Actually found the thread I was reading regarding what the opinion is on the FAA’s role. Quite a few angry comments in there about how it’s a systemic issue.

NSFW Warning: The post that thread is on is video captured of the moment of collision. Also reddit link.

Absolutely, something some people in the r/aviation megathread were discussing as well. Quite a few of them stated they hated takeoff/landing at DCA specifically because it’s probably the busiest airspace in the world, and there is always military crafts in that airspace.

The big friction seems to be that there is a big military base right on the other side of the Potomac that has a lot of VIP air traffic as well as training flights in an overlapping corridor to the commercial flights. I’m not sure how the politics interplay between the military and the DCA authority there, but it can’t have been easy to work ATC.

Again, that sub is always very informative. Helps alleviate my fear of flying quite a bit LOL.

Respectfully, for the DCA incident, a military helicopter LITERALLY RAMMED INTO A JET THAT WAS 4 SECONDS FROM LANDING. There was no mechanical error.

The consensus on r/aviation is that it was the helicopter pilot’s error, and it was a long time coming with the near-misses that have happened at that airport. Considering a lot of the people on that subreddit are actual pilots/military people/have access to ATC chatter, I’m gonna trust their opinions more.

I don’t usually recommend going to reddit, but the r/aviation megathreads after the Jeju Air crash and then these two incidents were very informative. Plus the mods + community work very hard to keep away ignorant comments and conspiracy nuts.

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The writing’s been on the wall for a while hasn’t it? Several of my non-Chinese classmates I graduated university with took Mandarin as their 2nd language since elementary school and speak it as well as the mainlanders (according to the Chinese exchange students, anyways).

You are closer to living in a tent like the people in Gaza than you are to the oligarchs that want to level it for their beachfront properties.

Remember that next time you want to dehumanize the 50 000+ people that are dead.

(And, no, I don’t support Hamas)

I really hope OP isn’t a daughter.

I use Youtube without an account and I am blessed to not have experience this on any of my devices on my network. A lot of AI slop telling “inspirational” stories, but I have never seen Ben Shapiro/Jordan Peterson/Asmonroach being suggested.

I wonder what’s actually going on under the hood. Maybe Youtube/Google think I can’t be radicalized, or that I already am.

Interesting. I might try it tomorrow and see if it gives me the same answer as you got or something completely different. Maybe more users asking about it will change the output, or maybe they already have the guardrails set.

No, we buy guns AND we organize our coalitions, just like the Black Panthers did.

We can’t intellectualize our way out of Proud Boys lynchings anymore, guys.

(Also all the stuff VerticaGG said)

Calling me a bot for a dark observation when I clearly state I’m one of the people slated to be in line for the ethnic cleansing sure is a choice. But I’ll explain my reasoning and give you the good faith you didn’t give me.

Art and aesthetics were a big part of Nazi Germany. Many Nazi Party Germans got to look at beautiful works of art and enjoy public works in the Greco-Roman style as they were supporting shipping of Jewish people and minorities to concentration camps. The technocrats this time around haven’t even given their supporters that. Instead we get infighting and outrage on social media.

That’s what my comment was making fun of.

Both the censorship and promotion of specific art and aesthetics were a big part Hitler’s plans to make fascism palatable in Germany and Italy, if you take one art history course you’d know this. Many public works you can tour to this day in those countries come from that era.

This isn’t a support of fascism, it’s a critique on how empty and vapid the new technocratic class is and how that’s a reflection of our society in general at this moment.

The ADL calling the keffiyeh a symbol for antisemitism while defending Elon “throwing his heart to the audience” solidifies what many progressives have already known about them.

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You know what the worst part of this is? This run of western fascism doesn’t even have the aesthetics to make it palatable. That “seig heil” was so fucking uncoordinated it made the Australian break dancing lady look like a prima ballerina. Everyone is dressed like they bought clothes from the bargain bin at Ross. The decorations are giving mid-budget state fair.

We’re gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭

And there are already so many conspiracy theories on there about why the shutdown even happened 🤮

In my circle, I haven’t seen anyone use local social media apps

That’s a bit sad, I was hoping to hear the Indian apps having traction.

This reminded me of the “All or Nothing” drama from Tumblr, holy shit. IYKYK

No problem! A lot of commenters on Fedi/Reddit seem like they don’t have a lot of experience with Tiktok compared to Meta or Google platforms, so I’m always happy to speak on my experience with it.

Apparently some Israeli-Americans went on Red Note to specifically asked Chinese people what they thought of Israel, and users basically said they were “Devil’s on this earth for killing babies” which like…damn. Even through the Great Firewall they aren’t beating the allegations.

So I’m sure the Israeli lobby will get that banned next, we shouldn’t worry.