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Captainant

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  1. Because he fired everyone who sat on the Aviation Security Committee https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years. ... “I naively thought, ‘oh they’re not going to do anything in the new administration, to put security at risk — aviation security at risk.’ But I’m not so sure,” said Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband was killed in the bombing and served on the committee. The future of the committee remains unclear because DHS officials didn’t respond Tuesday to questions about the move. The memo that announced the terminations said that future committee activities will be focused on “advancing our critical mission to protect the homeland and support DHS’s strategic priorities” but the group has no members. Adding to Bernstein’s concern is the fact that TSA Administrator David Pekoske was fired even though he was originally appointed by Trump during his first term and was in the middle of what was supposed to be Pekoske’s second five-year term in the job after he was reappointed by Biden and confirmed by the Senate.
  2. This is the essence of most people complaining about "CR" - it's just a means to shout down things they don't want to acknowledge. The fucking commander in chief of the US Army, whose helicopter just killed 60+ civilians, making a statement matters and is pretty goddamn key to the news story as it emerges.. It's aggy levels of stupid to call a direct quotation of his "political". If President Trump ordered a military invasion on Panama to finally show those canal stealing bastards who's boss - it's gonna be a fucking news story. Sorry that trump is attached to the story. He IS the guy most of the CR complainers voted for anyways.
  3. This should be in the main thread, it's directly relevant to the crash and the overbusy airspace
  4. He's also very literally the head and commander in chief of the organization that crashed into the civilian air liner
  5. It reads most like task saturation by the ATC and the helo pilot. The DCA approach is a fucking doozie and the plane got moved to a different runway while in pattern for final. Combine that with a helo pilot flying that sin against gravity in a busy airspace with aircraft doing last-minute re-vectors.... I can see a swiss cheese model of failure stacking up here. Sure would be a kick in the balls if we just put off hiring thousands of air traffic controllers as part of a general hiring freeze
  6. Welp. The President of the United States says the last guy and diversity is to blame. Nevermind whatever facts or details might be found by a formal investigation. Get right ahead to the @Hate (name is too ironic not to tag in this context of bemoaning "CR"ing the topic)
  7. This reads to me as a couple factors coming together: Significant inflation in NVDA stock prices with a ton of market speculation Non-technical market actors overreacting to news Deepseek used NVidia's hardware and proprietary hardware API's to accelerate their model's training. It did use older H800's (instead of the current gen H100's), but they're still ultra-high Nvidia chips and API's. NVDA taking a huge dump didn't make any sense, except for a bunch of empty suits uncritically following media hype cycles and NVidia briefly losing the limelight.
  8. You don't get to huge free cash flows and turning a monster quarter without not sharing the growth with workers. Cmon, bruh. You some kinda commie pinko?
  9. Unfortunately, he's the president and literally nothing about his 78 years on earth would lead me to believe he is capable of STFU'ing
  10. I mean, the President and Commander in Chief of the branch that just flew into a commercial flight is certainly helping to clarify and calm things amirite You should be complaining that the general level of discourse is in the gutter, not a bunch of Internet message board goobers
  11. Double plus ungood!!!
  12. Reuters: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials. That is more than five times the $853 cost of a one-way first class ticket on American Airlines from El Paso, Texas, the departure point for the flight, according to a review of publicly available airfares. It is also significantly higher than the cost of a commercial charter flight by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump launched the military deportation flights last week as part of his national emergency declaration on immigration, so far sending six planeloads of migrants on flights to Latin America. Only four have landed, all of them in Guatemala, after Colombia refused to let two U.S. C-17 cargo aircraft land and instead sent its own planes to collect migrants following a standoff with Trump. A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, estimated the cost to operate a C-17 military transport aircraft is $28,500 per hour. The flight back and forth to Guatemala, not including time on the ground or any operations to prepare the flight for takeoff, took about 10-1/2 hours in the air to complete, the official said.
  13. First shot across the bow at women https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/722 H.R.722 - To implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.
  14. Ya know, applying brutal tarrifs against Taiwan and TSMC - the ONLY people in the world who can make these chips - is really gonna help the strategic availability of those chips
  15. Wait wait wait, so a website that's the last leg of delivery for cartels and drug lab networks ISN'T part of that network in your mind? That's about as inspired as arguing that pipelines and refineries aren't part of the oil and gas industry, a new high score for you
  16. My guy, you go to Germany and throw some seig heils and talk about how they should stop feeling bad about what their great grandfather's did. Let me know how that works out for you with respect to their anti-nazi laws.
  17. The sitting president is a WWE hall of famer. Wrestling lingo is more apropos than not at this point
  18. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/ Care so much about free speech that they'll expell anyone they disagree with, and paint them as terrorism supporters. Classic good guy Liberal Democracy stuff
  19. While the deepseek team are using a distillation of openAI models in some examples, they've also demonstrated the pattern using a distilled alibaba model. Their pattern to use reinforcement learning to teach reasoning patterns to a transformer, and then come back with "tune up" passes to refresh its factual knowledge, is extremely effective and has resulted in smaller models producing just-as-good results as larger models. For shiggles, I even loaded up the 1.5B parameter model onto my S24U and it was doing pretty well with simple to medium complexity questions. It's crazy how much they've packed into that neural network that's small enough to live in memory on my goddamn cell phone Edit: added a longcat screenshot in the below spoiler of a local LLM running on my cell phone writing a Python function. My s24U was putting out 26 tokens per second!
  20. I agree wholeheartedly with you, but nothing about our latest round of executive orders is consistent with that sort of long term thinking. Nevermind that the president never really had Ukraine's defense as a priority. He's already attempted to withhold congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine back in 2018, and is actively attacking the Impoundment Act to enable that generally. I guess I'm saying, I don't think the pieces are getting lined up to be favorable to Ukrainian defense. Even IF the US wanted to jump in with both feet, I don't think we would be able to. We can't even make fuckin deli meat without fucking it up
  21. That doesn't sound very cost efficient, we tore down our manufacturing capacity in the name of lower costs and outsourcing. It's gonna be a longer run-up to build new plants and get production going, not to mention actually paying workers above poverty wages
  22. It's wild to see such concerted thread shitting in response to turning off Twitter links. Y'all are bigmad
  23. Hey @Pimphand shouldn't you be sharing your thoughts on Elon in this thread? You seem to be quite the fan of his recent moves and decisions
  24. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-f9948b9996c0ca971f0065fac85737ce Turns out the president doesn't control spending and congress does, so he can't just unilaterally turn off funds. He's a president, not a monarch.
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