A lib helicopter joke

donald trump must take the foggy helicopter ride challenge

https://subium.com/profile/kilgoretrout.bsky.social/post/3ksvhnq5ffg24

I guess "trump helicopter ride challenge" was too aggressive or something.

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Bibi as well

Google translate says "mast nut".

Oh, fuck - I remember that too. A friend's friend must have had that. I have a few vague memories of it. Maybe I played it or saw it about three times. I must have said something like "This is really, really weird," at the time.

I don't know the cause of the crash but the following makes me laugh. I wonder what it is in Persian.

Jesus nut

Jesus nut is a slang term for the main rotor retaining nut or mast nut, which holds the main rotor to the mast of some helicopters. The related slang term Jesus pin refers to the lock pin used to secure the retaining nut. More generally, Jesus nut (or Jesus pin) has been used to refer to any component that is a single point of failure which results in catastrophic consequences, and the only thing left to do is, metaphorically speaking, pray to Jesus, hence the name.

They Live, which as it turns out, was the first film broadcast with this "Color Television" we now know to be a programmed hallucination, the bastards have no shame.

That could have been a better movie.

That must be true numerous times in the multiverse.

I didn't look at the link and read the entire sentence. Then I was disappointed the link didn't go to the vid of an ASMR voice whispering: "Praise Baphomet." Drat.

A Bluesky lib posted that and said that Senator Whitehouse "ought to" do something. I said the dems are worse than useless and will do nothing on this. The lib replied with...

What is it you hope to accomplish here?

And then he blocked me. Haha.

I don't want to start a struggle session but as nice as physical media is - I don't miss records. They get warped or they get scratched. In some alternate universe if a record was somehow the same high fidelity but the size and weight of a cassette - I might actually buy some. I would have some. But I don't know how the windows would work on the cover of Physical Graffitti. Holograms I guess. Or then again - something better.

It’s the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there that they got here. But it’s just - it’s just their physics is a little different. And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? A Royale with Cheese.

I like old music. Particularly rock from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. Jazz from the 1950s, 1960s. A lot of music over the last 30 years or so drive me crazy and I hate it. I use an equalizer when I watch movies because the TOO LOUD / TOO QUIET problem is even more annoying. Usually equalizing does the trick. But some damn tv series figured out an extra-annoying way of making songs TOO LOUD so I either turn down the volume or skip the scene.

I'll leave this here.

Loudness war

The loudness war (or loudness race) is a trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music, which reduces audio fidelity and—according to many critics—listener enjoyment. Increasing loudness was first reported as early as the 1940s, with respect to mastering practices for 7-inch singles. The maximum peak level of analog recordings such as these is limited by varying specifications of electronic equipment along the chain from source to listener, including vinyl and Compact Cassette players. The issue garnered renewed attention starting in the 1990s with the introduction of digital signal processing capable of producing further loudness increases.

Before he has another child he can write a book called Baby's First Genocide.

Also - fuck him for using the Star of David.

You done kicked over a hornet's nest at the Pentagon, buddy.

You're the designated survivor.

For Iran? Well, for whoever/whatever my speech is the same.

First of all - I'd like to thank the members of the Academy for this great honor. And...

The Stanley Kubrick infobox drama is classic.

Stanley Kubrick Gets His Infobox : wikipedia

Nov 17, 2021

Noticed this too the other day haha. I was so surprised how the editors came into agreement last month, especially since I discovered the whole infobox fiasco no more than two months ago. Surprised tf out of me how much crazy drama Wikipedia editors have over the simplest things.

Also checked out the page’s edit history and found out that the infobox was removed on August 16, 2015. The fact it really took them more than 6 years worth of internet arguments and debates to add back a bio summary box sounds insane lmao

Getting too deep into this topic will drive you to madness. Glad it's finally resolved. The whole debacle was foolish and self-inflicted.

His talk page is 15 pages. The drama went on an on and on.

I'm Ashkenazi and in a coincidence my dad looked a lot like Raisi. I have a white beard with if I wore a turban with matching attire and I went to a random Walmart in a very red state - I wonder if people would stare at me with open hostility.

On the F-35 talk page I complained about what was missing. It's my custom to complain on the talk page. If stuff gets fixed - great. If not - oh, well. I don't want to argue or get into an edit war. It works well for me. But that talk page was different. Within about an hour my comment was - I don't remember the term - "refractored" or something. They hid it.

It was posted by a journalist but in classic "gimme likes" fashion he didn't explain. I'll never understand why less information gets more likes on the net.

I'm stealing the title for use in a future "caption this" post.

steam powered submarines

I didn't even know there there was such a thing.

Of the 18 built, none were lost through enemy action, but six sank, with significant loss of life, in accidents.

[...]

With a dive time of around 5 minutes (with the record being 3 minutes 25 seconds which was claimed by K8) it allowed the captain the luxury of being able to walk around the superstructure to ensure that the funnels were securely folded. The last, improved, boat, K26 was completed slowly, being commissioned in 1923. She had six 21-inch (530 mm) bow torpedo tubes but retained the 18-inch beam tubes. Her higher casing almost cured the problems of seawater entering the boiler room, and improved ballast tank arrangements cut the diving time to 3 minutes 12 seconds to get to 80 feet (24 m). She also had an increased maximum diving depth of 250 feet (76 m).

Musk has been busy squeezing the company through hot-headed layoffs in an effort to make the company “absolutely hard core.”

He's such an idiot.