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StringJunky

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  1. It needs to be emphasized more that bailing out failing companies and throwing public money their way is Socialism.
  2. Yes, those as well.
  3. Pike. I've watched a group ducklings disappear over a day whilst fishing.
  4. Given their history of focused tempering in steel, I imagine they they would have a strong sense of the internal structure compared to US metal workers.
  5. Realistically, nobody is going to format so meticulously for a forum post.
  6. Wild rice harvesting predates millet by centuries, if not milllennia, in E. Asia. It just looks like a case of natural availability in the earliest times.
  7. I can't find it now. The wheelchair crashed to floor.
  8. That's some kind of reference to a film that I'm not aware of. This was done by Albert Pierrepoint or one of his successors.
  9. Rights and wrongs of execution aside, It shouldn't make any difference whether someone is physically disabled. In the UK, someone was dropped through the trapdoor in a wheelchair.
  10. I don't think she's that ideologically right-wing either. She's seems more pragmatic and reacts to the moment.
  11. Would stubble shaving with an electric shaver that does that be an alternative? You can vary the length setting. I'm thinking it gets you away from directly scraping your face. I had a similar problem and full beards are hard work and annoying for me. I keep mine about 2mm. Any longer and my face feels prickly but I have very stiff face hair.
  12. At least the precedent will be set for the public execution of the top tier of this administration when the time comes.
  13. I don't know how they thought Pike's execution would be successful when it was a known quantity she had very narrow veins.
  14. Interesting. So, over the ensuing decades, pilots never actually migrated to force-free controls.
  15. This reminds me of something my grandad told me about when the aeroplanes flight controls were connected by tension wires and later changed to actuated. The engineers had to put some 'feel' or resistance back into the controls. Same thing will likely evolve with EV's, I guess. He apprenticed in 1936, so he worked with wood and canvas prop planes, through Lancaster and Vulcan.
  16. Apparently, pulling your foot away from the accelerator too quickly makes the deceleration more annoying. Used incorrectly, it can feel like you are slowing down all the time. This is about the passenger's experience.
  17. From what I've read about it, it might have something to with certain physically-sensed environmental cues being missing or diminished in EVs. Generative braking appears to add to the negative comments about EVs
  18. I wouldn't imagine a safety-critical discipline, like naval nuclear work, would change procedures quickly.
  19. I just started to learn to use a slide rule but pocket calculators were becoming a thing in the early 70's.
  20. Reminds me of the 70's when someone said a computer is a glorified calculator. AI to me is a glorified search engine.
  21. Apparently, an anti-knock agent is a must and only a suitable direct substitute will do.
  22. Are you sure it's anaerobic in the space above the must?

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