WebbedRanger

@taipan168 Unrelated, but what caused the drop in India to some extent China numbers after 2023

An uncomfortable truth for those idiots telling me that we are being "swamped by Muslims/Africans/whatever". The top 5 countries of birth for migrant arrivals in 2024-25 were India, China, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. #country-of-birth" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">abs.gov.au/statistics/peo…

@anatelorenzen @chamath I wonder if they even realised what’s about to happen until very late

The pilots are heroes. Put in an impossible choice and chose the bravest outcome. "By maintaining a straight, controlled deceleration path—even straight into the obstacle—the impact was concentrated forward, shearing off the nose/cockpit (killing the pilots almost instantly) but leaving the main cabin mostly intact for evacuation. This limited the death toll to just the two pilots while allowing dozens to survive with injuries rather than a total catastrophe. It's tragic beyond words that the pilots sacrificed themselves in that split-second reality, but their steady handling likely prevented a much deadlier outcome. Passenger tributes calling them heroes reflect exactly that instinct: they prioritized the greater good under impossible conditions." - Grok

From my friends who are pilots: “We can and should deploy the ground tracking systems like Thales does in Europe, tied in with a central system that does the routing, and then controllers sit on top of the whole thing and watch for exceptions” In other words, technology…

@MarinasHammer @Turbinetraveler It’s rarely a single factor that leads to accidents. Hence you don’t blame individuals alone, unless it was deliberate. The investigation will reveal systemic factors that would have lead to this outcome

@Turbinetraveler Negligent ATC caused deaths and injuries. Where is the outrage? Instead we’re coddling him as if it wasn’t his literal job to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Sickening.

At LaGuardia Airport, New York Tower ATC: "I messed up." Another pilot: "Nah, man, you did the best you could."

@jacobtzanatta @taipan168 @Left_in_Limbo It’s arguably more arduous than applying for citizenship

@taipan168 @Left_in_Limbo And lawfully residing in Australia for at least four years. Not to mention that applying for permanent residency (which you have to first) is just as arduous as applying for citizenship, and itself requires several years of residing in Australia.

What kind of moron do you need to be to believe that a person can migrate to Australia and become a citizen immediately?

@ajmnsaus @Triegaardtau79 @disco___cat Our outer suburbs are still plagued with severe bus deficiency.

@Triegaardtau79 @WebbedRanger @disco___cat If you live in walking distance of a train or metro station, you do not have to have a car. Our cities are changing. Plenty of suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne where you do not have to have a car.

A zone 1-3 travel card in London (for eg) is £200 a month. No fuel costs, no insurance, no maintenance, no registration, no depreciating asset loan repayments & interest. ‘Freedom’ is in the eye of the beholder I guess.

@disco___cat @Triegaardtau79 Besides one can hire a car for those trips if one wants to. I only hope one day I can afford a 3 BR apartment in the Melb inner city so that I don’t have to drive as often

@Triegaardtau79 You can read a book, watch YouTube on your phone etc. Traffic congestion is far worse for mental health. unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…

@ALazedGrain @taipan168 @Real_Internets The vast majority of them do

@taipan168 @Real_Internets So ur saying all visa holdfollow the law???

Well mate, if you voted One Nation at a South Australian state level because the level of migration is your main concern, there's one word for you. MORON! abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

@F_DostoWhiskey @shobhitic @ravihanda It used to be easy to migrate out a decade back, and way easier to settle your family (property, etc) back then. Now it’s not so much unless you earn way higher

@shobhitic @ravihanda Handa needs to understand that QoL abroad is not equal to QoL abroad for indians. Choosing abroad vs India is not so straightforward anymore.

we had @ravihanda come on our pod there was a huge debate about whether you should GET OUT of India, or should you stay back and build a life here he says the quality of life, even with worse economics, is better outside of India full video link in next post

@dasarnabece @Somya_Crazy Not even Sri Lanka?

@Somya_Crazy Has to do a lot with rain and top soil . India Nepal and to some extent Bangladesh are the only 2 countries in the world which gets this type of rainfall .

one thing that a lot of countries have solved is how to make roads look at these roads from a tiny town in Thailand in India we have not solved this haters will say that it is a touristy place in Thailand and that towns don’t look like this but this is actually a small town.. and Thailand gets a decent amount of rainfall is it really that hard to make good roads that last long? or is it just corruption? if it’s not corruption, then how come countries like Sri Lanka and Thailand has solved it?

@ExtremeCen80240 @RonWaxman Overreaction is a hindsight. If a fire truck is available it’s safe to make use of it than be sorry. United calling the fire truck had nothing to do with the sad events that followed

@RonWaxman It was an overreaction. There was no fire and no need for a firetruck. Events have proven me correct.

Important note regarding the accident at LaGuardia Airport. United 2384 wanted to return to gate. Odor in back of plane. Pilot couldn’t raise anyone at United to help get him a gate. Air traffic controller tried to help. There were no gates. Pilot asked for fire truck. 1/2

@ravihanda Wow that’s a weird requirement by UK

Applying for a UK visa via VFS and confused about the passport upload. Do I need to upload every page (including blank ones) from current and old passports, or just the pages with visas and stamps? If I include all pages, size goes above 5 MB.

@gagarinC152 @sabbrina @TheIntelFrog @Mike10285 That would get looked into surely. Perhaps at that time they thought the emergency was contained within the area. The affected plane had been stationary

@WebbedRanger @sabbrina @TheIntelFrog @Mike10285 if they had an emergency, why the airport was NOT CLOSED AND STOPPED for safety vehicles move freely?????

UPDATE: Analysis of tower audio and map of the airport indicates the aircraft was showing a speed of 114kts or 131mph. JAZZ646 (yellow line) was cleared to land on Runway 4. Truck 1 & Company (green line) requested to cross RW 4 and was authorized to cross by the tower at taxiway D (red circle). Tower then attempts to call Truck 1 and tells them to stop multiple times. The silences and unrelated traffic has been trimmed from this audio, provided by @liveatc.

@sabbrina @TheIntelFrog @Mike10285 The aircraft the truck was attending to had declared an emergency

@TheIntelFrog @Mike10285 it wasnt a serious emergency the fire truck was responding to

@MissionAmbedkar What would you’ve done? Would you just jump from the train after the platform ends to protect the cement?

"Uncivilized people in India." Govt spends lakhs of rupees to build a platform, and such idiot clowns ruin it within minutes. Would they allow this if it happened at their own homes? Just think.

@KshatriyaSword @Disastrous_air @IndianGems_ There are unlimited excuses available if you want to make one

@Disastrous_air @IndianGems_ You see the China of today but take a look back at even 1990 or 91.

My friend has been in Japan for 8 days and still hasn’t seen a single dirty roadside drain.

@saybwala @SRathi94 @Kamle_Vivek Fixing spam where it originates is ideal but that’s out of control of end users. They can control the destination so they choose to do

@SRathi94 @Kamle_Vivek So you don't need to fix spam where it originates and try to block it at destination? Good luck.

Has made last mile delivery for D2C a nightmare. Almost all iPhone users have activated this. Delivery person calls. Customer doesn't pickup - customer not available marked. Us, merchants, get angry customer support tickets that customer was at home and delivery wasn't done.

@saybwala Why can’t delivery agents introduce to the call screener? Do you think it’s a language issue where the phone system is not able to translate to English?

@LucaTaner @EricLDaugh It looks like the US is the real baby

@EricLDaugh Love to see it, no more babysitting the world.

@_svs_ Some roads and footpaths should be made hawker friendly. That includes provisioning spaces with garbage bins and water.

unpopular opinion - hawkers are pretty great tbh. cheap food, lively streets, better safety. the real problem is cars. cars just eat up all the space and always want more. for driving. for parking.... so hear me out - have day and night time hawking zones. 7pm - midnight should be peak hawking time. midnight - 4 am night hawking. increase total quantum of hawking but shift it out of peak commuting hours. but of course, what is to stop people from breaking those rules also? nothing. if we don't have rule of law we cannot have nice things.

@Mochievous I thought that if the airline system was able to perform the check-in the staff at the airport should just take the boarding pass and hand over to you. They usually defer to the airline system in case of visa validity ambiguities

Recently, I was able to board a flight from a certain country to London and upon getting to the check in counter, I was told that there was a problem. They couldn’t board me because according to them, my UK visa (even though it was months from expiry) was no longer valid.