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Yep. And because said people who care about their bonuses are often the very same ones involved in the regulatory capture I mentioned, the problems become increasingly clear...

The FAA is stuck with two potentially contradictory aims: to make air travel safe, and to promote the US air travel industry. Now throw in regualtory capture and underfunding, and it's a mess.

Along with saying that the crash only happened because "diversity hires" (i.e. non-white people) were in charge of the boat.... (I really wish I was making that up)

Initial reports suggest that it had lost control - there were indications of a power failure on the ship shortly before the crash.

There have been some similar events in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Bridge_disaster

No love for Fingringhoe?

Oh no, there are defintely massive problems with the coporate culture, not questioning that (and there are more broader problems with our society where we allow people to hide behind coporations instead of being held repsonsible for their actions). And indeed that culture is exactly what lead to...

If they'd made the 737MAX require pilot retraining, they basically wouldn't have been able to sell any. That was realistically the only selling point of it - and it was one driven by their customers. Airbus' new A320s caught Boeing cold, it was essentially a brand new aircraft that Boeing...

I'm nitpicking, but it gives me a chance to complain about the Express, which always feels good: this was a hydraulic leak, not fuel. There's no fuel lines in the gear, but there are a set of hydraulic hoses supplying pressure to the brakes and other mechanisms. It being a hydraulic failure is...

Been playing quite a bit of Helldivers 2 with friends now that it's stable. I'm not usually a shooter player, but damn this game is a lot of fun. From calling down airstrikes on hordes of bugs, to crawling through the Space-'Nam hell of the Creek under fire from God knows how many Terminators...

We don't despise your faith. We despise having it forced upon us.

Oooh...Savatage, thats a good recommendation. This is my favourite of theirs: And lets go for some classic 80s metal as well:

And they're still going strong 55 years on:

Ah, "Sellout to Remain" as we called that album back in the day. I'm not that negative about it these days, but I still feel it was a clear step down from their earlier work. I'm not that into melodeath (or death metal in general), but In Flames' older albums are great, Whoracle and Colony in...