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Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by pasttense01 »

mrguyorama wrote: post #137
blisterpeanuts wrote: post #117

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Like how, for example? Serious question. If SpaceX has the best, most economical, and safest route to space, why would Nasa and DoD not use them? Who else is there? Blue Origin's not there yet; others are in the works but not there yet. SpaceX is proven; it does a good job and has brought manned space flight back to the U.S. Has nothing to do with whether Musk & his team are close to Trump or not. More to the point,…

>More to the point, the DoGE audits are projected to save the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars, which should significantly reduce the deficit which is currently projected at two trillion dollars. Oh come the fuck on. Projected by whom ? If they are looking to reduce the deficit, why are they floating tax breaks that will cost the country billions? Have some skepticism, will you?

"why are they floating tax breaks that will cost the country billions?"

Not billions: trillions!

"Trump Tax Priorities To Cost $5 to $11 Trillion over the next Ten Years"

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-tax-priorities-total-5-11-t...

Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by gitfan86 »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #131
gitfan86 wrote: post #130

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No I'm not, I'm saying that if you want to compare a group to 1930s Germany you should look at the people who defended the Oct 7 attacks and who are against free speech

Should we look at the people who are saying they're going to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort? You know, the ones actively saying "let's go do a genocide"?

Asking Jordan and EGYPT to take Palestinian immigrants is the same thing as sending them to the gas chamber?

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Post by gitfan86 »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #133
cafard wrote: post #92

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Trump won in big part because the Democratic Party a) pretended that all was well with Joe Biden, b) swapped in Kamala Harris when plan a) didn't work. Someday perhaps the Democratic Party will understand that the job of a serious political party is not to inspire (Hillary! Kamala!) but to govern. Forgot to ask--who is this greatest innovator alive?

Good a place as any to remind people that Musk did not found Tesla nor SpaceX.

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Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by gitfan86 »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #97
gitfan86 wrote: post #89

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Removing the process is the improvement. This is what we voted for. Less processes not more and actual results. Ask ChatGPT to compare and contrast Kamala Harris's effectiveness as "broadband Tzar" as compared to SpaceX Starlink.

Less process creates transparency gaps which become opportunities for more corruption.

There is a balance in process vs. efficiency.

The idea that anyone removing any processes is only doing it to insert corruption isn't a valid argument against efficiency

Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by nobankai »

gitfan86 wrote: post #142
sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should we look at the people who are saying they're going to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort? You know, the ones actively saying "let's go do a genocide"?

Asking Jordan and EGYPT to take Palestinian immigrants is the same thing as sending them to the gas chamber?

Serious governments don't ask Egypt and Jordan to do that because both nations have already made their stance clear on the matter.

For as long as Israel refuses to take Gazan health or survival seriously, I wouldn't hesitate to call this a modern Holocaust.

Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

notahacker wrote: post #126
blisterpeanuts wrote: post #119

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> someone whose first foray into improving the FAA was to arbitrarily fire hundreds of FAA staff 400 non-ATC, non-safety related probationary new hires, out of 45,000.

Sure, so 1% of the workforce of an organization generally considered to be understaffed, with the firing criteria being either that (i) their role was a position the FAA had recently decided needed filling or (ii) they had been successful enough with the agency to be promoted to a new role. Having fired them, the agency will now look into whether the radar, landing and navigational aid workers fired performed safety…

Less than 1%. 45,000/400 = 0.89%. It was reported that they were not critical workers. Perhaps some will be rehired. A review of hiring procedures is underway.

It's recently been revealed that not only does the FAA require a "biography" of its ATC applicants, but have even been coaching black candidates how to use the keywords that will allow their applications to float to the top.

If the agency and the politicians overseeing it cared about safety, shouldn't they try to hire the best and the brightest, not the under-represented minorities that they have been struggling to hire in recent years? Meanwhile, White applicants who were fully qualified have been bypassed.

I personally don't care, and I suspect most thinking people don't care, what the ethnicity or gender are of the people in the towers. But we all care very deeply that they should be the very best of the best.

Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

pasttense01 wrote: post #141
mrguyorama wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>More to the point, the DoGE audits are projected to save the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars, which should significantly reduce the deficit which is currently projected at two trillion dollars. Oh come the fuck on. Projected by whom ? If they are looking to reduce the deficit, why are they floating tax breaks that will cost the country billions? Have some skepticism, will you?

"why are they floating tax breaks that will cost the country billions?" Not billions: trillions! "Trump Tax Priorities To Cost $5 to $11 Trillion over the next Ten Years" https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-tax-priorities-total-5-11-t...

Standard supply side theory. Reduce tax overhead, reduce size of government, increase availability of capital for private investment, give people back the money to either spend, start businesses, or invest in markets. Money is more productive in private hands; government acts as a money sink that locks up wealth in unproductive cul-de-sacs. Government is inefficient; free markets are efficient.

Read Milton Friedman, not anti-Trump hit pieces that predict disaster.

Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by karles »

transcriptase wrote: post #82
karles wrote: post #56

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Enlighten us, oh enlightened one! I wish to be free of my chains.

When you find the reasonable non-partisan comments explaining that the article in question is misleading, written by a PAC, or that people are misunderstanding the topic at hand… and they’re always sitting at -40 to -200 and hidden from view you might start questioning a few things.

Yeah, because "reasonable" is what you find with Trump. Stop trying to apologise for that Orange retard and his horde of shameless minions.

Re: A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

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Post by cmurf »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #98
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #30

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...it's literally seen as a front-page scandal on HN and the linked source though.

Where is the outrage from the one group that can actually do anything about this: Republican members of congress and Republican senators? There's already been a handful of impeachment-level events, such as the blatant quid pro quo of the Adams corruption charges dismissal which resulted in a series of DoJ resignations reminiscent of the Saturday Night Massacre. You know, a critical event that shifted public and Repub…

Why would they be outraged? They're doing the job they were hired to do. This is what their constituency has wanted for many years and demanded: pure unadulterated unwavering unquestioned support for their emperor, and he is Trump. They want a mean daddy. They finally found him.

All of the people with balls have been fired or quit.

North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about “credible death threats” when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination. - Vanity Fair, “They’re Scared Shitless”

To whatever degree they are really scared (Liz Cheney is far braver than these MAGA elected kooks, scared of their own shadows), let's accept the premise for the sake of the argument. They will permit an incendiary fire of epic proportion well beyond what we've seen so far before they do anything. They may in fact not be capable of it under any circumstances. And if that is the case, is there even a functioning Senate right now? In terms of 5 USC 3331? I think not. And that means the republic is in abeyance. It's a principate now. For however long, really depends on the American public - not any elected officials.

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