@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey, pilots! (real and virtual): You're not going to be able fire a freaking Maverick from that thing. Why not? I can map the buttons and switches to any function, and that includes firing weapons.

@George-K said in Unclear on the concept: It's made of "vegan leather." First, peel three vegans....

@LuFins-Dad said in "Bad to the Bone": So can we agree that this was a case where slapping would have been appropriate? I think it's a bit late for that. They should have slapped him in 1945.

I got home from work and was preparing to cook dinner when I discovered the chicken breasts I had put in the fridge over night were still mostly frozen (a certain toddler can reach the refrigerator settings now)… I was going to put them back in and thaw for tomorrow when I remembered this thread… So I tossed them between a couple of pieces of Saran Wrap, pounded the hell out of them with a mallet, tossed on some lemon pepper and seared them for 1 minute each side in the cast iron then put them in a 400 degree oven. It took 20 more bites to come to temp, but these were the best chicken breasts I ever cooked…

Check out his playlist. I know the OL has a video, and it's pretty well done. This draft has three very good tackles and a couple of guys who will make decent tackles, but outstanding guards. In fact, one of the top seven or eight linemen is a 5-technique guy ( a guy who has played all five OL positions in college). The Saints love guys like that. Maybe the Bengals could use some versatility. In a 17-game season, guys are going to get hurt.

@Horace, it’s wave-particle duality; it has no mass when traveling as a wave.

@Axtremus said in Don't grade homework because...equity!: please give them the benefit of the doubt and allow them more time to work out the issues. Isn't this what they have been doing for hundreds of years? Yes, but that not enough time, they need just a little more.

Never knew he wore glasses.

@Horace said in "Autopilot" fail: Now the full tank of jet fuel alone costs more than that. https://www.iata.org/en/publications/economics/fuel-monitor/ [image: 1650658679474-screen-shot-2022-04-22-at-3.17.49-pm.png] https://cirrusaircraft.com/aircraft/vision-jet/ [image: 1650658804961-screen-shot-2022-04-22-at-3.19.48-pm-resized.png]

Nah, they only constituted about 10%.

@Doctor-Phibes said in M-She-U: psychotic Mary Poppins That’s how I see that character too.

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A life sentence followed by an execution. Double whammy!

If the hunter can't use his big brain to make killing tools, then the tiger can't use it's claws and muscle. The fittest will win, that's the rule.

@Axtremus said in Why *not* to use a SSD for Time Machine Backup: Yes, mostly affect write speed, not so much on read speed I would think that's not a major issue in backup, particularly if incremental, such as Time Machine. Hybrid drive with smaller SSD + bigger HDD … for a while that’s the standard for iMacs. Even Apple stopped doing that now. I guess people just don’t want to deal with the mechanical failures of HDD’s moving parts. My 2014 iMac has such a drive. It failed after about 3 years. I had it replaced. But, I'm currently booting from an external SSD and it works great. My Time Machine backup is to a 4TB RDHD.

@George-K said in RIP CNN+: https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1517238902163181571?s=20&t=uK96PelIdEphLjVuHolyNg People who preach about kindness to others inevitably bear claws and fangs as soon as they feel righteous to do so. It’s not that kind people don’t exist, it’s that kind people who condescendingly preach about kindness don’t exist. Most of those idiots can’t pass a first simple test of kindness, for instance viewing charitably the opinions of a political other.

Excellent piece.

Meh. We already raped the earth. Why not the solar system?

Yeah, but has the dose been reformulated for today's strains?