Caleb James DeLisle

And nobody is going to accept another world reserve currency.
AND without any more 20th century era centralized media, it will be impossible to ever herd enough cats to make the whole world agree on anything.

2026-09-10 07:43:40 UTC

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> white people are better at evolution.
NAXALT
See: Exhibit A.

2026-09-10 07:41:26 UTC

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I have another idea...
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2026-09-10 07:35:42 UTC

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Nobody, even Walsh, wants to admit that the reality here is women are not gonna take responsibility. The "right-wing female vote" (to the extent it ever existed) will be lost, and this is only going to end when the Men Prepared To Fight For Their Country decide that it as a mistake to delegate their decisions to people that aren't.

2026-09-09 22:47:22 UTC

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Back in the '60s being drunk was actually considered a mitigating factor.
My dad told me that at that time, they said if you ran over a pedestrian, the best thing to do was drive home and get really drunk.

2026-09-09 22:33:13 UTC

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Brave still has the reopen closed tab button that they removed from Chrome.

2026-09-09 22:29:03 UTC

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https://pkteerium.xyz/media/c64fca1f73a90d1b916833abc6aa244078e86eafee17a06c410a8f0d8682625a.mp4

2026-09-09 19:28:57 UTC

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heh
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/4ce2793cfe24c21a0665074c062558e915c4934a25341d929e86fa55f66b033e.jpeg

2026-09-09 18:49:44 UTC

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> 600 meters deep
That's 0.37 miles.
WTF kind of weapon are they talking about that can burn 1/3 of a mile of solid rock? o_O

2026-09-09 15:37:48 UTC

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Well I don't think anybody's gonna bother making any more kids with her...

2026-09-09 15:25:11 UTC

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Meanwhile, her defense:
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/6aabc7dad7324ce74746591e118ee73898ffb8fc0e618b695e0cc2697cd3f4c7.png

2026-09-09 13:47:27 UTC

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No idea, I just found the video floating around.
But I guess the thing with portraits of the popes and only one space left is kind of relevant...

2026-09-09 13:05:03 UTC

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Always like dropping this into the P(doom) conversation
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/3850ddace88a9261b82925b02f7be63fe0338d3ed691000ae2a0d4dc91c579fb.mp4

2026-09-09 11:25:21 UTC

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Nope, no account on SRT (I guess that is source-hut?).. Whatever it is, I don't have an account there...

2026-09-09 11:16:14 UTC

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I remember back when doing cryptpad, we concluded that minification saved something like 1% and it cost us the ability to static serve the project's git repo.
People forget that everything is getting gzipped anyway...

2026-09-09 00:54:03 UTC

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Crying "ad hominem" is such a terrible retort.
It's like saying "You just called me a loser, and I'm not gonna deny it, but I claim it has no bearing on the value of my opinion".
Uhm, yes it fucking does.
IF, it's a purely theoretical field like logic or mathematics, then yes, you can write a proof and even if you're a bumbling idiot, that proof is either correct or incorrect and that's it.
But on every single topic that people actually disagree about, you can't "prove" an argument correct. Unless there are obvious logical inconsistencies, you can only tell if it "sounds good" which is totally unreliable.
This is why real world decision makers who have serious consequences if they're wrong always pay attention to WHO they are listening to. Financial advice from poor people, and health advice from sick people rarely gets a hearing.
And people who respond "ad hominem" to a challenge of their credibility are kinda forfeiting the debate.

2026-09-08 23:38:52 UTC

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Sales tax also distorts, it reduces division of labor. Hard to get away from distortion...

2026-09-08 23:37:23 UTC

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Ahh but you didn't say that it's "harmful" or that it "shouldn't be encouraged".
You said that a 20%-of-sale-price fee makes it IMPOSSIBLE to sell without profit - until I pointed out that basically every government in the world does this already.
That's not a typo, that's something that people who have experience with money and budgeting would never say.
So now I know that you've never sold anything before, and most likely you live at home - and budgeting is mostly something your parents manage.
And you would like me to take your opinions about sales tax and intellectual property seriously.
Interesting.

2026-09-08 22:11:40 UTC

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Well, US is red, Russia, China are blue. That makes your original point that it's environmental.
US uses way way more vaccines than any other country, so that's obviously suspect.
But then Japan is very light on vaccines, and they have high numbers - so this is where the numbers take a turn for the weird...
I've quite prepared to believe that almost all vaccines do more harm than good, but there's something else going on in this data and I don't know what it is...

2026-09-08 21:31:45 UTC

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Well, when you're talking about a debilitating condition, you're kind of either identifying it or you're not.
Maybe in Pakistan they don't identify it very well, but certainly any European country would be able to know if someone's autistic or not.
So then the other direction is "what if Japan and Taiwan are full of cry babies who pretend to have autism?"
But does their medical establishment tolerate that kind of bullshit? I know the US establishment does, but I thought Japan and Taiwan were somewhat better in this regard...

2026-09-08 20:53:10 UTC

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I remember looking at that map a while ago. It's very interesting because, what's up with Iceland, Japan, and Taiwan?

2026-09-08 19:11:56 UTC

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He's not doing *nothing*.
H1Bs are down, net number of US residents of foreign birth is down, government employees are down.
Also the tariffs are pretty significant.
All of these things are the things one would do if one wanted to get control over the affordability crisis, and he's doing them to a really unprecedented extent.
And then all of the Israel and Iran stuff, he's certainly going to be judged harshly for what he does in that arena.
IMO it's a mixed story.

2026-09-08 18:55:08 UTC

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I have a feeling Trump is going to be remembered as the too-little-too-late reformer, a bit like Gorbachev.
* Many blame him for the collapse
* That's not a serious assessment among historians though
* General consensus is that he tried to turn things around
* He had some good policies and some bad policies
* But it's generally believed that his biggest failure was the simple fact that he was 50 years late

2026-09-08 17:43:18 UTC

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I'm not sure what you're trying to argue with me about.
The whole story for America is told in 3 graphs:
Men can't afford a house anymore (figure 1)
They can't get married and have kids (2)
And now if you imagine these men are gonna fight for that social contract, you're out of your mind. (3)
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2026-09-08 11:52:09 UTC

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> Some social contract you got there, do you expect it to work?
> Well, the voters voted for it.
> And, are these voters going to defend the country?
> Good heavens no, they're all way too old.
> So who will defend the country?
> The young people.
> But why would they defend a social contract that works for everyone but them?
> Because that's what the voters voted.
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2026-09-08 06:59:25 UTC

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How do you imagine people deal with VAT or sales tax?

2026-09-07 20:17:48 UTC

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That's normally more-or-less what you want. When you're taking off and the air is moving pretty slow, you need a fine pitch so that you can get the engine to max rev and make full horsepower.
But then when you're up in cruise, the air is moving past the blades a lot faster so to make the same thrust the engine would have to run much faster than it's designed for. So you want a sharper pitch to take a bigger bite out of the air.
And then if you want to save fuel, you want to slow the engine down from its max speed, so then you want the prop to take an even bigger bite out of the air.
Either you do this with a lever or you have a computer doing it for you...

2026-09-07 19:35:48 UTC

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This is the Dutch we're talking about here... We all know they're going to spend like 3 years acting pants-on-head retarded and then in year 4 they're gonna pull some "oh yeah and now CO2 is a precious commodity and we have the only production plant for it on the entire planet" type bullshit...

2026-09-07 18:39:54 UTC

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This general topic has been explored a lot in the past, so I don't think there's a patent in here that will actually block off the ability to research the area. My thought is more to patent one precise design and then try to bootstrap a little ecosystem around it, make the CNC codes available free for non-commercial (i.e. home built), and license it for anyone doing it commercially...

2026-09-07 18:35:36 UTC

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As far as I can see, constant speed is just variable pitch plus a control box. So in my initial idea, I didn't really make a distinction whether it's you setting pitch, or the computer.

2026-09-07 16:30:16 UTC

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That's pretty neat. Hopefully MOSAIC will make this stuff become a cheap lump of metal, because there's really no reason that it wouldn't be. Neither the oil pressure system nor the gigantic bearings are really necessary AFAICT.

2026-09-07 16:01:37 UTC

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Yea, that was basically the thought.
But I wouldn't try to pitch it to anybody who wasn't already casually dreaming about being able to include variable pitch in their offering...

2026-09-07 15:51:09 UTC

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Every commie eventually does the meme.
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2026-09-07 15:42:15 UTC

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Alright Cliff, here's my pitch, tell me what you think:
* You're making an SLSA and you've decided it's time to go proprietary engine route (lets imagine)
* I have a hub that will clamp existing ground-adjustable prop blades and all you need to adjust them is to wire up a brush to get power down the prop shaft to a servo motor in the spinner.
* You can get this thing made at PCBWay, it's just CNC lathe and milling work, every shop knows how to do this.
* It uses ball joints so basically all of the load is centrifugal. My invention is the way to pitch the blades while they're being held in ball joints.
* EAB and non-commercial gets CNC codes for free, anyone selling the hub to the public can license it for 20% of their sale price, if you're selling it as part of your plane, you pay $100 per unit. With the license you get all of the test results that I have, so you have a head start to your MOSAIC documentation.
Does this sound attractive?

2026-09-07 15:13:49 UTC

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I'm not a aerodynamics guy, I'm a machinist (well, these days I'm a programmer, but I did have 4 years of it). So I'll just take the blade off of a ground adjustable prop and clamp them in. Then all I need to care about is balance, soundness, and making sure my joints don't max out their travel.

2026-09-07 15:04:44 UTC

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I have so much head-noise, but this particular thing is one of those cases where I'm like "oh shit everyone is doing this wrong"

2026-09-07 15:01:33 UTC

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That's a bit of a challenge because then I need an aircraft - at least an RC... But that would be fun because it would give me a business justification to have one...

2026-09-07 15:00:36 UTC

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I don't think it would have to be super-secretive, because I don't think I can get a patent on the general concept, but rather one precise design trick that makes it a bit easier, stronger, and more compact.
And it's not that someone couldn't go around it, but rather that this is something I'd give away the CNC codes to amateurs and non-commercial users, but license it to people who want to build light aircraft using it. And I'd have to do some testing so then the test results would be something that comes with the patent license.
And if someone wants to change the design a bit and make their own, they can, but they forego the ecosystem.

2026-09-07 14:55:36 UTC

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The general idea is that the propeller blades are held *loosely* - and this has been approached in the past, there are patents going back to the 1940s. In fact modern drone blades are loosely held on hinges. The centrifugal force is enough that you don't need to hold tightly and not doing so eliminates a bunch of forces that you really don't want.
My precise structure is probably novel enough to be able to patent. If I were to patent it, my strategy would be to give it away to home builders / non-commercial and license it to anyone building an SLSA - and the license would come with test data that is collected on the hub.

2026-09-07 14:10:54 UTC

*sigh*
Just invented a variable pitch propeller hub. These are typically 10-20k$ systems and my design has no oil, no seals, no pressure, no roller bearings, you can just throw grease in it. Probably 500$ to manufacture. And I'm *extremely* confident that it will have absolutely heroic strength and vibration properties.
Should I chuck in a patent application and see where life takes me, or should I dismiss it as head-noise?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2026-09-07 11:30:00 UTC

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I used to live walking distance to that guy's house. He was like an owner of some cement factory so he had a mansion.

2026-09-07 08:00:18 UTC

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I wouldn't be too worried about actually swapping batteries in a plane. Modern batteries with cooling can charge in around 10 minutes, and you really never spend less than that fussing around between each flight.
And swappable batteries PROBABLY only make sense if you have battery + engine, because you're looking to minimize fuel burn so if you're the only one going up, you take 600lb of additional battery and save that much fuel.
Ruixiang RX4E is a fully electric 4-seater which claims 90 minutes of autonomy. Definitely aimed at flight schools, flying clubs, and guided tour stuff. The battery is removable but there's only one of them and it has coolant lines so you don't want to remove it each flight.
You're not doing any cross country flights (unless your country is Luxembourg) but if you're a flight school or a tour guide, you never ever to do that anyway - and replacing 40$/hr of gas into 5$/hr of electricity, you might be able to cut 20% off the price you charge the customer.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/0d1c9cf4d216df0f531d491f6f0ce30f5a4c22701321fcf2c64dbd5799498fb6.png
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2026-09-07 07:32:51 UTC

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Is that a 35 degree AOA and not stalling?
And if you might pardon my ignorance, can you tell me what the black lines represent? I initially thought they must be direction of air flow, but that would mean air was coming to the leading edge from two very different directions.
In any case, just by eye it looks very impressive. Gonna set that as my background.

2026-09-07 05:56:09 UTC

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For "machinery" like bulldozers and track-hoes where up-time is a really important consideration, swappable batteries probably do make sense.
Agricultural (combine harvesters, tractors, etc) are a real headache for electrification, so swappable batteries might find a niche there as well. Currently they just don't have any answer to diesel for agricultural, but when 1/3 of the cost of a soybean is tractor fuel, it starts to matter so they will start thinking about different ideas...

2026-09-07 05:50:16 UTC

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Yea, in aircraft it makes total sense. Actually the airplane owner should own the batteries since if one of those things goes haywire it's a very bad day, so it needs to be his risk. In fact if it's a certificated aircraft, the battery should be "part of the airplane" for certification purposes.
And like I said, the key reason why you need it in an aircraft is because you can adapt the number of batteries you're flying with to adjust weight.

2026-09-06 17:22:42 UTC

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Right, if she's got a bad temperament to begin with and then you add in a little tiny bit of adversity, you have a recipe for her to become a total bitch.
And the guy's fault in all of this is giving her too much agency. If he treated her like his child who needs to be gotten to safety no matter what she's yammering about, then she'd still be alive - and they'd probably have also avoided getting into a serious argument to begin with.

2026-09-06 17:17:39 UTC

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Knowing what I know about most men, I think if someone is legitimately in trouble, a guy will typically move heaven and earth to get her down safely.
I strongly suspect that she was such a pain in the ass when they were together that he basically broke up with her on the spot and expected that they would descend separately - and only later did she start to get into serious trouble which is how she ended up dying.

2026-09-06 17:11:25 UTC

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Yea that seems very realistic, she made such a pest out of herself that finally he was like "fuck you, find your own way down".

2026-09-06 17:08:48 UTC

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Hahaha the Slop Machine says they're already talking about battery dumpers in the regulation.
It's funny how aviation regulators care about safety of the guy in the plane, and absolutely do not give a fuck about anything or anyone else...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/8d793f03c1550f880083cea38db647df797a55768cb9f9876245dc44a26f34b3.png

2026-09-06 17:00:13 UTC

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It's not really greenwashing, between Ukraine and Iran, all the money for eco-fantasy has more or less dried up.
The economics is this: If your plane is not loaded to max weight, every ton of batteries you add give you about 30 gallons of fuel equivalent, and every gallon of fuel is about 8 bucks. So if you're about 3 tons under-weight because you don't have payload, you can save $700 worth of fuel on a trip.
If you're crossing an ocean or something, that's just worthless, but if you're doing some regional thing like 150 miles feeding into a major airport, that could be 1/3 of your ticket price.

2026-09-06 16:30:15 UTC

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Unclear, you're allowed to do a lot in an emergency. It's very common for large jet liners to just dump fuel in even like "unruly passenger, need to divert" type emergencies because their max landing weight is less than their max takeoff weight.
I imagine it would be subject to some scrutiny, but it's unclear that it would be summarily flunked.

2026-09-06 16:04:37 UTC

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Well, if you're talking about a battery module, about the worst thing it can do is catch fire, and you have to design for that anyway.
I'm partial to a rip cable that bomb-drops the batteries in emergency.

2026-09-06 15:52:05 UTC

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Interchangeable modules in cars are not all that interesting. I went down this rabbit hole a few months ago.
The problem is who owns the module? And whoever that is, they have to tolerate their modules moving from point A to point B.
Then the electrical interface for the module is another giant headache because realistically it needs to connect when the module slots in. And that means the plug is rigidly attached to the battery and the other side rigid to the vehicle, so it's gonna be subject to a bunch of vibration, load, etc which is a disaster for designing a plug.
And then at the end of the day, you're saving 5 or 10 minutes of fast charging time to swap a module instead. And fast charging is only getting faster.
But on an aircraft, the owner of the modules is the aircraft owner. There's no compatibility challenge because they buy the aircraft and modules together. You install them by hand before flight, so there's no problem with plugging in a cable when you install it - which eliminates the need for a complex vibration resistant plug.
And battery modules in an aircraft have a different objective than in a car: The goal in an aircraft is to be able to remove battery weight to keep the aircraft under its design maximum while adding payload. PARTICULARLY if you have a combustion engine in addition to electric.
Longer flight -> more fuel needed -> less batteries
More passengers -> less batteries
Short flight, few passengers -> more batteries, save money on fuel...

2026-09-06 13:54:44 UTC

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Hart-Celler and Civil Rights.
Dodge v. Ford is a nothingburger because any company can do anything they want just by claiming that they're "Building Brand Value".

2026-09-06 00:18:23 UTC

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Sucks to have to crap up the engineering to comply with regulatory.
Apparently in France, push-pull is licensed the same as single-engine.

2026-09-05 23:44:41 UTC

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Well according to GPT, MOSAIC removed the limit on number of engines entirely. So apparently you can stab an oversized drone motor on each wing of whatever you've got, and that is legal for anyone with sport pilot privileges to fly.

2026-09-05 23:36:02 UTC

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If you can use push-pull to escape multi-engine classification, that would be huge and IMO very much worth investing in because the engine stays simple, every A&P knows how to work on it, there's no high voltage in the front, you have flexibility to sell with a different engine if you want, etc.

2026-09-05 23:21:57 UTC

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God: Is there anything I can get for you?
Adam: Well, I can't suck my own dick, if you can take out my bottom rib that'd be perfect.
God, wanting to grant Adam his wish, but also punish him for his depravity: Let me do you one better.

2026-09-05 23:17:59 UTC

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From a basic engineering perspective, I'd be very tempted to just put a ceiling fan on each wing and keep the classical engine in the center (and far away from the whole electrical system so they're truly redundant)
But the question is whether you can do that and escape needing a multi-engine rating to fly it.

2026-09-05 23:10:11 UTC

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Fair enough, orders do get cancelled at a whim...
In any case, the pot of gold at the end of that rainbow is fairly big, if they can figure out how to solve the problems...

2026-09-05 23:07:36 UTC

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Ahh, so gotta build one from spare parts. Works for EAB but not so much for production...
My theory (above) is to use a small/overboosted engine like that with an electric system and modular batteries so you can choose the # of modules to carry based on your load and fuel needs, and you always have 2 redundant powerplants (important since you're not being particularly nice to your engine).
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If you've got 7x 50kg battery modules, that's gonna be roughly 100Kwh of power with current battery tech.
A gallon of gas is good for about 9.4Kwh at the crankshaft, so that's about 10 gallons of gas that you're saving - which probably amounts to about 140–180 NM of electric range (using the Velocity XL as an example).
So if you're just out fooling around, there's no reason you wouldn't do it all-electric. If you're doing a cross-country trip, then you decide how much fuel you need. If you don't want to fly more than 4 hours at a time, you probably do 50 gallons of gas and that leaves you weight for 4 modules - which buys you about 85 miles of emergency electric range.
More weight, fewer modules, you can decide what you want to do...

2026-09-05 22:42:51 UTC

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Oh and here's that little Yamaha being beaten like a redheaded stepchild
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/81cb0d9f9335204cee6f24472d46739acc23d9a6d6618d28e183d33012428bf0.webm

2026-09-05 22:41:28 UTC

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Oh yeah.
Electric system fails: Fly the engine to your destination.
Engine fails: Fly electric to nearest airport (remember, your batteries are full until you are within reach of your destination airport because you use the engine *first*)

2026-09-05 22:39:27 UTC

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NMC cells and next gen solid state are good for about 1000-1500 charge cycles, so that probably comes out to about 1000-2000 hours of flight time, and gonna be at least 3 or 4 years of intensive flying. And by that time, you probably want to replace the batteries with newer (solid state) batteries in order to boost (double) your energy storage...
After some more thought, I actually think it might be better to have installable battery modules, like, in the wing. Because then you can do the math as follows:
Suppose I have 700kg of useful load (this is the case with a Velocity XL). I put a Yamaha Apex 998 engine which weighs 55kg and can be boosted up to 300hp - if you do not care about reliability whatsoever...
Lets say the engine, prop, and all of that comes to 70kg. Then you add 2 additional electric props totaling 30kg, so all in it's 100kg.
Now you're at 600kg remaining, you have an 80kg pilot and passenger, and some baggage totaling 200kg.
Now 400kg left. You need 50kg of fuel to get to your destination on gas engine alone.
Now you have 350kg left, if you have 3x 50kg modules in each wing and 1 in the center, you use all the weight you can carry.
If you need more fuel, more payload, my predictions too rosy... Whatever, remove the center battery module.
Need 50kg more, put the center one back and remove one from each wing.
And this way, you just add the right amount of battery in 50kg increments in order to always be at max weight.
(just double all of the numbers if you think in pounds)
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Now flying it:
1. Always have enough fuel to get to your destination in engine alone.
2. Run your engine and electric both at takeoff
3. Once in cruise, go to engine-only, UNTIL you are within battery reach of your destination airport, then cut the engine.
4. Start the engine before landing so you have extra power in case you need a go-around.
So short hops you will only use the engine during takeoff and landing.
And this whole design idea really depends on *removable* batteries...

2026-09-05 21:31:21 UTC

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Then they're certain to do it because wrecking South Korea allows them to send in North Korea to take it back.

2026-09-05 20:57:30 UTC

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2026-09-05 19:59:04 UTC

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Genesis says that Woman partook of the Fruit of The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Women are doing their damndest to convince us otherwise.

2026-09-05 19:39:03 UTC

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There was no question of reasonable doubt that she committed the act because her defense did not contest that she did. The "reasonable doubt" in this case is whether her insanity claim can be accepted.
But if you accept her claim, then you probably also have to accept that most serial killers are also "insane" (after all, what rational motive do they have?). And at that point, the whole idea of "law" is severely compromised.
But it is anyway, we are living through a period of decline. The will of western society to punish rape (Rotherham), murder, child molestation (Epstein), etc is steadily fading. We're all living though Sodom and Gomorra before God's Judgement.
This situation is of course unsustainable. Men will not take up arms to defend a system which lacks any meaningful rule of law. So the powers that be will either change the system, or they will be replaced, and their replacements will change it. Even if we have to learn Chinese, this situation *will* eventually end.
And women's rights will probably end with it, because in times of struggle, the only people who truly matter are those who will decide whether to take up arms for the country or not. When all political power grows from the barrel of a gun, women, children, elders and immigrants do not have a say.
> Something something consequences of my own actions

2026-09-05 15:45:02 UTC

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> supposed to be random
Right but they don't really make any effort to prove that it's random, and if you're organized crime - jury selection is a more valuable corruption target than even the lottery, so I'm not at all inclined to take it on faith that the people doing this are all on the up-and-up...

2026-09-05 15:28:34 UTC

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I think that's actually where the witches and broom sticks meme originates from. They weren't literally flying...

2026-09-05 15:23:08 UTC

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Girls used to contact me on twitter.
I used to ask them programming questions.
That was the moment when it became clear that I'm never going to have to pay for GPT.

2026-09-05 15:21:43 UTC

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There's a serious Don't Be Fucking Retarded gap. China has so much more Don't Be Fucking Retarded that it's unclear whether the west can ever catch up.

2026-09-05 15:19:52 UTC

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Indeed, it's definitely possible. But I want to know who is doing the initial candidate selection and how.
If it was all people with the same birthday, and they just go through the year one day at a time, I'll accept that this is fair. But when 3 judges go behind a curtain and they come back with a list of names that are gonna be the jury, I have no inclination to trust them whatsoever.

2026-09-05 15:12:04 UTC

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Sure, but somebody is deciding who the candidates are, and that process is not transparent at all so I'm pretty sure they're biasing the outcome.
For example, this jury has 9 women and 3 men. A random selection of people from a population of 50/50 men and women has a 5.4% chance of being 9 women and 3 men. MAYBE men had a much higher chance of answering questions in such a way that would get them excluded, but if they didn't, then this sex balance is already suspicious...

2026-09-05 13:27:38 UTC

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s/25m/35m/

2026-09-05 13:26:53 UTC

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Heart ES-30 is an electric plane (still in development) and it has 200km (124 miles) of range on electric only. However, the outer two engines are turbines, so it can extend flight beyond electric range...
Even if you need to burn gas to complete the flight, using as much electricity as possible is *obviously* a cost savings...
It's not clear from the picture but the wingspan is big for what it is. 31m (101ft) for a 30 seat aircraft, the Boeing 727-800 is 25m (117ft) for 160-180 passengers. Long wings improve efficiency...
So like I said, viability is borderline, but they have something like 250 firm orders from airlines, so like I said, the pot of gold is rich...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/5c70f6aafb561405f5a28f08cdfab41c3d347e786541e4d3e4ef81d3f1b96bfb.png

2026-09-05 13:13:43 UTC

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> electric was not a viable option
Well, yes and no. You're absolutely right that the weight is bad, it's like 10x as bad. But on the other side of things, something like 2/3rds of the cost of a plane ticket is just going straight to fuel, so if you can find a way to replace that fuel with electricity, you're taking maybe 20-30% off the cost of the flight, so the pot of gold at the end of that rainbow is so rich that you start re-thinking the definition of "viable"...
In terms of actual physics viability, it's "borderline". You can get up in the air for an hour or maybe 2 with electricity, which for a lot of short haul, tourist stuff, etc is potentially enough. And if it's "potentially enough" then it's 100% worth it because of the aforementioned fuel cost...
Now what I'm talking about is that blue thing that runs the length of the wing. That has to be frustratingly strong because the whole airplane hangs off of it. So I'm thinking something like pic 2 with two battery tubes, having periodic spacer tubes, and then the whole thing is wrapped up in carbon fiber like it was a Christmas present - and that outer wrapping prevents the two from racking.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/f0265e08d73b950c608a36d15cc38a68bf7fcef512176d2d38d1e71b91d3aa69.png
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/57bfc234905a917698c1d9c5fb1f357088b11f68da4fbe10fadb47c01824cacd.JPG

2026-09-05 13:00:09 UTC

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Electric airplanes. The battery weight is a big hassle, but on the other side you have a lot of parts on there that need a fairly absurd amount of strength.

2026-09-05 12:55:09 UTC

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Outlook / hotmail accepting email from any mail server other than gmail...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/8d0b15e1a3f7de8a8e242c6b7722361336a2f72f6f73790c494f3d5a217c6cc5.gif

2026-09-05 12:50:44 UTC

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Imagine "mom why are you doing this to me?"
Can we bring back witch burning?
Just one witch.
You know, as a treat...

2026-09-05 12:47:49 UTC

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It's the least terrible option IMO...
Thinking for this, wing spar = upper and lower battery tubes with periodic spacers (probably carbon tube over wood or structural foam) and then the whole thing is wrapped in carbon cloth which is turned 45 degrees so that the weave is an X pattern, because the load you're handling is shear (top tube pushes out as bottom tube pulls in)

2026-09-05 12:42:11 UTC

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Right, I think I blocked anonymous snooping on this server. I just tagged you in a reply to the post...

2026-09-05 12:41:37 UTC

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CC: @npub1mts…ueyt

2026-09-05 12:38:57 UTC

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> last to standardise...
I think there will not be any standardization anywhere at all. It's just some people will slowly move to rotax/mogas, some people will slowly move to diesel or turbine with jetA, and some people will move to electric. The people *needing* avgas will shrink over time until its marginal...

2026-09-05 12:35:55 UTC

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BTW, I posted this yesterday, an interesting way to integrate batteries: https://pkteerium.xyz/@cjd/posts/BA4mr2AMG3G51XRlnE
It's not without its challenges - you definitely want to believe your wing spars are not going to burst into flames - but its probably the right strategy in general...

2026-09-05 12:32:29 UTC

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> I have mixed time-expired avgas with petrol (gasoline) in my car
Hope you don't have a catalytic converter, because if you do then it's now lead plated... :S
> Batteries are replacing avgas probably never, they have 1/3 the specific energy.
Well, what I see happening is everyone on the small side of things slowly moves over to Rotax or other engines that claim mogas compatibility. On the large side they move to turbines or diesels.
Battery density is quite a bit worse than you say. A gallon of gas (2.8kg) is probably good for about 9.4kWh at the shaft, so 3,300 wh/kg. A good current era battery is 300wh/kg, so it's like 1/10th. Solid state batteries will get to 400, theoretical lithium-air batteries should reach 1200 - and THAT is 1/3rd - with unproven technology :(
Still I think electric will take over niches where you're in the air for less than an hour, and that's just because the economics are so lop-sided that even carrying around a giant brick is cheaper if you can buy power instead of fuel...

2026-09-05 12:19:09 UTC

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AFAICT he's a grifter, like almost all of them...

2026-09-05 12:17:23 UTC

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> Smarter than Berny Sanders
Bruh that was like 3 years ago 😂

2026-09-05 12:11:15 UTC

Hour and a half long conversation about trying to standardize unleaded airplane fuel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CH2m7PxnLA
They're going about it by testing each airplane and each engine, and then selling people the paperwork that says your plane is compatible. My first reaction is if they can't get some congressional force-of-law thing written that says "this fuel is compatible with everything" then leaded fuel is not going anywhere.
My second reaction is: DAMN fuel is complicated. Avgas is 6-9$/gallon, and all of that money is just going to the fact that they need a special refinery line. The specification of avgas is strict enough that you can't just add lead to car gas and call it a day.
If you're gonna buy an engine, you'd better buy one that can burn the cheapest most standardized most widely available crap that's out there. And when you zoom out a little more, it's clear that electricity is just so much easier to deal with than liquid fuels - you shouldn't be using fuels at all unless you absolutely need to...

2026-09-05 11:48:21 UTC

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Scott Manley did a tour of their shop not long ago. Really impressive operation, hope they are successful.
Supersonic air travel is one of those things we almost *have* to get it back to break the "we used to do things but we can't anymore" curse.

2026-09-05 11:18:21 UTC

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> Justice Claude shows her generated pictures of what her children would look like now. It's the 24th time he's done that. They're a little older now. She's the only human in the "court room" which is no larger than a jail cell. Everyone else is on the screen on front of her. Her attorney asks her if she needs a moment to speak in private. She wants to be dead.

2026-09-05 10:23:09 UTC

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> And then Putin said, If I find in London fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

2026-09-05 09:53:36 UTC

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Who has control over the process though? Is it the judges?

2026-09-05 09:48:39 UTC

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I love how it's generally assumed that "random" jury selection is as random as a mafia run lottery.

2026-09-05 09:40:23 UTC

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I assumed that was the case, but I also assumed that the defense lawyer was doing as much private eye bullshit as possible to try to figure out which way it's going and his conclusion is most likely correct.