The Off Topic Topic

[grumbler]

How much can EM jamming fuck up controls of modern aircraft?

Against a modern manned, tethered, or completely autonomous aircraft, very little.  They are shielded from EM interference.

Against a non-tethered remotely piloted vehicle, the impact would depend on how "frequency agile" (able to shift frequencies when detecting jamming or spoofing) the link is, and how powerful and frequency-agile the jammer is. A jammer with a lot of power and a lot of frequency coverage would be a problem (but it trades power on a frequency for power across frequencies).

[Jacob]

I'd like to recommend r/askhistorians to my fellow history nerds on languish.

Some chaff for sure, but there are some good informative and interesting posts at times.

I just read this fascinating response on the history of race in Brazil, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/mz9quiRA4b

[crazy canuck]

 

[Syt]

Saw a story on ORF today that flu an covid cases are going up again. Mostly it was a call of action to register for the city's free* annual vaccination program which starts Nov 4th. Took me all of 10 minutes to register and book my appointment for 6th November for a combi shot. Yay, technology.

*Yes, technically funded by taxes. Still, no extra cost.

[Valmy]

I got my "free" shots already. USA USA USA

I wonder how long that will be a thing 

[Syt]

I'm sure RFK already made sure it's all placebo anyways. Or homeopathic stuff.



... or brain worms.

[Josquius]

Brain worms make sense.
Poison the vaccines to kill off those opposed to antivax ideology and gain more proof for the obvious truth.

[Duque de Bragança]

The combined flu-covid shot is only free over here for people over 65, or with some pathology.

A stand alone Covid shot is still free, however.

[Syt]

Vienna started offering the flu shot for free for all at the start of the pandemic IIRC. Till then you had to buy the vaccine at a pharmacy and then go to a doctor to have it injected (one of those things that are/were a bit backwards in the admin side of Austrian health services). When I came here in 2005 they had just switched to chip insurance cards which Germany had done 10 or so years earlier.

EDIT: Just looked it up - Germany got chip cards in 1995, Austria in 2005

[Josquius]

Apparently a grand sumo tournament is taking place in London this year. Curious.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/15/grand-sumo-wrestling-tournament-london-royal-albert-hall

[Valmy]

Yes. The Sumo wrestlers crossed Abbey Road Beatles style.



Next they are going to show many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

[Razgovory]

"Can I interest you in the flesh of this dead swine?  The tissue has been treated in the vomit of a thousand venomous insects!"

"Raz, that's not how we sell Virginia Honey Ham.

[Tonitrus]

At least you didn't tarnish Virginia. 

[Valmy]

"Can I interest you in the flesh of this dead swine?  The tissue has been treated in the vomit of a thousand venomous insects!"

"Raz, that's not how we sell Virginia Honey Ham.

 

Truth in advertising never works Raz.

[HVC]

Twice vomited. Makes it sound fancier