AbeFromanEast

AI is a useful tool but it is new, and any new tool in American culture quickly goes through two related cycles: 1. A get rich quick bubble 2. A 'Fire workers until it is clear the tool cannot fully replace them' trend The internet became widely available in 1996 but it really wasn't fully deployed at scale in business, education, medicine and government until around 2005. AI will take a few years to figure out and fully deploy.

What was a rule in your house growing up that seemed normal but later, as an adult, you found out was weird?

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I have 3 cars and drive all of them, but not all at once.

What was a rule in your house growing up that seemed normal but later, as an adult, you found out was weird?

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It was absolute for me, but my little brother got to do whatever he wanted. I guess they were just tired of enforcing a silly rule when he came up. I showed them though, I moved to the evil city (NYC) the moment I was out of the house and have been here for 27 years. It's never dull!

What was a rule in your house growing up that seemed normal but later, as an adult, you found out was weird?

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Not being allowed out of the house unless it was for a school function.

Cult Classic 'Transformers' Movie Finally Getting Theatrical Release 40 Years Later

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*you've got the touch!*

My 2020 Atari set-up

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All fun n' games until Teddy awakens at midnight to kill, again.

What’s happening here?

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It’s like they’re designed to leak.

Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion —government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production

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I bet giving the workers the salary increase they want would cost a lot less than $20 billion.

What kind of plane is the small rear twinjet shown here (being decontaminated/tested)?

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*"Who wants to fly on her next?"* 😂

Frontier Airlines 4345 hits somebody on runway during takeoff roll.

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If it was a suicide attempt it's one of those even more evil "take everyone with me" attempts.

Denys Overholser, Stealth Pioneer Whose Work Led to the F-117, Dies at 86

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Yes, he built on Pyotr Ufimtsev's 1962 paper on edge-wave diffraction. Overholser and Bill Schroeder then made ECHO1 to test different stealth designs on a Cray 1 supercomputer. The Cray 1 was limited to 240 MFLOPS so the early stealth designs used flat facets to simplify the calculations. The Cray 1 had a 300Mb hard drive and cost $10 million. Fun fact, an iPhone 16 Pro Max is 100,000 times faster than the Cray 1 for the type of calculations that were being performed for the F-117.

Saw the first production-standard 777X takeoff from Paine Field today.

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Wow that's big.

8th grade music history assignment 1990s

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Where would kids even hear songs from the 80's and 90's? Unless they have a Spotify subscription and a burning curiousity for the past, there's not many places in current culture playing music from that era. Especially the 90's.

Data Suggests Struggle in Cockpit Before Deadly China Eastern Plane Crash

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The percentage that people die on.

Data Suggests Struggle in Cockpit Before Deadly China Eastern Plane Crash

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Data also suggests struggle with NTSB after deadly China Eastern plane crash [](https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/?f=flair_name%3A%22News%22)

Joint Base Andrews Was Leaking Jet Fuel. Maryland Didn't Know for Months. The Maryland Air Force facility lost roughly 32,000 gallons of fuel between December and April.

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The grandaddy of them all is probably the Hanford Superfund Site. 1 million gallons of high-level radioactive tank waste leaked from underground single-wall tanks into the soil. By the time cleanup is finished in 2050 the cleanup will have cost more than the Manhattan Project did, in inflation-adjusted terms.

Joint Base Andrews Was Leaking Jet Fuel. Maryland Didn't Know for Months. The Maryland Air Force facility lost roughly 32,000 gallons of fuel between December and April.

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I remember flying over a denuded and sandy area of Joint Base Andrews with a USAF Brigadier General back in 1994. I looked down and asked, "what's that sandy spot, sir?" The General said, "you'll be seeing that on Dateline someday."

What the heck did I see flying into SeaTac the other evening?

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https://preview.redd.it/46xj3yyyqdzg1.png?width=1268&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f0c8166922a73387882fede060e66bf3c91ab55

What are your thoughts on the cancelled Boeing 7J7?

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There were large [propfans on commercial passenger test aircraft in 1984](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APzO7OVGakw). Only the oil crash in 1986 stopped their widespread deployment.

What are your thoughts on the cancelled Boeing 7J7?

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They'll be back when high oil/jet fuel prices stay sustained for a long time period. Current genius and well-thought-out actions in the Middle East may provide that era of high prices needed to get propfans off the test-stand and onto commercial aircraft.

What are your thoughts on the cancelled Boeing 7J7?

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Propfans will be back because it's the next step to get 15% fuel savings. After that it'll be blended wing bodies to get 25% more fuel savings. The concepts will probably be combined.

Photo of the Day

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We're looking at 500mb.

CMV: Boom Aerospace looks like an Investment Scam

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The SEC doesn't prosecute anyone for anything, anymore.

Do you think AI will create a new microgeneration? Just for fun discussion

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Within 3 years there’s going to be a small “verified” internet made of real people and a dystopian hellscape mostly populated by AI bots pushing every scheme humans and AI can dream up.

The most controversial opinion I have...

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DMB: ![gif](giphy|1GT5PZLjMwYBW)

Southwest “Independence One” new livery unveiled today. America 250 / 1776 theme (📸Credit: Southwest Airlines)

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And the US flag was based on the British East India Company flag. It's turtles all the way down.

PDP-5 at Tellus Meuseum

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Last pic: this machine was used by the Atomic Energy Commission.

Why are they flying so close?

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*Say this is New Jersey without saying it*

FAA Administrator on ADS-B Billing: ‘That’s Not the Intended Use’

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Unfortunately your well-meaning friend is being scammed.

FAA Administrator on ADS-B Billing: ‘That’s Not the Intended Use’

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Carbon offset schemes are all scams dreamed up by Wall Street to separate people from their money. And I believe climate change/warming is real and undeniable

Spruce Goose makes other airplanes look like toys

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Only one of these aircraft is still in revenue service. It's going to bury us all.

Chinese Passenger's Mandarin Demand Delays AirAsia Flight

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Google Translate is a real thing.

These orange flags on bikes

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Sadly even more necessary today due to lifted trucks driven by short people.

Rocket thingy, under Tu-22M3 belly

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You're right. The Charlie class and Oscar I & II classes launched similar cruise missiles in salvos. Before them there were diesel classes that did the same thing. Getting within 1,000 miles of any Soviet land targets with a carrier would have been hazardous.

Since I’m old and boring now, I wanna hear some rebellious stories of our youth. Come on you little hellions what’s the worst thing you ever did when you were a teenager?

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