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New comment by beede in "What being ripped off taught me"

beede — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:13:28 +0000

This brilliantly captures what I see from YouTubers who do off-road vehicle recovery. People are super nice until the bill comes, then you learn “only release the vehicle on payment.”

New comment by beede in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

beede — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:10:05 +0000

One-half of a percent of a million is 5000. That’s what makes “cyber” stuff so different than IRL, “every crook in his mom’s basement anywhere” is a much different threat than “every crook in your neighborhood.”

New comment by beede in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

beede — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:46:25 +0000

Concorde didn’t use afterburner during cruise. There’s a lot of discussion from pilots and engineers in a long thread https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-7.h... describing the actual flight profile.

New comment by beede in "NASA map shows temperatures up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets"

beede — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:36:27 +0000

All that shows is some surfaces at least 140°F. Which is still effing hot, but there are only three colors in the legend.

New comment by beede in "Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers"

beede — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:20:15 +0000

Doesn’t a bankrupt Twitter lead to someone else buying it for a fire sale price that presumably could just change it back to … Twitter?

New comment by beede in "Why are there suddenly so many car washes?"

beede — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 02:31:13 +0000

1000 cars in 12 hours is 42 seconds each. Does JetSplash really move them through a single stall that fast? The wash I go to in the spring (salt removal) takes about 600 seconds. Just asking since that makes it more like a factor of 2 than 10.

New comment by beede in "The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days"

beede — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:32:53 +0000

Friday the 13th would always come on a Saturday, is all.

New comment by beede in "“Is There a God?” By Bertrand Russell"

beede — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:02:45 +0000

Well, he proved a theorem. He chose to define a “godlike object” and showed in every carefully-defined “world” such an object exists. Saying that this “proves the existence of god” is … a bit of an overreach, don’t you think?