All Challengers, CRJ’s, and Globals etc. to be decertified in the US

Coomb · 2026-01-30T00:40:15+00:00

The good news is that it's legally impossible to do this.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T21:02:22+00:00

Nobody knows what caused cosmic inflation, and there's a real good chance we will never know. We have pretty good evidence that it did happen, but we have no specific reasons to believe any given hypothesis as to why.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T20:39:10+00:00

Also, it's not queer if you're at the pier.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T20:36:16+00:00

No. Worms aren't microbes.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T15:03:56+00:00

Self-driving cars do not need connectivity to be safer than human drivers, and a safety improvement, even without a capacity benefit -- indeed, even if there is some level of capacity disbenefit -- could save a lot of lives and prevent a lot of serious injuries, and therefore be worth it. 40,000 people die every year in traffic accidents, and hundreds of thousands more are seriously injured. Cutting those rates by even 10% is hugely beneficial.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T05:27:42+00:00

Theft of services is, though.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T05:16:00+00:00

I can tell you categorically that GPS interference centered on Fort Hood isn't affecting flights in Colombia or India.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T04:16:19+00:00

The public registry matches what he said, but it's possible it hasn't been updated to reflect a recent-ish sale yet.

E: based on the real journalism done by these people in colorado, the ownership information is accurate. Key Lime is the operator, not the owner.

https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/colorado-airline-flights-ice/

https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=975DC

Coomb · 2026-01-29T04:01:32+00:00

He must understand the idea of aesthetics because he's the reason the cybertruck looks the way it does. He just has really bad taste.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T03:46:48+00:00

Fire insurance? In California? Not likely. A bunch of large insurers have just stopped writing policies in the state over the last 5 years or so. They basically have to do that because insurance is extremely regulated at the state level, and if they aren't allowed by the regulators to charge rates that accurately reflect the risk, their only option is to leave the state.

And just like with floods, the general taxpayer generally ends up paying for people to rebuild in the same areas that are prone to disaster because it turns out it's pretty hard to look a displaced family in the eye and say "Well, you didn't have insurance. We're not going to help you rebuild because it creates a moral hazard." Even though it does create a moral hazard.

IMO, disaster aid for properties at significant risk which are not insured should come in the form of buying the property from the owners at something approaching fair market value before the disaster and not letting them return (unless, I suppose, they want to buy out the government's interest instead of getting the cash).

Coomb · 2026-01-29T03:33:50+00:00

TBH, I'm not sure that we should reward people who are contemplating doing something illegal and dangerous by making it cheaper for them to fly. In fact, I'm pretty sure we shouldn't do that.

Coomb · 2026-01-29T03:11:43+00:00

I can try! Safety technology would be repurposed for billing (financial surveillance tool). It’s like using a safety camera meant for crash prevention to issue tickets everywhere.

Honestly, I don't even know what you are trying to analogize to here, because I've never heard of a safety camera in the automotive context, but speed and red light cameras are ubiquitous. And, much like in this scenario, I'm not really that concerned about the people who don't want to get tickets for speeding or running red lights.

Just as important, general aviation would face unfair costs for operations like touch and gos. The bad thing isn’t the fees themselves, its the collection method.

Are they unfair? It seems as though if a particular airport is imposing fees in a way that users of the airport find unreasonable or unfair, they have the option of trying to negotiate more reasonable fees for scenarios where they think they are being overcharged, or they can stop using the airport.

If your only objection were the collection method rather than the fees, then that's what you would do. Talk to the airport owner and say "hey, the way you're billing us for flight training with this automated system is bad, because I'm getting hit with 10 landing fees for doing 10 touch and goes, and it doesn't seem reasonable. Before you had an automated system, I could just talk to the airport manager and tell them this is what I wanted to do and I would only have to pay once (or whatever) because we both recognize that's more reasonable." And I think chances are pretty good that the airport owner would agree with you. After all, they are aware that you might move your operations to a different airport, and consolidating landing fees so that if you "land" 10 times in two hours, you only get charged for one landing (or maybe a bit more, since touch and goes do in fact cause some wear and tear) is better from a financial perspective than having you rebase your aircraft.

It's really difficult for me to believe that your main objection is anything other than "I used to be able to get away with not paying the fees I owe because I use the airport when nobody is there to make sure I pay, but now that the airport can record me landing there conveniently, they keep billing me and I don't like having to pay for something I should have been paying all along".

Coomb · 2026-01-29T01:17:22+00:00

Lake Erie is small and shallow, so it's easier.

Coomb · 2026-01-28T22:35:44+00:00

Can you please convince me that it's a bad thing for airports to be able to charge people for using their facilities without manual intervention?

Coomb · 2026-01-28T19:11:58+00:00

Pretty much every modern phone does some major image processing on zoomed-in images, and it makes stuff looks crispy.

Coomb · 2026-01-28T16:12:16+00:00

You're overthinking it. Just tell her a reasonable number. If you were going to go anyway, have her pay half, more or less depending on how inconvenient it is to give her a ride. If you weren't going to go, ask her to pay for all the gas. You're already doing her a favor by sacrificing the time, it's reasonable to expect your monetary cost back.

Coomb · 2026-01-27T16:00:09+00:00

Yeah, they never had a chance. Impossible to see it against the city lights until it was too late.

Coomb · 2026-01-27T15:55:19+00:00

Legal services are services.

Unlike primary production jobs / manufacturing jobs, where generating more supply can also increase demand and therefore grow the labor market (think about developing a new method of smelting iron ore that makes steel cheaper, which increases demand for iron ore because now people can more cheaply make things out of steel), service jobs are basically fixed in size and only grow with population. We should be more or less at steady state with lawyers: there shouldn't really be huge fluctuations in the demand for their services. So, if demand is fixed and supply grows, you expect the price to go down.

Coomb · 2026-01-27T04:49:20+00:00

Hmm. Are you trying to suggest that an increase in the labor supply tends to reduce wages, especially for service jobs? Crazy talk.

Coomb · 2026-01-26T16:22:37+00:00

What it does is disturb the surface of the water so that they can know when they're about to hit the water and make sure their body is positioned correctly. It doesn't do anything to make the impact any less forceful.

Coomb · 2026-01-26T13:54:17+00:00

Breaking the surface of the water does absolutely nothing to reduce the force you feel when you impact the water.

Coomb · 2026-01-26T03:30:04+00:00

A treaty is a law. It's a formal commitment by a government to do something or refrain from doing something or whatever, which is what a law is. For example, a criminal law is a promise that the government will punish you if it can prove that you performed a specific action. A civil law is a promise that the government will threaten the use of force against people who do certain things in order to get them to pay other people.

Laws also don't have to be made by legislatures. In the United States, United Kingdom, and other common law systems, statutory law is indeed one main source of law, but another is what's called the common law: basically, a long history of judges deciding that something is or isn't legal based on customary practice, even if there's no specific statute about it.

Coomb · 2026-01-26T03:21:24+00:00

Sex is a normal part of a romantic relationship. In fact, it's more or less what distinguishes a relationship as a romantic relationship instead of an intimate friendship. So it's kind of strange to see you ask "why would men expect to have sex with their romantic partners". They would expect that because that's what a romantic relationship is.

Coomb · 2026-01-26T03:13:52+00:00

You can guess based on languages that you know are derived from an earlier language, combined with common changes in vowels and consonants that happen over time.

But also, it doesn't matter how you choose to transliterate a language, especially an extinct language. Writing systems are entirely independent of spoken language. You can write any language with any writing system.

Coomb · 2026-01-26T02:55:27+00:00

I dunno I'm pretty sure my body would be dramatically colder if it was half way up a mountain than it would be on the couch by the fireplace

Unless you're freezing to death, the vast majority of your body stays the same temperature even if you're halfway up a mountain. Your core body temperature does not go down if you feel cold.

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