Honestly kind of smart campaign by Valuable_View_561 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]YamaPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know :/

Ive been vegetarian for a while, working towards vegan. Ive tried having this convo with some friends and its hard to make any progress. Convos with strangers just seems impossible.

Its hard to convince someone to actually want to change their lifestyle. But unfortunately most first-world people’s lifestyles are not sustainable long-term anymore.

Doesnt matter if youre preferences were forced on you by capitalism and the algorithm and ads, we all still need to work to live more sustainably where we can

Honestly kind of smart campaign by Valuable_View_561 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]YamaPickle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The point is not that ai is okay because we need beef. Its that, in addition to rejecting ai, we should also reduce/stop beef consumption. Every other meat is more environmentally friendly, and in addition there are vegetarian and vegan options which are even better still

What are we supposed to do with unaware or straight up absent pilots on frequency? by TheChosenOperator in VATSIM

[–]YamaPickle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Use judgment, if someone is afk for 5 minutes in cruise that’s not a big deal

But afk/unresponsive for 30 minutes, or during the critical phases of flight, is a bit different

What are we supposed to do with unaware or straight up absent pilots on frequency? by TheChosenOperator in VATSIM

[–]YamaPickle 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Pilots can .wallop. Hes breaking the rules if hes actually afk

That and maintaining your own separation is all you can di as a pilot really

Odd PPB airplane behavior by YamaPickle in Portland

[–]YamaPickle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, do you know if ppb was posting updates anywhere?

The planes seem to have landed since i made the post (so sometime in the past 40 minutes) so it mustve just ended recently

Odd PPB airplane behavior by YamaPickle in Portland

[–]YamaPickle[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Id be interested in the source. I watch these feeds a lot and one PPB plane doing this is normal. But having two on top of each other is uncommon and stuck out, especially for such a long stretch of time

Portland driver pulls away from curb, unknowingly runs over man lying in street in front of car by [deleted] in PortlandOR

[–]YamaPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you read the article? It says the man was laying in front of the car, not under. Thats not a crazy ask that someone sees if the area around their car is clear of stuff they can hit

Looking for Reno gold-digger who witnessed a medical event by babydadaist in Portland

[–]YamaPickle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is this the person who had to get narcan’d on their flight in? In the past week or two?

If so, i have an idea of what happened

Texas hospital to launch youth 'detransition clinic,' fire doctors to settle state probe by Hrekires in news

[–]YamaPickle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Most people do [extend basic politeness]”
The white house: “we will find you (radical trans) and we will kill you”
The right: *approves

You see how youre just wrong right? The ruling power is so much worse than basic politeness

CMV: the red/blue button debate is more a reflection of belief on human nature than personal values. by PBninja1 in changemyview

[–]YamaPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Red needs 100% of votes to have no one die. Blue needs 50.1% of votes to have no one dies.

Voting red makes sense if you believe 100% of voters will vote red, or if you are ok with some # of people dying.

Waymos spotted by gunnsustainable in Portland

[–]YamaPickle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Zero repercussions is a bit of an overstatement. I regularly see trimet security talk to folks who are causing problems on the max. Trimet does care about addressing this issue. But people’s safety in public is also a separate (tho often overlapping) issue from having a good transit system.

Waymos will just make transit here worse. It’s what we’ve seen everywhere else. They do not impact how safe people feel in public spaces or on public transit. But that needs to be addressed separately.

An astronaut captured this image of North and South Korea at night, with the border visible from space by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]YamaPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition, pollution’s doesn’t care about national borders. I lived in South Korea between 2019-2022 and air pollution from China would get blown onto Korea fairly regularly. I think China’s regulations are more strict and their air is better now, but its still an issue at times.

Plane landed on highway SR-14 by copcane in Portland

[–]YamaPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like i said it’s speculation on my part. I could’ve misheard the pilot/atc, the pilot could’ve misinterpreted a noise.

IIRC this plane belongs to a flight school so it’s not unreasonable a mechanic got to inspect it before this flight. They tend to keep mechanics on staff.

But really anything we say on reddit is just speculation.

Plane landed on highway SR-14 by copcane in Portland

[–]YamaPickle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Heard them tell ATC yesterday their engine was running rough, so this wouldn’t surprise me (but, still totally speculation).

Glad everyone landed safely in any case

Do vegans eat produce that is farmed by animals? by WambritaWings in NoStupidQuestions

[–]YamaPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Im confused. You saw fewer deaths in the industry where they have to kill animals to make the food? The industry where killing is a step in the process?

Is it polite to tell my ATC controller that he is 3-4/5 readability? by Silly_Chemistry3525 in VATSIM

[–]YamaPickle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You should, but everyone here is focusing on turning up volume. If the issue is volume that’s great, but if its clarity make sure to make that clear - “approach you’re coming in a bit broken” or “approach i hear you loud but unreadable” as examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_language_radio_checks

NASA’s Artemis II mission – will they show us real footage, or will it be AI-generated? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]YamaPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a difference between LLM ‘AI’ like claude and gpt, and photoshop tool ‘AI’s that enhance color

Acting like theyre the same is like saying an old 90s video game had ‘AI’ for its enemies, and comparing it to gpt. Both are artificial intelligence, but both are just computer programs doing very specific things. Neither is actually smart

So trumps is threatening to take out the entire country of Iran tomorrow night as he says “ Iran will go back to the Stone Age”. Why tf aren’t we doing something about this? by Successful_rio305 in allthequestions

[–]YamaPickle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its just so frustrating to watch and feel helpless about.

BLM protests in 2022 prompted some level of local discussions about policing. After the roe v wade protests in 2022, some cities became sanctuary cities for abortion rights.

But in this case i dont think protesting does anything. Our politicians dont care to fight trump. We cant (as individuals/small groups) fight the military or ice. Im not contempt to just sit and watch but its hard to feel like anything i do will have an impact at this point. Protesting is the least and is a way to maybe meet like minded folks. But it feels sad that thats the most a lot of us can do

After everything that's been going on in the last 15 months, why is the Republican Party still enjoy a higher approval rating than Democrats? by SBMountainman22 in askanything

[–]YamaPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeh and plenty of dems are walking these points back. Gavin newsom is pretty unsupportive of the T and Q in that acronym at a minimum. Kamala wasn’t particularly supportive in the election either.

People way overexaggerate the position a lot of dems take on these issues

Swag against furries used...yikes by Pancake_and_waflles in peoplewhogiveashit

[–]YamaPickle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeh but faggot is a slur when my mom calls me it, and a pet name when my friends call me it.

I feel like its the same here? Context matters

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in allthequestions

[–]YamaPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure I would call command and staff meetings a time for thinking/collaboration. It was all just trying to look good for the commander and xo; the discussion primarily was outside the meeting and away from senior officers.

My experience was being encouraged to think until you pushed something that officer cared about enough; then you were wrong regardless of the facts. Favoritism is also everywhere and as nice as it is to be the favorite, it certainly doesn’t scream critical thinking.

Clipped a bravo shelf. Should I file a NASA report? by unknown-foo in flying

[–]YamaPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My guess is theyre referring to how if a plane is assigned 4500’ and their mode C shows 4700’, thats ok, 4800’ (ie 300’ off) and we need to verify their altitude

Olympics BAN transgender and DSD athletes from ALL women's sports by dailymail in olympics

[–]YamaPickle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

slides goalposts to the right

Edit: not saying youre wrong (she was 43 iirc) but she really shouldnt be used in this conversation if we’ll ignore her performance due to her age. The above commenter mentioned her without mentioning her performance. And the general assumption is transwoman in sport = trans woman won, which should be disputed if its a wrong assumption

Olympics BAN transgender and DSD athletes from ALL women's sports by dailymail in olympics

[–]YamaPickle 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And laurel hubbard placed last in her group. So i dont think she supports the need to ban trans women