station on Pandora spawned from Vince Guaraldi when this played. I said I wanted to listen to the rest of his album, but I don’t think I have. Maybe being reminded of it this time will get it back on my radar.

 

I have an Xbox One X. Tonight I noticed a banner on the main screen saying I could get up to $150 trading in my console for an Xbox Series X. I scanned the QR code for the trade-in calculator and it told me my promotional value was actually $100, not $150. There hasn’t been a lot on the Series S/X that interests me that I can’t play on my One X other than Flight Simulator. I do also use it as my media player for that TV, so the one advantage it has is if I subscribed to YouTube TV’s 4K package I could watch it on that TV (the One X is not listed as supported but can apparently show some, though not all, YouTube TV 4K content). I don’t even actually play that much so I’m not sure it’s worth spending the money, but I am curious about doing the upgrade. It looks like all my games should still play and my controllers still work? I don’t have anything that uses the Kinect and don’t have a Kinect, so no worries there. So if I did the trade-in I wouldn’t lose anything and would gain a current-gen system? I think I would get a Series X, but not the 2TB Galaxy edition.

 

The motorcycle passenger was pronounced dead at the scene and the motorcycle driver went to the hospital with critical injuries.

 

Hayes Barton is an older, prominent neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. It has many large houses, lots of old money families, and I had always assumed it was named for a prominent older family or families, perhaps the owners of the land before it became a neighborhood. Today, though, I learned that it was named for the house where Sir Walter Raleigh was born, Sir Walter Raleigh of course being the city’s namesake. The house still stands today but is a private residence, not open for tours. I read that Sir Walter wanted to buy the house but Queen Elizabeth I would not let him, wanting to keep him in London close to her.

 

I had two BlackBerry devices for work, right about the time they were going away. I'd heard the keyboard was good on earlier models but it seemed like the quality had gotten pretty cheap on the later phones. The BlackBerry 10 OS on my last phone was actually pretty good, and probably would've kept them in the market if they'd launched it 5 years earlier.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/aviation@lemmy.world
 

I knew it couldn’t last forever, but it’s still a shame the streak has ended. A CRJ700 operated by PSA for American Airlines collided with a Black Hawk while landing at Reagan National Airport. Sixty-four people were on the plane and 3 on the helicopter.

Edit: Corrected name on Black Hawk from one word to two

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31805552

Can someone go check on Cincinnati? I think they might be having some mental health issues.

It's delicious fyi

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