There are certain things a pilot has no control over. this was not one of them.
N818BR Victoria, TX- Fuel Exhaustion is not tired fuel.

Hey, anyone else catch Secret Level on Prime yet? Watched them last night and most are really good. They're short stories set in game universes, all between 10-20 minutes in length. There's 8 out so far but S01 will have 15 in total. And they have some talent on these like Keanu and Arnie - the one with Arnie is funny as hell. The D&D one is pretty good and the Warhammer 40K one is effing amazing. Really good series so far.

Congressional Republicans come to a conclusion without the use of fact-based science.
The is my surprised face.

MikeJ wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 15:19:
I don’t expect Republicans to tell the truth. First Bush’s big lie about wmd to justify invasion. Then the thousands of lies from the orange con man.

All politicians lie. It's just a question of how much, to what degree, and how often.

I only buy Mexican coke. It is superior to American coke and Middle eastern coke, which comes in steel cans.

Mexican Coke is pretty common round these parts.

To me, it wasn't so much the taste but the mouth feel. Mexican Coke feels less syrupy than American Coke. Especially on the swallow.

I don’t expect Republicans to tell the truth. First Bush’s big lie about wmd to justify invasion. Then the thousands of lies from the orange con man.

I think the truth is that Mexican Coke is a CIA op. That explains everything.

Jivaro wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 14:55:
oooh...I missed the sodium part...got hung up on the other part. That is interesting, but still....it's on the label isn't it?

Sure. But people make a big deal about Mexican Coke because it's made with sucrose, and they say they can taste the difference. I've commented on it myself.

The basic point of that presentation is the sucrose ends up breaking down in the acidy chemical mix of Coke, and it doesn't take long for the chemical makeup of the sugars to become very close to those in the HFCS Coke.

So yeah, the sodium seems like it may be a better explanation for the taste tests than the sugar.

The weird thing about that is in looking at labels to verify the sodium thing, I notice that neither formulation of Coke lists salt as an ingredient. Guess it falls below the reporting threshold, like how mustard can say it has 0 calories.

oooh...I missed the sodium part...got hung up on the other part. That is interesting, but still....it's on the label isn't it?

Was amused when I saw this morning that apparently Bill Belichick, 72, has a 24 year old "girlfriend". You go, Bill. Some suggested he took the UNC job so she could get free tuition.

Jivaro wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 14:20:
I am not sure I understand how everyone is wrong about Mexican coke. The mixture is demonstratively different, as shown by their own chart, and tastes different as a result. It still has sucrose and more of it then fructose. I have literally never heard anyone say "mexican coke doesn't have frustose". They just say "it must be made different" when they taste it and it noticeably tastes different. This entire video feels like someone got hung up on one word or an overly generalized online article on the subject and missed the forrest for the trees. People aren't stupid (well, that stupid), they can read labels and it's literally on the damn label of every bottle. Google "Mexican Coke, ingredients image".

Cokegate this is not.

It's certainly not "cokegate," but it's not nothing. The takeaway was that sucrose in bottled Coke ends up breaking down into glucose and fructose at levels pretty similar to those found in the US Coke made with HFCS. Of note is that Mexican Coke has TWICE the sodium, which probably has a greater impact on flavor than changing the type of simple sugar used.

It quotes a study explaining the sugar change, which I was able to copy out of the video because we live in miraculous times:

Ventura et al. found no inconsistencies in HFCS-sweetened beverages, but did report discrepancies between types of sugars claimed on product labels and those detected in sucrose-sweetened beverages. However, their sucrose concern was almost certainly a failure to consider acid-catalyzed sucrose inversion to free fructose and glucose, a well-characterized phenomenon known to occur in the low-pH environment of most carbonated beverages (and a host of other acidic foods and beverages). Thus, concern about types of sugars in HFCS- and sucrose-sweetened beverages appears to be based on incomplete understanding of sugars chemistry in carbonated beverages.

I am not sure I understand how everyone is wrong about Mexican coke. The mixture is demonstratively different, as shown by their own chart, and tastes different as a result. It still has sucrose and more of it then fructose. I have literally never heard anyone say "mexican coke doesn't have frustose". They just say "it must be made different" when they taste it and it noticeably tastes different. This entire video feels like someone got hung up on one word or an overly generalized online article on the subject and missed the forrest for the trees. People aren't stupid (well, that stupid), they can read labels and it's literally on the damn label of every bottle. Google "Mexican Coke, ingredients image".

Cokegate this is not.