ToddUncommon
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@jkbjournalist @sandibachom Everybody smoked back then
Even the children
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@creepydotorg Influencers come ashore to sell the natives timeshares, NFTs, and meme coins #Apocacrypto
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@Stush9000 @notgaetti Yes gambling is for suckers
Still, enjoy not wearing you seatbelt
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@notgaetti Gambling is for suckers, but it's their right to spend their own money as they see fit. The government has no role on protecting adults from themselves.
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It’s about time someone actually did something to combat the scourge of sports betting. (I feel like nothing will happen, but you never know.)
Joon Lee@joonlee
US lawmakers introducing a bipartisan bill to ban sports betting on prediction markets, according to the Wall Street Journal wsj.com/finance/regula…
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@notgaetti Prediction markets are legalized organized crime
Old school mob bookies had more integrity
Name should be Riggedmarkets
Only real attractant is the sinister democratization that anyone can create a bet to manipulate
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@OleTimeHardball He would still do it all without traveling like today's show poodles
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@DanClarkSports @BillShaikin Those are Disneyland prices
At least there staying all day is an option
How convenient that gimmick rule changes from MLB shorten games and reduce their value
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A family of four attending a game at Dodger Stadium costs $413 and consists of:
• cheapest tickets available
• parking
• one hot dog each
• one beer per adult
• one soda per child
It is, by far, the most expensive ballpark experience in MLB.
- via @BillShaikin.

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The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.
Both pilots are dead.
Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.
A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.
The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.
The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.
Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.
Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.
The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.
The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.
The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”
One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.
BNO News@BNONews
WATCH: New video shows Air Canada flight crashing into rescue truck at New York airport
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@notgaetti Bloop doubles misplayed by the right fielder never will be a flex
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Bruh you bought a guitar signed by a sex offender?💀
COMMON IDEOLOGY@COMMON_IDEOLOGY
@AesPolitics1 It’s a great guitar
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@BellaBaddie__ Except two months from when I want to watch it now it will be on Tubi but with the same three commercials reamed into it every fifteen minutes
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