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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

unofan said:
You almost have to assume the "max drop rate" lasted a mere fraction of a second, because the plane wouldn't just drop and then climb instantaneously. When the plan bottomed out at 400 feet, it would've been pulling up and out of the dive/descent, so the point of maximum drop rate had to have happened higher up.

Also, since it sounds like it occurred during a missed approach/aborted landing, it could've been descending anyway and the error may have only dropped the plane more/faster than it would've otherwise gone, depending where on the aborted landing the error took place. Point being, there's a lot we simply don't know from what's presented in the article (not watching the video linked, maybe it contains more details), but the article definitely uses the scariest numbers to titilate rather than inform.
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Right - it's not the speed (descent rate, in this case) that kills you, it's the acceleration. 4000 ft/min is nothing in the grand scheme - that's a nice, leisurely 10-minute descent from 40,000 ft. That's well within the capability of ANY commercial (or military) aircraft out there. The potential issue is that if you're descending at 4,000 fpm, realize that you're about to hit the water, and yank back on the stick so that 0.5 seconds later you're at 0 fpm (holding steady at 400 ft), then you've put the aircraft through an acceleration (averaging) 4000 ft/min * 1 min/60 sec / 0.5 sec / (32.2 ft/sec/sec) = 4.1 G.

Now, 4Gs is not comfortable - that's in the range of the biggest, fastest roller coasters out there. But it's certainly not life threatening nor would it cause any structural issues for the aircraft. Gusts and turbulence can easily cause momentary 4G accelerations, so the structure would have been designed to handle that.

Bottom line, that rookie pilot probably just thought he saw a whale or something and wanted a closer look. What's the big deal? :)
 
Kepler said:
Price the derps out of Boston. Higher property tax revenues for services. I see no downside.

There's always Worcester.
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Worcester is one of the fastest growing small cities in the country (or fastest growing property values?) over the past 5 years. I grew up here and moved out with college and moved back late 2020, and it's barely recognizable. It's a legit cool city at this point. In 3.5 years my property value is up something like 35-40%, and the city is building and building and building.
 
Capitalism in one story.

Resident Stijn Oude Vrielink, originally from the Netherlands, said he was at home on a Monday night when his neighbor came to his door and suffered a cardiac arrest.

He immediately called emergency services and then searched online for how to resuscitate a patient in order to help the woman.

But, after clicking a link on YouTube, he was forced to sit through 18 seconds of adverts before being shown how to help the patient.

He told local newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, translated from his native language Dutch into English: 'Every second counts when it comes to saving someone's life.

'And those 18 seconds were damn long, I can tell you. All I could think was: Why now!'

After a few minutes, he was able to initiate CPR until then the ambulance arrived. The woman was taken to hospital but later died.
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Swansong said:
Bari Weiss is about the most dishonest person to come out of "legit journalism" as I've ever seen. The queen of whataboutism.
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Any article opening with how proud someone is to have Niall Ferguson, one of the shittiest writers I've ever read, joining tells you a lot.
 
"We're all Soviets now" facetiously opines man who wouldn't have been afforded an opinion column in the USSR's press.

Why? Because Joe Biden and the DC establishment are old?

Shortages? I can walk into a grocery store right now and buy hundreds of dollars worth of produce from all over the globe, and basically any meats I want. Try doing that at Moscow Mart in 1990.

Bloated military? US military spending hasn't topped 4% of our GDP since 2012 and you'd have to go back to the Cold War to find it higher than 5%. Could we likely spend less? You bet. But let's not pretend this is a "guns or butter" decision where 15+% of our entire economy is based on warfare and military empire like it was for the USSR.

I'm not even going to address the polling Rasmussen ran, I'm sure they framed/pushed it to give the right scary stats about the (((IVY LEAGUE GLOBALIST ELITES)))!1!!11!! and their new world order, or whatever.
 
Bari Weiss was "ok" (on a steep curve) before the Pennsylvania Synagogue shooting. That was where she used to go (and I think she knew some of the victims) and she went off the reservation after that. Maher likes her because she plays into culture war crap (People Hate Me Cause They Are Woke!11!!1) and because she is super Pro-Israel and Islamophobic. You couldn't pay me to read her crap or listen to her lies. I am pretty sure she has been accused of flat out making quotes up in the past.
 
Handyman said:
Bari Weiss was "ok" (on a steep curve) before the Pennsylvania Synagogue shooting. That was where she used to go (and I think she knew some of the victims) and she went off the reservation after that. Maher likes her because she plays into culture war crap (People Hate Me Cause They Are Woke!11!!1) and because she is super Pro-Israel and Islamophobic. You couldn't pay me to read her crap or listen to her lies. I am pretty sure she has been accused of flat out making quotes up in the past.
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Weiss and Maher are similar in that both fall on the liberal end of the spectrum, but they discombobulate many liberals because of beliefs they might express on a single or handful of topics.

If someone like Maher or Weiss says, or writes, that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to Democracy seen to date, and the devil incarnate, but then the next day expresses the opinion Brett Kavanaugh is a perfectly fine choice for Supreme Court justice, some people can't wrap their minds around it. They'll say things like "Maher was fine, until ...." It's like Maher or Weiss had a conversion, or something, when in fact they might just have views on two subjects, one of which you completely agree with, and one of which you think is crazy.
 
SJHovey said:
Weiss and Maher are similar in that both fall on the liberal end of the spectrum, but they discombobulate many liberals because of beliefs they might express on a single or handful of topics.

If someone like Maher or Weiss says, or writes, that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to Democracy seen to date, and the devil incarnate, but then the next day expresses the opinion Brett Kavanaugh is a perfectly fine choice for Supreme Court justice, some people can't wrap their minds around it. They'll say things like "Maher was fine, until ...." It's like Maher or Weiss had a conversion, or something, when in fact they might just have views on two subjects, one of which you completely agree with, and one of which you think is crazy.
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Not really. Maher even admits he is to the right of where Dems are...he just doesn't like being called a bougie centrist which he is. Where he runs afoul of most of us is his stance on Islam or how he thinks comedians get canceled. Even in the face of real facts he just doesn't budge. Oh and his Anti Doctor nonsense...but he always was that way it's why he thinks he is a libertarian.

He shows his true colors when he goes on shows like Megyn Kelly (who book him on his Woke stance) and he spends the while time saying the right wingers like her are nuts.

Bari Weiss is a sellout who holds her religion above the rights of others. She is no better than Christian Nationalists. She also realized she had little future in mainstream media so she embraced new media hoping (like Matt Taibbi) that she could find a niche there. She got in bed with clowns like Musk and then lost what little credibility she had with any liberals. Then she decided to go with the outrage machine instead to try and make money. She is just Russel Brand with less reach.

Very few expect agreement on alm issues, it's the issues you die on a hill for that define you though.
 
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