TacticsConsort @ TacticsConsort @yiffit.net

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Please please please please

Nice! I know there's still much further to go before justice is done, but this is a step in the right direction, and I can appreciate it for that.

I will pay for an adblocker before I pay for an ad provider to stop harassing me

Foreseeable, and unfortunately the best move Trump could have made. Kamala would have just vaporized him

Well. That's the million dollar question, isn't it?

She does have the distinct advantage of being under the retirement age. We'll have to see what her policies are and how she performs in debates, though.

You're not wrong, but the comparison I like here is Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She wasn't just doing her job well, she was one of the best Supreme Court Justicies EVER.

She didn't resign when the time was right, and as a result she died under Trump, a republican got her seat, and all the great things she did were swiftly demolished, wrecking decades of work over one single mistake: Not knowing when to step down.

Now I know the situation isn't perfectly comparable. But if Trump gets in, then every good thing Biden has done will be swiftly undone. This was a hellish dilemma, but if Biden wants to do his job well, he needs to do that by not letting Trump into the White House again.

I mean yeah, we WERE founded because we didn't want to support shitty business practices from Reddit but we wanted a good Reddit substitute

But we get good posts that aren't Reddit drama too

Oh, this is handy, I specifically avoid these guys.

Not for ethical reasons or anything, just I had these weird frozen meatballs from them when I was like 7 and nearly vomited myself to death in a holiday caravan's bedroom before collapsing unable to move for an hour, conscious the entire time and simply unable to make my body respond. 1/10, not reccommended.

This is a good fucking take, have to say. She very obviously knows what she's talking about extremely well, has the best interests of those she represents at heart, and knows how to express it all clearly for the average layperson. You don't get a lot of politicians of that caliber.

No wonder the Republicans hate her so much!

Thank fuck for that. With any luck the better conditions will even give them the power to push back on management if management demands something stupid be added to a game.

In an industry as notoriously dreadful as game development, every bit of quality of life counts.

Lol yep. Literally Amazon 101, there's a very good reason you shouldn't buy from them unless you HAVE to.

Just a UK guy here, but she does seem like a pretty sensible swap. I know there's some controversy around her because of her time in the police system, but I haven't heard anything bad about her at all during her time as VP, she's basically been off the radar (compare that shit to Pence).

A couple good speeches here and there, some reasonable policies to offer people, and Biden's endorsement, and you've got a really solid replacement.

OK, checking out the article, actually it seems totally innocent on the maintenance side of things- there was a turbine blade fracture during flight. Turbines are generally very reliable but it's a gargantuan pain in the ass to test those blades because they're crystalline structures, so a fracture goes from nanoscopic to taking out the whole blade all at once. I wouldn't expect maintainers to catch that.

The criminal part is actually way more interesting and concerning.

Civilian aircraft are built to be safe. I mean REALLY safe. Every system has a redundant (backup) system you can switch to if that system goes down and a way to isolate a damaged system. Planes can fly on only one working engine, or even safely glide down to the ground if they have no engines. We literally blow some engines up in their final stages of testing to make sure they can't blow up hard enough to take the wing out. Regulations demand it.

So that's why this is a criminal case. Because after that engine blade came loose and hit the wing, it ruptured a fuel line...

In an aircraft that was designed in compliance with regulations, while this would still be be cause to turn around and land the plane, it shouldn't actually be a safety problem at all. Just isolate the damaged system and switch to the redundant one. And they didn't have the ability to do that. Meaning that their aircraft design itself is likely out of compliance with regulations and doesn't meet the minimum safety requirements to have civilians on it. Which is... honesty way weirder, because who the hell signed off on this thing if it had a design issue like this?

Yup, most engine manufacture is undertaken by specialists. As a good example, Rolls-Royce is an airplane engine company that sometimes makes cars as publicity stunts.

HOWEVER.

It's not just about who makes engines. Aircraft are meant to last a good 30 years in service and you can't just ask some schmuck to clean it for $7.50 an hour and call that maintenance. Maintenance is extremely skilled work that tends to be operating under horrible time crunches, especially if a part is suspect and needs to have a plane partially taken apart so it can be changed for a fresh one- a plane that might be due to fly again tomorrow. Maintenance that needs that sort of knowledge tends to have some involvement with the parent company who built the planes, or is even contract work for them.

Boeing is rather notorious for being willing to put the schedule before safety- we've seen that in a lot of other accidents. I would absolutely believe that a Boeing manager skimped on engine maintenance because someone in the chain of command said "Get that plane out of the maintenance hangar today or you're fired, and damn the safety regulations."

But, that's just my industry knowledge. The actual circumstances could be way different, so let's go read the article.

Joke's on them I love Tiamat she's fuckin' awesome. More successful evil dragon goddesses with legions of children and cool magic powers please

Excellent news. Even if he made a few too many vital blunders in debates to be the PM, he's a really good leftist politician and he absolutely deserves that seat.

There's not going to be anything 'arbitrary' about those inspections... In a bad way.

Bad Dragon

Fallout 76.