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@magvids

Consumption is relatively smaller with turbofans as compared to piston engines or turbojets, but manufacturers generally use this to increase range rather than reduce fuel tank sizes. Flights no longer have to hop from Ireland to Newfoundland to cross the Atlantic, for example.

You can find images of large airliners being refueled - they absolutely dwarf the tanker trucks, which themselves carry 30 tonnes of fuel each. 100 tonnes looks about right.

@magvids

You can do the math - a dreamliner has two engines, each burning 2-3 tonnes of fuel an hour when cruising, depending on weight & altitude. The longest scheduled dreamliner flight is something like 15 hours, so it works out to about 75 tonnes of fuel if you take the midpoint of 2500kg/hr/engine. Stated fuel capacity is about 100 tonnes which includes some extra for climb out & reserve. So it looks about right to me.

@snow

I wouldn't go that far. He designed the system to work a certain way, and from his perspective long toots are a form of not playing nicely with others. As a microblogging service he wanted Mastodon to be able to fit many toots onto the screen, so he capped the length. Other instances sending longer toots have forced him to modify the software to cope gracefully (e.g. by collapsing long toots), and he's not happy about having to do so.

@snow

It's politically complicated. The developer of Mastodon opposes instances using limits other than 500, so unmodified Mastodon treats 500 as a law of nature - by design, the API doesn't have a way for the server to tell a client differently.

QOTO is modified to allow more characters, but still lacks an official way to advertise this to Tusky. Some instances have unofficially extended the API to do so, and it sounds like QOTO may soon follow suit. Until then Tusky assumes the limit is 500.

@arteteco

I'm kinda partial to Omid Djalili. You might also know him as the Gladiator character who annoyed Proximo by selling him "queer giraffes" that wouldn't mate.

@codesections @freemo

I prefer "resign" because it can actually be ambiguous in sentences, while "cleave" can be disambiguated by the presence or absence of a direct object. Suppose you see a headline "Star Player Resigns" - it can mean either that he quit (ri-ZINE) or that he signed a contract extension to continue playing (REE-sine).

@freemo

Well right now #1 isn't an issue - at least not to nearly the same degree - because we can tag our own posts/profiles. People interested in calligraphy find you by searching related tags, but that wouldn't work if you had to wait for someone else to add those tags and you had no followers to do so.

StackOverflow's tags aren't used for moderation the same way as you're proposing. I can't really make it harder to find a question by maliciously tagging it, can I? (It's been a while)

@freemo

My thoughts:

1. Requiring others to do the tagging will stifle new users. It creates a chicken/egg problem where I need my posts tagged to draw attention and gain followers, but I need people paying attention to get my posts tagged.

2. Trolls will troll. You'll get bullies who visit your profile and tag all your stuff as hate speech out of spite. The current flagging system needs a mod to actually suppress content, but it sounds like your proposal wouldn't.

@TheOges@mastodon.social

5th grade overnight underground railroad trip. Students are grouped in 18-bunk cabins (traditionally, subverting chaperones' attempts to enforce bedtime, sneaking out and banging on other groups' windows, sending Morse code messages by flashlight, etc.). Then in the morning, groups rotate through a series of "encounters" spaced along a trail in the forest, where reenactors offer food/shelter, steal your winter clothes at gunpoint, or try to capture you.

@freemo

They seal up a loose collar that might let the wind inside your clothes. The rate of heat transfer from your skin into air scales with the temperature gradient, which is reduced by keeping cold air at a distance.

I also wear one while motorcycling in the winter because exposed skin gets very cold at speed (high speed = thin boundary layer = steep temperature gradient). As a bonus, the scarf tucks over my nose and beneath the pads of my glasses to direct my breath away from the visor.

@freemo exactly right

@freemo

Mundane eyed food bowl

@crackurbones

Modern Compressible Flow by John D. Anderson. It's a very useful reference, and as always Anderson pays attention to the details - e.g. under what circumstances each model accurately represents reality.

@realcaseyrollins

I get a similar reaction from car chases in action movies, especially when the director goes for spectacle and wants a lot of collateral damage. All those bystanders whose cars the hero trashed are now on the hook for the repairs, and for some that's not a cost they can absorb. How many Russians had to raid their savings after Jason Bourne tore through Moscow, and couldn't afford to <go to college>/<visit their sick parents>/<get vet treatment for their dogs> as a result?

I'm entirely serious - these sequences really impact my view of the protagonist.

@azzurite

It started life as a right-leaning instance who felt existing social media was biased and unfairly repressing conservative users. They joined the fediverse earlier this year, and while it was initially much like noagendasocial or quodverum, I think the centrists are largely gone now and most of what I see from there these days is some flavour of antisemitism. I live in a country where conservatism is generally associated with support for Israel and find this quite jarring.

@azzurite

It's a server, like qoto, running a modified version of mastodon. They have a "free speech" policy where being civil is not a requirement. Consequently, most of the users who are capable of being civil got fed up with the incivility and left, and those who remain largely have no other instance willing to put up with their behaviour. Many instances now block gab, but qoto is pretty good about not engaging in that sort of dogpiling so we are still free to engage with them.

@design_RG

I sometimes raid tunein to add new stations. Pull up the website, find a stream you like, and dump packets to get the audio stream address. Then save it as a bookmark in your music player (e.g. vlc). It used to be possible to do the same with radionomy but that quit working a bit ago.

@freemo

Picked it because it's the closest to "all else held equal" in terms of circumstance, so as to minimise confounding variables.

I have no information either way. Per media reports, the guys who brought down the White Settlement attacker were church security; it seems plausible that pure-civilians don't usually worship while armed. On the other hand, it would also be believable that the Sutherland Springs shooter did face armed resistance but prevailed against them.

@freemo

Just read about this - it's reported the attacker was using a shotgun.

Compare Sutherland Springs. Still in Texas, still a church, still brought down by a carrying civilian - but he had an AR-15 clone and killed dozens before he was stopped.