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OT: The News Thread


View: https://x.com/tylerduran21/status/1792000073963905442

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I've flown a lot in my life, enough to hold statuses with airlines year over year for quite a while. It's always amazed me how cavalier most fliers are with the fact they're in a fucking metal tube travelling 9x highway speeds, owned by a company that factors in X amount of injuries/death per Y Km's flown as a KPI, operated by people whose union is constantly fighting with the airlines as they try to run those people into the ground and squeeze slightly more KM's flown out of them, even if it puts passengers at slightly more (but acceptable!) risks.

Oh, and this is all orchestrated by (stastically) the most stressed profession on the planet sitting in a control tower waiting to live a nightmare they all have constantly (....in the nightmare, 300 people die in a fire).

Leave your fucking seatbelt on, put your heavy shit away when the seatbelt sign comes on. Plan your bathroom visits around the likelihood of the fucking sign coming on.
 
axlsalinger said:
I thought at first he was talking about a previous incident, but nope...


View: https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1792929488730194207

nationalpost.com

'Every single cabin crew person was injured': Passengers describe chaos as Singapore Airlines flight hit turbulence

“Some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it," passenger Dzafran Azmir told ABC News
nationalpost.com nationalpost.com


View: https://x.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1792978286160531857
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I've read this may have been caused by a stall?
 
The 3M Corporation sells everything from sandpaper to kitchen sponges; it invented Scotch Tape and Post-it notes. Many of the company’s products contain PFAS, or “forever chemicals.” In the late nineteen-seventies, 3M scientists established that the forever chemical PFOS is toxic in animals and accumulates in humans. And, yet, 3M continued to produce millions of pounds per year. Between 1951 and 2000, 3M produced at least a hundred million pounds of PFOS and chemicals that degrade into PFOS—roughly the weight of the Titanic.


www.newyorker.com

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
 
MindzEye said:
I've flown a lot in my life, enough to hold statuses with airlines year over year for quite a while. It's always amazed me how cavalier most fliers are with the fact they're in a fucking metal tube travelling 9x highway speeds, owned by a company that factors in X amount of injuries/death per Y Km's flown as a KPI, operated by people whose union is constantly fighting with the airlines as they try to run those people into the ground and squeeze slightly more KM's flown out of them, even if it puts passengers at slightly more (but acceptable!) risks.

Oh, and this is all orchestrated by (stastically) the most stressed profession on the planet sitting in a control tower waiting to live a nightmare they all have constantly (....in the nightmare, 300 people die in a fire).

Leave your fucking seatbelt on, put your heavy shit away when the seatbelt sign comes on. Plan your bathroom visits around the likelihood of the fucking sign coming on.
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CH1 said:
climate change is apparently going to make turbulence harsher
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Keep my seat belt on, get loaded, pass out and piss myself to avoid a stroke or death from extreme turbulence. Got it
 
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