[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Not sure if you're wrong or im misunderstanding what you are saying.

When sailing upwind think of sails as an aircraft wing with the top facing forward. As the wind passes over them from one side they generate "lift" at a perpendicular angle to the sail, pulling the boat in that direction, usually a combination of forward and sideways. The sideways is offset by your underwater profile, that resists sideways movement, resulting in (mostly) just the forward movement.

Square rigs like this comic often struggle sailing upwind compared to sloop rigs with two sails as the fore sail is used to generate that lift on the mail sail.

I've oversimplified this a lot so please not nit pick too much.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Was it that bird?

You got hit by that bird, didn't you?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Is it wrong that was my first thought too?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Depends - are you white, rich, male, speak English and at least a touch racist yourself?

If not - na, probably not.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Still don't have it

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Plus his statement changing the law where birth in the US doesn't grant citizenship.

How long do you think it will be backdated?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

No fetish, but I wanna pat it.

Do you think it likes chin scratches? Does it have a chin? Can I stack them for convenience?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I always find it interesting that millions of people never found out who won WW2.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I didn't even see the fridge

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

In a knife fight the loser dies in the streets, the winner on the way to hospital.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I've thought before that this would be a great way to push back against Trump.

Have every democratic state withhold federal funding (in a separate account, ready to pay) until basic human rights and constitution clauses(???) are upheld.

I can virtually guarantee that most democratic states are financially supporting republican states... and that's socialism.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

I think you're attributing malice to laziness.

I cant think of a single courier or delivery driver that would actively think "let me take an extra 20 seconds to reverse into this driveway just to fuck with bikes". They just want to get it done and get to the next

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Look, we need the money and fuel is bloody expensive, but I believe we are adding another problem to the next generation and regressing further.

The tax sucks, but the benefits were worth it.

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Like the whole country is just exhausted

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Don't know the best way to put this but ill try.

As much as I love this country, we have fallen soo far behind. I don't want to get to political, but I think Labour tried to fix it in one way, now Nat will try the other. Neither will work in the time they have.

We always prided ourselves on our past accomplishments- women vote, Hillary, Rutherford, Nuclear Free, Maori Batallion - and what we are as a country - massive dairy producers, amazing tourist destination, friendly people. But we have dwelled on it too long and got complacent. Our desire to repeat our past success has made us miss opportunities that require years of investment, and meant we are now in a cultural and economic hole that will be increasingly difficult, expensive and time consuming to get ourselves out from.

We have a tiny population and limited housing in an empty country where people have limited desire and finances for kids. Massive farms that produce income for a few overseas investors or historic families. Massively increasing inflation and cost of living due to our long supply chains and small industry base, especially compared to overseas. Falling education at a time we needs teachers, medical persons, engineers and tradies... unis are slashing courses, councils are running out of money, and overseas investors will funnel more out of the country.

I just want others thoughts around this - I have multiple ideas and theories, but I want to hear from you all.

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Did a 8 hour pork roast at same time but can't upload.

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Everytime i comment the text int showing up - just the underline. Works in this post for some reason though.

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Hi all,

Reddit refugee here. I've been following hfy for a number of years and am invested quite heavily in a number of stories. I usually read on mobile on my lunch break, but with rif going and the shocking app it's replaced with I can no longer do so - just log in via computer every week or so to catch up.

What I am interested in is seeing if any coders here are able to make a bot that pulls ongoing stories from r/hfy when they are updated (first contact, TFTR.etc) and ask the authors if they are ok with it being automatically posted to lemmy as well?

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