Many people confuse impeachment with removal from office. Being impeached is comparable to being indicted. When the house votes to impeach a president, they are voting to put the president on trial. Clinton was impeached and put on trial with the house serving as prosecutors and the senate serving as jury. The only…

It will make the Republican senators stand up and voice their public approval of whatever activities it turns out he did. So if the investigations bring up some really bad stuff and he is still acquitted, there is going to be a lot of soul searching within that party whether those senators will be able to continue to…

I’ve been liking that iOS 13 has been telling me when apps have been using location in the background and asking if I want to restrict them which is nice. 

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. A gajillion times yes.

That’s pretty much true of every tech product/video game/etc.

- You have a lapse in patience and like shiny things that are free

There are so many reasons:

It does happen, rarely, but there’s youtube videos of it.

This has happened to me several times when I used to fly to a smaller airport for work.  It was a propeller plane, and the pilots needed to redistribute people to balance it for weight.

Gotta fly them small planes, they ask me to move front or back all the time for balance. this is on propeller planes the small 8-14 seaters

He’s referring to people who refuse the (rare) order to get off a plane, either due to being involuntarily bumped, or being too drunk, or violating some other rule. And then they make a scene, and get physical with the flight crew, which forces the police to arrive, and drag them off the plane.

FYI, once the cabin door closes, the head flight attendant is the rule of law on the plane.

Yep. I’d probably never let it get to this level of contention, but it is literally a federal crime to disobey an instruction from the flight crew (captain or FAs, doesn’t matter which). They’re all part of the dictator pantheon as soon as the doors close.

But yeah, record everything.

What kind of situation needs to be happening for the pilot to come out of the cockpit to tell a passenger which seat to sit in?

Years back I was on a short RJ connection from RIC-JFK, 1 row of seats on one side, 2 on the other. I had a single seat in the second row, and the pilot came back and was like, we need 2 front passengers to move to the back for weight & balance. I had a 6 hour layover at JFK so I didn’t care where I sat or how long it…

I was on a recent half-empty flight and they asked a bunch of people in the back to move forward to balance the plane. No one complained. I was stuck next to a couple dressed like they dumpster dived for a living and were making out the whole time. I jumped up as soon as they said we could move. 

Hardly anything. However, it’s much more likely that they will tell another member of the flight crew to go and resolve whatever issue. In this case, “The captain telling you to” is just about equivalent to a FA coming up and saying “The captain has asked that you...”

I had to move once on the orders of the captain. The plane was a Fairchild-Dornier 328 Jet, there were about 10 pax total. We were told to move for weight and balance, which was the point at which I knew the plane was a bit smaller than what I was used to! (But a fun plane to fly on.)

I’m an airline captain and I would never ask someone to move seats unless there was a really compelling reason. Usually the flight attendants take care of all this and I only show up if there’s trouble.

What kind of situation needs to be happening for the pilot to come out of the cockpit to tell a passenger which seat to sit in? Granted I don’t fly all that often, but I’ve never heard of this happening. I’d always assumed it would be up to the FA’s to settle any disputes.