My friends and I thought the senior dating the sophomore was creepy. And this man wants people to think it’s okay to triple that age gap. AND HE WAS A TEACHER.

Gambling addictions that in many cases were probably the result of peddling gambling to children.

I’m positive she is talking about Yanis Varoufakis and he’s worth listening to over most if not almost all other European politicians (a low bar I know).

He was loudly against forced austerity and I know him mostly for railing against technofeudalism and explaining to a “progressive” lib that China is not in fact the USA.

Fourthing this

So let me see if I understand: You’re going to uncritically accept the NYT’s framing of a second hand account of what Zohran Mamdani said to a bunch of New York elites, where these journalists didn’t even trust themselves to use quotes when describing what he said but rather just quoting individual words taken out of context from again, possibly unreliable sources.

In fact the only partial quote more than single words in the entire article from him on the subject is this:

Just two weeks ago, shortly after his primary victory, Mr. Mamdani said in an interview on “Meet the Press” that the term was “not language that I use” but that “I don’t believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech.”

This is deeply unserious posting from you and lacking any critical thought, or just completely dishonest.

Healthy economy. Totally not a recession being managed by extending people larger and larger amounts of debt.

They can definitely afford cost of living, maybe it was inexperienced controllers who were complaining about their salary that I remember. But from the statistics I’m seeing even the entry level controllers make okay money these days.

Odd I remember seeing posts from controller making much less but you’re right. Google says new inexperienced controllers make like $46k but I can’t find data to back that up.

I second both hummus and refried beans as sandwich toppings. Also it’s not exactly a sandwich but a good hearty bean chili in a bread bowl is wonderful (pic isn’t mine):

Might have to bake a loaf to go with the chili I made…

I’m sure replacing trained professionals in an already underpaid ₁ and notoriously stressful job with whoever will work for free won’t cause any issues. Especially when those people will be responsible for navigating aircraft safely in ever more congested airspace.

I had lurked the air traffic control subreddit back in the day and the situation was bleak. They have a fairly toothless union that keeps things from being as bad as they could be, but it was still hell. Underpaid hell for extremely skilled and critical labor. I’m amazed there haven’t been more mid air collisions and other atc involved mishaps just from overworking and burnout.

Note 1: I thought they were underpaid based on information I remembered but this appears to have been inaccurate.

As has become tradition unfortunately.

This is from September, obvious bait is obvious. Hopefully he continues to advocate for peace and dropping sanctions, and hopefully the PSL can get some wins sooner rather than later.

Whenever I hear something of MTG it seems like she’s extremely propagandized but would otherwise get it. Which is just so incredibly frustrating. Honestly a lot of republican voters have class consciousness but it’s just extremely corrupted by US imperialist, capitalist, and fascist propaganda that they fell for. Which isn’t new either, there was that period of time where you would get beat up in Detroit for driving a Japanese car or even just looking Asian, which I have to think was instigated and encouraged by the bourgeoisie. I mean hell I’ve heard it from the company man at work and my boss, “We have to work harder and longer hours and less carefully becauce we’re competing with China and African countries where they don’t have workplace safety or environmental regulations.” If I rolled my eyes any harder at that I would’ve passed out.

They mean both I believe since the physical properties of the universe are what would presumably drive its expansion, and this expansion results in the cosmological objects in the universe getting farther apart. Actually more than that, it was previously thought that they are accelerating apart, so they would be moving apart at ever increasing speed. However this new data is being presented as evidence that the expansion of the universe is actually slowing down. Still moving apart but at an ever slower rate.

Coming right up

Ooo thanks I haven’t seen this one yet! Angela Collier doesn’t miss. Her video on vibe physics was great if you like her dunks, and her actual physics videos are really informative.

I’ve flown an rc plane higher rofl

I laughed at the fact that I didn’t remember who Brian Thompson is but I remember Luigi

The video makes it look like the left engine failed catastrophically, and then the smoke or parts falling off of that engine were sucked in by the middle engine causing that engine to lose thrust.

According to the linked CBS article, it was loaded with about 38,000 gallons (172,751 liters) of fuel which if the density of the fuel I used was correct then that’s about 118,000kg (oddly quite a bit off of the ~106,000kg that CBS reported). Add in the empty weight of an MD-11 of 125,870kg and that’s 243,870kg or about 42,000kg shy of the maximum takeoff weight of the MD-11 of 286,000kg. With 20,000 packages on board this thing could’ve been very close its maximum takeoff weight. It should be able to climb with a single engine failure and no other failures at its maximum takeoff weight, but if the middle engine did lose thrust too then there wasn’t anything the crew could’ve done to save themselves or the plane once they made the decision to takeoff.

maybe ever

It better fucking not be or we’re cooked

But it also isn’t just any city but the city that has historically declared it’s self the center of world trade. The NYSE is there, the WTC is there, the free market economy has been centrally planned in NYC for over a century. It’s an important symbolic victory, even if it is mostly just a symbolic one.