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Captainant

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  1. Pretty reckless to not only fly a drone during an emergency situation, but also to fly it out of visual range and in a restricted airspace
  2. NTSB hasn't put out any news conferences or posts on its site in 2025 so probably yeah
  3. This type of thinking is consistent with the strong evangelical support of trump. Truth simply because they believe hard enough
  4. Explanation for what during the last 2 ½ years? The jobs reports being off or rates not coming down? Or just a general "wtf happened the last 2 ½ years to get us here"?
  5. Isn't it interesting how throwing out a nazi salute and cozying up to literal actual no shit German neonazis actually made him closer to the president and his administration?
  6. Man, I would think things like tarrifs and deporting most of the labor force that builds houses would hurt home buyers - not a wonky and historically inaccurate metric pushing rates up a quarter point
  7. Wow you're describing a guy I know to a tee. He's like cousin Eddie holding out for a management job lol
  8. Ordering all the dams be opened without any plan or warning is really gonna fuck things up for this season. Get ready for more expensive nuts and produce https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up From the article: “I don’t know where this water is going, but this is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs. It’s vitally important that we fill our reservoirs in the rainy season so water is available for farms and cities later in the summer,” Gleick said. “I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply.” Vink agreed, saying that given how dry it has been in the region this winter, there was no need to make such a release. In fact, he said, farmers were counting on that water to be available for summer irrigation. “This is going to hurt farmers,” Vink said. “This takes water out of their summer irrigation portfolio.”
  9. It's wild, the only thing that kept their balance sheet black was a mark to market valuation of Bitcoin. Totally a normal and healthy financial posture backed by stable instruments
  10. Hey wasn't $MSTR hot shit and performing well because of the crypto accounting rule change? https://www.investopedia.com/why-a-new-rule-helped-tesla-get-usd600m-in-bitcoin-gains-but-may-cost-microstrategy-billions-8783060 The taxman cometh.
  11. The endgame is Trump says something should or shouldn't be spent... Congress disagrees... Elmo does what trump says. Controlling all of the civil services means he could turn off NOAA or the FAA if they give SpaceX any guff. It's a full on oligarchy
  12. Those damn drug dealing Canadian illegals
  13. It's gonna be fun when prices shoot sky-high due to all the economic warfare going on for really no reason at all.
  14. ICE Raids in schools and hospitals be like:
  15. DLSS4 drivers hit today, I'm very curious to see how the generalized transformer DLSS model does
  16. crossposting from DT, but it's such horseshit the 6% figure is what's leading the conversation. It's bullshit. That "only 6% come in full time" is a tortured statistic. It originated from this report https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6_update.pdf Which in turn sourced its "6%" figure from a non-scientific survey conducted by Federal News Network https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2024/04/survey-feds-question-the-why-behind-return-to-office-push/?readmore=1 Nevermind that the actual originating peice of this mythical and bullshit figure that's repeated mindlessly by useful idiots is rejected as soon as it's introduced in the article! Of the survey respondents, about 30% said they work entirely remotely, 6% work entirely in-person and 64% were working on a hybrid schedule — a mix of in-person work and telework. The breakdown of telework versus onsite work for survey respondents differs significantly from the actual breakdown for the federal workforce overall. According to the latest data from the Office of Management and Budget, out of 2.2 million federal employees, 54% hold jobs that require them to work completely onsite, while the 46% of feds who are eligible for telework spend an average of 60% of their work hours in-person. Just 10% of feds work remotely.
  17. That "only 6% come in full time" is a tortured statistic. It originated from this report https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6_update.pdf Which in turn sourced its "6%" figure from a non-scientific survey conducted by Federal News Network https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2024/04/survey-feds-question-the-why-behind-return-to-office-push/?readmore=1 Nevermind that the actual originating peice of this mythical and bullshit figure that's repeated mindlessly by useful idiots is rejected as soon as it's introduced in the article! Of the survey respondents, about 30% said they work entirely remotely, 6% work entirely in-person and 64% were working on a hybrid schedule — a mix of in-person work and telework. The breakdown of telework versus onsite work for survey respondents differs significantly from the actual breakdown for the federal workforce overall. According to the latest data from the Office of Management and Budget, out of 2.2 million federal employees, 54% hold jobs that require them to work completely onsite, while the 46% of feds who are eligible for telework spend an average of 60% of their work hours in-person. Just 10% of feds work remotely.
  18. Another angle of the collision has been posted - no evasive maneuvers by either aircraft. I'd bet the heli pilot was visually tracking the wrong aircraft and bam https://v.redd.it/zqtwwv65xbge1/DASH_480.mp4
  19. You should see some test footage of these empty airframes doing max takeoffs. Fuckers go damn near straight up. Airliners have an absurd amount of thrust on tap
  20. You're right, he's doing a bang up job with his first public crisis, and has definitely only been hiring the best people. Like a 15yr heroin user to lead the CDC and FDA
  21. I don't think you'll like the president's answer to that question any more than you've liked any of his other statements.
  22. IIRC in the radio logs, the CRJ had a last-minute course change from the tower. I can totally see the heli pilot losing visual for a moment and then picking up on a different airliner as their "track" aircraft. Tower probably could have done things better, but they're also juggling a shitton of other aircraft in the area on razor thin margins and likely didn't have the mental bandwidth to add all the extra detail before context switching to the next ten thousand pound metal tube traveling hundreds of miles an hour holding hundreds of souls.
  23. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-dei-madness-and-restores-excellence-and-safety-within-the-federal-aviation-administration/ Straight off of whitehouse.gov No fuckin' kidding.
  24. 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.
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