Blue sky in Chitose (and snowing in downtown Sapporo)
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Blue sky in Chitose (and snowing in downtown Sapporo)
Flying over Valley of Fire State Park. Jagged red rocks with a desert valley in the distance.
Got to take a friend up flying (1.7 hours), around Hoover Dam and Valley of Fire. It's such a privilege to be able to do this. Flying is rad.
For seating, Conde Haus (from Japan, show room in Costa Mesa) is pretty wonderful.
Overlooking the red rocks and small canyon of Valley of Fire State Park, from a small aircraft with the wing in the corner.
Overlooking the red rocks of Valley of Fire State Park, from a small aircraft
A very good morning.
Aerial photograph over the Colorado River, running through a plateau with steep canyon walls.
Last Friday, I took my checkride and passed and I'm now a private pilot. It's been a goal I never thought I'd reach, and days later I'm still in awe.
I get to go see things like this whenever I want, now!
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was a good foundational book to understand the timeline, made it easier to find other books in specific eras (e.g. Germany 1923) and contextualize better.
But I frequently ended up staring at the wall while my brain processed horrors.
A screenshot of a text conversation that says "I ain't reading all that / i'm happy for u tho / or sorry that happened"
We look at the modern Republican party, and it's (at least superficially) a cultural monolith. It feels people commonly believe the same of the Democratic party.
Democrats can't ignore problematic leaders & policies because there are people ("but we have the squad! we can't be bad") on the fringe.
I've been wanting to try Kamal for a similar set up, keep posting on what you decide!
Tomorrow morning I am cycling 100km from Brisbane to the Gold Coast for cancer research ๐ดโโ๏ธโค๏ธ
If youโd like to sponsor me (even small donations are super appreciated): fundraise.mater.org.au/s/120023/179...
170,000 paid subscribers and 1.5m readers is substantially fewer than I thought.
~$882 per paid subscriber.
My wife and I were flying home recently, very clearly together in line. Guy cuts in between us, shoves his boarding pass at the agent, gets the angry buzz of shame and it has no effect on him. The agent said it wasnโt his group, also no effect. Was so absurd it was funny.
With all available information, they wouldnโt be the best and brightest if this was their choice ๐ซ
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We recently got the Samsung 4 door flex and really like it. Not sure about quality since we only got it a year ago but itโs very useful!
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
You have an excellent username, too.
Observationally, just feels like white people being slightly less open about being racist.
Back to testing the waters with me instead of assuming I also hate brown people ๐
Japan housing is fundamentally different. In many (most?) locations the house is a depreciating asset and only the land holds value.
Also, with a declining population they donโt have the same housing supply constraints โurban areas being invested in appreciate, where even 20-30 minutes away fall.
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A view of the right wing of a small plane, with Lake Mead in the distance and desert landscape below
A view from the air of the Nevada desert.
First flight after my son got his PPL, great way to spend Sunday morning.
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social this video seems like something youโd appreciate!
Anything I add here may ruin the experience of watching, but go watch it.
youtu.be/VMWGcsTQZS4?...
I love time zones because Iโm flying away at 4:20pm and arriving at 4:20pm on the same day.
Itโs neat that humans tackled time zones and agreed on a line to reset it all.
Iโve heard the same phrasing of outsourcing when talking about btrees in various libs, though.
Complex software rarely is true. It is, as you say, about looking true. How can we make it easier to understand and poke at the truthiness?
This has been a consistent (and valid) argument about abstractions in software engineering. In college (mid 90s) we had to learn hardware because otherwise weโd write terrible software! It wasnโt true, because Java/C++(STL) changed the game. Some things we need to know, it changes generationally.
The best part about Imola is when Max tries to push someone off the track, they're more inclined to fight back since it's gravel and big curbs.
I was at a May Day rally yesterday, a guy came up and was trying to agitate -- he told me that Trump was keeping his daughters safe by "keeping illegals away from them".
Nothing will ever convince me these people don't know they're fascists -- they're just sealioning fascists.
This guy's a hero. Good shit, Senator.