And still the same. Mostly. Clammy and damp. Cool bordering on cold. Probably warming later to shorts weather – for me anyway. It stayed overcast and damp all day Thursday but didn’t rain. Small mercies are still mercies. I’m hoping the trend toward warmer and no rain continues and that we might even see the sun.
I spent all of yesterday at home. I sorted, moved, cleaned, restacked, tested, and put away. Barely made a dent. I did get a clear spot for the Girl Scout cookies, which was the absolute minimum goal. Beyond that I tested some auction items, moved some, and generally puttered. It’s very slow progress. But it is progress.
Today I’ve got a bunch of auction pickups, and they are all over the place. I’ll be driving around a lot more than I like. The worst part is that it’s an item here, an item there… and I probably shouldn’t have bought them, but I did and now I’ve got to get them. They better all be there, and in good condition.
Oh, and it would be nice to get through a week without a major news event. Yes it would indeed.
Barring that though, we’ll just muddle through, staying the course, making any adjustments we see fit to make. And stacking.
nick
The ancient curse: “May you live in interesting times.”
It sure would be nice to see the world settle down. Hey, at least wokeness is being squashed, and in Europe there are signs of resistance to the Islamic invasion. Likely to take another few years to make real progress. Germany has just deported a second plane full of illegals. Only a few thousand more trips to go…and that’s only Germany.
53F and it’s not raining or soaked with condensation.
Might get a nice day…
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We don’t have enough planes in the world to fly all the invaders home, but the symbolism is powerful. We need to break the idea that they are welcome and will get bennies. Most have to self deport, and the influx has to stop. They need to take their plunder and return home.
n
The lake house the Dems gave him for dropping out of the race in 2016.
It may well be too late for Europeworld unless the latent talent for xenocide is reawakened and some serious skull cracking begins.
These violent delights have violent ends.
There might be hope for Britain, but “Death In Paradise” returns tonight so the skull cracking will have to wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNbE-8T-j1U
From one of my EMS newsletters. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. And I’m cynical enough to believe that there is no training for providers because mgmt doesn’t want to be on the hook if an incident occurs and the training was wrong or insufficient.
n
FEMA has a new publicly available wildfire dashboard.
https://gis-fema.hub.arcgis.com/pages/wildfires
n
Tight pack, like the slave ships. The journey is only a few hours so there may be an option for an even tighter pack.
The fedgov also has a doc about security bad practices that they’ve updated.
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/product-security-bad-practices
The first recco is “avoid C and related languages.”
n
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/01/30/the-big-business-of-americans-helping-illegals-across-the-border-n3799339
Shit it down now.
And every other one like it.
And go over the awards process with a fine-tooth comb. Fire anyone involved in it, and find any pretext for clawing back funds.
Or, like I said, use aircraft carriers. Pack ‘em on the flight deck and head out in rough seas and head for Argentina.
So, C, C++ , Objective-C, C#, are all out?
Thank god for Fortran and Cobol.
I think I saw an article a while back with a pie chart showing that memory safety and good clean fun with pointers was only something like 15% of all computer related crime. All the rest was phishing and human factors and insider activity.
Yes, because the developers who know C well enough to avoid the problems tend to be older and “on the spectrum”.
(In other words, they’ll want a raise as the skills become more important.)
Second order effects
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14345249/los-angeles-wildfires-cleanup-lithium-ion-batteries.html
When did it become .gov’s job to clean up your property after a fire?
People having enough admin privilege on their desktops to install TeamViewer in situations where policy doesn’t allow them to “work” from home but the kid needs to be at soccer at 3 or there is day trading to be done.
Coming up: arbitrage of Switch 2.0.
Don’t forget Algol, perhaps my favorite language. Other than the languages I designed and for which I wrote a couple of compilers. Highly specific languages that were not for the faint of heart.
A large part of the ‘affordability’ of green energy involves ignoring disposal costs, i.e., shifting that cost to the public.
The life cycle of most of these systems is about 25 years, we are already starting to see the occasional article about how hard it is to get rid of wind turbine blades, batteries and solar panels, it’s only going to get worse.
Plus tax credits, subsidies, and private equity able to borrow money at 2% willing to burn capital … and many careers … chasing the various Pizza Box Dreams.
Not that they ever really want to give you that Pizza Box.
Trump has actually asked that Canada stop the flow of illegal aliens and fentanyl from Canada. Frankly, Canadians are gobsmacked. Based on American figures for seizures at the border (because who knows how much actually gets through, but that’s the best metric available), roughly 1% of all fentanyl and less than 1% of all illegal aliens come across the Canadian border. The other 99% is of course coming from Mexico.
What this means is that the threat of tariffs has NOTHING to do with fentanyl and aliens. This is about commerce. The free trade agreement between the 3 countries was agreed to because it guaranteed stability on tariffs. At the time of signing, tariffs were already in the low single digits so the agreements were about providing a stable environment for businesses to decide where to invest. By threatening tariffs for “any old reason”, Trump is creating investment uncertainty. If I ran a business, in this environment I would choose to build in the USA, which would at least guarantee a tariff free market of 300 million rich consumers. Trump is threatening tariffs but not cancelling the free-trade agreements, thereby hoping to get the best of both worlds: more investment in the USA but continued tariff-free access to Canada and Mexico for American companies.
To date, the Canadian government reaction is to spend and do more for border security to appease Trump. This reaction “annoys me” since: 1) this has nothing to do with aliens and fentanyl from Canada, 2) you can’t appease a bully, and 3) what gets across the border into the USA is an American problem. Canada is not North Korea and Canada should not somehow seal the Canadian border because for 40-some years America has been unable to manage the Mexican border. (Work with you to catch the smugglers, yes, which we do. Do more due to threats, NO.)
What should the Canadian government do? If Trump declares tariffs tomorrow he will have broken the free-trade treaties (not quit them – there is a formal mechanism for that). I don’t think it is possible to negotiate any sort of agreement with Trump that he will honour. Tariffs in 2017, tariffs in 2025, both treaty violations. I view Trump as essentially a liar and he is lying on behalf of the USA. As has been stated here before: once a liar, always a liar. Free trade is over. The promise of certainty for business investment regarding tariff-free access to markets in all 3 countries is gone. Canada should instead go back to the old National Policy of the last century: A high tariff wall on all goods coming from the USA. American companies are free to invest in Canada and build facilities here (the branch-plant economy Canada had), but that’s it. We will be happy to keep selling you oil, lumber, and minerals, and welcome you as tourists.
I will note that this is my opinion and is not the current policy of the Canadian government. The politicians still think they can save the treaty (looking for a miracle), but they will come around. All of this chaos around tariffs is ugly, expensive for citizens and companies in both the USA and Canada, and quite avoidable except for the actions of one man. A few years ago I posted here my quite negative opinion of Trump based only on his actions towards Canada. I was right then, and more correct now.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/01/31/supervisor-allowed-an-air-traffic-controller-to-leave-shift-early-the-night-of-fatal-plane-helo-collision-n2651451
Short one controller—permitted but not optimal
Two planes aborted landings in the last week due to helos in the flight path
Time to bring back public hangings, if not drawing and quartering.
youtube shorts are the devil…
What, you’ve got something else to do for the next couple of hours ?
Facecrack does the same thing me, dog and animal videos. I can watch them for hours.
I view Trump as essentially a liar and he is lying on behalf of the USA. As has been stated here before: once a liar, always a liar. Free trade is over. The promise of certainty for business investment regarding tariff-free access to markets in all 3 countries is gone. Canada should instead go back to the old National Policy of the last century: A high tariff wall on all goods coming from the USA. American companies are free to invest in Canada and build facilities here (the branch-plant economy Canada had), but that’s it. We will be happy to keep selling you oil, lumber, and minerals, and welcome you as tourists.
Trump does not represent Canada, he represents the USA. He is looking out for our best interests which he believes have been walked on by every other country in the world, including Mexico and Canada.
There are many countries shipping goods thru Mexico to get around our tariffs by relabeling the country of origin. China is the absolute worst about this. I do not know if Canada is the same but I would not doubt it.
The USA is spiraling into a financial apocalypse in the next 4 or 5 years. It will make the Great Depression look like a pony ride. Trump is trying to stop it. I don’t think he can, 2008 was a trial run and got stopped by the Fed guaranteeing the credit system of the USA. That won’t happen again.
I did get a clear spot for the Girl Scout cookies
There goes my diet. I can consume an entire roll of Thin Mint cookies in less than five minutes.
From one of my EMS newsletters. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. And I’m cynical enough to believe that there is no training for providers because mgmt doesn’t want to be on the hook if an incident occurs and the training was wrong or insufficient.
My father was disarmed by city police officer when he got hit by the Tahoe driven by the 17 year old girl in the Buccees parking lot last November. Dad was in a serious brain fog after bouncing his head off the parking lot concrete and woke up to 15 people standing around him. The officer showed up and reached in Dad’s pocket to grab his LCP as the paramedics arrived. He put Dad’s gun in his car and gave the keys to the EMS head who showed up too.
BTW, the number one export to Canada from the USA is clean natural gas. To put a high tariff on that would disturb Canada’s economy. The number two product is clean gasoline or diesel, I am not sure which one.
The USA is the energy provider to about 14 or 15 countries at the moment, Canada and Mexico included.
The fedgov also has a doc about security bad practices that they’ve updated.
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/product-security-bad-practices
The first recco is “avoid C and related languages.”
That is naive. Every other computer language except assembly uses the C runtime libraries. Including Fortran and Cobol on Windows, Unix, and Linux.
“Report: Meta is in talks to reincorporate in Texas”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/meta-facebook-reincorporating-texas-20106496.php
“Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been incorporated in Delaware since 2004.”
Delaware is going to wake up soon and find all of the corporations have left and their little tax on 90% of the Corporations in the USA has gone away.
So, C, C++ , Objective-C, C#, are all out?
Thank god for Fortran and Cobol.
I think I saw an article a while back with a pie chart showing that memory safety and good clean fun with pointers was only something like 15% of all computer related crime. All the rest was phishing and human factors and insider activity.
Nope. Fortran and Cobol on Windows, Unix, and Linux are built on the C runtime libraries. I’ve been in DLL Hell with Fortran and learned really nasty things about it.
The Fortran compiler on AIX RS/6000’s wouldn’t let you use “main” as a routine name, even 25yo, a sure sign of that. We had to rename a bunch of modules in programs that we ported over from our Vaxen.
Worth it for a 30x increase in speed.
Most of the gasoline and jet fuel used in central and Canada comes via pipeline from refineries in the USA. We export to you around 4 millions barrels a day of oil (about 20% of your daily consumption – heavy oil destined for refineries in Texas (I think). Lynn, you would be far more knowledgeable than I on that. ) New England receives much of it’s electric power from Quebec. Any sort of tariffs or disruption of energy supplies would be quite the mess for both countries. It may yet go in that direction.
“BREAKING: President Trump reveals the military helicopter was flying too high”
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-president-trump-reveals-the-military-helicopter-was-flying-too-high/
“Trump wrote, “The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???””
And the pilot was a woman warrant officer ??? Oh my. The harpies in Congress will be screeching.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Most of the gasoline and jet fuel used in central and Canada comes via pipeline from refineries in the USA. We export to you around 4 millions barrels a day of oil (about 20% of your daily consumption – heavy oil destined for refineries in Texas (I think). Lynn, you would be far more knowledgeable than I on that. ) New England receives much of it’s electric power from Quebec. Any sort of tariffs or disruption of energy supplies would be quite the mess for both countries. It may yet go in that direction.
About half of that crude oil from Canada comes in via train (expensive !). The Keystone pipeline was never finished (Thank you halfwit Biden). That crude is refined and sold back into Canada as we have the heavy oil refineries in Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.
There is a new refinery in North Dakota but it cannot handle the Canadian Tar Sand Oil. It is expensive to bring all that oil to the Gulf Of America coast so most of it goes to the Philips refinery in Oklahoma.
The interties between the three countries are many. The notifications and damage on both sides will be much as things realign.
BNSF. The Geico Gecko’s railroad.
And even if the oil ships via another railroad, chances are that the tanker car was manufactured and possibly leased by Union Tank, part of Marmon, another wholly-owned Berkshire subsidiary.
Whenever you see a train in North America, look for the letters UTLX on the tanker cars. That’s how deeply embedded the Gecko is in the transportation of anything liquid by train on the continent.
The Keystone Pipeline stoppage was a gift to the Gecko in return for his continued support of Dem Administrations.
“BREAKING: President Trump to fire tons of FBI agents by the end of the day”
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-president-trump-to-fire-tons-of-fbi-agents-by-the-end-of-the-day/
“President Trump is set to fire tons of FBI agents who worked on the investigations of J6ers and those that targeted him with criminal investigations.”
Not trustworthy. Possibilities of participating in a coup.
You mean the stoppage was not based on environmental, logistical and financial concerns? I am shocked, just shocked that the Biden administration would stoop so low. (Where is the sarcasm tag when I need it).
“Peter Doocy Asks Press Secretary Leavitt if It’s “Safe to Fly Commercially” After Years of DIE Nonsense in the Aviation Industry”
https://thelibertydaily.com/peter-doocy-asks-press-secretary-leavitt-if-its/
“Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt Friday if it is “safe to fly commercially” as President Donald Trump criticized the hiring process for current air traffic controllers.”
Good, I am not the only crazy one. I only fly a couple of times a year but …
What should the Canadian government do?
Wanna become the USA’s 51st state ?
That loudmouth Trump just caused billions of dollars in losses in the stock markets with his tariff threats. He needs to learn to keep his mouth shut and stop talking without thinking. When a person is a multi-billionaire, what’s a hundred million loss in their portfolio? For some that loss is significant.
I don’t like the guy, never have. A better option than the other choice. But what two miserable people from which to choose.
What an idiotic question to ask. If that is the best Fox News can do for “reporters”, turn the job over to a sixth grade dropout.
I beg to differ. It is a legitimate concern. Incompetent ATC and flight crew, hired and promoted based on skin color and sexual preferences rather than ability, add danger to an already dangerous industry.
I would like to see Europe again before I die, but the two major obstacles are that I don’t want to go to Europe only to see the middle East and Africa instead, and I don’t want to fly with DIE pilots through DIE airspaces.
My experience in Munich in 2016 showed me just how bad it had gotten by then, and I wonder if it’s worse now. Fortunately, I got out of Munich and saw actual Germans instead of “Turks”.
I still look into the cockpit when I get on a plane, and feel better if I see old white male pilots.
So I don’t think it’s stupid to ask the question out loud.
Lots of things are weighing down the market right now.
We received the RTO 5 days/week email from the big boss himself today so the stock is again below the point where I believe that the execs’ stock grants went out last year.
March 3.
OK. Your dissenting opinion is noted.
I look at it this way. The Washington DC crash was the first major airline crash in the U.S. since 2009. Almost sixteen years of mostly flawless performance. There have been some close calls. People make mistakes. But the air traffic system and the plane systems of today are extremely safe.
I am certain there are bad pilots. But the chances of having two bad pilots in the cockpit, at the same time, is a few zeroes to the right of the decimal point percentage wise. Bad pilots are quickly weeded out by repeated testing and performance evaluations. With the extensive automation in the cockpit, a pilot would have to do something really deliberate to bring down a plane. Remember that German plane that was intentionally flown into a mountain.
The same applies to controllers. Much of the air traffic control system has extensive automation and alerts traffic controllers for dangerous flight configurations in air space. The biggest danger is ground movement as has been proven by some recent plane-to-plan contact and the occasional pole.
Want to bet the same reporter that asked the question got on a plane the next day and flew to their next “on-location” assignment? She was probably expelled from the press room at the White House for asking the question.
Want to bet the same reporter that asked the question got on a plane the next day and flew to their next “on-location” assignment? She was probably expelled from the press room at the White House for asking the question.
It was Peter Doocy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doocy
Freefall: Surrounded by Empty Space
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4200/fc04173.htm
I am very guilty of over tightening instrument lines. I would not want to over tighten a 5 mm vacuum line going thru the wall to the outside of the space station. Over tightening that tin foil wall could get exciting in a hurry !
https://www.foxnews.com/us/plane-crashes-philadelphia-igniting-inferno-homes-mall
I hope ”bad things come in threes” doesn’t apply here.
Apparently, layoff “invitations” for Monday also went out today in some orgs according to the financial press.
Oil trains are serious fire risks. A pipeline is much safer.
Coal trains from Wyoming ran to the barge ports day and night during our last year in Vantucky, but The Gecko could never get an oil train approved.
@TV,
In my opinion the NAFTA was a very poor deal for the USA. We’ve seen nothing but manufacturing move to mexico since.
Canada still maintains high tariffs on some US products anyway, at least one of which is milk products, which is why all the border crossers are at Costco in WA on Sunday… unless something has changed. The auto industry has distorted trade between us historically.
The US is Canada’s biggest market. They are our biggest supplier of imported oil. These are not necessarily good things for Canada, viz the documentaries about how Canada is exporting their natural resources at an astounding pace to fund various other things, but when they are gone, they are gone. Timber is another export besides oil. When I was working there, Bigcorp built PALLETS out of lumber that was a better grade than the US uses in houses. There are many vids online of aerial shots of thin strips of forest left along roads to hide the environmental devastation.
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The push for DIE in aviation and subsequent lowering of “safeness” hasn’t born fruit yet.
There are still a preponderance of people from the old way in place to catch and correct mistakes. They are aging out.
@ray, past performance is no guarantee of future performance. This could be just the first in a series of accidents caused by removing merit from the hiring process. A future statement might be “2024 was the last year we went without a major aviation crash.”
A more complete answer to “if It’s “Safe to Fly Commercially” After Years of DIE Nonsense in the Aviation Industry”” is “we’ll find out if we can maintain our previous standards given the change from merit to appearance as a factor in hiring.”
The “enshittification” of everything applies to aviation as well.
n
@tv
Good to hear from you.
“I view Trump as essentially a liar and he is lying on behalf of the USA. As has been stated here before: once a liar, always a liar. ”
First I’d be disappointed if Trump were lying on behalf of Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, as Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton did over the last thirty years. The truthfulness of Trudeau and his government I will leave to your evaluation.
We declined to have Harris continue that streak, and selected Trump. If he lies about tariffs to Canada while gutting the U.S Federal government to remove decades of cancer, most of us who voted for him will be unmoved and consider that a flat-out win.
I suspect most of us are not concerned with Canadians crossing the border illegally, but we are damned sick and tired of unidentified rabble from the rest of the world getting free transit across your country and invading ours. I’ve been to your country a number of times and experienced the cheery inquisitiveness of your border entry points. I’d be interested to review the files on the transitees to see what entertaining stories they told.
And about that “1%” of fentanyl. If that proportion is accurate that represents 7500 to 10000 deaths in the U.S per year. Every year. Our population is abut 2.5 times Canada, so in proportion that would be 3000-4000 deaths in Canada. Don’t know if your country would consider it trivial. Personally knowing a young man who expired sitting on his mother’s couch (and fortunately revived by EMT’s) after imbibing something that was most certainly not sold to him as fentanyl probably colors my judgement, as does the certainty that the entirety of that trade is simply one facet of an evil country conducting an illicit war upon mine.
So, if a 25% tariff as the opening in Trump’s negotiation is insulting, wait until the Chinese offer to build on your western shore to export your orphaned oil (btw, we do have all we need, after Trump strikes down the limitations put in place by Biden, the Chinese puppet) and the fentanyl that they ship in becomes part of their illicit policy of Chinifying Canada.
Now, if the new improved northern border would just hold back that frigid air that you guys keep sending us.
Bellingham, WA Costco. Milk products and … something else which escapes me right now.
The Cascades Amtrak line from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR is big with the crowd trying to avoid VAT. The more expensive the item, the further they travel.
The Portland Apple Store is the busiest in North America. The old store in the below ground mall looked like the “Star Trek” episode “The Mark of Gideon” if the doors were open. I haven’t been in the new store.
@Nick
“The push for DIE in aviation and subsequent lowering of “safeness” hasn’t born fruit yet.”
I have a limited set of data points representing military, general, and commercial aviation, and have not found any studies on background, although I am sure they exist. I strongly suspect that the desire to be a pilot does not appear suddenly, but forms over time, and I further suspect that that formation is part and parcel of other decisions made by the individual with regards to education, hobbies, etc. If those decisions do go into making good pilot material in some measurable way, then trying to skew the distribution due to social engineering fashion will not produce equivalently good pilots, and the inevitable results will be changing standards to get the numbers that they want.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/01/31/census-head-utilities-ceo-and-acting-head-of-treasury-abruptly-resign-after-trump-takes-office-n2185063
As I’ve noted before, the 2020 Census showed error rates in certain states that strongly argue nefarious activity rather than innocent error.
“News that makes me very happy!”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/01/news-that-makes-me-very-happy.html
“I’m delighted to learn that as one of her first acts upon taking office, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is cutting funds to most of the non-governmental organizations that are the driving force behind much of the illegal migration that’s plaguing our country.”
“The Biden administration funneled literally billions of dollars into organizations such as Catholic Charities, HIAS, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and the like. These organizations have grown fat by sucking on the government teat, and in many cases have become nothing more or less than an alternative bureaucracy to the government agencies that sponsor them. I’ve had extensive contact with many of them as a pastor and chaplain, and regard almost all of them as literal traitors to the United States. They’re perfectly willing – indeed, some seem all too eager – to see our civilization overrun and toppled by a flood of unskilled, semi-literate Third World economic migrants who take everything and contribute nothing to our society.”
Yes ! We do not need this crap going on.
If we want immigrants to the USA then we should pick them out as the best of the best, not the worst of the worst.
Bad times are coming and having a bunch of people here who cannot help us out is a very bad thing.
As my wife reminds me weekly.
“Used Car Buyers Beware: Odometer Rollback Fraud Up”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/used-car-buyers-beware-odometer-rollback-fraud-up
“If you’re in the market for a used car, take note. Odometer fraud is on the rise, according to CARFAX. Researchers say odometer rollbacks remain a widespread and serious issue for used car buyers across the country. According to CARFAX data, more than 2.14 million cars on the road may have had their odometer rolled back in 2024, up more than 18% since 2021, and up more than 82,000 vehicles from 2023.”
““Odometer rollbacks can occur when an unscrupulous owner or seller of a car alters the miles that display on a car’s gauge cluster,” said Faisal Hasan, Vice President of Data and Public Policy at CARFAX. “This might be done as a way to avoid mileage charges in a vehicle lease or to dramatically increase the value of a car. Today’s technology makes rolling an odometer back easier than ever.” It can take a bad actor just seconds to roll back an odometer, causing unsuspecting buyers to lose an average of $4,000 in value, CARFAX found, not to mention the additional costs of unexpected repairs and potential safety risks.”
Lovely, just lovely. I thought that this nonsense had stopped. I should have known, certain people will do anything to get an advantage over other people.
Two new videos of the mid-air collision in DC:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/31/new-what-the-latest-shocking-video-of-dca-mid-air-collision-appears-to-show-n2185036
and some useful commentary.
Our population is abut 2.5 times Canada
Canada is 40 million people, USA is 350 million people.
“Mass Retirement? SpaceX Spotted Deorbiting Dozens of Starlink Satellites”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mass-retirement-spacex-spotted-deorbiting-dozens-of-starlink-satellites
“An astronomer says SpaceX seems to be de-orbiting about four or five Starlinks every day.”
Huh. I guess that they are letting the version 1.0 satellites go.
Posted via Starlink.
@Lynn
“Canada is 40 million people, USA is 350 million people”
Yup. I estimated using 140 million, which is Mexico,
““An astronomer says SpaceX seems to be de-orbiting about four or five Starlinks every day.””
Maybe the fentanyl drone fleet ain’t drones…
And there’s our “bad news comes in threes” right there.
Saw this link on AoSHQ (made it a not-link):
Plastic surgery practice dummy and clownhorse Kathy Griffin whines that Harris could have won if only Taylor Swift had done an event with her
Not even an OnlyFans girl-on-girl PPV with a special appearance by Doug “Big Boffer” Emhorf
Or, like I said, use aircraft carriers. Pack ‘em on the flight deck and head out in rough seas and head for Argentina.
For some strange reason, “catapult” came to mind..
Steam hoses come to my mind.
n
Or, like I said, use aircraft carriers. Pack ‘em on the flight deck and head out in rough seas and head for Argentina.
For some strange reason, “catapult” came to mind..
Sadly, I laughed.
Here, have a catapult video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMrOQCpYhs
>>There is a new refinery in North Dakota but it cannot handle the Canadian Tar Sand Oil. It is expensive to bring all that oil to the Gulf Of America coast so most of it goes to the Philips refinery in Oklahoma.
Bonus points for @lynn for using the correct “Gulf of America” reference.
That’s gonna go down as the troll of the century…
n
>> https://twitter.com/i/status/1885321930506457450
From videos of both plane incidents it’s interesting the number of people that are randomly recording the sky on their phones,
>>With all that said, how likely is it that they intentionally rammed the regional jet? There were three crew aboard and no signs of a struggle, either over the radio or on the videos with the maneuvering of the helicopter. You’d have to believe all three were in on it, which simply belabors belief.
Lastly, and what makes me all but dismiss the theory, is just how nearly impossible it would be for a pilot to purposely crash a helicopter into another aircraft flying perpendicular to it at least 130 knots. Again, the helicopter never changes its flight path in the videos. The idea that they somehow calculated the exact angle needed without maneuvering at all to nail a jet that had just made a left turn toward the runway and was descending is not believable in the least. You could try to do that a thousand times and probably never get it right.
Everything points to this being a freak accident, and I would encourage people not to give into the engagement bait. Those aboard the Black Hawk may have been at fault for the accident, but they were still service members and human beings. There’s no reason to impugn their character without any evidence.
Quite a lot of posts on X theorizing this to have been a suicidal act…but none I saw had anything to prove their contention (“no receipts” – ask a teen if to don’t know that reference.)