Sorry to be that pedantic asshole, but the S-3 had General Electric TF-34 engines. Not Pratt & Whitneys (I used to work there at one time). That does not change the fundamental validity of your post.

Thats a really naive way of looking at safety. Blame the victim. Safety systems should always assume we’re distracted and inattentive because we ALL have moments like this and NOBODY deserves to die because of it.

If we leave it at ‘it was the victim’s fault, case closed’ then nothing improves and someone else WILL…

During my stint in the Navy I was a technician for an aircraft called affectionately “The Hoover” (a S3 Viking) it had two very large Pratt and Whitney engines attached to it that had the same safe distance.

Way too many nerds (i.e. more than 10, we’ll go with that) have become way too comfortable with being the cringiest, greasiest, most odious pillow-fuckers imaginable.

You forgot to mention the Twitter Space that Hotz hosted yesterday, where Musk naively called for a “total rewrite” of the whole twitter stack, and then received well deserved pushback from an actual engineer:

To all the greys insisting that her *other* career is how she should be identified:

I think thats what all that rehab right after the surgery is for.  Too much bed rest is bad for the back and also leaves you susceptible to clots and other cardiovascular issues.

Any game that offers an “Im a grown ass adult with two kids and I don’t have 10 hours a day to play games just let me see the cool shit” Mode gets a fat fucking gold star from me.

The issues with offline mode mostly stem from the games themselves that insist on checking their servers for anti-piracy reasons. I’m not sure what they can do about that.

I’m 100% in favor of vaccinations (even mandatory for employment policies), health guidelines, masking, keeping distance etc but dude .. yours is poor risk assessment if you ask me. You’re probably exposing them to relatively similar risk levels simply by putting them in a car at all, given the numbers for covid…

Covid was never a threat to children in the first place, aside from auto immune, but then every virus was a threat at that point. The reason to avoid their exposure was so they didn’t pass it on to you...But it’s been 2 years already, Covid isn’t gonna go away. Practice good Hygiene, wear a mask if needed, but at…

Could be curb side pickup, the friend may have been going in for them, or everyone could be fully vaccinated, or already had COVID. I’m mostly playing devil’s advocate, but now that our kids are vaccinated and especially after our bubble burst, we are starting to take our kids out again. It’s not like the early days…

Wait a minute, the LAPD is claiming that he fell from a high height where he had been demonstrating how to grapple with someone? That sounds like something the Kremlin would say after murdering one of Putin’s critics. 

Well, we don’t have all the facts yet, and if there is one organization that has earned the benefit of the doubt with their years, nay decades, of administering upstanding, evenhanded, incorruptible justice, it is the LAPD, surely!

She’s implied that her physical safety was in jeopardy if she didn’t give him back the money.

She refunded him because the power dynamics are very different when you’re alone in a hallway than they are in a room with other people and cameras.

I think she just read him bang-on. Her explanation of “playing Adelstein, not the cards” makes a lot of sense to me; she somehow read he was nervous, saw the 10-9 was a possible straight, and reasoned that if he was nervous it was because he was hoping for straight cards rather than something to boost the…

I dont think it’s bad to have folks sign a waiver saying they understand if they got pregnant while on the medication it can cause birth defects but it should 100% remain the patients choice. 

There are many many medications that can cause severe birth defects. Some providers require you prove you are on birth control. Some merely have you sign a waiver. This, as a precedent, is concerning as fuck.

First of all, Salty is right.