Arse nemesis

Fedora works for me, thanks for the pointer

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

What a pile of steaming bullshit

I’m guessing it’s more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

Wait what? Imma need to see that

Sounds like I had it mostly wrong. I definitely didn’t know about the wing / “lift” / pull mechanic. The only part I did get right was that the sideways component of the force is offset by your ship shape, and even that I misphrased.

Thanks for the correction!

Keel was the word I was thinking of, but couldn’t remember. Thanks for the correction!

Edit: I have been corrected. Please read the follow-up comments for better information. I’m leaving the original text below for context and transparency.

As I understand (I’ll happily be corrected), the basic mechanism is that you want to align your ship diagonally off to the side, and the sails at a shallow angle so that the wind pushes you to the side (diagonally back and to the side, but the hydrodynamics of your bow resist the backwards component), so you gain some momentum. Then you turn into the wind to have that momentum carry you forward, sails parallel to the wind so it doesn’t push you back as much. Turn off to the side again (either back to the same side, or continue your turn to the other side) and repeat.

It doesn’t move you quickly, because it’s rather inefficient in transferring the wind’s power into opposite momentum, but it gets you moving at least a little.

In my classes on analytics, we were taught to prefer using normalised axes starting at 0 to more accurately put changes into perspective.

Butterfly gang

I mean, yeah, this is one of those cases where you think the plot is obvious, but also, that’s a great setup for a plot twist, so you gotta watch it to be sure.

…and the red bar indicates you (or whoever originally made that meme) started watching it.

I know you’re memeing, but if I know my Lisp, just wrapping something in triple parens implies evaluating it three times. So you have an expression evaluating to a producer that produces another producer that finally produces a value?

I’m sure there’s a legit use case for it. I just can’t think of one.