MIT Engineers

[innocentbystander]

Good lord, that truck had new everything...

Yup its a real good truck. Well cared for

[sardis]

The future is now....or in about a year.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... d-fly.html

[eCat]

kind of like drones, if a flying car is under a certain weight/size, it doesn't have to be adhere to the FAA requirements and declared as an aircraft.

I was reading an article a couple of days back about a single person drone that had about a 20 minute flight time that essentially looked like a modern drone with an enclosed cockpit. It sells for $90K.

They plan on upping it to 30 minutes by next year. For the moment, they are so concerned with people crashing them they are only selling them to licensed pilots with the idea they want everyone to believe they are safe.

I'd love to be in the financial position to buy one. After playing with the mavic drone I bought, the technology with GPS is very advanced. I think I'd feel pretty safe in it.

[Jungle Rat]

Fuck no. Then you'll be over my house throwing oranges at me.

[hedge]

You might better check on the weight limit...

[eCat]

hey, last time I checked we weighed the same

[Jungle Rat]

Details

[hedge]

"hey, last time I checked we weighed the same"

That's why I said it...

[sardis]

"....they are so concerned with people crashing them they are only selling them to licensed pilots with the idea they want everyone to believe they are safe."

I hope they only give it to license pilots.

[eCat]

btw, people that have intentionally lost weight during the pandemic are assholes

look at me, I've lost 55 lbs in the last 4 months

bitch, you better have been in the ICU

[hedge]

Lost weight during the pandemic?? Shit everybody I see has gained. Well, the MIF has dropped about 15 lbs. since she's been down with the covid but I'm sure she'll put it right back on once she starts back drinking wine every night...

That reminds me, the MIF is pretty well over the covid but she must've slept wrong the other night and her neck has been killing her. She's complained more about the neck than the covid. She can't turn her head, nothing. So, I've got a good stockpile of Tramadol from Mexico, it's a very low-grade narcotic, basically it's good for a hangover but if I was in real pain I'd be looking something else. Well, she won't even take that. She went to the doctor yesterday and he gave her a muscle relaxer, she won't take that either. Last night I said fuck it, I'm taking one just to see if it's any good and of course drank a bottle of wine on top of it. I didn't really feel anything but I did forget to set my alarm and woke up about 2 hours later than usual, so I guess it did something. I think she took one today but I haven't heard anything yet...

[eCat]

[innocentbystander]

Bari Weiss on the pandemic and Covid



Everyone is talking about Bari, taking sides on Bari, commenting on her comment that liberals are "afraid" to say that they are done with covid because they don't want to be labeled as a "Trumper." LOL! There are some that say she is right. There are some who say she betrayed the left and should be cast out. I think Bill Maher's comments go under-rated.

This is deaths by state per 100,000 people. The worst is Mississippi. My home state of New Jersey, 4. 4th worst. New York 6th worst. West Virginia and Massachusetts are 10 and 11. Right together. Could there be two states who are more unalike? The poster boy for keeping shit open is Florida, they are down at 17. So New York and New Jersey did worse than Florida. What I'm saying is

We did worse because we are a densely populated hub of international travel

Well Florida is home to all of the old people of America so maybe they should have done worse than

But the data is crystal clear and beyond dispute, that the deaths and hospitalizations have been overwhelming concentrated among the unvaccinated. If you are fully vaccinated, you have a far lower risk of infection and hospitalization and death.

But that's not even the issue we are talking about now. We will get to that. What this is saying is that Florida stayed open. I was just in Florida. I've been there a few times since this started. The atmosphere is different. Its night and day from California which is gloomy. And in Florida, they stayed open and went on with life and they didn't do a hell of a lot worse and maybe they did better?

Obviously, the congressman was trying to defend New York and the honor of New York. He is from the Bronx, from New York. But Bill (who was raised in New Jersey and is more New York at heart than California) didn't let him off the hook which was nice. Bill got into the numbers, got into the data. Congressman got into the rhetoric.

[hedge]

"He is from the Bronx, from New York."

Thanks for that clarification...

[innocentbystander]

Yeah that was a stupid, redundant comment of mine hedge.

But you get the point. Congressman Richie had his narrative and Maher had a different narrative. I'm not sure the congressman was aware of any of the actual "numbers" until he sat there in that studio on that panel. I certainly hope he doesn't feel like he was blindsided. He certainly thinks that New York is right and Florida is wrong, no matter what the data says. But I believe in data the way I believe in science. And the data and the science, they are not lining up correctly. New York had a policy based on the science and Florida had a different policy, and look at the data and who wound up better?

[eCat]

putting a timing belt in my truck today in 25'ish degree weather.

I have to heat up the parts with a heat gun before I take them off.

no one will ever accuse me of being patient or smart

at least I'm taking off work to do it

[eCat]

well that was a mistake

[Jungle Rat]

Sorta figured

[hedge]

Bad timing? Get it? You were changing your timing belt? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Ahem...

[Jungle Rat]

EXIT --->