alavesto

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by alavesto 6y ago
>they are usually killed by right wing extremists who are unofficially sanctioned by government and often not prosecuted. Big citation needed here. You'd be hard pressed to find any deaths here that weren't obvious, often vide
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by alavesto 6y ago
This HN discussion is pretty worthless. "It's not peer reviewed," "I didn't read the paper and I don't know much about microwaves but I personally don't think microwaves work that way", "But I re
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by alavesto 6y ago
Boeing's expectations for pilots recovering from an MCAS error were criminal. With an erroneous AOE reading, MCAS would immediately and repeatedly force the nose down. Pilots, not even told that MCAS existed, would somehow need to qu
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by alavesto 6y ago
And McDonnell-Douglass were/are true masters of building deadly aircraft.
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by alavesto 6y ago
I hope this isn't the black Marker.
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by alavesto 6y ago
+1. Biden and Trump both sounded so much more intelligent in their younger days; I don't understand why we insist on only allowing people to lead our country when they're at their worst. And despite billing himself as the alternat
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by alavesto 6y ago
This isn't to be taken as a show of support at all, but I had similar thoughts when the story of the kidnapping plot against Michigan gov Gretchen Whitmer broke. The militia had been heavily encouraged by multiple undercover FBI agent
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by alavesto 6y ago
I think the passenger miles statistic is baloney (calculated by multiplying the number of passengers by the number of miles travelled), and I'm a bit sick of seeing it trumpeted everywhere to claim flying is vastly safer than driving.