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Comment Re:Tier 2 time. (Score 1) 241

The interesting thing here is the timing, 0.1 seconds. Two switches that need be pulled out and then moved to the CUTOFF position can't be changed within 0.1 seconds unless someone uses both hands and a synchronicity of 0.1 seconds seems very tight but possible if timed right. For a pilot to be able to do this they must turn and bend over in their seat while strapped in to be able to reach the switches with both hands. This means that it was intentional or the switches were faulty in some way and switched themselves to the CUTOFF-position. The latter can for example be due to that they were never seated correctly in the RUN-position.

Comment Re:CEO gets free marketing and complains about it (Score 4, Insightful) 39

It wasn't free marketing, either the company suffer reputational damage for not supporting something a stupid AI said they could which will cost them money in lost customers or they develop a new future which will cost them money. Your definition of definition is very strange.

Comment Re:The "record" only goes back 75 years (Score 1) 75

Not really, because the data actually goes back to 1850 and the 1850-1900 average temperature is used as a pre-industrial baseline which most reports use. There's also no real need to present data before 1950 about anomalies and extremes covering the majority of Europe since they are very few and can be counted as outliers.

Comment Re:Black box? (Score 1) 106

Not necessarily, it is possible a total power failure took out both the FDR and CVR which leaves investigators with data only up to the failure point, and if that's the case it makes sense to simulate what happened afterwards to see if the plane was recoverable.

I should mentions that all modern passenger planes have redundant electrical systems and the RAT will deploy automatically it if there's a total power failure. There have been a few examples of planes that have had total power failures that managed to land with the RAT deployed but all those planes had the benefit of being in flight and not taking off.

Comment Re:I'm impressed with their tenacity (Score 4, Insightful) 228

That's bold, considering the last flu vaccine round had a NEGATIVE 26.9% efficacy.

Oh, funny how the study you cited only looked at one specific vaccine and it also says:

The study has several limitations. The vaccine was the 3-valent inactivated influenza vaccine in about 99% of our study cohort. The possibility that other influenza vaccines might have been more effective cannot be excluded.

And If we look at the average efficacy of the 2024-2025 vaccines it is >30% (see https://www.cdc.gov/flu-vaccin...).

COVID panic was largely bullshit. It was a highly communicable but otherwise not-very-virulent corona virus strain that mainly affected older and vulnerable people. Thus the term..."vulnerable". At the end, the IFR for COVID19 was basically a bad flu*. Cry all you want, argue the actual data.

That statement kind of ignores everything not specific to COVID-19. For example, a lot of people died because of COVID-19 but not from it because hospitals were full of COVID-19 infected who couldn't breathe on their own which made treatment of other health problems problematic. Those deaths and other deaths related to COVID-19 doesn't show up in the IFR but strangely enough the US had 1.2 million more deaths than expected during that period which is why using excess mortality is a much better indicator of how serious a virus infection spreading through the populace was.

the COVID vaccines were rushed, not nearly tested enough, and have resulted in some very questionable ongoing heart and other issues in younger people that had NOTHING to fear from COVID. Given the high effort in deliberately confounding the outcomes during the Biden administration, it's unlikely we'll ever know the truth.

Seems you are unaware that those who were vaccinated were less likely to have heart attacks, strokes and even dying than those who was unvaccinated and got infected. If younger people had nothing to fear from COVID-19, why wasn't the IFR 0 for them?

I'd have had much more confidence in the entire COVID event had one side not made all the decisions for everyone and insisted no debate was allowed. OPENLY discussing the causes, the treatments, and what we did/didn't know would have been preferable to the "STFU we know what's good for you" nearly-totalitarian approach. Hell, here in MN there was an almost-palpable disappointment we didn't get to use the corpse-storage-buildings the state rushed to rent.

Do you take issue with my tone? Tough shit. Anyone daring to question the Holy COVID doctrine was aggressively silenced for YEARS while the mandarins in charge RUINED lives flexing their emergency doctrines and now will evade any consequence for their awful decision making. Yeah, that bothers me.

Have you considered to look for information outside the US binary politics and attention-whore media? There's a whole world outside the US. I also have to question your statement that people was silenced for questioning the COVID response. There was a lot of sheer stupidity and lies dressed up as debate, the assortment of celebrity grifters hocking miracle cures to the gullible and an incredible amount of mindbogglingly stupid conspiracy theories going around - none of that is questioning and AFAIK no one has ever been silenced for asking questions based on factual reality but you can prove me wrong by giving examples.

I also have to ask, who showed "almost-palpable disappointment"? You got any specifics?

But nobody under 30 should have been even faintly discomfited, even people under 50 really shouldn't have given much of a shit.

But they were which should tell you something.

Comment Re:...but why?? (Score 1) 128

Sure, but a vengeful action that makes a person's situation worse is stupid regardless of what led up to it or how shitty the employer is. There's no rational reason at all for anyone to sacrifice themselves on the alter of shitty employers, especially since shitty employers tend to make sure they get their pound of flesh with some extra sprinkles on top.

Comment Re:...but why?? (Score 4, Insightful) 128

People who are vengeful are often also not very rational in that emotional state, history is littered with examples of this and they seem incapable of extrapolating the consequence of their shortsighted actions. In this case, the dude's rampage came about because he was suspended from work which indicates he had already generated a fair amount of "friction" at his workplace.

Comment Re:BlueSky is for radicals (Score 1) 73

And should they do this for every troll/impersonator who creates an account of a public figure? Have you any idea how often people try to create such accounts? I can guarantee it isn't as seldom as every other week or month, it's daily so it's just easier to ban such accounts that are unverified instead of wasting a lot of time and manpower.

If Vance wanted a verified account he could have used the verification process when he created the account but he didn't, with predictable results. Ie the initial ban was the result of a clueless user, the most common type there is.

Also, if you kind of missed it, BlueSky have been criticized for having an "impersonator problem" and they rolled out a new verification process to combat this in April this year, so them actually shutting down unverified accounts of public figures seems to be a result of that.

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