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1. Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:09:51 JST Santa Noodle ☦️
   Back in my day, search engines worked and people were still too dense to use them. Think about that next time you can't find anything resembling your search term as you struggle to find anything useful on Google.
   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:09:49 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @MaleticResearch I held on until recently, but I've long used other engines to supplement things. Bing has become my go to for "normal" search content, but for technical stuff I'm looking at SearX and Yandex. There's been punctuated shifts in quality decline, such as the leadup to the 2016 election. Attempting to remove "disinformation" has led to a humongous content void on all the major engines, conveniently filled with absolute garbage like SEO pages and services to purchase for things that were previously forum posts actually addressing the topic and often with sources. COVID destroyed health and medical searches in the public sphere. Google has gone completely off the rails since then and are absolutely drunk on the power to shape public opinion.
     
     As much as I hate "AI", the ability to parse information through useful customized heuristics will make the future of web searching potentially useful again, provided we can get some open source ai and public indexing in place.
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   • Maletic Research (maleticresearch@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:09:51 JST Maletic Research

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     @BowsacNoodle 2011. That is the breaking point. That is when I quit using Google search (not that others didn't fail since) cold turkey because of horrible results for general searches. Would give you easily best local pizza or politician but, search on general knowledge item that should have identical results all over the World and it started to be crap. When I got first non promoted result for "manufacturers of LCD panels" to be Tourist Bureau of Cinque Terre in 8/2011 I quit than and there.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:11:13 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BowsacNoodle @MaleticResearch I coulnd’t find a part earlier, just gave me 10 pages of people talking about warranty replacements. I sense a real bend towards social sites now, where the ‘meat’ of a search is aimed at giving you a conversation w/ those keywords.

     Want a service manual? Part number? Well, too bad, here’re some retarded redditors talking about how they can’t figure it out so they took it straight to the dealership

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:23:57 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MaleticResearch That's too relatable. I do think it's deliberate, because places like reddit are moderated by trannies and other insufferable system enjoyers. I had an unimportant question about whether welding oxygen was different than medical and after some fun searching and removing terms like "medical", I was lucky to find an aviation forum discussing the topic of airplane oxygen. Someone linked to another post from years ago which linked to an article written in the 90s that went into detail about how it's all the same. That type of thing should be visible from page 1, assuming the search engine is designed around accuracy and truth. Yet here we are.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:26:40 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BowsacNoodle @MaleticResearch Got that article? We’ve fought about that before. They’re very cagey about us EVER going to anyone but the authorized FBO to refill our tanks. Legal issues but we gotta funnel all our biz into the same people trying to tack on $4.30/gal for “carbon credits”

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:29:55 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MaleticResearch I will find it for you friend. I almost sent it to you actually. The TLDR was the guy said the FAA chairman looked into it and said the way the regs are written, using O2 from anywhere is fine provided it meets standards. Hospitals and welding supply and aviation all use the same gas now because the purification method is the same.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:35:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BowsacNoodle @MaleticResearch Holy cow, I literally had a 3-hour multi-way argument w/ our lawyer and a phone chain of about 10 diff. people because I made the mistake of offering to do some work myself. There’s a range of things you can do as a PPL under the “preventive maintenance” and we had this Cessna that I wanted to dig into and look at the spar before moving it on (saving us a huge headache if it turns out this thing hasn’t been inspected and has corrosion up there, about $50k to fix at the cheapest)

     Before you know it someone said “hey lawyer, can woggy just go out and pull that headliner? He said he can but I’m not sure”

     I didn’t care, because all of us were getting paid and I was poasting, but still. In the end the answer seemed to be yes but by then it was on the boss’ radar so we sent it to our engineering guy. The basic answer was along those same lines, there’s a FAR passage that says something to the effect of “….part…that meets regulations” that legal basically said can be used to okay ANY regulations, since it doesn’t explicitly refer to a FAR. That means that you can use any “certified” part from other industries like oceanic, automobile, textiles, etc. Guess that’s what we use for some of the lightbulbs on the expensive but old stuff, too. Automotive bulbs instead of official KING AIR BEECHCRAFT® ones for $450

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:35:28 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @MaleticResearch The guy who wrote this is awesome. 1999 original publication updated June 2019. Very well written IMO.
     
     avweb.com/features/pelicans-perch-13getting-high-on-welders-oxygen/
     
     @WashedOutGundamPilot
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   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:51:01 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MaleticResearch Every industry has its paradigm sacred cows man. That's great that you guys are using off the shelf parts when possible too. I figured as much, especially since so much aftermarket stuff is near identical or superior to OEM in a lot of the gasoline powered parts space, often manufactured by the same or competing company who fixed the common point of failure on the OEM design. I forget which manufacturer it was (Bosch maybe?) thay was making O2 sensors which had a bad seal and would corrode after time and heat. Some aftermarket (NGK?) does the same product with a better seal and another wrap seal and it's cheaper.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:52:39 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BowsacNoodle @MaleticResearch Well at least for the more expensive stuff it’s probably because we know the incandescents will get ripped out for an LED upgrade pretty quick, anyways.

     It’s all about flipping them ASAP, most buyers are pretty clear on what they’re getting out of it. If anything, they like having a project plane, I often get the vibe they’re looking forward to it when I tell them “this one will need about 1 or 200 hours of hangar time to get it really nice, if your wife is cool with that”

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 11:00:46 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BowsacNoodle @MaleticResearch They always act like I’m a wizard, because all the old guys at work are generally on their 2nd or 3rd trophy wife. Clientele on the piston side are often faithful guys w/ wife number 1 - they wanna hang out listening to boomertunage and drink all weekend instead of spending a few days on a cialis & golddigger binge

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 11:00:47 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MaleticResearch >“this one will need about 1 or 200 hours of hangar time to get it really nice, if your wife is cool with that”
     That's literally what I would look for in a boat or project car. I'm sure it'd be the same if I was into planes.
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