wolfriverjoe

Funny how he completely ignored the laws & rules on layoff notification, and now seems to be ignoring the rules on overtime pay. Salaried employees have different rules, and many are exempt, but to think people should or would work that much extra for no extra pay is pretty stupid.

Not really. It was a huge victory. The number of times the party of the sitting president didn't have large losses in the midterms is very small. The 'mistake' would be thinking that this victory means there will automatically be future victories.

I know that. The thing is that he didn't destroy Tesla after he acquired it. He didn't destroy Space X. What's different about Twitter? Either he got lucky, he knew what he was doing or he listened to the experts with the previous ones. Or his ego has grown so much in the past few years that he simply can't help himself.

So did Musk hate Twitter so much he bought it for the specific purpose of destroying it? Or is he just that dumb?

I was getting inconsistent and occasionally hard openings on a Sabre2 170. A master rigger told me that PD test jumps had discovered that pulling the sides of the slider out was very important. Front and back, not so much. Started doing that and I've had very few problems since.

In the old days, FAA certificate numbers were Social Security numbers. Riggers put their Cert number on the packing data cards. Instructors put their Cert numbers in student logbooks. The FAA stopped doing that and issued new numbers once identity theft took off.

Good. Let them whine and cry. Heather Cox Richardson pointed out that the Dems did the best in areas where abortion was most threatened and where the attempts to destroy democracy were strongest. Places where the R candidates were the loudest about the 2020 election being 'stolen' and loudest about 'making sure our guy wins' went hardest for the Dems. Places where abortion rights were fairly safe and where actual election integrity wasn't threatened went more for the Rs. New York state & Pennsylvania are demographically very similar. And have had similar election outcomes in the past. This year, where PA had strong election deniers and anti-abortion idiots on the ballot, the Ds did well. New York, where abortion rights are fairly safe and the R candidates weren't idiots went more R. So let them spread their lies about the election being 'stolen'. They might realize the majority of the voters see the lie for what it is. Eventually. Or not. Fuck them.

As noted in the story, Twitter is under a consent decree with the FTC. Tesla is facing a NHTSA investigation. Space X is looking for fat government contracts. But yeah, start a 'troll war' with a Senator sitting on some of the committees that oversee the organizations that hold those companies future in their hands. As I noted earlier. You don't have to be the smartest man in the world to be the richest man in the world. Just the greediest.

Again? This one is junkier than the last one.

Pffft. "Tithed" is 10%. I spent a LOT more than 10% of my income jumping. Also gladly.

Where? Where could he go and do what he does? Where could he go and con people as effectively as he has? I'm thinking he's gotten away with so much for so long that he thinks he'll get away with this too. Look at his behavior in court. He refused to provide the court with the information they required, so he lost the case on a default. Now he's trying to claim that he gave them what they wanted. His testimony in court was so ridiculous that the judge called him out on it in front of the jury. More than once. As I noted above, the lawyers get a third of the judgement. There's no way in hell they're going to let him weasel out on that.

The judge seems to be calling for that. Which is absolutely awesome. From your link:

Well, to be fair to Slim, Putin wanted to bomb Ukraine 'back to the stone age'. Putin's done a reasonable job sending them back to the 19th century by destroying a lot of the power infrastructure. He would have sent them back further had his 'dirty bomb' idea gone anywhere. Fortunately, the west made it REALLY clear that they knew what he planned and apparently convinced him how bad of an idea it was. It seems that the only person in the whole world who doesn't realize how seriously the Russian comms have been compromised is Putin himself. The west knew he was invading Ukraine. They knew when & where. They've known where high ranking generals are going to be. They knew the Russians were expecting a Ukrainian attack in the south, that the Russians had moved forces that way, and so the Ukrainians attacked in the north. They knew perfectly well that any 'dirty bomb' would have been Russian, not Ukrainian. None of this is a coincidence. I'd love to know exactly what and how many aspects the west has broken into. Not unlike World War 2 with the Japanese and German codes, this sort of thing is just something the west is pretty good at.

Damn. Beat me to it.

It's not certain, but the 'forensic accountants' are doing a pretty good job. The story mentions a couple of things, including projected sales numbers for November. The judge ordered Jones not to move any assets out of the country. Keep in mind that the lawyers are on contingency. They get about a third of the payout. If Jones can weasel out, they don't get paid. I don't think Jones is going to be able to con them all that easily.

I think one of the reasons for the rising Christian Nationalism is that decline. As they lose their majority, they lose power. They see 'other people' becoming more powerful. Those 'other people' are 'forcing their views' on Christians. You know, forcing all those Christian men to marry other men. Forcing all those Christian women to have abortions (we really need a 'sarcasm' font). This isn't terribly different from how all the racists reacted when Obama was elected President. They couldn't handle the fact that their power was waning and lashed out. They couldn't handle the loss of privilege and did whatever they could to hang onto it. While it's clear their power is fading and their time is limited, the real question is how much damage they will be able to do before they're done and how long (if ever) it will take to fix it. The 'funniest' part about it is how these people are basically 'selling their souls' to hang onto power. They latched onto Trump, Flynn, and a host of others who have no morals, no religious values, no nothing other than a hunger for power. If they think that putting those people into power will get them what they want (in the long term), then they are very foolish. The parallels with Nazi Germany are numerous. And frightening. They don't see it, of course, but the reality is that by the end, the Nazis just wanted power. They'd imprison and murder ANYONE who stood in their way. These "Christian Nationalists" (who, by the way, are a fairly small minority of total Christians) will be used, tossed aside, trampled in the process and then wonder what happened.

There's a pretty good argument that Catholicism is polytheistic Christianity.

True, but Trump has a zillion idiots he can con out of millions of dollars to pay for his stupidity. Not sure the Dems could raise enough money just for a 'fuck you' project.

It sounds good. Sort of poetic justice. But it's not as easy as it sounds. The idiots that filed all those lawsuits did face consequences. Some were sanctioned by their state Bar association. Many were made to pay the legal costs of the people they filed the stupid suits against. And the double standard those fools operate by would take the 'they lost every suit' and accuse the Dems of trying to subvert democracy, while ignoring the fact that they are doing exactly that. They are absolutely in a 'heads you lose, tails I win' mentality.

Lots of places have raised 'helmets & seatbelts' to 1500, even flat places. My understanding is that: #1 - nobody's going to get out that low. #2 - the amount of time you have from an engine failure to impact from 1000' is a LOT shorter than most realize, and the amount of time it will take to find & reattach the seat belt is a LOT longer. While I understand we need a 'short & simple' term for these altitudes, I don't like them (no, I don't have any viable alternatives). I've always clarified them. "Decision Altitude" is the lowest you will "decide to stop fucking around with a questionable canopy and chop it". As noted previously (or maybe in a different thread), it's a minimum. Making that decision at a higher altitude gives one more options, more time, more altitude to deal with any potential issues after the chop. "Hard Deck" is simply the lowest altitude I will pull the cutaway handle. They are different because of the potential to have a situation arise below decision altitude (canopy collision is the one that comes to mind, but there are others). I really dislike 'hard deck' because it is a specific term, with a specific purpose. It was misused during the original Top Gun, and has been misused by those outside of airplanes ever since. What it is is 'simulated ground'. That is, if you 'bust the hard deck', you're (administratively) dead. In the movie, when both Jester & Mav went 'below the hard deck', they should have been 'declared dead' for CFIT (controlled flight into terrain). For civilian aerobatic pilots, it's the same thing. Airshow guys work quite close to the ground. They get to that point by having a 'hard deck'. So if they (for example) pull out of a loop 'below the hard deck', then they would have died had they done that for real.

Ok, instead of that 'fantastic chain of events', how about you explain how he was murdered? He was in jail. Being guarded. The basic premise of jail that it's hard to escape from transfers over to the idea that it's also hard to break in. The plot device in the Walking Dead of using prisons to keep the zombies out is a good (fictional) example of this. So how did the murderer(s) get in, kill Epstein and get back out. Undetected. While I agree to a certain extent that the suicide was odd, and there are some unexplained aspects of it, the idea that someone could break into jail, murder someone, and then escape again is REALLY silly. How would they escape notice from all the guards and all the other prisoners? And cameras?

Naaah. There are shitbag con artists on both sides of the aisle. Remember Jesse Jackson Jr? It just seems like more of the shitbags have an "R" after their names than a "D". And the Rs seem to worship the ones in charge a lot more than the Ds.

Bullshit. You don't know what had happened previously. You don't know what was going on in Pelosi's mind. You don't know a WHOLE LOT about the situation. (Note: neither do I). But you are making all sorts of ridiculous assumptions about it. One of those ridiculous assumptions is that the cops are total idiots. Do you REALLY think that if it was the setup that you are dancing around that the cops wouldn't have realized it? This is the same crap as the 'conspiracy fantasists' do. Despite all the experts (real ones) stating what reality and facts are, fools and idiots think that THEY know the 'real truth', that those experts are ALL involved in a massive coverup to (insert whatever the idiotic conspiracy fantasy is about). The idea that this parallels the OKC bomb is rather disingenuous. Tim McVeigh didn't listen to the Republican party and sitting politicians to reach his end position of detonating a very large bomb. The idea that the media manipulates the truth to that degree is also very foolish. Don't you get the basic premise that they want to report the truth? And that they compete to get that truth out? And that if they get something seriously wrong, the competition will call them out on it? The idea that the 'media' is a massive conspiracy to tell the narrative that they want you to believe (except for Fox "news") is really stupid. Why would BBC, Al Jazeera, NHK, and other news agencies all over the world have the same 'manipulative agenda'? The basic concept is comparing sources, evaluating them on a continuing basis (how many previous stories proved to be true or false?) and exercising critical thinking. Again, in this case, is there good reason to believe that Pelosi's attacker was radicalized by the Republican lies, chose to attack the house, and was arrested by the cops (who were able to piece together the reality of the situation based on observable evidence)? Or is it all a false flag operation where Pelosi lured a gay prostitute into his house in order to create the illusion he was attacked (and the cops ALL fell for it)? You aren't 'asking tough questions'. You're perpetuating lies.

Don't forget that early in the 2016 campaign, WI gov Scott Walker started calling for a wall along the Canadian border. Really. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34107896

Don't forget state level races. The number of candidates that are 'election deniers' is rather scary. It's becoming more and more apparent that the Rs are trying VERY hard to put themselves in a position that they can declare whoever they want as 'winner' of any coming election.