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For anyone interested there is a book by Eric 'Winkle' Brown who was a British test pilot and probably flew more different types of WW2 (and other) aircraft than anyone else and has a lot of stories about how they were too fly.

From what I've read about WW2 Aircraft from that collection the P-51 Mustang and Spitfire are almost universally considered excellent to fly even by pilots of who fly them today, great performance, pilot friendly with few vices even when pushed hard. The B-25 Mitchell is one maybe not as often talked about but was and still is considered a great aircraft to fly with nice performance and handling characteristics.

There's plenty that could still fly well but did have some flaws or nasty vices when pushed to the limits in some cases, for example the BF109 was loved by it's experienced pilots and was quite a small and light aircraft with excellent climb peformance but also had a notoriously small, cramped cockpit with poor visibility and very narrow landing gear. Some absurd number like almost half of all BF109s were lost in landing accidents because it was so difficult to land.

What's particularly annoying is once the meeting is arbitrarily scheduled in for say an hour then many feel the need to drag the meeting out over that entire hour regardless of if everything important has been covered within 20 minutes. Along with this comes the annoying trend of the meeting organiser 'giving you time back' if they conclude the meeting slightly early as if they are doing you a favour for not running the meeting for the entire duration when really that should be the default.

A MiG-29 has a lower top speed than an F-15 which the US military still operates.

You also have to try and catch the whole herd at once as if any escape they are smart enough to never be tricked by the same trap twice.

Depends where you are, but generally you are good to around 400ft above your own property in most cases.

I'll probably be downvoted for admitting this but I do quite enjoy the new X, the suggested tab is certainly full of crazy, unhinged conspiracy theories and obvious rage bait posts, it's like opening the door to an insane asylum, somewhat entertaining for a short time, you'll probably find a few things that challenge your views and there are some genuine gems of a post that come up there from time to time, but then I can always switch over to my following tab for just the more sober and sane accounts I follow and then it's basically back to the more old style Twitter feed of just accounts your interested in following.

Most of the other similar platforms tend to conform to a more politically correct, consensus enforcement style of a certain narrative, which is fine for the more fragile minded who dislike anything that might challenge their world view, but those places just ultimately become boring echo chambers full on a small ingroup that tend to become increasingly weird and unfriendly to outsiders and divorced from reality over time.

Most of the health nuts have since moved more to high fibre and with the increase in bowel cancer in younger people in recent years I can see that being the next health trend being added into all sorts of increasingly unlikely foods as with protein now.

When I was visiting Taiwan the garbage trucks don't seem to start that early but instead of picking up kerbside bins they just drive around slowly playing a synthesized tune like fur elise and that is the signal for residents to then carry their trash bags out to the truck for disposal.

It might be how you think about things in your own mind but for many other people South East Asia as a region is a pretty commonly understood term with a fairly specific set of countries and basically considered to be the tropical part of Asia where it's always hot and humid. (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei).

There is an interesting (and frankly terrifying) book called biohazard by the former head of the soviet covert bioweapons program during the cold war and it seemed it was not that uncommon to have random screw ups at even high level labs resulting in the deaths of sometimes a lot of unfortunate people. Of course there was also a culture of cover up and not admitting mistakes as well for all sorts of reasons including the fact that they aren't supposed to be working on bioweapons in the first place as well as the usual punishments for screwing something up.

There is this pervasive modern trend of using things like questionable or even imagined mental or other health issues to try and get out of any sort of mild discomfort or challenge. The recent boston globe article on that lesbian bar that required kn95 masks that recently went viral seems to me to be almost the ultimate expression of that type of culture and the absurdities of how it ends up when taken to the logical conclusion.

according to the article she was waking up at 1am running 5-6 hours then going to sleep at around 5 or 6pm, which is an odd schedule but I guess you could just about keep a regular hours job within it

Unlikely since they used the term cyclone, probably Australia as that's the sort of place they would most likely do something like that and have someone posting on hacker news about it.