I mined half a BTC with university electricity. I used it to purchase the Pathfinder 1e rulebook.

I could've paid off my student loans with that half BTC. I try not to think about it too much.

I never used the rulebook.

Wrong community, there is nothing dull about brisket.

I think some of the dissent in the comments fail to consider some of the nuances in this interaction. If this specific kind gesture isn't appealing I have two alternatives to suggest.

I keep a bunch of bottles of water in my backseat and two in my glovebox to hand out to people asking for help at traffic lights and such.

Goodwill and other thrift stores generally have books for pretty cheap. Easy to fill a shopping bag for $20. I mostly aim for beginner level novels and young adult fiction and put them in the free neighborhood libraries. Satan knows we need more children reading.

There are ways to non-destructively test for cracks and voids in various structural elements. Planes already go through very stringent inspection and maintenance cycles so various physical factors will already have a well-established baseline to compare to.

Some speculation; the damage may be far less than you'd think. Aircraft are (generally) designed to fail gracefully and the front landing gear is a mechanism that sees a lot of force during landing. I can't tell if the assembly folds back into the landing gear bay or if it penetrates the fuselage without collapsing.

A whole sack of shit went wrong if the fuselage fell directly onto the gear assembly but if the landing gear "simply" folded back into the bay it could be a relatively easy repair. Airframe loading is extremely well-characterized and engineers are already running the numbers on what forces went where.

All that said; fuck McDonnell-Douglas. Boeing "acquired" them back in the 90s. Somehow the MDD board of directors (comprised of businessmen) took over leadership roles formerly held by people with engineering backgrounds. A lot of the failures and poor reputation Boeing has suffered in the past few decades are very likely related to that leadership change.

Ah yes, child abuse, the solution to all of our problems.

This way we can downvote each schizoposting idea rather than limit ourselves to a single "wtf?" downvote.

Okay but there's no way the flow separates from that roof enough to clear the boat

Looks like it was a test of a suppression system in New York. The jet is an F-16 judging by the single vertical stabilizer over a single integrated engine. I initially found the picture in this fire protection post but the source is probably this Air Force blog post which is now lacking a picture.

Cleanup would've been messy and likely pollute the surrounding area but an important aspect of fire suppression foam like this it that it wouldn't harm the entirely-too-expensive aircraft.

Just...open the hole from behind with your finger before shoving your straw in.

Fortunately* you don't live in Wisconsin.

Born and raised there; a DSA governor is a fucking fantastic step in the right direction. I'll mention her to my family but...

Wisconsin is the south of the north. I regularly drove past a Confederate flag. Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the US (or was, havent checked recently) and the GOP leans into that with a lot of ugly rhetoric.

This article is getting a little long in the tooth but is a quality deep dive into some of the very thinly veiled (or outright) systemic racism in Wisconsin.

Also; rural Grindr made me sad for queer men raised in that environment, including myself.

degoogle for privacy

still use AI chatbot

Bruh

I just want my public library to stay open past 6pm. What are these hours??

What's the context with Pug?

Got any grapes?

You're both doing Satan's work, hail 🤘

Static image, also Summit.

I tried to explain this to the vendors but apparently shopping for mouth-feel is too far for those gun show nutters.

Only if you use the cheese sticks as is. You could cut the cheese sticks before battering and deep frying.

Or, hear me out; what's wrong with six giant deep-fried sticks of cheese???

Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive book 4, Rhythm of War. I opened Way of Kings for the first time 5 weeks ago and 3600ish pages later I'm still engrossed. I'd planned on waiting for the series to finish but I missed chewing through epic fantasy on this scale.

Once I'm caught up through book #5 I'm thinking its time for another go at Malazan.

Other than Martin, Rothfuss and Jordan are there any other works with similar scale/complexity/depth as Stormlight and Malazan?

That's XCOM baby!