Luckily, we’ll always have Psy.

I imagine they might vote differently now, lmao.

The Whiskey Rebellion was a response to taxation that unfairly targeted the rural poor. George Washington crushed it.

the FSB couldn’t find any Nazis for the livestreams

Brother, there isn’t a single picture of a single Ukranian military unit taken in the past ten years where somebody isn’t wearing a fascist symbol of some kind. The reason the SMU stretched on is much more material - the Russian leadership greatly overestimated their military’s capabilities.

I don’t think you understood their argument.

The people in Donbas have spoken Russian and been considered an ethnic minority in Ukraine since the USSR broke up. The people of Donbas started a civil war in response to government discrimination against their minority. If the people of Donbas are through with being a part of Ukraine, then they absolutely should have the right to secede and either be independent or join with Russia.

Unfortunately we don’t live in a world where any minority group has the sovereignty to actually make that decision fairly and democratically, which is why instead of having a vote they had eight years of war followed by being annexed and two more years and counting of much more intense warfare.

Your characters walk into a magic shop, but instead of buying magic items the shopkeeper offers to sell them scrolls of ownership. “There are infinite number of these scrolls,” he explains, “but they all use a decentralized mechanism to determine ownership!”

“Okay, I’ll buy one. Now where’s my +1 sword?” The fighter asks.

“The scrolls say that you own it” the shopkeeper unhelpfully reiterates. “And every other scroll will be updated to agree that you own it.”

I like this because then you can say that a non-worthy person can wield the hammer, if they’re stronger than Odin and can beat the enchantment. Magneto is probably on that level.

The trope probably goes back further than that, but yes.

It also had the “other OS” feature! It’s strange that the PS3 remains the only big console to have that feature, given how difficult its architecture is to work with. The modern consoles are all much closer to just being prebuilt PCs and none of them have it.

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Beautiful pup! I hope mine still looks that good at 15.5

You’re probably talking about AdNauseum, but unfortunately the ad servers can tell when a real person clicks the ad or when a bot clicks them.

responding to a thread over two weeks old

chill out bud.

To be fair Jersey Mike’s footlongs have gone from $14 to $24.

The KA-50 and -52 destroy their rotors when the ejection seat fires, as shown in this simulation. That’s why the helicopter drops like a rock after the ejection seat fires - the blades can’t autorotate if they’re not attached.

Assuming the blades are still attached, the helicopter will autorotate down even if it is completely unpowered. It might lose some altitude initially, but like you said once the air is moving over the blades fast enough for them to spin they will do what they were designed to do.

One thing helicopters and planes have in common is that if they fail too close to the ground autorotation/gliding won’t help. Helis are generally more dangerous than planes for a lot of reasons, the biggest one being that they spend more time in the most dangerous phase of flight - landing.

When helicopters lose power they just fall.

Any modern heli design will autorotate down. It’s not exactly gentle, but it works.

Works for the KA-50!

You should be able to switch the engine off and autorotate down in any modern heli design.

If not then explosive bolts on the blades are a proven method to make an ejection seat work even if they’re spinning.

No shit? Do you think I thought it was a documentary?

I read interviews with the author where he goes into detail on his research to make the main character’s survival plausible, and it’s fascinating stuff.

I feel like everyone’s undeniably moved to the right on most issues compared to past decades. Like sure the Dems have more people who are politically correct with their language, but Nixon did price controls in response to bad inflation, spun up an all new government agency to protect the environment, and other stuff that only the Dems’ leftmost wing would even dream of doing now.