That water injection is really a cool idea. I learned about that from a KC-135 (Air Force tanker - looks like a 707) pilot. She told me they user the water injection during takeoff for extra power and it creates an ugly black exhaust. That is why you see the black exhaust coming out of some older jets from back in the 50s and 60s. I don't think they do it anymore.

These parts here ... One major privacy feature in iOS 14 is the need for apps to actively ask for permission before tracking you across services. Apple will allow you to choose between “Allow Tracking” or “Ask App Not To Track.” This has caused quite a stir, with Facebook saying it will no longer be able to collect iPhone identifiers for advertisers (IDFA) from users, hugely impacting the business model of itself and its advertisers. Just disallow cross-site/cross-service tracking from the get do would be fine. Just don’t even have anything like IDFA to begin with would be fine. First Apple Inc. built stuff that compromised your privacy, now they bill letting you undo some of that damage as new features.

A most curious etymology. From la wik: Bradykinin was discovered in 1948 by three Brazilian physiologists and pharmacologists working at the Biochemistry and Pharmacology department of the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo, in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, led by Dr. Maurício Rocha e Silva. Together with colleagues Wilson Teixeira Beraldo and Gastão Rosenfeld, they discovered the powerful hypotensive effects of bradykinin in animal preparations. Bradykinin was detected in the blood plasma of animals after the addition of venom extracted from the Bothrops jararaca (Brazilian lancehead snake), brought by Rosenfeld from the Butantan Institute. The discovery was part of a continuing study on circulatory shock and proteolytic enzymes related to the toxicology of snake bites, started by Rocha e Silva as early as 1939. Bradykinin was to prove a new autopharmacological principle, i.e., a substance that is released in the body by a metabolic modification from precursors, which are pharmacologically active. According to B.J. Hagwood, Rocha e Silva's biographer, "The discovery of bradykinin has led to a new understanding of many physiological and pathological phenomena including circulatory shock induced by venoms and toxins." Etymology: brady [Gk] slow, kinin [Gk ] kīn(eîn) to move, set in motion, ? from the effect of snake venom on intestinal smooth muscle, which was noted to slowly contract.[25]

Well to be fair you didn’t know the full cost there either because the government picked up most of it.

Shockening and sicking. Biden's supporters' very souls are at peril and there will be blood on their hands if he is elected.

Agreed, same here. Didn't have daycare for 6 months (at $2,300 a month), and our overall monthly spending is way down. In February, in a pure coincidence, I started some remote-work 1099 independent consulting (in addition to my normal W2 job) that added to the income. We've been very fortunate during this pandemic including the many, many, many hours spent with my 2 year-old daughter as we explored creeks among other fun activities. That has been by far the best part of the shutdown.

@Jolly said in $4. $20.: 15/32 OSB I wood would bet you’re right.

Honestly, very cool. Sounds great too. Lacrimosa is such a great piece of music.

@Klaus said in Hey, Aqua! Another writing style question: It's completely fine to start a sentence with "plus". In fact, it's even preferable to having it in the middle, where it can cause ambiguities. Yeah, but it's Polish. So there's that.

He does indeed. Scandalous!

@Horace said in The stock market crash based on nothing: Take one for the team Aqua. There are a lot of fine, decent people on this side that need that money for our second vacation homes. Know this, friend: as sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, as the Pope shits in the woods, as I know you have a D20 somewhere in your house, nothing I do in the next 14 days will have any economic impact on anything outside my immediate vicinity.

A boyhood hero. I’ll never in my life forget watching Seaver’s near perfect game on July 9, 1969. I was watching on a portable b/w TV set while my mom was serving me dinner, I was 11 years old. I watched that game, hanging on every pitch. I thought I was actually going to see a prefect game live on TV. (WOR TV channel 9. That was the Mets station, unIike WPIX channel 11 that broadcast the Yankees whom every true New Yorker loathed. ) Man I was such a baseball nerd kid. https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/july-9-1969-tom-seavers-near-perfect-game/ https://m. Link to video Rest In Peace.

Right on cue, @jon-nyc lol

White people Yuck

Pretend that you already quit. Then look back on it. Hindsight is 20/20

Ain't that whut ah sayd? .....

Well we need test cases to settle things down. A bit of wild Wild West right now. Regulations will fix that, nothing better for social media to be subject to regulations. Let the progressives get a nice taste of their own regulatory medicine.

lolz