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Aviation subreddit speculates that the plane experienced a decompression/hypoxia event just before it descended for approach and the jets scramble because they were unresponsive. Plane did a 180 likely because that was the next waypoint in the nav. Ran out of fuel and plummeted to earth in a rural area. Best of a bad situation in that regard.
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1 hour ago, Celery Man said:Certainly Shaggy/Surly underwent a shift, although that to me feels more like it centered around MeToo when aspects of the locker room language ceased to seem funny to a lot of posters.
Rant incoming. I had a quick thought on this but the words started flowing and I started feeling like I had to write it.
I don't think it was MeToo. By the time the migration happened, MeToo had gone full cycle from informative and transformative to ridiculous. In the end, there is always a "bully" mentality that takes over any movement. Rather than stamping out bad behavior when they see it, they actively seek it and find it wherever they can and it becomes a hammer looking for a nail situation. After that, society generally shifts back to a reasonable middle that applies the true lessons learned from the experience.
The same applied to MeToo. We learned a lot from it, but innocent people were starting to get dragged and that's where the shift started. We had that combined with a lot of posters coming forward and sharing why some of the language and attitudes we were using was harmful even though we weren't seeing a direct result of that harm on the board itself. Despite being rough around the edges, we were compassionate and understanding enough to get smoothed out a little. Our new normal was the "kinder, gentler" that we saw, but a lot of the old attitudes persisted.
I know I'm crossing streams a little here by saying this, but we were ~2 years into the Trump presidency when we migrated over to Surly. The deeper we got into that administration, the more parts of society leaned into the bully mentality without a particular movement behind it. As long as you hurt the right people, you get a pass. And it isn't exclusive to one party or the other. True informative and explorative discourse is no longer the point. Pain is the point in a lot of our tribal social discourse these days, so the loudest and most brash of each tribe acts as the "champion" that people will rally around. If people are going to whine that I'm being political by observing and stating that, I don't know what to say. However, I think we are well into the "ridiculous" stage and I truly think the bulk of society is trying to find the new normal or middle.
COVID is really, really complicating that, though. I'm of the strong opinion that COVID was a national tragedy that we haven't emotionally unpacked, yet. For ~2 weeks, the vast majority of society was terrified. We had no idea what was coming down the pike. China wasn't sharing any data and the rumors were the stuff of nightmares, it seemed like Italy was on the doorstep of the modern era Black Death, almost all the food was gone, economic collapse was a certainty, substance abuse skyrocketed, mental health plummeted, and the nation was emotionally and spiritually hollowed out. And it wasn't even April, yet. It was this generation's 9/11 without the national bonding after. Instead, it was a national tearing.
Anger is the outlet of fear and there was, and still is, a lot of fear that is being vented as anger. Thus was born the tribal champions. Everyone is angry but can't shout at everyone they want to shout at. But their champions can. Elon is just one of them. We, as a nation, need to fix our anger problem. We need to start humanizing each other, again. Either we figure it out or the next disaster will figure it out for us.
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17 hours ago, TexEx15 said:
Nate Paul
You gotta say it the way it was said over and over again during the impeachment proceedings.
NATE Pawwl
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7 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I am not a drone spotter/expert—but I don’t have a hard time believing that this Moscow attack is a AFU operation. I really doubt that they were targeting civilian targets explicitly, it’s more likely they were interferes with and shot down by RU air defenses. But I don’t see hitting military targets as their primary benefit, nor do I see the psychological impact as most important. What’s most important is that Russia is going to have to reassess and redeploy EW and AD around Moscow and other internal sites, and they’re going to have to dedicate the people trained to operate it as well. Anything that degrades or impacts their ability to use these systems in Ukraine is a W.
For what it’s worth, I think the main reason Russia keeps using these Iranian drone swarm attacks is to use up as much AFU AD capacity, too. With the added benefit (to Orcs) of psychological terror.
I don’t know a whole lot about the drones used, but they looked low and slow and loud. The drones were either traversing the Russian countryside for 10 minutes and their defenses couldn’t get ready or Ukraine got all the necessary equipment up to the Moscow city limits under Russia’s nose like a damn sight gag from a Harold Ramis or John Hughes movie.
Either way, just another embarrassing display of Russian military capability. A sad state of affairs for Putin where an inside job would be the least embarrassing explanation of how that happened.
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USAA seems to be going through a nationwide technical issue. Myself and apparently a ton of people can’t login and are being told by the automated system their accounts don’t exist when trying to access them over the phone.
Hope it’s just a server issue and not a breach issue.
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9 minutes ago, slorch said:
Carry on with the Hate for America tour though.
Ah, the good ol’ “you hate America because you’re pointing out its flaws and saying we can do better as a society.”
We can, and should always strive to be, better.
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13 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:
I'm not some rah-rah Government guy, but I fucking hate when people try to make the "benefitting from government" argument and simplify it down to "roads and social services". I can't tell if the folks making that argument are being disingenuous or if they are just too stupid to contemplate how many places the government is interwoven into the fabric of things they benefit from.
You are some 50something dude pulling a couple to three hundred K a year working a job in some industry that is heavily regulated and high barriers to entry make it tough for competition to enter your market place thereby making it easier for the company you work for to pay you what they pay you and not forcing you to sweat....yea you just benefitted financially from the work of the government.
You refinanced your mortgage in 2020 and got a sweet 2.5% interest rate, saving you 40 thousand dollars in interest over the life of your loan. Yea, when Covid hit and most of the private money in the market shit its pants and ran for the hills that was Fannie, Freddie, FHA, and their government mandate/implicit guarantee standing in there making that possible. Unless you really think you get the rates you get because of just how fucking awesome you are.
I could go on and on, but the idea that one is only benefitting from the government by using the roads, or drawing social services etc is just so fucking bad.
Well, that and their argument ignores simple economics. They whine about people benefiting off of social services without "paying" but don't realize that the business that they own/pay them large salaries requires, to various degrees, a lower wage-earning populace that needs to use those roads to get to those jobs and use those services to subsidize their low wages that benefit those companies. The analogy of the renter down the street who pays $900 a month benefiting from the same services as the home owner the other side of the street, even though they don't pay property taxes, is ignoring that the person who owns the real estate that is being rented to... wait for it... earn a profit. So, take that gripe up with the owner of the rental, not the poor person renting it.
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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
That’s rich
I always hated that argument. “They have access to the same resources as everyone else! Why are they so poor?” The answer is that it is systematic wealth and poverty.
An analogy that I use for this has two 18 year olds. One grew up as a carpenter’s son and the other grew up without any exposure to carpentry. You take them to a workshop, give them all the same exact tools, materials, and working conditions. If you were to tell them “you have one week to build me a canoe. The one who can build the best canoe gets $250k for college,” who in the hell do you think is going to win that competition? The carpenter’s son is the odds-on favorite by a long shot. Sure, the other kid might win, but it would only be in absolute fluke scenarios. 99 times out of 100, the carpenter’s son wins that purely based on his exposure to carpentry growing up.
The point is that mere exposure to households that have college graduates or hard working people or business owners sets a particular tone for a person as they go out into the world. So, what do we do with the people who grow up in abject poverty? The ones who grow up with a single parent on welfare? The ones who have deadbeat parents? Do we just toss them to the trash heap or do we give them an opportunity to compete with everyone that didn’t have to struggle growing up?
The cynic in me says that the real answer is traced back to the haves and the have-nots. Those who have benefited from their institutional advantages don’t want to share. “I worked hard for this! Why do I need to help lazy poor people?” Well, you didn’t have to work as hard as that poor person would to get where you are. You had advantages that you can’t even perceive because they were so embedded in your upbringing. Something that is just every day for you would be absolutely life changing for a truly poor person. Take food security, for example. There are millions of children and teenagers that won’t know where their meals will come from over the summer. How in the world are they supposed to even think about their future when they don’t even know if they can eat in the present?
There’s more than enough resources to go around. Progressive tax is one mechanism to spread those resources out. I’m not going to slap my paystub down on the table, but I do very well. I enjoy a lot of creature comforts and my kids enjoy a way better lifestyle than I did growing up. A flat tax would have me paying less, but I have no problems paying more with the hopes that the extra I pay will go towards bettering society. “Society grows great when old men plant trees knowing they will never enjoy their shade.”
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34 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
The People's Elbow
So TJ really wasn’t TPE.
So much history in this community and we lose a little of it, bit by bit, every year. As he goes, so goes a piece of the HornFans/Shaggy/Surly lore.
Vaya con Dios.
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Just now, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
I can't find it anywhere else so this must be VERY recent.On mobile, so can’t paste the whole thing, but now being reported on CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/tucker-carlson-fox-news/index.html
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Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News after Dominion settlement, per CNBC chyron.
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Now being reported on CNBC.
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Is this not on ESPN+? Everything I read said it would be.
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14 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
No, it did not. But they responded as protocols post Columbine were developed. You do not always see evil, you have to react to it.
I guess you have never been in a situation where evil presents. See them run past the kid in the hallway? They had to move, find and react. That is what they did.
That image got compartmentalized so they could finish the job, but they will be unpacking it for the rest of their lives at great expense to their mental health and wellbeing.
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How many false starts over the last 7 years does this make this? If nothing happens by next week, the name “BlueAnon” will be well earned.
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I am one of those rare types that Brisket talked about that can exist in both the rural world and urban world. I was born and spent half of my childhood in Small Town, Texas. Half of my family still lives in Small Town, Texas and I visit them regularly. I live in a big city and frequent many downtown areas in other big cities around the nation. I’ve ridden horses, herded cattle with catahoula cowdogs, and pulled a breach birth calf out of a cow. I also have a post graduate education, work white collar, and have enjoyed big city comforts for two decades.
I’ve seen the slack jawed Cletus and the homeless camps. I’ve talked to the proverbial big city welfare queen and the farmer who gets by on ag subsidies. Neither know a damn thing about how the other lives or how they got there, but they hate each other because they were told that they have to. They have been told that the other benefits off of their burdens.
We’re all fighting the same struggle. It only looks different on its face. The divide is there, has been there for decades, and getting deeper. Anyone who can’t see that is in their own bubble. What this country really needs is an honest look at the other side. Unfiltered. You’ll stop seeing Cletus and Welfare Queen and start seeing people who are systematically suffering from the same issues.
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8 hours ago, hornian said:
Who do I blame for this? I need to blame someone.
The Derel
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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Think Devolution by Max Brooks, but instead of Bigfoot, it’s Bastrop hillbillies.
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If I was any good at Photoshop or After Effects, I’d put Elon in as Walter claiming that the elder Lebowski isn’t even disabled, then throwing him to the ground.
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That’s always the dream, isn’t it? Ground floor of a startup using other people’s money to build an acreage position, get a couple of wells flowing so you can show PDP and advertise some PUDs, then ride off into the sunset after acquisition until you get bored and do it all over again.
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The US home front is weak, but not with regards to China. China is one of the few issues where there is a majority consensus. Human rights abuses, environmental destruction, and how they handled COVID has created a unified front against China in the US for at least another 10 years.
China may even have more bad will in the US than Russia currently has and that’s saying something.
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CNBC was showing stock ownership at 205% and Citadel was a major holder. Gee, I wonder what happened there…
Cessna wanders aimlessly over DC, intercepted by F-16's. Crashes. General confusion abounds
in Daily Texan
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That’s the exact situation they were citing in the thread.