zigmus64

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[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Quest. Monty Python and Quest for the Holy Grail.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In the US, bricklayers and masons are considered skilled construction jobs.

https://esub.com/blog/unskilled-semi-skilled-skilled-labor-defined/

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I’ll give you farm-hands, and there are plenty of manual labor jobs that fall under the unskilled category, but bricklayers certainly are not among them. Simply a poor example in that specific case. The rest of the graphic is fine.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Not sure farmers and bricklayers are considered unskilled…

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

The key comment is his last sentence.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What happened to that law?

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What happens at the triple point?

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Aircraft stability and control is a fascinating field.

Their maneuverability is owed to the fact that they’re somewhat unstable to begin with. It’s been literal decades since I had the class, but a good way to think of the difference between a fighter jet and a commercial jet (maneuverability wise) is that a commercial jet’s stability is like rolling a small ball in a large bowl. You’ve got a lot of leeway on what you can do before the ball won’t eventually end back up in the center of the bowl. A fighter jet is the opposite… it’s like trying to balance that small ball on top of a basketball. If you place it perfectly, it will stay in place. A touch off center, it will begin to drift further off center faster and faster until it falls off completely.

That’s why it takes so much training and physical fitness to fly fighter jets. It’s almost like they’re actively trying to kill you. And that’s not just the modern computer controlled jets like the F-35 and F-22. The older jets were like that too, but I have to imagine less so. An F-18 can’t pull a 9g turn… the F-22 can, and I also understand it can fly itself while the pilot is unconscious for a few moments after that 9g turn…

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

We order it with no slivered onions and substitute the diced onions they use on their cheeseburgers.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

Na… that’s a convenient coincidence. Funding an effective FEMA would make the Biden administration look good. This is the same bullshit that they pulled when they killed the border deal.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed, and I’m in that group (sorta)… but it doesn’t take that much travel to realize we’re all much more alike than we’re different.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is why it’s important to travel.

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