Yeah, I agree she should get a massive settlement. I think her attorney said something that summed it up pretty well. It was like, “This isn’t like a broken bone that will heal. It will continue causing pain for the rest of her life.”

Forward facing engines with propwash or wake turbulence patterns gradually fall from the exhaust and would only cause a problem if you were a few hundred feet below the altitude of the aircraft in front of you, depending on your proximity.

I don’t understand the ‘f-35 cant replace the A-10' spiel, when there is no mention that the other jets have been de-facto replacing the A-10 for years.

Sounds like something that would happen at a Trump rally.

Why don’t we just black out all our windows and use cameras FOR EVERYTHING. No one looking in, only you looking out with your cold, calculating video feeds.

I just came from an article about the craigslist baby killer testimony from the victim. That’s enough internet for today.

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I suppose you could interpret it that way, but I don’t think that’s what the author meant. I took it to mean that gun was terrifying based on the implications of that person successfully printing and assembling a more sophisticated gun than previous attempts with 3D printed parts. That is not necessarily my opinion,…

Nevermind, we both agreed on a post by rcasi that sums it up I think.

So you think that when people say “guns are scary” they are talking about the gun itself?

So it’s the potential that’s scary, not the gun itself.

Woah nice! I guess I’m hitting a nerve? And yeah, you just proved my point! We “already do all of that for guns” because they are dangerous. That danger naturally elicits fear for most rationally people.

Okay, so we should fear and respect alcohol. We should enact laws that prohibit people from driving around drunk, or buying alcohol when you are under 21 years old, or control when and where it can be sold.

Why should we be afraid of the people either? They are just mentally ill, right? They just have the potential to pick up a gun and kill someone based on their mental illness. Why be afraid of them either? Why be afraid or scared of anything for that matter?

You could start fixing your own ignorance that guns are “FOR” anything but that the person who holds it is doing with it. It’s just a tool.

lol alcohol related deaths are totally the same, right.

The fear of a gun comes from the potential for it to cause harm based on the fact that humans also exist with it. Guns do not exist in a vacuum.

Good discussions always come from starting out with “Well that is a stupid analogy”.

Nukes and guns don’t exist in a vacuum, which is why both can be scary... because we live in a world where people have access and the ability to use both.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying. My point is that not everything is perfectly defined as “scary” or “not scary” just because it’s an inanimate object. They can be scary for the potential to cause harm in the hands of a scary person whether one has a “healthy knowledge and respect for them” or not.