This would probably rank amongst the more verifiable things…

Unfortunately totally legal under international law with the United Nations blessing…

In 1972, China successfully petitioned the United Nations to remove Hong Kong from its list of non-self-governing territories, and declared that the colony was a “Chinese territory under British administration”. The United Kingdom did not raise any objections to this and the local population did not think the move was significant, but the implication of this change was that Communist China alone would determine the territory’s future, excluding the people of Hong Kong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration

The actual difference is most of Hong Kong was only leased by Britain for 99 years in 1898 and was returned on schedule in 1997.

True, they’re poor examples. But discretionary spending, on the whole, is not on depreciating items.

Obviously horrible but somehow less than I thought it would be :/

You realise a campaign like the guardians only starts because someone literally says “but what about the women?”

What did happen?

“it’s like a little treat”

Kindly refrain from posting utter shite in the technology community

Because no matter what proportion of the population they are, many many businesses are kept afloat by discretionary spending. Be that TVs, laptops, clothing, grooming, beauty products, heath+fitness, cars, holidays, tourism, travel, even house moves.

These are all things that can be ‘put off a little while’ if there’s serious prospect of your money going further. Which, as OP says, slows the economy and makes deflation worse… The thing that suffers in the meantime is cash flow in these businesses (and dependent businesses) and an extended period of slow trade with no prospect of it ending would see many of them go to the wall. See: covid. Had governments not acted it would have naturally led to deflation. That’s not the reason they acted though, they pumped money into the economy because long before deflation/inflation would have been a worry bankruptcy would have cut deep into thousands of regular ‘good’ businesses. (So they over inflated and then we had globally crap price inflation but still the risk of an economy wide shut down was that bad…)

Unfortunately, curtailing unsustainable population growth, and the west being increasingly unaffordable for young families is inextricably linked

(lifting women out of poverty globally being the main factor, but still…)

Yes most certainly. Also the runway was undergoing maintenance which shortened it by about 10% at the other end. They claimed it had no impact on the disaster, but I can see a pilot coming in under duress and perhaps little control giving too much clearance to the maintenance work at the near end and ending up touching down far too far along the runway

It just gets weirder doesn’t it

Boeing 737 allows for gravity drop of landing gear which would work even with total power loss

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/79782/can-the-landing-gear-be-lowered-when-system-a-hydraulic-pressure-is-lost-in-boei

Ram air turbine is sufficient for control surfaces, which is what it’s designed for

Even with a landing gear failure nothing else made sense: landing 2/3rds way up runway, no flaps, excess speed etc

Believe landing would still be attempted w single working gear… here’s an occasion I remember from 97 at Heathrow. There have been more recent occasions too

https://youtu.be/NprTbTVl1Uk

Hmm even weirder. Pilot on Reddit was saying very very few reasons for gear to be disabled. I believe with no mayday either?

Yes thought I was probably wrong about that. Makes sense pulling gears isn’t a priority in go around. (So we’re not looking at them having retracted them)

Comments on twitter indicate there’s weirdness however you look at it

• suggestion of birdstrike but not landing with any configuration consistent with that

• suggestion of loss of hydrolics but that wouldn’t prevent lowering of gear

• landing 2/3rd of way up runway far too fast

• no flaps extended

Since gear and flaps are set far before runway whatever went wrong was quite far back.

Slight possibility they had birdstrike on final approach and intended go around but then had another birdstrike and lost power (resulting in forced landing in flight configuration). shrugs

Owen noted that while AI characters could be a “creative new entertainment format”, there was a risk that they might flood platforms with low-quality material that undermines creators’ craft as well as erode confidence among users.

“Hey, humanity, how’s it going?”

“The world’s most technical minds have found a way to make social media worse just to squeeze out just a little more profit”

“Jesus Christ”