[–] 1 point 1 year ago

It says a small plane that tilted to one side on take off and then abruptly went inverted. My guess is this was a small twin engine plane that lost an engine on takeoff. If they don't respond quickly in those planes (in most cases, depending on their speed, by shutting off the running engine as well), the power from the working engine and the drag from the non-working engine will flip the plane.

The Rutan Boomerang is a unique twin plane that can lose an engine without adverse yaw. But small twins don't follow these design principals.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    No.

    Its chief executive, Hille van der Kaa, admits the appetite for vegan cheese is low right now, but her company is targeting a "silent revolution" by swapping cheeses people don't often think about."If you buy frozen pizza, you don't really think of what kind of cheese is on that," she explains. "So it's quite easy to swap."

    "People don't want to buy biomass we produce, let's shove it down their throats the way they are less likely to notice"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Eh, there's three criteria for me with "fake" or substitute foods like this.

    Does it either taste indistinguishable from the food it's mimicking, or taste so good on its own that its still worth using?

    Is it going to be no worse health wise than the original?

    Does it perform either the same as, or so similar to as not to matter, as an ingredient as the original?

    Previous cheese replacements fail all three metrics, or at least two of them when they manage to be better health wise. And I've tried a goodly number of them.

    This one looks like it should perform similar to dairy cheese in some ways, but if it can't match the taste close enough, it'll still fail.

    Cheese isn't "just" a lump of protein and fat. There's a complex series of processes between the teat and the cracker. The biggest one is what happens over time as a given cheese sits and matures. Something like mozzarella, I can see this process mimicking fairly well. Something like a bleu or parma, it just ain't gonna happen.

    But there's another factor involved that isn't one of my concerns regarding a cheese substitute. Is there an animal besides cows that can make a product where it's more environmentally friendly, and still be cheese in every way that matters? There are cheeses made from milk other than cow milk, and they often have a much better track record environmentally and/or cruelty wise because the industry is different and the animals just don't need the same conditions to maximize profit. That could change if they took off in a big way, but not in all cases.

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  • I very much dislike this tactic.

    "We have reduced expenses by millions!"

    "This is a trillion-pound budget. That's equivalent to the average person saying they saved a few pounds this past year."

    That's my perspective on it anyway. Nonetheless, at least it's something going to help people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Occupational and physical therapies already exist. The article does list other services, like assistance with CVs. Having said that, it also states that these issues affect 2.8 million people and that this program has a budget of £1.5 million. Having paid a CV service before, I find it hard to believe that a few pounds per person will be enough. Is this a "every little bit helps" kind of thing? Is it performative?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As an Australian I love to mock the British idea of what hot weather is:

    The highest temperature of the year so far was recorded on 1 July, when 35.8C was measured in Faversham, Kent.

    Nope, nope, that's definitely too hot. No mockery here. That's just overtly hot weather.

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