Kit cars are too much of a gamble without knowing the capabilities of the builder, and even then are only worth the cost of of good version of the base car at most. ND.

That’s just “Nazis”.

Why is this filthy, Nazi scumbag defiling my country?

Cops are more responsive to crimes against property then crimes against women.

Right-wing German industrialists and financiers thought they could control Hitler. Until  he murdered them and took their stuff.

Musk is in the ultimate “fuck you” money position of anyone. I honestly don’t believe he would even care much if Tesla went down in flames, but he’ll of course say whatever needs to be said to keep the house of cards upright for as long as possible while he cashes in the stock. 

Trump’s cutbacks must have included his make-up lady; you can see the line of demarcation where she got grossed out touching his neck wattle.

Sadly it does seem that they wish to bring ruin to America in order to grab total control over it. And with Elon and Trump aligned on this, I doubt either cares what happens with Tesla or automakers in general.

Even though I might be crouching in the smoking ruin of America, I will laugh the day Trump’s malevolent abuse of federal power comes down full force on Musk.

Things are going to go to shit quickly as the operations and running of the country get sold to the lowest bidder. 

This isn’t new, though. The Reagan ATC tower has reportedly had staffing issues for years.

Sure, but it was exacerbated by other things. Any time you create a situation where you have to replace every person doing a given job with people who have no training for that job, this happens.

I have a bad feeling that The Onion will have to shut down because after not even two weeks into this alternative reality nightmare, actual happenings and actions are far crazier and destructive than what a humorous satire site could ever dream up.  Already so, so tired of Trump and we have a long way to go.

That manifests itself to this very day.  Since ATCs have a career of 20 years, a large part of ATCs had to retire during 2001-2002.  The ones replacing them retired during 2021-2022.  The COVID 2020 year didn’t help either.  

It is entirely possible that the abrupt firing of the FAA head, and out-of-the-blue federal budget freeze and the ongoing federal employee buyout, created unnecessary distractions for the air traffic controllers.

Of course, we’ll have to wait until the full report comes out but I’m 99.99% certain it will have nothing to do with policy or staffing changes that took place 10 days prior.

Seconded

It’s my opinion and last I checked those are still legal.  

Too bad it wasn’t AF1. Would have solved a lot of problems.

I engage with ATC personnel dozens of times a year. While I don’t fly myself anymore, I ride right seat in a GA aircraft probably 100 hours/year, nearly always IFR, which means a lot of communication. On the ground, I design airport projects which interface with ATC rules, and often often have controllers as part of…