Washed
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@CaliExPatM40757 @aakashgupta Perhaps you should stop eating tide pods and drinking glue
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@aakashgupta Perhaps the DEI policies of the Biden administration have promoted this shortage. They were forbidden to hire white males regardless of qualification.
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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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@captain_po41223 @jeff_of_norwich Yes so amazing!! And all we have to do is overwork the people not apart of the 1% and make 80% of there lives work and if they are lucky, they can retire 5-10 years before they die!! All for America to be wealthy 😊😊
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@jeff_of_norwich See, that's why America is as wealthy as we are, we don't take whole months off, I take two weeks off every year, once in the start of the year, once in the summer, and thats about it.
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I refuse to believe that Americans only get two weeks off a year
That's bloody criminal
You should get at least five, NOT including public holidays
me irl@me_when_irl
"You're sentenced to work 9 to 5 with 2 weeks vacation a year for the rest of your life"
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Do people really hate it that much? Would you rather I just sat at my desk and just ran my mouth? Because honestly that’s much less work!
lavenza 🍵|| sleepy.tea@sle3py_t34
no hate to this guy in particular but we need to eradicate the “green screen + holding microphone” genre of youtuber and soon
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There’s no way y’all like driving manual everyday

Hoops@Hoopss
What are you convinced people are just pretending to enjoy?
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
- Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda
Hoops@Hoopss
name THE hardest line in all of fiction.
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@Merryweatherey 10/10 for genuinely horrifying me lmaoo. Happy I won’t live long enough for this to happen.
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There's close to zero advantages to driving faster when you already late. All you're doing is risking your life and others'. Just relax and accept your fate
Hoops@Hoopss
UNPOPULAR OPINIONS: Driving Edition.
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@theokenism @Estar1in @cezthesocialist @BabyCakelings @Benthamsbulldog My statement wasn’t about the attraction itself tho. I just pointed out to the guy I was responding to that pedophiles acting on their urges causes harm while gay/lesbian people acting on their attraction doesn’t.
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@SlickMobster @Estar1in @cezthesocialist @BabyCakelings @Benthamsbulldog that doesnt say anything for the attraction itself tho
pedophilia is usually seen as a paraphilic sexual orientation, and in cases causing half a paraphilic disorder
it arises from a mix of genetics and environment, just like sexuality
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I just hate this lowbrow exercise in being aggressively ignorant to score virtue points. No, being a pedophile is being attracted to children. The crime is sexually abusing children. If a person feels attraction to children but doesn't abuse them, they don't get arrested.
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
No, it’s a crime This is delusional
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@Estar1in @cezthesocialist @BabyCakelings @Benthamsbulldog I don’t understand this argument. Being attracted to children and acting on those urges is harmful vs two consenting people that are attracted to each other and are just the same sex which is harmless.
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@cezthesocialist @BabyCakelings @Benthamsbulldog okay sure but question for you, if you believe gay people are born with that attraction, why isn’t the same logic being applied here?
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@nicksortor No way!!! Kid rock won over badbunny in a poll on a platform that has gotten an overwhelming amount of conservative traffic recently ?!?!? Who would’ve guessed 😱😱
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Wtf I gotta do to get me one of these man

Jalopnik@Jalopnik
Did your childhood dream car survive to adulthood?
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@ITalkWisely @NalinisKitchen “All due respect” (some sexist bs that doesn’t argue with op)”. I strongly disagree with her point, but there are a shit ton of guys that think this too.
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@NalinisKitchen With all due respect but only a women can make a post about why one loves a car. No man will ever do that.
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Tesla - You can drive, go home
BMW - You can drive, go home
Mercedes - You can drive, go home
Audi - You can drive, go home
Porsche - You can drive, go home
Bugatti - You can drive, go home
I don’t understand one thing about car lovers. They say, “This car has 500 horsepower, the pickup is insane.” If your car goes from 0 to 60 speed one second slower, are you going to lose your job? At the end of the day, you are still sitting in traffic like everyone else, just holding a fancier steering wheel. People have really lost their common sense.
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@BuckSexton If you’re comparing the ICE killing where the guy, after killing a civilian, was given immunity and no punishment, to this situation where 3 civilians killed a civilian and they’re in jail awaiting trial for prison time, your fucking brain dead.
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Jimmy Kimmel won't cry about this. Neither will Natalie Portman. Or Elizabeth Warren. They won't even mention it. In fact they don't care about this killing at all.
We all know why.
New York Post@nypost
South Carolina woman fatally shot, set on fire after she was ambushed by trio during meeting to buy puppy trib.al/IIZO5lJ
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