Change.org has never mattered or accomplished anything of value.
I suspect that its purpose is to direct energy that might actually be put towards making actually beneficial changes into a void, and to encourage righteous indignation among the left and keep them voting Democrat. By that standard I suppose it does have "value" to some people.
DOGE [...] didn't save any money
DOGE's failure
Bullshit. I don't say this to defend DOGE (or Musk) but the problem wasn't that cutting expenses failed, it's that the governement turned around and spent even more on shit like free weapons for Israel.
It is a bit odd, but it's also not unheard of for employees to go to flight school and move from a role like dispatcher (which is a more involved role in the US than in other countries - dispatchers share joint responsibility with the flight's captain) to pilot. The fact that it says "worked for" instead of "flew for" makes it rather ambiguous whether all 18 of those years were as a pilot.
The unidentified captain of the plane had worked for Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta, for 18 years. He has flown a total of 3,570 hours across his career and is also a training instructor.
His co-pilot, who has also not been identified, had worked with Endeavor for just over a year and had flown an estimated 1,422 hours across the span of her career.
It’s worth noting that the FAA requires 1,500 hours of flying experience before getting an Airline Transport Pilot license, which is higher than the rest of the world by far. I can’t agree that these pilots were inexperienced at all.
That isn’t to say that their training was necessarily up to par, or that diversity hiring definitely wasn’t a factor, of course.
A major factor here is that the landing gear destroyed the wing spar (that is, the wing didn’t hit the ground shearing it off, the gear collapsing broke the wing off). Most aircraft are designed so that the gear shears off before this happens, but some older models (such as the MD-11 which had accidents where the plane lost the wing and flipped twice) are susceptible to this failure mode.
I wonder if they have some "AI" (or just plain old regex) checking the order for alcohol in addition to or instead of a manual database. Or maybe they outsourced the database to someone who thought "Margherita" automatically means alcohol.
Early advertising for the US 2026 midterms has started. They know that if they can get the right people elected, by the time Trump has a chance to stop them it will already be too late.
Plus between the Epstein thing and his extreme support for Israel the timing on this is probably great for them with a lot of conservatives disillusioned and worried about other things.
I know that legacy media will scrub it. Press releases will disappear. Obviously, the information will still be findable, but it will take a bit more work to do so. Most people won’t be bothered to do so.
Remind me again why being on good terms with the Canadian government is a good thing…
The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future
I'm sure they would love to use this as an excuse to take down archive sites that prevent them from hiding the shit they said in the past.
If true, what is the point of that? Fuel isnt cheap. Why not just drop them off in a neighboring country.
I can think of at least a couple of reasons, including preventing them from returning to the US easily and encouraging others to self-deport to avoid the same fate.
I’ve been doing immigration detention work for a very long time. I’ve never in my life seen Mexico refuse to take back one of its nationals, ever
Except that time they refused a deportation flight a few months ago. Or the time they said they wouldn’t accept Mexicans deported by Texas “under any circumstances.”
I’m sure Mexico has been making the entire process a pain.
No matter how much any Trump decision would suck, a fucking communist is never an alternative.
(D) is done.
I doubt that's how the electorate is going to see it, at least at this point.
While he has done a lot of good, Trump has done too much stupid shit (like the over-the-top support for Israel) that I believe a lot of more casual Trump supporters probably won't vote. A few will probably even be swayed to vote (D), especially if they act more moderate (even if they're not) to garner votes.
Of course, that could change by 2028.
The other pilot would have had to immediately notice and correct it.
It's worth noting that the fuel switches were set back to run from cutoff after just a few seconds, but it was already too late.
I’m sure the pilot thought people would believe it’s a Boeing flaw & get money for his family
If so, that would be extremely foolish in an aircraft like the 787 with its sophisticated flight recorders.
What memo?
To: Soon-to-be-laid-off-shmucks
This is a reminder that Tracer's ass must be as flat as a pancake. Way too many straight males find her design aesthetically pleasing, which must stop immediately.
Make her look like a twink or something. No, it's definitely not a fetish thing, why do you cretins keep asking?
And yet he is still very popular worldwide and his fans are basically a cult. He has tons of fangirls worldwide.
And that's why he gets away with it. He's not some older male politician telling them things they don't want to hear, he makes their panties wet and any inconvenient political remarks can be fairly easily ignored, especially by those outside of Japan.
They have several different versions of that ebegging that I've seen. This one might be my favorite:
When the military is deployed to quell overwhelmingly peaceful protest, when elected officials of the opposing party are arrested or handcuffed, when student activists are jailed and deported, and when a wide range of civic institutions – non-profits, law firms, universities, news outlets, the arts, the civil service, scientists – are targeted and penalized by the federal government, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our core freedoms are disappearing before our eyes – and democracy itself is slipping away.
They’ll never learn, because as far as they’re concerned it’s $150m+ well spent.