KEN-JENNINGS
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The books are garbage too!
RTHKI
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I've read them twice
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unnamednewbie13
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a thread about a man who lusts over his own daughter is probably the most appropriate place for GoT talk rn.
Dilbert_X
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So glad I managed to avoid GoT, and Walking Dead.
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uziq
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mid-air collisions with blacked-out military aircraft in the nation's capital.

they really are doing the fascist-authoritarian thing with aplomb this time around, aren't they?

we actually noticed the sudden moratorium on 'woke DEI government funding' in the scientific publishing world this last week. lots of research groups basically frozen and putting down tools, figuratively speaking. mind you, i edit and manage astrophysics. there aren't a lot of 'DEI hires' or 'leftist cells' being given telescope viewing time in the field of astronomy. this government seems determined to tear down the system and do as much damage as possible, it seems, through some sort of shock doctrine.

but for whose benefit?
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/res … all/global

china has already overtaken the USA in the top echelons of research publishing. freezing all federal grants seems like a great sop to the CCP.
Dilbert_X
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So far it seems to be normal practice for military helicopters to fly up and down the river and civilian passenger aircraft to fly across the river.
Amazing this hasn't happened before TBH.
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uziq
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Dilbert_X wrote:

So far it seems to be normal practice for military helicopters to fly up and down the river and civilian passenger aircraft to fly across the river.
Amazing this hasn't happened before TBH.
hasn’t it also been normal practice since like the 1970s to have basic proximity alert systems? this blackhawk was flying with everything turned off, apparently. is there really a pressing security need for that when in extremely busy airspace in your own capital?
Dilbert_X
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I think this is going to be one of those "But this is how we've always done it and its been perfectly fine - up to today...." things
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RTHKI
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Except all the close calls in recent years.
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SuperJail Warden
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I read an article a few months back about how air traffic control is overwhelmed. Staffing is hard and close calls are common. The article quoted an official who said "it is inevitable that we will have a major accident at this point."
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uziq
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didn't trump also dismiss the head of the TSA. not a proximal cause to an accident several days later, but still. additional levels of bureaucratic carnage can't help.
SuperJail Warden
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If I understand Trump and conservatives the reason why this took place is because of DEI in hiring. There weren't any competent air traffic controllers because the Biden and Obama administration wouldn't hire the "most qualified candidates." 😉
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