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> to that is the insitutional belief that China is The Enemy [™]

The PRC is the biggest threat to the United States and does not speak in favorable terms about the US. Do you have any reason to think they aren't the biggest enemy?

Walmart is the biggest grocery retailer in the US with a solid multiple more sales than the next largest, Albertsons/Safeway group (per WSJ article in last month or so, don’t have link handy)

Video games are a poor ROI, young adults should minimize them and study or socialize (in person) instead. The opportunity cost is huge.

What if the collapse simply leads to anarchy, and we relearn Hobbesian lessons? I’m also skeptical that “queer communism” would arise in the resulting melee even if order emerged from the chaos as most Americans would find that concept repulsive and resist it with deadly force.

The seats are sitting on rails and can be adjusted.

> We've incentivized ghouls to take over the reins who spend their days a bubbled class that have no need to, and can afford through absurd wealth to not, interact with or see the consequences of their asinine and dangerous decisions

Nice prose, and an astute point

I really doubt folks who can’t subtract will get an engineering job, it’s almost certainly the tip of the iceberg of intellectual insufficiency. Doesn’t mean they’re bad people or even dumb.

And what will these folks who can do algebra but not arithmetic do with their skill? Are there any applications that don’t involve other math knowledge? Someone who can’t subtract is functionally retarded in modern society and it’s not meaningful to invest outside remedial education

You must be fun at parties

Fast hands in the cockpit are scary. Pilots take their time in emergencies because rushing will take your birthday away

They would open more routes if not pilot restricted. Instead of training more pilots, they want to spread them thinner to maximize profits. It’s a bad idea.

How do we tweak our political system to minimize the impact of control freaks?

Because it shifts responsibility for leading a solution from the engineering org to a bureaucracy

The FAA is the most competent and beneficial government agency. It is held to a higher standard and the other ones couldn’t come close.

I don’t have my FARs with me right now but I’m pretty sure CPL holders operating charter flights cannot fly in IFR or at night

Even charter flights practically require an ATP due to IFR and night flying restrictions on CPL holders

Robert Maxwell was Epstein’s mistresses father. We know that Israel has the best in person intel, why would that be limited to the Middle East? Coupled with the long record of nuclear espionage by Israelis it’s not a stretch to think they have a pile of compromat on the NSC and related power groups in the US (Congress, judges, administrators)

If we’re nitpicking then the pros have ATP licenses so they can fly for the airlines

FWIW I found it comprehensible just jargon-laden

> The US ban pork exports in response to Huawei. Europe is trading French alcohol export quotas for EV imports.

Might have to do with hitting China where it hurts - food imports might have a more pronounced impact

You need to start changing coefficients in your “life physics” and see what happens. Increasing the amount of new social contact is always a good starting point.

Best of luck

> Basically people see others with "more" than them and it makes them unhappy. If they never saw that, they could be happy

Maybe. Or they’d be unhappy about something else (genetics or physicality). Being happy is a choice.

This isn’t a court of law, it’s the internet, and there is no “innocent until proven guilty” here.

That’s called a bug, bro

Impotent action to appear relevant.

FWIW we did get von Braun out of it

This is incorrect. The Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) expressly forbid operating in IFR conditions (or an IFR flight) with cell phones on.

You need both search and filtering. Search to find hits (with context) and filtering to narrow down what’s displayed.

Are we ready for Stuxnet round 2?

Taxis in SF were the absolute worst. I haven’t tried them since Uber rolled out and rightfully stole business