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reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

Actually I DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That’s the normal age to start puberty, so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

The only species that can regularly kill you also regularly ventures into your territory with boxes full of delicious food and falls asleep without securing them. Some of them might use their loud-death-sticks on you but odds are good if you show up at night they'll just run away screaming and you get all their food.

extremely funny to me that Kermit the Frog is the only main overlap character between Sesame Street and The Muppets. imagine your day job is hanging out in a community of lovely people that genuinely just want to help kids learn and care about everyone so so much and then your night job is the reason that you have to stay up to date on your rabies AND tetanus vaccine

at noon the giant you're hanging out with is Big Bird! a wonderful fellow who likes reading stories and singing and telling fun facts! at midnight there's a giant named Sweetums who makes you feel like you're being hunted for sport

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

the thing about "punk" on here is that there is such enthusiasm for the label and efforts to expand it into something Wholesome and beyond being basically incoherent it's just not a good genre of music. i'm sorry to be the one to bear this news but punk just isn't very good. it's like if everyone got really into identifying themselves as dubstep

music essentially for very young people

I don't know if they're properly "punk", I imagine the real punks think they're sellouts, but Green Day has some bangers

I often have a lot of sympathy for the Lame Stodgy Sensible Center-Left types, but - it is hard to maintain much of that sympathy when I see them posting sneering takes about how only an idiot could fail to support important ideas like (ahem) "teen curfew zones."

Matt Yglesias in recent weeks, notably.

I am aware that DC has an actual current crime problem related to teenagers doing terrible shit. I am in favor of the city finding effective ways to deal with that problem, some of which might be uncomfortably harsh (at least in theory). "Making public spaces inaccessible to people solely on the basis of age" should be about as acceptable a solution as "making public spaces inaccessible to people solely on the basis of race."

The release of Portal was closer to the release of the Game Boy than to today.

Of the people I have least sympathy towards are Little Old Grandmas who just Can't Pay the Property Tax and has to move out of her Sentimental Family Home with only several million dollars of appreciation to tide her over. Just the worst ratio of whining to suffering among the gentry. Spend a week sleeping on the streets and then explain why you need lower property taxes

The blades are moving faster near the tip so the apparent direction of the air (which is the sum of the plane’s linear velocity and the blade’s tangential velocity) changes, meaning the blade actually has to twist to maintain a constant angle of attack. The same thing is true for normal turbofans, the blades are just smaller and enclosed so it’s harder to see.

so do they look different to a regular propeller, like on a Cessna or something, because they have to spin faster?

Pretty much. Conceptually, a propfan is just a turboprop designed to operate in the same performance envelope as a traditional turbofan (30,000 ft, >0.8 Mach). Even regular propellers have a bit of this twist too, but since they spin much slower it’s way less pronounced. One of the big qualitative differences is that traditional props are subsonic whereas to reach the aforementioned performance figures propfans have to be designed for the majority of the blade to be supersonic, and aiui that’s responsible for most of the obvious differences between the designs (more, thinner, bendier blades). Regular turbofans partially get around this by using the cowling inlet to slow the incoming air, so the majority of the blade sees a subsonic airstream. The tips are still supersonic, but being right up against the cowling helps suppress a lot of the noise and inefficiency that would otherwise produce. The fact that propfans are exposed to the full unmitigated airstream and have nothing to help suppress the tip shocks is most of what makes them challenging, I believe.

I see, lots of tiny little sonic booms, sounds like the cavitation difficulties that afflict fast water props.

Ok am I the one who has to be juvenile and note the positioning of the two planes in the preview image and the phrase "it's really coming"