There was actually a “flying car” certified in like the 1950’s, they only ever made like six of them though. It was a car that you could snap wings, a tail and a propeller to and it would fly. There’s one in the EAA museum.

The most practical “flying car” I’ve ever seen was a dune buggy that also functioned as a powered parachute. Designed to be an offroad vehicle that, if the terrain is truly impassible, it can fly over it. in VERY good weather, at about 40 mph. And you need something of a clearing to take off in but not as much as a plane would.

Now people are trying to make hexacopters a thing, without really describing to my satisfaction why they’re better than an actual helicopter. They’re not quieter, they’re no more efficient, they’re certainly not safer.

We don’t have “flying cars” because “flying cars” is what we call aircraft whose use case isn’t practical or safe.

You can go spend $100 grand on a light sport airplane and get a pilot’s license in a couple months right now. You’ll almost certainly never use it for actual practical travel.

The most crashed make and model of airplane in history is the Cessna 172.

The most popular make and model of airplane in history is the Cessna 172, in production since the 1950’s and some guy in Kansas is slapping one together as I speak.

Meanwhile I have a pair of Kenmore 80 series washer and dryer. They’re more reliable than my own heart and lungs, and I can get parts for them when a knob or a lid switch goes bad once every decade or two.

Kind of likewise; coming from Reddit the political weirdos were American conservative types, “Jesus needs more guns to shoot the gays and the poor and the blacks” sort of folks. The idea of fervent fucking Soviets on the English speaking internet was new and instantly boring.

That’s the one.

I’ve seen cats just reach up the chute and work the mechanism manually.

For further context, see the movie Cashback.

Or would you see the photons that are present where your eyes are at the moment, and by moving around you see the photons that already were where you just moved, still approximating normal vision?

I might still be young enough to pull that off for a few more years yet.

The way I would implement that is to day one set a date for elections of a congress and my own retirement. I’m imagining a Mars Attacks scenario in which the ak ak ak aliens blow up congress and the government of the United States consists of the President’s teenage daughter and a mariachi band. If through some set of goofy circumstances no meaningful government exists above me and I am in full command, we’re gonna do shit my way for, say, four years, and then we’re calling a congress. At which time I retire to a small estate somewhere in the Carolinas with only ceremonial powers, like I reserve the right to throw out first pitches of baseball games.

I don’t think anything you just said is correct.

I cannot find anything about a tape format called “LP-2000” that came out in 1970.

Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren’t nearly as successful as Sony’s Betamax format which lost the format war to…

VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita…and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.

The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it’s U-Matic.

There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.

They did later reduce the Ti-84 Silver to 48K. Still…idiots.

Don’t you guys have phones 90-series graphics cards?

The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.

The Leatherman Skeletool is currently available in several varieties, including the long-running standard model with an unfinished stainless steel body, a chunk of aluminum in the handle, and a 420HC semi-serrated blade, and the Skeletool CX variant with…whatever the black coating is made of, a carbon fiber chunk in the handle, and a 154CM plain blade.

When the model was first introduced, the base model had a plain blade, and the CX had a semi-serrated blade. This was swapped, as they realized first time knife buyers were more likely to see the semi-serration as a value-add, while more serious knife guys would prefer a plain blade. So you might find a very old Skeletool with a plain 420HC blade, or an old CX with a semi-serrated 154CM blade.

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It’s not relevant to my daily life but it is sometimes a significant limitation.

I’m one of those that passes out at the sight of blood. A little scratch or something won’t send me but actual injury or a lot of medical stuff will get me.

About half of the time I get an injection or blood drawn I’m out. They use those high chairs so the nurses have more ergonomic access to the patients? Nope, I get the recliner, because I’m liable to fall out of that high chair and beat my head on the floor and now the nurse has a big heavy mess to clean up.

Two of my four doses of the Covid vaccine I was out. Was pretty sure it was going to happen each time and I was right twice. Still got all four.

I’ve done it to my dental surgeon almost every time I’ve seen him. Has a nasty habit of playing a video tape that explains the risks of tooth removal, and I seldom retain consciousness through the part about possible nerve damage. They tend to leave you alone in a room while this video plays. Even if I stay conscious I go weak and can’t really move under my own power, it’s really fun to be alone like that.

I’m careful to warn everyone who works in the shop with me that - if you are injured - I’m not going to be able to drive you to the emergency room, you’ll have to wait for and pay for an ambulance. So put on your safety glasses and partake in my large collection of push sticks.