Yeah OP’s comment “they were just smol bean posters expressing concern but got dogpiled” is the most disingenuous lying bad faith bullshit I’ve ever seen posted on this site. “Expressing misgivings” is doing so much heavy lifting it needs back surgery. Literally the exact opposite of reality. I can’t comprehend the privilege it takes to write that it was “just an emoji”.

Months later and nothing’s changed, we still have POC users being tone-policed by crackers because being too uppity “rubs them the wrong way”. And in particular, Arab users being lectured on what is and isn’t Zionism.

But sure, the problem is those people being “zero chill” when it comes to cracker feelings, which are obviously considered by far the most important thing.

Really reminds me of American crackers getting mad when they get called settlers, which is what they are.

I can’t imagine anybody being able to choose between B站 and youtube and picking youtube

If it’s “almost impossible” for randos on the internet to tell then it’s 1000% possible for a state actor

“Mamdani who?” ~93% of the world

I’m sorry are you denying the FREEDOM and SOVEREIGNTY of the CITY of STATEN ISLAND??? Mamdani gommulist shill

The DC Russians don’t even have a firing squad to complain about, when these types talk about “communist oppression” they mean their family fled the country with their stolen wealth instead of letting it be redistributed. They love their completely unverifiable gulag stories too. Can’t give the titles bc I don’t want to dox myself by proxy, but I know this one nepo kid who failed-up all the way through law school (with a blank-check credit card from mommy and daddy) and has gotten several books published (with the assistance of their publisher-connected dad) about the life of his poor great-grandpappy. There are zero sources for any of the claims other than his cousin’s dad’s ex-wife and the like.

He still complains about how much his family suffered despite the fact that he can live a life so comfortable that it’s beyond imagination for almost everyone, writing poorly-written books read only by his dad, while complaining about his fake consulting job (his first job ever, at age 25) his dad got him because he sometimes has to answer an email.

Just told my 10yo daughter about #SS in the work camp soylent distribution center. She would have had tears in her eyes if she wasn’t too dehydrated to cry. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said “#Soniakanda forever”. I couldn’t see who was in the panopticon but I assume they must have tried to cry too. When Frau Bondi hears of this, I’m sure she will be touched enough to increase our soylent portions by 1.25% – which is the sort of incrementalism that I can celebrate.

/uj My guess is we’ll probably see white soccer moms doing racist “spicy latina” shit for weeks on end. But if any hexbears can come up with a Puerto Rican localization of Ruthkanda then

My biggest gripe with the gung-ho euro heritage people is they still believe in the Wilsonian fiction. They think the evidently failed division of Europe post-WWII on the general basis of one nation-state per ethnicity (which didn’t work out that way in reality, because of course it couldn’t have) is an observation of reality and not a man-made division. They think the post-Versailles European order is the be-all and end-all. Everything can be put into neat little boxes where you can mix-and-match ethnicities with percentages down to 1/10ths. Especially with these DNA tests, it’s made the problem 1000x worse (in addition to handing your entire extended family’s genetic data over to the US government); now you can assign percentages of your DNA to specific nation-states based on “pure” specimens. It just reeks of race-mixing “science”. Notions of ethnicity have never been as simple as the flattened modern-day easily defined ethnicity with a set language, national dish (because “nation” is used interchangeably with “ethnicity”), national dress, etc. The modern nation-state with clearly defined borders and customs inspections and singular ethnicities, dishes, dresses, etc. did not fully exist until after WWI. Americans’ conception of heritage and ethnicity is almost entirely a fiction invented in the early 20th century.

But you can still be materially affected by the oppression suffered by your family in the past even if you never actually met them. The things that happened to your great-grandparents still happened to them no matter what, but I’ve observed that by the 4th generation, there tends to be little left of any connection with the “mother country” aside from a last name. For example, with the Russian aristocrat nepo-babies. They are just as knowledgeable about Russia and are just as much in-tune culturally as Joe Smith whose ancestors all came from Southern England. Even if genetic blood quantum memory were a thing, the last time anyone in their families set foot in Russia was a hundred and eight years ago. But it’s not real, so everything they know comes from unverifiable anecdotes from embittered counterrevolutionaries passed down through a 108-years-long game of telephone, meshed with whatever nonsense they learned in Good Old Boys’ Private College Preparatory for Fancylads to create a sense of “knowing” Russian history despite actually knowing less than a random kid who skimmed the wikipedia page.

Prop 50 passing

Oh boy I wonder what the inevitable SC decision is going to be. No worries though I’m sure Sotomayor will write an epic clapback

I’ve run into “I’m from a family of Russian immigrants who escaped brutal communist repression” types, mostly nepo-baby dipshits in the DC area. The repression was when their Russian aristocrat great-grandpappy was forced to downsize from 10 mansions to 5 and his private chef cooked the eggs wrong on his first class trip to the US.

Even ignoring that, it’s still amazing how Amerikkkan crackers think the fact that their great-great grandparents who died 80 years before they were born lived in X country (that they’ve never set foot in) until age 5 somehow gives them the inherent authority to talk about it as if they have any more connection to the “mother country” than any random asshole on the street. They unironically believe in genetic memory through blood quantum percentages. Crackers refuse to shut the fuck up about muh ancestry

“I’m 18.269% Scottish 15.225% Belgian and 152.6825% Lithuanian” no the fuck you’re not, you’re an Amerikkkan hog that cosplays as a Euro once a year by making shitty Americanized “traditional dishes” that you googled the night before making

New York? You mean East Staten Island?

The entire aviation infrastructure is held together with duct tape and glue. IT systems that haven’t been inspected in 40 years, which is about the time it takes to update anything (if it’s updated at all). The FAA still subscribes to Freudian psychology. Everyone lies on their medical exam because if you say you have ever been depressed at any point in your life you get disqualified unless you feel like going through a years-long expensive administrative battle that you probably won’t win. The written exams still reference outdated concepts that were removed from textbooks 20 years ago, and the only way you would know the answer is by getting a copy of an out-of-print obscure government publication, or do what everyone else does and pay a company hundreds of dollars for their exam prep material and rote memorize the answers. They have been promising to update the questions for 20 years. You can’t take your practical exams with the government, you have to go through a private contractor appointed by the local branches through nepotism. The examiners know each other and maintain artificial scarcity (there are 935 examiners in the entire country, however only 350 are generally available to the public, and you schedule a test by calling their personal number and hoping they pick up.) Right now it’s about a 4 month wait for a test slot on average. Average is about $1000 per test (if you live in a busier area, can be $1500-$2000), and examiners can do 2 tests a day. They take cash and don’t report it so it’s tax-free income they get to milk from students (they are informally exempt from IRS audits because the FAA goes to bat for them).

The dough is stretched so thin it might as well be a window. And it’s starting to rupture.

It gets to a point where it causes something and then it’s too late to do anything. Pilot makes a mistake, pilot dies. Controller makes a mistake, pilot dies. Mechanic makes a mistake, pilot dies. Manufacturer makes a mistake, pilot dies. Company makes a mistake, pilot dies. When you sign the release you just have to take their word that they didn’t fuck up.

Reposting my comment from the other thread:

Plane was doomed, that is simply not recoverable… explosive uncontained engine failure (including the entire engine literally detaching from the plane), possibly from runway debris, could cause catastrophic hydraulic damage and damage to control surfaces, looks like it may have taken out a second engine as well. Thrust from the right engine flips it over.

At max weight, you’re too heavy, with only one engine. There’s not enough runway to stop and not enough energy to fly. Intense fire burning up the left wing. Renders the aircraft completely unflyable. Sad to say, there’s really nothing to be done at that point other than making peace with the end.

Plane was doomed, that is simply not recoverable… explosive uncontained engine failure (including the entire engine literally detaching from the plane), possibly from runway debris, could cause catastrophic hydraulic damage and damage to control surfaces, looks like it may have taken out a second engine as well. Thrust from the right engine flips it over.

At max weight, you’re too heavy, with only one engine. There’s not enough runway to stop and not enough energy to fly. Intense fire burning up the left wing. Renders the aircraft completely unflyable. Sad to say, there’s really nothing to be done at that point other than making peace with the end.

edit: [cw] close-up view https://imgur.com/a/uffNxdY

VILenin Says Chopping Off 15-20 Heads Isn’t Greedy, Because ‘God Chops Them, And I’m Just Managing It For Him’

My first serious flying job was in a DC-3 for cargo ops (and I’m not 120 years old). This is a fairly normal age for cargo planes, and actually still within the possible range for passenger ops. If it’s a mechanical issue it probably has to do more with the fact that it’s a McDonnell Douglas than the fact that it’s 32 years old.

Quid Pro Cuomo

“Stop”

“A $25 cancellation fee has been assessed.”

second

sorry I wasn’t wearing my glasses