There is a good chance the files were his working resume since that has to go through prepub, still very very stupid for someone who works at the agency given the work done there.

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The federal government is likely to be in gridlock for something like 99% of legislation for the next two years, and executive orders have limits. People voted for gridlock when they voted for Republicans, I’ve yet to see any Republican who actually campaigns on a platform of being able to find compromises with Democrats (whereas Biden himself actively campaigned on being eager to work with Republicans in earnest).

I really admire the branding campaign that the Republicans have, they’re like the Harley Davidson of political parties. They’re inferior to the Democrats in performance whether you’re liberal or conservative, but they’ve got a whole bunch of older conservatives voting for them despite the obviousness of them get ripped off.

You dont just do the text only version to be done with it in 30 seconds?

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Could have been icing on the wing. Pilot tried to correct unsuccessful. I used to fly as a medical crew in the PC12 and it’s a tough aircraft, but icing was always a concern.

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Gun isn’t going to help you at all in a situation like this. You likely won’t even see the dude coming until it’s far too late.

Um, no. They could easily be a self propelling robot. It's not even hard engineering. People in the 70s could have developed it.

Probably too much risk of it derailing on its way to Texas and creating yet another superfund site.

Donald trump recently brainwashed millions.

"Thank you, Russian soldier, for saving me from your unprovoked attacks. I'm so thankful that you were there to save me from you" (The crowd erupts in thunderous applause)

These people are all crazy. Women are beautiful. I can go to the grocery store, the park, the mall, the post office and see beautiful women every day. My life is brilliant. These guys have to look at women dressed like sand people. I would never want that life. Sounds mega depressing.

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I'm hoping (relatively speaking) that it was catastrophic failure and not suicide.

The fact that radar showed it in a turn kind of makes me think it was mechanical. I'd assume with suicide you would just point the nose straight down or fly into a mountain.

Don't know what, if anything, was said over the radio but the turn may have even been started as an attempt to turn back when they realized something was wrong.

This is actually orders of magnitude too small to be a superfund - if the factory making these chemicals blew up, that's a superfund. Cleaning up a chemical spill by moving contaminated materials to the nearest qualifying incinerator is really the way it's done. A lazy uncontrolled burn poisoning the region was a disgusting action tho .

I'd personally like to see some details on this dump well - I'm a bit dubious about that prospect, but reading is a better option than raving.

My bet is always, hopefully, on alien invasion

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Blancolirio has a hypothesis about going off autopilot (for which there are many possible reasons) and spatial disorientation (which happens a lot when one is hand-flying in extreme IMC).

Of course we're all waiting for the actual investigation.

Jesus.

Don't speculate with no real data to work with.

Have some decency.

They do. Happens all the time, usually no charges at all.

They already fucked that place up, keep it there and declare it a super fund!

Yeah I they should just excise the entire county from the crust of the Earth, tractor beam it into space, and just throw it into the sun - it's so easy!