Wonder where does it come that: “Cleared for the visual, report three mile left base for Runway 31,” becomes “Cleared to land, 31” or “Line up and wait” was interpreted as “Cleared for takeoff” Maybe I fly too little as a private pilot but I can't imagine those interpretations happening.

It's pretty common for us to comprehend but not actually comprehend something if it's mundane.

Our brains are lazy and put stuff on autopilot when it can, so stuff that we experience very often and regularly gets truncated and simplified and shuffled off to be auto'd away so our brain can do better things.

For an IT example, it's common knowledge that dialog boxes and windows are almost always instantaneously closed by hitting the OK button. It doesn't matter what it's saying, it's just second nature to just OK it away because that's what we do with them. Even as we try to read it our hand is already clicking the OK button.

And so "Cleared for the visual, report three mile left base for Runway 31" becomes "Cleared, Runway 31" in our minds and we end up with incidents.

Since Threads is still available only in selected countries - most importantly blocking Europe - it can't be taken seriously.

It's not even popular in the US.

Tractors and snowplows. Salt kills the bicycles and salty slush is much worse to drive in. Hard packed snow is actually the best to ride on.

Interestingly Oulu bike roads clearing contract states the company doing the snowplowing can do inspections only on bicycles, not cars :)

There's a difference between riding on hard pack with a bike, and driving a car over it. I have no idea why you think an experiment with hard-pack snow on automotive roads is in anyway indicative of what works on cycle lanes.

Hard pack on a hill doesn't seem to make sense for bicycles either

Loved my MK-85, did a lot of BASIC programming on it as a kid. Using pixel graphics you could do even games. I think the demo game it came with was horce racing jumping over fences.

Yup. In war you have to do whatever it takes. In addition to direct SMS we should think how to better mass email and call Russian people as well. Let’s do it!

Shame on them.

Good old gopher & lynx days ...

Only if he then let forest fires burn his house down. Not exactly a hard choice there either.

There are plenty of forested ecosystems where forest fires aren’t an issue…

Something to keep in mind though: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/17/wood-bur... "Wood burning stoves in urban areas are responsible for almost half of people’s exposure to cancer-causing chemicals found in air pollution particles, new research has shown."

This is less of a concern with modern batch-rocket stoves that also burn fine particles, once hot, after a few minutes, they burn without smoke.

Unless the wood is moist. Or the logs are too large. Or the wood is of the wrong kind or of bad quality. Or the stove is used incorrectly (ID10T error).

Exactly. The average user has to be very cautious. I wonder how cautious they are having paid good money for a fully compliant stove install and then think their job is over.

Are these user-originated problems detectable using the right combination of sensors ?

If they paid attention they'd notice it smokes. There's usually a small window in the oven for that purpose, our eyes and noses a good enough sensors for that.