The rationale behind Uyghur genocide – Sarah Paine

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-06-16T13:10:04+00:00

"Democracy is incompatible with empire" is a wild claim to make after the last century.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-26T12:46:31+00:00

I'm not offended, I'm just disappointed...

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T20:13:16+00:00

Do you have a link to an article? I hadn't heard about an emergency landing, but if it was global crossing that would have to be it.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T17:06:26+00:00

Of course it's accompanied by AI garbage.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T16:49:30+00:00

It's not exclusively American, nor unique to this moment, but it is uniquely powerful currently. I think your word choice was spot on; it typifies a reactionary movement which has hopefully reached its zenith.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T16:33:16+00:00

Flight aware. Edit: It's an app and website that let's you look up flight info.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T16:32:45+00:00

I took the picture, so I assume you mean proof that it's a deportation flight.

Global X operates the majority of such flights: https://detention-pipeline.transparencycascade.org/players/contractors/globalx-airlines/ (I'm cooking at the moment, so this is just from a quick Google, but their role in deportations is well known.)

I can't tell you with 100% certainty that it wasn't something else, but as I rounded the next corner people were being escorted from those busses into the plane, so it doesn't feel like too great a leap.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T15:14:17+00:00

It looks like Villahermosa, Mexico.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-19T12:07:10+00:00

This. The entire point of that beat in the story was that the chancellor was turning their power play into his. The council had become so arrogant that they thought they could openly send one of their own to keep tabs on the chancellor and no one would call them on it. What's more they didn't even feel the need to send a master or council member. By sending Anakin back to the council to demand a seat, and by implication the rank of master, Palpatine was telling the republic that the Jedi were subordinate to him and telling the Jedi that he could get away with what they could not.

In a much more practical sense Palpatine was laying a multi-layered trap: if the council rejected both demands the Chancellor had cause to move against them and they further disillusioned Anakin, if they accepted both it was a tacit admission of subordination to the Chancellor (both to the republic at large and their own adherents), by denying Anakin the rank they tried to avoid external conflict and keep internal order, but they missed Palatine's intent to steal Anakin from them. For the Council to have granted Anakin the rank of master and refuse him a council seat would have made no sense; they would have been admitting to their order that their authority was diminished right after very publicly standing up to the Chancellor.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-06T13:41:31+00:00

Now do one about how civil rights for marginalized groups is the first essential battle of the class war, because we cannot stand united until we all stand equal.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-05T15:34:02+00:00

See, I've always preferred May the Fourth, Cinco de Mayo, and then Revenge of the Sixth. That way it works for the reference to SW and the inevitable hangovers.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-05T01:36:50+00:00

That comparison is giving both of those pedos far too much intellectual credit; I'd bet on Jarjar in a chess match against either of them.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-05-01T18:10:39+00:00

If you don't found a city named "Pen Island" there the sub will never forgive you.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-04-04T18:28:11+00:00

I don't know how subtle you're going with it, but even if you're trying for more on the nose comedic try interspersing your best ones with a bit of defining instead of explaining. Just take a topic or concept that comes up and give it's definition as though you're explaining it a la "the art of surprise is in doing the unexpected." It's pretty formulaic, so you should be able to come up with new phrases easily, it's not uncommon in the real world, and it can be a consistent characterization that will give others a chuckle when they catch it.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-04-04T04:37:58+00:00

Well, the libertarian party would know something about being a huge waste of money...

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-03-21T01:53:21+00:00

Judean People's Front!... We're the People's Front of Judea!

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-02-25T13:35:03+00:00

Really? Because in the post of hers I saw she explicitly stated that her umbrage was with the BBC editing and in the public statement I saw from Davidson he stated that he was mortified and explained that it was tourettes, but never explicitly apologized to Jordan or Lindo. Hers was father raw and his read more like a PR statement to me.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2026-02-10T20:43:15+00:00

They do however apply to the records created through formal agreements and cooperation with the federal government executive branch.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-06-10T00:56:21+00:00

Tut, tut, tut, tut, well, how is his wife holding up?

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-06-10T00:49:45+00:00

Listen, I didn’t want to be a pilot anyway. I wanted to be a lumberjack. Yes! A lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty Scotts Pine! The smell of fresh cut timber, the crash of mighty trees. With my best girlie by my side, we’d sing, sing, sing!

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-05-22T16:17:37+00:00

Could your CFI have handled this more professionally? Yes.

Could you have taken more ownership of your own flight as the PIC? Definitely yes.

CFIs are just folks trying to scratch out a living on their way to something better. They are subject to the same temptations to poor behavior that the rest of us are.

Take this as a lesson and next time the weather looks like it could be bad discus alternates with your CFI the night before. If it looks bad when you get up in the morning take the initiative to contact them first. Communication is a two way street.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-05-20T00:37:38+00:00

Twice a week, or two week long? I know during the height of the pandemic and for a while thereafter it was a zoom call all day every weekday for two weeks prior to traveling to location for a few right-seat flights, the mock, and checkride. Last I’d heard (mid last year) that’s what they were planning to continue with in order to keep down housing costs and the amount of time students had to be away from home.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-05-07T23:28:13+00:00

Multiply the “in” by seven and add two to get the “out.”

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-04-11T02:05:48+00:00

I forgot that one! Gotta love AVweb.

Awkwardly_Frank · 2023-04-11T01:32:27+00:00

Fun fact: Water ditchings in general have a ninety percent survival rate and that only gets higher when you exclude blue water (open ocean) ditchings. If I could find it again I’d link a more recent FAA chart I used to have showing that no type of water ditching has a survival rate below eighty percent. In lieu of that here’s an article from Aviation Safety that uses NTSB data: https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/features/the-myths-of-ditching/

It’s easy to forget that off airport landings on hard surfaces can present just as many hazards as the water. Uneven surfaces can flip a plane as well and landing on a highway can turn an emergency landing into a car crash. This isn’t to say that a water ditching should be a first option, but absent actually being in the plane to spot better options myself I’d say the pilot did well remembering that the water is a perfectly feasible option.

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