TheRealKuni

They are all citizens. They have all the same rights. Trump won’t draw any distinction between them.

He has very specifically been going after birthright citizenship and has deported children born here because their parents weren’t citizens. That gains it its own category in the cartoon.

my new bio: (masculine neutral/masculine possessive)

Isn’t it nominative/objective?

I don’t see “he/his” or “they/their,” I see “he/him” and “they/them.”

Critics decry Louisiana’s actions as politically motivated, warning that such prosecutions could undermine access to reproductive healthcare and expose tensions between state laws.

That’s the whole point.

As this is a route flown to transport VIPs, eventually you HAVE to train pilots on it, at night, during congestion. These would have been highly experienced pilots who would’ve flown the route previously. They knew what they were doing.

People make mistakes.

That’s why aviation relies on the Swiss cheese model. Unfortunately there was only one needed point of failure here, it seems.

“Except for the part when the aircraft collided, everything was perfectly normal” does not inspire confidence in the system…

And it really shouldn’t.

Aviation safety is built around the “Swiss cheese” model. Things can (and, by virtue of human nature, will) go wrong, but for an accident to occur, multiple things have to go wrong. The holes in the Swiss cheese have to line up for something to pass all the way through a block of it.

Here, there was ONE thing, maybe two, that went wrong. The helicopter pilots identified the wrong plane when told to confirm visual and fly behind it. One could argue an overtaxed ATC wasn’t able to properly monitor them, for a potential second thing that went wrong.

One, maybe two things going wrong shouldn’t cause fatalities. If this is how DC airspace regularly operates then something needs to change.

Dude I love that shit. Especially citrusy flavors. But everyone’s tastes are different.

Thanks for the Public Service Announcement.

Honestly this crash has been coming for a while. We’ve had so many near-misses in the US on or near runways lately. ATC is understaffed and overstressed. It was just a matter of time.

(Though from what I can tell ATC did their job here, this seems like it was a mistake by the training crew on the Blackhawk. But we’ll have to wait for the final report to know for sure.)

As I understand it’s a pretty common route for military helicopters. Lots of bigwigs in DC who get transported by the military from place to place. This was a training flight, so no VIPs being transported by the Blackhawk. Just three crew members.

The job of the helicopters on that route is to avoid aircraft visually, which isn’t easy at night. They were told by ATC to maintain visual of the CRJ and pass behind it, and the helicopter said they had visual, but must have been mistaken.

Made me expel a small amount of air from my nose. I think most people just read the first few words and then downvoted.

(Or didn’t think the context appropriate for making acronym-based jokes.)

Being mean is willfully making people around you feel worse. Being cringe is negligently making people around you feel worse. Once you’re aware you’re cringe, if you do nothing to mitigate it, you’re being willfully negligent, which is just as bad as doing something intentionally.

Cringe is just vicarious embarrassment. You are feeling embarrassed on behalf of someone else. Unlike empathy, where you share the emotion someone else is experiencing, cringe is generally embarrassment for the actions of someone else who is not embarrassed.

I suspect this is an instinct that helps us create social norms. We are embarrassed that someone else is acting in a way that would embarrass us, so we are encouraged to let them know that what they’re doing isn’t right. This is helpful if someone has toilet paper stuck to their shoe, or their fly is down, or they have some food stuck in their teeth.

But it isn’t helpful if the thing they’re doing is intentional, harmless, and they’re owning it. Let people live their lives, and work on your response to their behavior or appearance rather than policing them to make yourself feel better.

NB: I am not a psychologist.