Coincidence? Conspiracy?
I’m putting this in Politics since I raise a conspiracy theory about the left (oh, there’s a huge surprise…).
For a very long time, the aviation world has been almost eerily quiet (in terms of things going wrong). But since Trump was returned to office (I still love saying that), here's what we’ve seen:
- A commercial jet and a military helicopter have a mid-air collision
- An engine on a jet catches fire during the takeoff roll
- A baggage truck gets hit by a plane wing and tips over, critically injuring the driver
- A Japanese Airlines plane’s wing hit the tail of a Delta Jet
Hell, Shrillary has already tweeted, blaming Trump by saying “…airline safety that has already deteriorated on your watch…”, although Sean Duffy did a magnificent job of blowing her ass out of the water with his response.
But years of nothing, followed by four incidents (that I know of) in the two weeks that Trump has been President? Sure as hell makes me want to put on my tin foil hat. Either that, or I’m certifiable and should be locked away for everyone’s good (including my own).
For a very long time, the aviation world has been almost eerily quiet (in terms of things going wrong). But since Trump was returned to office (I still love saying that), here's what we’ve seen:
- A commercial jet and a military helicopter have a mid-air collision
- An engine on a jet catches fire during the takeoff roll
- A baggage truck gets hit by a plane wing and tips over, critically injuring the driver
- A Japanese Airlines plane’s wing hit the tail of a Delta Jet
Hell, Shrillary has already tweeted, blaming Trump by saying “…airline safety that has already deteriorated on your watch…”, although Sean Duffy did a magnificent job of blowing her ass out of the water with his response.
But years of nothing, followed by four incidents (that I know of) in the two weeks that Trump has been President? Sure as hell makes me want to put on my tin foil hat. Either that, or I’m certifiable and should be locked away for everyone’s good (including my own).
The left has been projecting their incompetence on everyone else for decades.
Lots of complex systems are failing now after 50 years of discrimination against competence in favor of skin color and gender hiring.
That it has taken this long is a testament to the ability of all the retired engineers born before the 1960's.
As for your fourth, as one of those retired programmers, I totally and absolutely agree with you. If we hadn't done our jobs so damned well in the late 1990s, there would have been disasters around the world when we rolled to 2000. For example, of every seven power companies around the world, five of them would have come to a grinding halt when the clock struck midnight.
"Get the hell out of my way" has never been more relevant or important than it is now.
Edit add: Speaking of Max, a day or so ago she was participating in a protest against shutting down USAID and screaming into a microphone she said we need to spend the money "right here in Washington". I had to back up the video to hear that part again to be sure I got what the moron actually said. Yep, she's protesting the shutting down of a government program that wastes taxpayer dollars all over the world because "we need to spend the money here". Way to go Max! Cough-cough. Does she even know where she is?
Am I surprised. No. We've also head a record number of pilots have heart attacks and die post JAB, after reducing their required health requirements so we didn't lose them all at once.
Complex Systems have EMERGING behaviors. They are not truly predictable. But they can only take so much abuse before the problems start to become self-explanatory!
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Be that as it may, I am happy to see Duffy make mincemeat of her argument.
I have been back and forth from Seattle to Cleveland on Amtrak a number of times, but now I am preparing for perhaps my last trip. Friends 3 hours away live 1/2 mile from their station as I live 1/2 mile from mine. In early March I plan on a mini-vacation via round trip Amtrak. I will miss those rides, but even a short trip like this is a possible disaster. I will be wearing my tinfoil hat.