A few generations of purges for the bourgeoisie should work to apply useful selection pressure.

Because the failure occurred after the airplane had passed V1 during its takeoff roll, the pilots had no alternative but to attempt to climb. V1 is the point at which there is no longer sufficient runway to abort the takeoff and safely stop the airplane.

Yes and no. This is the general rule, and V1 is general "decision speed". That said, this is not meant to be an automatic and unthinking rule. There are explicit conditions in which pilots are taught to abort no matter the speed: fire, loss of directional control and total loss of power.

The balance at this point is that there is no longer sufficient time to stop, and so the pilot needs to judge whether is the plane better off overrunning the runway versus taking off on a climb and coming around. That's a intricate question, although the installation of EMAS in a lot of airports actually makes a runway overrun significantly less dangerous that it used to be. But for sure a plane that's (for example) totally lost control authority (e.g. due to a complete hydraulic failure or a complete computer failure) is better off just plowing past the end of the runway than trying to takeoff and land without any functioning controls.

Finally, I'd add that this is in no way a criticism of the pilots (RIP) -- they probably had a handful of seconds by which to make the decision. In retrospect, knowing what we know now, we can absolutely say that even past V1 they should have just slammed it down and prayed, but there is likely no way they could have known that at the time.

I think most people assume that a legally authorized business is operating above board and not operating scams. I don't know why people assume the best of capitalism when it keeps delivering the worst.

I can't say that I'm entirely surprised, given what else they've been getting up to; but it seems downright crazy to just unleash a slop engine without even giving your volunteers a heads up; then patronizingly ask if you can perhaps arrange a meeting to understand their concerns.

If your options are 'nothing' and 'hire bilingual tech writer' you can see the attraction of having a not very good but extremely cheap option; but just tossing away the expertise you already get for nothing out of some sort of weird technophilia? Is there actually some nutjob out there who was all "Oh, but machine translation makes my CI pipeline so efficient" or something?

You will pay the government AND you will pay the buddies of the legislature that lobby for broken ass tax laws.

America, where the bottom 80% gets fuck all, despite driving about 70%* of the US GDP through consumer spending alone.

Imagine being so incredibly ignorance of economics that you don't understand the multiplier effect or the fraction that consumer spending contributes to the national economy? You might decide that it's a good idea to add tariffs to nearly all imports, shutting down the government, and restricting air travel needlessly. Cutting SNAP benefits means taxpayer money won't be going back into our local economies. Instead it sits in a treasury account, and no economic activity is possible.

My econ professor would have ripped me a new one in class if I suggested any of these as a good idea. (I liked to take some of the worst essays from students and respond to them publicly)

* US Private Consumption accounted for 68.8 % of its Nominal GDP in Dec 2024.

Case closed. The tests we designed cannot be questioned, so any assertion we make based on the data must be correct.

Of course, other tests and research contradicts this. And tests of people of African decent who have lived in Western nations for generations are far more in line with the socioeconomic ranges in standardized intelligence tests.

Turns out raising a baby with access to food, high quality healthcare, and parents that are native speakers of a western language tends to get you kindergartners that do pretty well on a Western intelligence test. Unless you're an arrogant dumb ass like Watson, this should not surprise you.

I've got no problem if there is real evidence of nature over nurture. But I'm a bit tired of having to tear through the tissue paper arguments presented on the topic. Obviously there is SOME contribution of nature. But even categorizing an individual's race by genetics is a bit problematic, because our current definitions have more to do with culture and nationality than with any solid boundary lines between what we might think of as race.

The whole topic is a pseudoscience, I'd put more faith in the bumps on my head because at least we can measure that.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

But three lefts do.

I think they mean sink.

Probably a sign of the Decline.

Watson made assertions that he could not support or prove. As a scientist, he refused to put up or shut up, and lost a great deal of his reputation out of his own stubborness and philosophically anti-science behavior.

Goes to show that nobody is perfect, and even with great genes you can be a useless tit.

I can't think of any business or other government function that still makes me fill out any paper forms. At one recent employer I did not fill out a single paper or PDF-style form, HR or otherwise, in the entire experience from the day I applied until the day I resigned.

Nobody uses paper forms any more. Everything is online. Taxes should be no different, and there should be no 3rd party middlemen collecting tolls for the "privilege" of doing something online the way everything else is done.

Kind of ugly and dumb. I miss the wilder side of computing, back when we were rebelling against mainframe business culture.

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.

Can't he afford to lease a building in town that is zoned for this use and has proper support for increased traffic?

Ultimately it's the taxpayers that pay when roads need to be repaved, widened, signs added, and signals installed.

Yea, we used to be kind of a big deal.