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Cake day: June 1st, 2024

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  • My understanding is that it’s related to the decline of three and four engine planes. Originally airlines preferred them over two engined planes because they were safer, had greater range, and could carry more passengers. On the other hand, they were more expensive to operate due to requiring more maintenance and fuel. Additionally, these planes were larger and couldn’t get into places that smaller twinjets could. Eventually technology improved to the point that the (literal) costs of more engines began to outweigh the benefits to airlines. These days most passenger airlines only operate twinjets and the remaining tri- and quadjets are relegated to cargo.






  • I don’t have any specific words or anything, but I do have some general tips that might be useful.

    You can exclude words from search results by placing a - at the beginning of the word you don’t want. For example if you want real hedgehogs and not Sonic the Hedgehog:

    hedgehog -sonic

    Another tip is you can put quotation marks around a phrase to search for content with that exact set of words. This can be useful when searching for something like a band with a name that just isn’t search friendly.

    “the band”

    There’s a great browser add-on called uBlacklist that can block specific sites from from search results. One particularly useful feature is subscriptions, which allows users to share public lists that update automatically.