Good headwind. Airplane with decent STOL. No obstacles. Balanced weight.

Brakes. Flaps full. Max throttle. Rudder center. Wait. Release brakes. V1. Vr. V2. Vy.

Bye.

The next order number up at the Ottawa kebab shop.

A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.

Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.

Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life’s too short. Walked away.

Translation (as near as I could figure out):

“Inexpensive PASGT (Personnel Armour System for Ground Troops) helmet with dyed, surplus camouflage cover and a used Yukon Gen1 Night Vision Goggle held on with GoPro parts (likely the curved attachment and maybe even the overhead clips), and an extra mount.”

Definitely a case of: “if you have to ask, you don’t want it.”

Also, the Yukon Gen 1 seems to be discontinued (most of the reviews are 12+ years old) but new units run $2-5K.

Runs the margarita blender in the cockpit.

Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has an original, captured WW-II U-505 submarine: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/u-505-submarine/

Being near a lake, they had a slightly shorter distance to travel over land. Here’s a time-lapse of them moving it into place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUuQIpVuhCg

'Last thing I remember

I was running for the door

I had to find the passage back to the place I was before

“Relax,” said the night man

"We are programmed to receive

You can check-out any time you like

But you can never leave!"’

This is as useful as polling relatives on whether a couple should go through with a divorce.

Non-competes have been null and void in California for some time. Employees can also recover attorney fees if someone tries to enforce one. It’s one of the reasons startups can be started here without fear of persecution by a previous employer.

It’s great to see this become national policy.

Good luck disembarking with the motor running.

Maybe I wasn’t clear.

I’m paying for a pint of beer, not a pint minus an inch, replaced by air bubbles. The taller the head, the less actual liquid. Any place that serves mostly air is profiting.

The picture in OP is 90% foam. They’re paying for air.

PSA: You’re paying for beer. The foam/head is beer they’re not serving you. It’s pure profit for the brewery/bar. You do the math.

Here’s a clue.

If they cover their faces, they think they’re doing something wrong and don’t want to get caught. If they don’t cover up and let themselves get photographed, they know they won’t get into trouble with the authorities.

Read a book recently about demographic ‘replacement rates’ and how low it was in South Korea and Japan (as well as a LOT of other countries, including in Europe).

Author pointed at Canada as a success story of reversing the trend. Offered an example of how immigrants, especially those who could start businesses or were educated could help with the demographic issue without impacting the economy.

But you have to first get around the xenophobia issue. A minister standing up and pulling the proverbial fire alarm is a first step.