TIL: Today I Learned
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50 years ago the flying wing was pitched as the plane of the future. It is nice to see it may come back.
TIL... again... how beautiful physics can be.
Watch the full vid.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1134722107882033153
Watch the full vid.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1134722107882033153
Considering that a few years ago even a famous brand unique plane (the concord) had to stop flying, is this new type of civic transport plane viable?
Also, tbh, it does look rather uncanny.
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Yes and I did and as a former restaurant worker, I'm intimately familiar with all of that. The contractor thing was new to me because it's so extremely abused that I thought the illegal way it is done is the *normal* way. Like almost every company I've worked for in aerospace clearly violates the IRS rules on contractors to the point where I was completely shocked to learn that the IRS even has those rules.
Well, after all the US spawned Amazon and Uber, among many other technological wonders, so… yeah, that is but a natural development from earlier stages along the same process e.g. pizza deliverers being exploited.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
*drops tub of cheap vanilla ice-cream and runs off to the bathroom screaming*
And for some reason, this was the first thing to pop into my head...
Spoiler :
That's Castoreum for you.
Well, TIalsoL that a lot of allegedly veg(etari)an products in some markets are enhanced with colourants (i.e. dyed) made by crushing insects (i.e. cochineal), because manufacturers apparently think that puréed tomato has to be a certain shade of red or else.
Well, TIalsoL that a lot of allegedly veg(etari)an products in some markets are enhanced with colourants (i.e. dyed) made by crushing insects (i.e. cochineal), because manufacturers apparently think that puréed tomato has to be a certain shade of red or else.
There is a brazilian (iirc) female novelist who is currently hyped here by a publishing house, and she wrote (among other stuff) a story about someone who eats a cockroach.
I did listen to a presentation of that book, in the recent national book fair here. Can't say I liked it. And from a small story of hers I read (in english) I was disappointed.
Particularly since the publisher goons present her always as "the new Kafka", "the female Kafka" etc, when there is no actual stylistic similarity other than her mentioning an insect in an unexpected way.
You also find castoreum in cigarettes, some wines and so on. Vegans are getting arsey about it.
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
Some, but not all, brands of sugar use bone char to make the sugar white. So any product with added sugar has potential to not be vegan.
It's been a long time since I played blackjack in a casino and someone mentioned that they have now changed the payout on a blackjack to 6-5 instead of the old 7.5-5. Can anybody else confirm this is the new norm. What greedy bastards.
From 2014:
Two major casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have tweaked blackjack payout rules in a move experts say is subtle but significant to casual gamblers: They get less money if they hit 21 with just two cards.
Pacific Standard magazine reported last week that the Venetian and Palazzo changed their payouts from 3-to-2 to 6-to-5 in March of this year, giving themselves an extra edge against players and potentially setting a precedent for other casinos on the Strip.
Two major casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have tweaked blackjack payout rules in a move experts say is subtle but significant to casual gamblers: They get less money if they hit 21 with just two cards.
Pacific Standard magazine reported last week that the Venetian and Palazzo changed their payouts from 3-to-2 to 6-to-5 in March of this year, giving themselves an extra edge against players and potentially setting a precedent for other casinos on the Strip.
6-to-5 barely is a gain...
Little gain times a lot of players. Also there is the added benefit that it isn't obvious at a glance.
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