No, the initial hysteria was childish. Ivermectin is used on horses. But it's also been used in humans for decades. By your logic people who take nitroglycerin for heart conditions are fools because it was used as an explosive.

All pre-covid publications showed that masks weren't terribly effective and no proper instruction were given outside of "wear a mask or you're a murderer". The reality is that any mask must be changed hourly. N95 masks require proper training and are uncomfortable to wear if sealed properly. Otherwise they are pointless. Studies since have shown that an improperly worn N96 mask has 6 to 9% efficacy.

No one suggested injecting bleach. Trump ran his mouth asking about using bleach internally during a press conference. But no one recommended it.

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Ftfy.

I do. My deck is Dolby B/C/S. I also have a Walkman with Dolby-C. I'm not saying I use either often or have even used them in years. But they still function, so I never saw the point in throwing them away. The last time I threw out an obsolete player I ended up needing to buy a used one a few months later for some obscure thing I forgot about.

Is it though? I don't know too many folks who listen to music through anything better than a phone and whatever earbuds they have. Usually in a loud environment. Or using just one of the earbuds. Unless you are listening to something critically in a controlled environment, you're never going to notice a difference. Plus digital clipping in a lot of modern music sounds a hell of a lot worse than tape hiss to me.

OMG, you mean things need to be adjusted in a mechanical device? Azimuth is adjustable on any decent deck I've ever owned. I believe anything with Dolby C or S was required to have sapphire bearings. I know the one I have does. So most of the issues you mentioned are because you are ignorant or just want to be contradictory.

I'm not saying that anyone should be switching to cassette just for funsies. My point was that cassette isn't as bad as a lot of folks think it was. Sure, you're 1989 cassette of Milli Vanilli that got played 2000 times in a $50 boom box and kept in your glove box in the summer sounded like shit then and even worse now. But any decent recording that was put to something above Type-1 cassette and played on a quality deck and stayed in a controlled environment is certainly listenable.

Sure, if you kept them in a shed. In a controlled environment they are likely just find.

You must to be too young to remember 8-track then. When I was really young at least 2 of my relatives had Victrolas with 78 RPM shellac records. Cassettes were much better sounding and way more durable. If the heavy needle mechanism slipped out of your fingers, it would shatter the record if you were unlucky.

Type 2 and Type 4 cassettes sound a lot better than most people seem to realize. I still have my Dolby-S tape deck I bought in the early 90's. Granted, I haven't used it in years and prefer CD's for the most part. However, by the time you hit your 30's the frequency response a CD or Vinyl have over a cassette doesn't matter as you can't hear above the 17kHz limit of a cassette anyway. Type 1 tapes have a lot of hiss. But it's negligible on Type 2 or 4, especially if it used DNR-S. A lot of the cheap stereos I've seen have more amp hiss anyway.

Would I purchase a cassette today? Unless it's the only way to get the music I want, No. But it's far from the worst option. Besides, folks were listening to 128-bit MP3's for years on 10 dollar earbuds. I'd argue that was no better than a decent cassette as far as sound quality.

Because that statement was from 1947.

Imagine if Obama used drones to kill unarmed American born citizens outside of a war zone with no due process? Oh, wait.

Yes the CIA would like its slush fund back as well as all the other scammers who were ripping that program off. It's was a great idea that, unfortunately, became a disaster

You mean the migrant worker program that has been in place for decades? 25 years ago I moved to an area with lots of orchards. They bring in fruit pickers from Jamaica and did so for decades before I moved here. They would come in from Jamaica during harvest south of here and work their way north to pick fruit then go back to Jamaica and live off of what they made until the next year. They didn't pump huge sums of money into the economy.

That's basically how the migrant worker program was designed to work. On one hand I get it, it keeps prices in the US down. On the other hand it's an awful lot like indentured servitude.

There was already a 19 foot seawall and the Fukushima plant was 33 feet above sea level. While I agree a larger seawall may have helped, it's not something that could have been done easily as you seem to imply. The tsunami that hit that area was anywhere from 44 to 49 feet depending on the source. That's would have required a damn big seawall.

There were onsite as well as offsite generators. Unfortunately the earthquake that preceded the tsunami took out the power lines between the offsite generators and the plant. having most of the onsite generators and batteries underground was a big issue too. I believe the one generator that kept functioning was one of the few that were above ground.

There's always a ruling class in any society on this planet. Colonial insects work this way, herd animals as well as pack hunters function this way too. In all honesty, human social structures have a lot more controls and punishments in place for the ruling class than other animals. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's better than the rest of the animal kingdom.

Holy fuck. How stupid are you? Just about everyone's parents are doing better financially by the time they have kids vs. how they were doing when they left home. Why do younger folks think they should be doing just as well as their parents are doing as soon as they are out of school?

I grew up poor and left home in my mid teens. I worked 50 hours a week third shift my last two years in high school and worked full time to get my degree and did my first 2 years at community college to save money. There were times I lived off of peanuts and instant ramen. I see people bitching about being broke but somehow manage to stop by StarBucks once or twice per day.

No one needs the latest greatest shiny new phone. You can buy a used phone for a lot less. I usually get whatever the best used phone I can get for $200 these days. I see so many people getting a new $1000 phone every two years and have to wonder why. Just because someone who is in the later part of their career can afford that doesn't mean anyone should, nor should you think it's unfair that you can't do that at 25 years old.

It seems to be a generational thing. The amount of shit younger folks seem to think are necessities these days compared to when I was young is insane. When I was in high school I owned 2 pairs of jeans, a couple shirts, my couch was from goodwill along with my cookware. I didn't own a TV, or have a phone(land line) because I couldn't afford such things. I had a used acoustic guitar I got for $20 and an electric guitar because I played in bands for extra money.

After school I worked may ass off and eventually made decent money. It's kind of hard to listen your victimhood mentality.

Except this won't bring prices down. It just means Walmart, Amazon, etc profit margins will go up. So their stock prices will rise, CEOs will get a bonus, and the consumer will not get the rewards. There will be a year or so of playing credit card poker trying to figure out what card stores accept.

I never said it was a fantastic design or that McDonnell Douglas was an awesome company. All I stated was that the forklift issue that caused the crash in 1979 was supposedly fixed. The FAA/NTSB was satisfied with it. If the FAA/NTSB approval is not enough, then there's a bigger issue in the commercial flight industry.

The AA191 causes were supposedly resolved to the FAA's satisfaction. The issue with that DC10 was that using a forklift cut the maintenance time from over 60 hours to under 30. On flight 191 the forklift actually slipped and damaged the pylon that created a half inch misalignment.in addition to the damage to the pylon itself. It also cracked the 1 inch pin holes that keep the engine in place.American Airlines also skipped the dye penetration tests that were needed to check for stress cracks. The revised procedure required jigs to insure the pylons were aligned properly. The pylons were replaced with ones that were rated for 150% of maximum load as well as redundant shear pins. Changes were also made to have redundant hydraulics for the wing slats as well a locks to keep the slats from retracting if there was a hydraulic failure.

There's a good chance the UPS plane would have been able to recover had engine 2 not had what appears to be a compressor stall from parts of engine 1 going through it. The slats didn't retract like they did on AA191.

What ever the issue were, the fact that they used a forklift for maintenance was not the root cause of the accident as the person I replied to stated.

We do know that changes were made to increase the strength/durability of the pylon and that using a forklift is considered an acceptable way to remove the engine(according to the manufacturer) since the crash in 1979.

Could the forklift operator been clumsy and damaged the pylon during maintenance/inspection? Sure. But it could just as well been any number of other things. Maybe a mechanic had a bad day and didn't torque bolts to spec. The wing engine could have injested something that broke off turbine blades and the imbalance broke the pylon.

The point is, is that while using a forklift was not considered proper in 1979, it has been standard for decades now as the pylons were changed to allow for this.

Too bad engine 2 ingested debris from the engine that fell off. I'm pretty sure it can't take off on 1 engine

That was part of the issue with flight 191 in 1979. There were changes made that allowed for using a forklift not long afterward. So using a forklift itself was certainly not the issue with this crash.