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  • The key insight is that the force a plane uses to move is independent of the ground, because planes push on the air, not the ground.

    Imagine you put a ball on a treadmill and turn it on, what happens? The ball starts to spin and move with the treadmill. Now take your hand and push the ball backwards against the motion of the treadmill, and the ball easily moves in that direction. The force your hand put on the ball is exactly what planes do, since they push on something other than the ground (the treadmill) they have no problem moving, no matter how fast the treadmill is moving.

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  • Plane on a treadmill is really interesting because if you understand how planes work its so obvious what will happen you don't need to test it. Planes move on the ground by running their engines, which push against the air, the wheels provide zero motive force. It's also why planes need tugs to move away from the gate, you can't run the engines in reverse. Planes are not cars, but people tend to assume the thing they don't understand works like the thing they do understand, and refuse to believe their hasty assumption is wrong even when told directly their hasty assumption is wrong.

  • Ubisoft meme
  • Somehow people always forget that Ubisoft published Trackmania (2020). (Limited) F2p, one time purchase for Standard access, yearly sub for club access, which is isn't even worth it if your not a dedicated player.

  • Est-ce qu'il y a des utilisateurices d'Ergo-L (disposition de clavier ergonomique)
  • Not a French speaker,but more than a bit of a keyboard nerd. I can't help but notice how similar the layout is to the English alt layout Colemak, specifically the angle mod version for ISO keyboards. It is cool that this is an official standard layout. Is this planned to replace azerty completely? I don't see many other countries other than France making such a change, but I am excited that French has water looks to be a very good modern layout.

  • Live free, die hard
  • He's a YouTuber that's been making things since it opened, he make ASDF Movie, so if your reaction to him is "this seems like something a 10yo would like" then yeah, that's his entire brand.

  • Your day can't continue until you confirm it yourself
  • If you were wondering, it got named "double u" when u and v were the same letter, V was used at the beginning of words and u ain the middle/end. It wasn't till much later they were seperated into 2 glyphs for different sounds.

  • Freedom of religion. Just -- you know -- not your religion.
  • There are plenty of reasonable definitions of religion that would apply to atheism, but even that aside, it's a-theism, not a-religionism, it's a rejection of theism, and while many atheists do come at the topic from a generic anti-religion angle, there are many atheistic religions, like The Satanic Temple, who are doing fantastic legal work as a officially recognized religion to fight the current right wing legal nastiness like the abortion ban in Texas by arguing they have religious freedom to preform abortions.

    So you're right in the strictest sense that the philosophy of atheism is not de-facto a religion, but next tmme I would recommend making an actual argument rather than incoherent swearing at someone with a mildly spicy take, you're making us all look bad.

  • Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers
  • Its because of staking mostly, but pvp more generally. The gmaul can kill almost instantly, but its high risk high reward since if you don't manage to get the instant KO you'll get out dps'd by more usual damage options.

    Because its partially luck based people liked to use it to gamble in the Duel Arena, betting on the outcome.

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