> Ceiling fans with a 7.5-metre (24.6ft) diameter help to circulate the air

Big Ass Fans FTW!

<https://bigassfans.com/fans/?attr_Diameter=24+ft.>

Heh.

At some point they overused automatic translation for their website. So it was rendered in Russian as "fans of a big ass" ("fan" as in "football fan"): https://web.archive.org/web/20220324070109/https://bigassfan...

Amazon is basically a frontend for AliExpress, with some US products thrown in to keep people clicking.

These are essential for remote solo hiking.

> Nothing I've ever seen or experienced with FAA indicates a lack of care

Hard to fathom someone still holding that view after the 737MAX disasters.

The NTSB has repeatedly and publicly criticized the FAA for failing to implement their recommendations, including as recently as last week (Amazon Prime crash resulting in 5 deaths). They've explicitly called out the FAA's failure to act as a contributing factor in crashes, multiple times.

Regulatory capture ruined the FAA.

> and lowering prices in the long run.

My sweet summer child...

> the loss of faith into democratically-supervised institutions.

Surely you mean oligarch-supervised institutions.

Our institutions are supervised by representatives elected on the dime of corporate and billionaire benefactors. They pull the strings.

It became a banana republic when money became speech.

No, of course they don't.

The worlds most popular tractor brand (Mahindra) doesn't even crack the top 5 in the US.

If American farmers wan't the most repairable tractor, they should just buy the one that is used in poorer, less-connected regions of the world. Those are built for durability and repairability.

Mahindra's line up tops out at 71 horsepower. Americans use 400-800 horsepower row croppers towing 36 row planters.

Some farm, typically agriculture. Your average cattle, sheep, or other livestock farmer will not be running a 400+ HP tractor in most cases. 50-110 hp is common for general property use such as clearing, slashing, loading, material moving. In these cases a Mahondra, or any number of others is ideal. You can get John Deere in the same size, but would be mad to do so with the repairability issues and higher cost.

> Your average cattle, sheep, or other livestock farmer

is a very different person in different countries. The US has large scale agriculture and use large scale equipment.

Those large scale farms aren't the ones who have a problem with John Deere or repairability. Corporate will handle that.

The most popular tractor on American farms right now is the John Deere 5075E, which has between 73 and 75HP.

So you're wrong.

So my keys have never truly been missing, eh?

You have a valid reason to expect that your keys are in the place you remember leaving them.

That’s not the case with large flocks of living animals. In that case, you’re simply making a category error in imagining that those living animals behave much like your keys.

So everyone else's keys are missing materially all of the time?

In an age where cameras are everywhere, all one has to do for good PR is good.

Only if you own the camera system, otherwise they won't publish the video of you doing good

Which is why another Democratic mayor in another blue city, who Mamdani considers “the most effective Democrat in office”, someone who inspires him - nobody knows that politicians name unless they’re really into politics. I’ll admit, even I’ve only heard of her because Mamdani name checked her.

Mamdani’s every tiny initiative gets tonnes of PR because Mamdani and his team are masters of media. That’s what sets him apart from Michelle Wu or anyone else.

I know her name, but I definitely can't name anything she's done.

Mamdani is the mayor of the largest city by far. Of course he has the most visibility of all the mayors.

Not just the largest city, but also the city where much of our national media is based or has a very large presence. It's so bizarre when I visit friends and family in other parts of the country and they know more about my local news stories than their own cities.

I never heard of Eric Adams doing anything, ever. I couldn’t name the mayor between Adams and Giuliani. And I only know Adams because he was corrupt beyond belief. Mamdani is an outlier in how much positive attention he garners, even considering he’s mayor of NY.

"All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success."

It is actually annoying that as a UK user of bsky and HN, I hear more about Mamdani than about Sadiq Khan. Mamdani is everywhere. Mind you, I'm also hearing a lot more about the former mayor of Manchester these days.