[-] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago

How tempting is it to push all the buttons all the time?

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Set the autopilot, make yourself a coffee while you skim the manual, successful landing.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 7 points 19 hours ago

I haven't flown a jumbo jet but yeah, pretty accurate.

Planes are easy, keep your speed up, nose above the horizon, and watch your fuel.

Everyone should steal a plane at least once.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 33 points 19 hours ago

How could they forget the foot pedals? That's a whole axis and objectively the most fun controls on the plane.

adding:

  • All the buttons behind you are circuit breakers.
[-] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I'm just impressed you engineered a snow fort with a door that opens.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

I steal it from behind the ice rink.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

This is delightful. I haven't quinzhee camped since I was a teenager, but once my friends and I made one tall enough to stand in with the help of a friendly gravekeeper and his backhoe.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Send him to pick flowers...

Guys, is farming gay?

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submitted 2 days ago by Wren@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere, time to ask some hard-hitting questions.

Are you a burrower with a hollowed out snow drift? A mason who shapes and packs each block? Do you have snowball caches in case of attack?

Share your style and techniques.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The F-35s have been the kid in a toxic custody trial for fucking ever, already costing billions more than expected. The same shit happened over the F-22 and we're still using goddamn F-18s.

In the year 2125 we'll finally welcome in a new fleet of F-69's to retire a squadron of Hornets being held together by spit and glue.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 18 points 3 days ago

Go outside at least once a day when I don't need to be outside.

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The whole gluten thing is pretty interesting.

Low carb diets led to commercial production on non-wheat breads in the western world, creating more options for people with celiacs and increasing public awareness of gluten allergies. With more bread options some people noticed they felt better after chowing non-wheat bread.

Without a lot of health info and bullshit american healthcare, they figured they had gluten allergies or celiacs and adjusted their diet accordingly.

A widely publicized study on non-celiacs gluten allergies found no gluten allergy, media took it out of context and implied those people were full of shit. This polarized the public against anyone claiming a gluten allergy.

But! More and more people self-diagnosed gluten allergies, and more study led to discoveries on how fermentation helps digestion (like with sourdough), that parts of grains contain enzymes that aid digestion, found industry-wide problems with undercooked grains, and allergies to different classes of grains.

So it was healthier for a lot of people, they just didn't know why.

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