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Maybe if the orders weren't so ineptly or maliciously ambiguous and overly broad, then people would have more confidence that safety critical jobs aren't being cut.
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> the inconveniences that you and I have to endure. What are those? With pre check you just more or less walk through and use a metal detector.
A lot of people here like to go on about security. I agree there's a certain amount of theater, and I try to avoid really peak times, but with pre-check I do tend to arrive early because I don't want stress but, as you say, it's rarely more than a few minute wait and I pretty much toss my bag on the carousel and walk through the metal detector. It's really not a big deal if you're prepared.
Your airport sounds a lot better than the ones near me!
In my area they all want you to arrive 2-3 hours before your flight, without any water, then to shuffle through security without your belt and shoes.
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#393DCA has two runways. The longer runway is aligned with the river’s north/south direction at that point, so planes flying the approach to this runway from the south track along the western shore of the river, leaving the eastern shore clear for other aircraft like helicopters. The vast majority of flights on approach from the south [1] use this longer runway. The secondary runway is set at a diagonal NW/SE. Planes fly…
In looking at the radar recording, the plane appears to be approaching from the south going north (very slightly east), than diverts northwest to land on the runway, as you describe.
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A coup by whom against whom ?
I was referring to the 6th of January 2021 event where a large gathering of Trump followers stormed the capitol.
From my understanding that would be by Trump and his followers, against the rest of the United States population/democracy/whatever you prefer.
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Because I live here.
I also live here but that doesn’t give me crystal ball-like insight into what every single fed and fed-adjacent employee is feeling. It’s a fairly big city! Do you work in the federal space? I have acquaintances who do and their mood doesn’t quite match the hysteria you see on e.g. the regional subreddits.
I live far away from DC, but my friends in two different federal agencies (stationed outside of DC) are partly bemused and partly shocked at how unprofessional the emails and new directives they are receiving from this new administration are. All of their colleagues are expressing the same sentiment (and my friends usually do not fraternize after work with their colleagues, but they have all been doing that after work just to cope with what is going on). Your contrarian-ness about the 'hysteria' is misplaced. Professional and dedicated federal workers are deeply concerned.
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#397The Boeing-ification of the federal government, in which everything is stripped down to below what is actually required to be safe, is in full effect.
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Tower systems are the last place in the world you would want a 97% accurate large language model, and the very last place we would culturally tolerate this sort of thing. Innate conservatism is what happens when deviations from perfection lead to collisions, and for the most part "AI" success remains a stochastic matter, gigabyte to terabyte sized tensors that are not human-intelligible. A black box which cannot be r…
There will be a list of scenarios competing for that "last place". Operating rooms, certain military/police situations and self driving cars come to mind. A shared characteristic here is that errors lead to fatal outcomes exacerbated by unclear accountability.
Self driving cars are already operating no problem.
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Considering that the head of the FAA and TSA were forced to resign, and a hiring freeze on air traffic controllers is suddenly in effect, I don't think the current government wants to improve flight safety. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2025-0...
Reagan fired the ATCs when they tried to assert their rights - can't be good if they think they may be the next in line for DOGEing.
> when they tried to assert their rights
That's an interesting way of phrasing going on an illegal strike which they agreed not to do as part of their employment contract.
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So the LA Times is not part of the propaganda that brought us the Iraq War? And the US must, must at all cost, stop paying for prison guards to figure it out ? There's no other way to just ... figure it out? You know, by studying the situation?
I’m begging you to read Manufacturing Consent. And when has “studying the situation” ever worked to make the government stop wasting money destroying the Middle East? Obama promised to change this stuff, and he couldn’t do it, because he innately trusted the same people who made the mistakes to “study” how to fix them.
I can't believe you agree with the premise of Manufacturing Consent and the goals of the administration.
They're manufacturing consent to a massive power grab from Congress. The consent to an American King is being manufactured in front of our very eyes.