Sickle. Pretty much used for the same purpose, but on a much smaller scale.

Source: Grew up on a norwegian farm in the 80’s and 90’s. We had an ancient one of these hanging on the wall as decoration, presumably used by my ancestors.

I usually sort All by top 12 or 6, depending on how recently I last checked. That’s how I keep up with the general chatter. And I refresh my subscriptions by new once in a while to take part in the topics I enjoy as they emerge.

The absurdity of this headline makes “You wouldn’t download a car” seem like a not-so-distant future PSA/ad campaign.

I’d never even heard of her nor seen her picture until a few days ago, so yeah…

Well, not all those who live in cartel territory are members, but it’s still a presence that affects their day to day lives.

Those in Utah that aren’t Mormons still have to live by their rules.

Meanwhile youtube is heading in the opposite direction.

They’re trying to take market share from each other, but failing to realize how annoying it is for those who only use one of the platforms precisely to avoid the content-style from the other.

It pays comfortably

I think you need to elaborate on this one

I’m an IT dude in the offshore seismic survey industry. It involves working on ships, and sometimes crewchanges are done via helicopters.

From my limited understand8ng of their formation history, GnR was the result of fusing members from LA Guns with some other band named something Hollywood Rose. Axl came from the latter.

The LA Guns vocalist was Tracii Guns who took part in forming GnR as a guitarist, but left shortly after and Slash took his place. I’m curious how things would’ve turned out if he’d remained as only a singer.

I’m thinking that without him, maybe the rest of the band didn’t have to be so drugged up to tolerate each other long term, perhaps keeping the original lineup for longer.

It was far from a life and death situation, as it was a highly controlled activity.

But it was meant to mimic a life and death situation for practice: Anyone who travel by helicopter in the North Sea are required to go through this course which includes an emergency water landing drill. It involves sitting inside this thing that is reasonably close to one of the common helicopter models used in the north sea. Same seats, same belts, and similar windows.

This “simlator” hangs from a crane over a pool. So that you can practice escaping from a ditched helicopter. “Brace brace brace!” dunk
This is done while wearing a survival suit that has a rebreather. Each passenger has a dedicated scuba frogman to make sure you don’t panic and drown.

First dunk emulates a successful water landing. Helicopter remains floating for a while, but then goes under. Release window, unclamp, and swim out.

It gradually increases in fuckery, to the poin where it’s emulating a helicopter that goes under right away and flips around as it does.

I’m fairly light weight, so this survival suit gives me a lot of buoyancy, and this collar-like thing around my neck tended to catch on the window as I was going through. In the beginning, this was not a problem, but it became a pretty big one on the last test.

The disorientation from being flipped made it hard to compensate for the extra buoyancy, so I got stuck, upside down in the water. I immediately knew what happened, but I remained calm, moved back a little bit. With one hand to keep track of the window, I used my other hand to pretty much pack and squeeze collar as close to my neck as possible, preventing it from catching. There was no panic, but there was a slight worry that the frogman hadn’t intervened. Thanks to the rebreather I could stay pretty calm and focus on what needed to be done to get through the window.

When I reached the surface the frogman explained that he saw that I was having some problems, but decided to let me continue, as he saw that I was calm and reasonably in control. In a real scenario such as this, panic would’ve killed me.

Slow is smooth. Smooth is survivable.

True, he’s got a unique and interesting voice… but is it worth it?

I agree with this. They’re good certs to have as documentation of general proficiency, but they’re best in combination with something more specific like CCNA.

Lostprophets. It should be obvious who and why.

I also think Guns’n Roses have soome fucking awesome riffs and songs, but I find Axl Rose to be an insufferable cunt of a diva. Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Adler should have released Appetite for Destruction with a different vocalist.

Greater exhibit of sarcasm

Oh my, that makes him literally Hitler

And for once I’m OK with that

From what I gather, the “controversy” was about his preference for one Zelda game over another. I think he’s going to be fine.

ShadowZone on youtube has a pretty good analysis of what we know, what we don’t know, and lays out some possible (and realistic) scenarios as to what’s going on.

My personal (un)educated guess regarding the lack of official news is due to the fact that T2 will be releasing an earnings report shortly, and needs to keep things quiet. I hope the release more detailed statements once the quarterly is done.