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- PAT25 Crash
- The crash has distracted from the hearings
- So many of the Media use DCA - that's why it's a big story and DROWINING OUT the RFK Jr hearings
- I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army.
- I was even a Flight Instructor. This means that I trained Crew Chiefs and ensured that they completed all training annually to maintain their flight ratings.
- One massive responsibility we had was to be the eyes for the pilots. We handled airspace obstacle avoidance and communicated potential risks to the pilots.
- Quite often we would train as a flight of 2 or 3 birds flying in formation.
- It was my job to have my head out the window and tell the pilots that the aircraft behind us was "staggered right at 3 discs". (We measured close distances in terms of the diameter of our rotor discs).
- I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft.
- These birds are designed to be hard to see at night.
- The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green.
- Incredibly difficult to see.
- If you are above the helicopter, even if it has it flood light or spot light (2 different lights) on, underneath it, it is still hard to see the bird because all of that illumination is below the airframe.
- Another thing people should know is just how busy things can get on the aircraft.
- Pilots are talking to each other about what they are observing on the instrument panels. This means neither are looking outside the aircraft.
- The crew chief might be conducting a fuel check, where we would also be looking up into the cockpit at the fuel gages and the clock.
- This CAN lead to moments where all 3 people on the aircraft are all looking inside the aircraft.
- It's not supposed to happen that way. We are supposed to announce when we are "coming inside" or are "back outside" the aircraft. But that doesn't always happen.
- Also, in cities like DC, the radio traffic is constant and can make it hard to filter out what is important for you to listen to.
- Checking instruments, doing math, reading checklists, and listening to multiple radios all at the same time is HARD. Mistakes happen.
- Anyone out there telling you that they find the aircraft collision to be suspect, have NEVER been in a flight crew and they have ZERO idea what they are talking about.
- Ignore them all. Better yet, mock the hell out of them.
- 999 times out of 1000 aircraft incidents always come down to a series of pilot and crew errors.
- Humans are involved. They aren't perfect.
- Trump
- Jack Smith Case confirmed illegal and a hoax
- Adam—Another shoe falls. The government just moved to dismiss its appeal in Trump’s “classified” case—**with prejudice**. Highlighted motion attached. As you may recall, Judge Cannon dismissed the case on the grounds that Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and that his funding was illegal. The government appealed to the 11th Circuit.
- If the motion to dismiss is granted (the 11th Circuit would be hard-pressed to deny it), then Judge Cannon’s decision will stand unmolested. And no doubt it will be cited as precedent in future cases as necessary. And if the case is dismissed with prejudice as requested, it can’t be revived after Trump finishes his term.
- **I repeat: We now have judicial authority that the Jack Smith appointment was a farce that cost taxpayers more than $35 million.** It’s not binding on courts other than the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, but it’s persuasive and it’s the only final decision anywhere addressing the subject. And remember, Justice Thomas raised this issue in his concurrence in the immunity case; and while that’s not binding either, it certainly adds gravitas.
- Be on the lookout for M5M lamentations that Trump is improperly controlling DOJ.
- You're Fired!
- As a federal employee BOTG
- in on all the stuff happening with Trump and the fedral workforce.
- Mostly because this is complete bull crap. Fork in the road...okay
- work from home. And I work my ass off and lot of us do. Im a Team Lead
- HR Specialist for CBP. I don't mind going to work everyday in person.
- But can we have a little respect?
- a ton of waste, systems that don't work, lazy and overpaid people.
- Things need to change. But getting people to quit isn't actually going
- to fix the problem. It's literally just a publicity stunt. "I cut down
- the fedral goverment" No. You got a bunch of people to quit but you
- didn't fix anything. We are just going to hire everyone back.
- guess I'm really frustrated because they just introduced a new HR
- payroll system at CBP that's a complete failure. We have to go with the
- new system because we spent too much already. Pay gets delayed and our
- hands are tied due to system glitche. No one is going to be held
- accountable. It's all bull crap. And we, on the lowet level, are left to
- take the blame for leadership and programmers bad work.
- as much as I don't regret voting for Trump...don't talk to me about
- forks in the road and self richous bull shit. It's a publicity stunt. I
- lived through the Vax mandate. I'll live through this. Because people
- still need to get paid and someone needs to sort through people's
- mistakes. Mistakes made by the higher ups that we get blamed for.
- the swamp my ass. It should be steady and malticulus,. I see waste
- everyday. Maybe they should ask me. But insulting your whole workforce
- and getting people to quit won't change anything.
- Boots on the ground disability perspective
- anonymous dude named Ben. I work in accessibility at Salesforce, but
- there are very few of us blindies, so mentioning Salesforce, or
- blindness would definitely identify me.
- accessibility at a big tech company. Everyone is all a flutter over the
- DEI executive order including DEIA programs, where the A is
- accessibility. I have to hold my tongue and just let people rant, but
- the truth is, no matter the spin, that the executive order was meant to
- cut DEI programs that gave preferential treatment, over merit
- in employment. Since everyone knew this was coming though, they started
- adding other things to the end, like Belonging, or in this case
- I'm pretty irritated by this,
- not at the administration, but at the DEI whackos that decided to loop
- disabled people into their misguided crusade for alphabet people. Not
- that disabled people don't have their fair share of alphabet people, but
- we were for the most part out of the DEI argument, especially when
- things really ramped up in 2020. This attempt though is to build a
- coalition of so-called under represented groups, so they can make more
- noise in the media. They know that programs for accessibility are built
- into other legislation, which an executive order won't effect, so they
- think that by adding accessibility, the courts will force them to
- maintain that program. The crappy part of the situation is that some
- people have taken this to heart, and have started to shut down
- accessibility efforts, even though this EO has nothing to do with
- providing accessible web pages, or any sort of accessibility to those
- I have heard, that the VA has
- decided to suspend all their Accessibility programs due to the EO. If
- true, it is just more political grandstanding, of the same order as
- Tiktok shutting down for less than 24 hours. They hope to get the
- disability folks to stand up and fight for this, and hope to slide their
- other DEI nonsense in under the wire. If they truly cared about
- accessibility, they would work to ensure that this EO doesn't cover
- those efforts, and continue to provide services to the people they claim
- they represent. But instead, they have chosen to grandstand, so that
- they can say that disabled veterans are suffering.
- for the disability "community", this is why you shouldn't be waving the
- accessibility flag around all the time, for things that don't need it. I
- don't want to tie my future to these DEI nut jobs, because in the end,
- they're not going to include us. We're doing just fine with out them,
- and we don't need to be the ones opening the door, just so they can slam
- it in our face because we don't have enough letters in our alphabet
- DEI Cuts included Veteran's Equity Positions BOTG
- When the memo came down to determine the programs, they used whether the name DEIA, or if DEIA was in the budgetary indication. That A is accessibility and VA took it literally. This flagged the entirety of Veterans Health Equity with important programs supporting our hardest to reach Veterans, like rural and urban Veterans.
- Dozens of researchers, program and project managers were hit and based on recent memos will not be able to be reassigned.
- The same thing for benefits with an office establishes to review Veterans claims of their discrimination of equity to benefits. A lawsuit and studies found that black PTSD claims were rejected more or were compensated less than white Veterans at the same deployments.
- All the best but needed to share as I have not heard a anything about these kinds of programs discussed.
- Thanks, a soon to be fat former bureaucrat.
- Big Tech AI and the Socials
- Cheapseek is still just parlor tricks - People benchmark with search and Wikipedia style questions as well as image generation
- Entropy will now accelerate
