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I tend to agree. After reading the events that lead to the crash, there does seem to be a lack of experience and critical thinking. Crash location is 33.60682, -105.35674, approxim…

I’ve spent a lot of time exploring that area of NM, and it’s incredibly rugged or desolate terrain, with low population levels that are very dispersed. Mostly ranches and wildernes…

China buys Russian oil via pipeline and tanker, so they’re not entirely dependent on Gulf crude. They also have more levers to pull at the state level to reduce civilian demand on …

The problem is European countries have been on a path towards reducing local refineries, and replaced with imports from Gulf States. ~50% of jet fuel, and up to ~25% of diesel was …

Spec ops tend to be more averaged sized, with denser builds (as opposed to bulkier muscle mass)(1). Although, quick caveat, take a look at old photos of Vietnam War era special for…

One potential knock-on impact of the strait being effectively closed, is that at some point the gulf states will be forced to shut-in production as local storage fills up and produ…

To add to your comment, ~20%-25% of global oil production passes through the AG (Iran is only ~4% of current global production) @ ~21mbpd. The longer that oil can’t get out (Saudi’…

Ukraine has been using cheap interceptor drones (models Sting/Bagnet/etc) combined with sensor networks to intercept slower prop driven Geran-2. Then Russia upgraded to jet engine …

Having grown up in churches that began to embrace NAR tenets in the 90s-00s, this particular eschatology gained a foothold across a wide swath of denominations from non-denom/chari…

You can also find orange (or skin contact) wine in the US at smaller boutique natural wine shops, which are becoming more common. Orange wines are cultivated in Sonoma and other wi…

>If you really need something bigger renting a trailer or truck is dirt cheap It’s neither convenient nor cheap to rent a trailer in much of the US. Major cities have options, rura…

> I find routine and habits over schedule and calendaring I find the same. To keep myself honest, I built a simple habit tracking sheet (grid paper; 1 page/month; x axis list items…

I’m on this journey myself; learning to become more emotionally well-regulated, and kinder to myself. For years I had depression, and I used self-flagellation and self-loathing as …

I’ve experiencing this same issue on every flight now using APP3, and considering returning. Tried multiple different ear tip sizes. Reset and re-paired. It’s not just pressure cha…

Thanks for recommending. I was not aware that a fork of Organic Maps had been created, or that longtime contributors to OM had concerns about the project.

Another vote for Organic Maps. I use it as a lightweight maps app for backcountry or traveling in foreign countries where I don’t have a sim card. You can also record tracks in the…

As someone who uses (and prefers) MIPS screen to AMOLED, here are a few reasons I went that route: A) User experience: I prefer watches to be tools that do a job, and otherwise to …

Objective truth doesn’t have to be a stark black and white dichotomy. You don’t have to have 100% understanding or knowledge to observe that the probability of evidence is pointing…

The P365 does have essentially one point of failure on the striker assembly (see here https://www.reddit.com/r/SigSauer/comments/c5ddz5/can_someon... ), and lacks a trigger blade s…

For anyone interested, here is a video showing Glock internal safety mechanisms: ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg2tlV1oqVM ). A mechanical description of Sig P365 internal safety…

I don’t know if the Sig P320 has a similar firing pin safety design to the P365, but I optioned to go with Springfield Hellcat vs P365 specifically because the Hellcat has two sepa…

Interesting; just went down a rabbit hole on LLM training and math. For this example, it could have simply copied a table from online, but I wasn’t aware how poorly some LLMs perfo…

Towing companies (and some apartment complexes) are essentially just organized crime. An apartment complex I lived in instituted a convoluted parking system utilizing colored mirro…