FuglyDuck

Maybe while pulling one of those confetti party poppers.

I hope, when Trump finally carks it, whoever is president orders the opposite of half staff. Whatever that is.

(I’d say fly it upside down, except that’s a sign of distress. Maybe fly it on it’s long edge and backwards?)

Because the tradition and protocol indicates that when a former president dies, flags are lowered to half staff.

Dumbass Trump doesn’t like it because it’s not about him.

They were turning around to try an emergency landing. Safe to assume they discovered the issue well above 900 feet. Also the cirrus parachutes worked at 400 AGL in level flight and 900 in a spin. (Iirc, this more or less true for the kit plane or far103 versions.)

It’s possible ( though I’m not gonna bother checking) that they could have instead gotten lined up in a field and had a gentle albeit embarrassing landing without ever getting that low.

As to if they would have tried that or not… well. That’s a different story and I don’t really want to game it out.

As for retrofitting- yep. It is ridiculously expensive to do that. But in new aircraft… not as much. (Let’s be honest, most kit builds are improvised or adapted anyhow, it’s not that much more onerous to add a requirement for new aircraft, and eventually, we’ll get there.

sure. but how long are they welcome for? And how much do you need to align your culture and beliefs and how act and talk and dress, and even sway to the music, to stay welcome?

Even in churches that supposedly celebrate diversity… there will always be some sort of overriding homegenousness. Even if it starts with “we recognize the value in people different from us”, anyone who doesn’t gets asked to leave; and it’s just a different kind of sameness.

part of that is reading is a skill. You don’t use it, you lose it.

Yeah? Cirrus are expensive.

But not because of the parachutes. I’m just aware of a few incidents where the parachutes worked. (And none they didn’t. Might be a marketing thing.)

So… while way outside my ability to own… pretty much all Cirrus aircraft come with parachutes. Rather than being for the pilot/passengers, the entire aircraft is parachuted down “reasonably” safe. (way more reasonably than crashing into.

Just something that probably should be made mandatory on all light aircraft but won’t be because… reasons.

I vote somebody set ups a DDOS attack on this judge’s ISP and see how he feels about it after he can’t get his Step-bro porn.

But the bollards –– vertical posts that can move up and down –– are in the process of being repaired, New Orleans City Councilmember Jean-Paul Morrell said on Wednesday.

If only you could rent Jersey Barriers.

well. For the next… uh. what? Fifteen days, give or take?

Are they even bothering to pretend it’s not genocide now?

and they intentionally obfuscate things and hide their wealth. because unlike KetamineMush, they know that the when the pitchforks and torches come out, he’ll distract us from them.

naw. keep the tax around, keep them from coming back.

He needs us more than we need him.

he should probably let that sink in.

Friendly reminder, because I’m just this petty when it comes to assholes like Musk.

He’s not the richest man in the world. He’s the richest man in the world dumb enough to talk about it.

you’re not wrong, but lets just be honest here, half the time they’re just making shit up anyways.

He parked it in the valet drive.

Not something somebody who wants a body count would necessarily do; compared to driving it into a lobby.

Aside from a cybertruck being shit at off road; it’s very heavy and there’s no bollards or other barriers to stop him.

Is it a possibility? Sure.

But it’s also a possibility that he had the kero and gas for other reasons like a party in the desert, and it was all just an accident.

Apparently he was a self avowed “defender of fireworks” and seemed to be, how shall we say, an ardent trump supporter.

Good point on the generator thing.

But yeah. At worst this was some kinda weird symbolic thing rather than a “try to kill as many people as I can” thing.

Even if it was symbolic it feels weird.

Kerosene and gas? Fireworks? Sounds more like a party in the desert. Also the gas can was an old metal gas can- there’s a reason you can’t really get those anymore. (Hint- they leak and blow up your truck.)

No obvious mechanism and the timing? Sure he could have lit a fuse with a lighter, but, eh. Just as easily have been a faulty electrical system setting off a spark.

Also Tesla/musk has good motive to want it to be intentional. (cybertrucks already have safety problems. And a lot of them have to do with bad wiring.)

Trump has good reason to want to push this guy as a terrorist- namely the drama.