Re: New Yorkers don't feel safe at home anymore

AAHH yes the too many guns argument. Well since the OP is referencing NYC I will start there. OK, let's zero in on NYC like the OP asked us to. New Yorkers don't feel safe now and you suggest that if Giuliani's policies or Giuliani himself were reinstated then the people there would feel safe again...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

As was just pointed out, immigration always gets worse in an election year. This is the exact same thing that has been happening for decades. Republicans don't like the Democratic plans because "open borders" or something that is not even remotely true and Democrats don't like Republican ...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

With massive homelessness on the West Coast and the shortage of housing throughout the country, where will they live? Housing costs (along with other necessities) are going up dramatically. It already costs LA County how much per housing unit for the homeless? You are right about the past but aren'...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

johns624 wrote:

So many Texans talk about seceding. I'd like to see them secure that long border all by their lonesome.

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

With massive homelessness on the West Coast and the shortage of housing throughout the country, where will they live? Housing costs (along with other necessities) are going up dramatically. It already costs LA County how much per housing unit for the homeless? You are right about the past but aren'...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

It is a scare tactic/cudgel issue, but to be fair the posted chart ends in 2020, and family apprehensions in the Yuma and Rio Grande sectors were up by over 200 and 400% respectively from March of 2020 to March 2021. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters/usbp-sw-border...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Being legal doesn't mean morally right? So is the government supposed to legislate morality? IE: Be more involved and less-limited?? I don't think one can only criticize illegal things Nobody said that, it just smacks of being fake when only targeting SNS platforms or being free speech focused. If ...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

An interesting phenomenon has occurred since Mr. Musk's bid was accepted. If Twitter has nothing to hide and there was no intentional manipulation going on behind the scenes at Twitter, then what is the explanation for this? Disposing of evidence before the new boss takes over, perhaps? Twitter Is ...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

An interesting phenomenon has occurred since Mr. Musk's bid was accepted. If Twitter has nothing to hide and there was no intentional manipulation going on behind the scenes at Twitter, then what is the explanation for this? Disposing of evidence before the new boss takes over, perhaps? Twitter Is ...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

Conservatives in the House apparently have seen enough. It has nothing to do with 'seeing enough'. If they actually cared they'd be working toward a bipartisan permanent immigration reform solution, such as bringing back something like the Bracero program. It's all performative posturing, nothing m...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

I see the newest talking points from the GOP and Fox news are making the rounds to their very misinformed base. I have a hard time believing a thread starter that involves a quote from an Anti American traitor like Chip Roy. He is so dumb he believed Trump's lies. Either way illegal immigration is ...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

So before calling someone else foolish I'd learn a bit more about the topic. Aircraft and UAV's are one of Border Patrols greatest's assets at patrolling the border. Never said they weren't. Just not impressed by senators of both parties continuing to parade their idiocy unabated on a variety of to...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

Sen. Rand Paul on the Border: "If I were in charge, I'd put a helicopter station every five miles, and anybody who comes across would be immediately transported back," said Paul. "You don't get processed at all unless you come through legal ports of entry." https://www.newsmax.c...

Re: AF 011 go around - Possible flight control issue

Noshow wrote:

How can the pilot not flying interfere without telling his colleague?

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

Sen. Rand Paul on the Border: "If I were in charge, I'd put a helicopter station every five miles, and anybody who comes across would be immediately transported back," said Paul. "You don't get processed at all unless you come through legal ports of entry." https://www.newsmax.c...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

I would like to point something that many people have missed: Twitter has not yet been sold/purchased by Mr. Musk (and just as important, his investing partners). It is still a public company that has agreed to the sale and is doing due diligence negotiating the sale to completion. Mr. Musk may ver...

Re: AF 011 go around - Possible flight control issue

Hopefully not a cockpit culture issue at AF. Ideally any crew member who feels an approach has degraded below stable condition should be able to say so and suggest corrective action.

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

What ever the outcome of this endeavor, only one person is going to be responsible and should be worried and that's Elon Musk. The company is fully private, no one else has absolutely nothing to be concerned about. I already said that in a previous post, but you were all worried about consistency a...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Of course we need a Mainstream Media outlet for the MAGA people. There are millions of them. Yet most mainstream TV News and TV Talk and TV entertainment is slanted toward the Left by content, and how stories are framed, and what is not covered... So yes, there's FOX News.... a some streaming chann...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

What ever the outcome of this endeavor, only one person is going to be responsible and should be worried and that's Elon Musk. The company is fully private, no one else has absolutely nothing to be concerned about. I already said that in a previous post, but you were all worried about consistency a...

Re: ex Olympian/snowboarder Trevor Jacob plane crash video

This guy is worthy of neither a moment's time or modicum of respect. His smirky and whiny 'lost my license' video is just another business op turned out of failing to be accountable.

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

That's the standard by which Twitter/FB and others should stick with. Not some made up as we go along and to who I don't like kind of standards. Hopefully this will be the future. It is up to the user base (and in part BOD priorities at the top level) to determine what standards are appropriate for...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

It pretty much comes down to whether false facts, that potentially do harm to society, are going to have a platform on Twitter. Those were the only accounts that were ever suspended or banned, and the pattern had to be pretty egregious for that to happen. Is calling someone by the sex they were at ...

Re: Prime Minister of Pakistan Ousted

Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan has been ousted in a no confidence vote by the Parliament of Pakistan. This is very sad as he was working to improve Pakistan and bring the country to the modern age. https://time.com/6166478/imran-khans-pakistans-future/ Not sad at all - he had a lot of p...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

I never said they "threw it all in the kitchen sink.” The more banal stuff that constitutes the bulk of content moderation (porn, scamming, spamming, etc) is mostly UX/CX, ad-driven. But this recent push…managing disinformation (whatever the prevailing political tribe defines as “disinformatio...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

After Elon takes over, I predict some Twitter "heads are gonna roll..." ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJT-K8p8ufI Conservative glee over that doesn't really make sense since their favorite Twitter target already left last year. And Jack Dorsey actually now says Musk is a key to the p...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Not in the slightest. I think a lot of these companies are also scrambling in every which way which is why content moderation practices are so inconsistent and haphazard and ultimately tick everyone off…but it’s all still in service to their interpretation of what they think will please regulators,...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

It would be more than naive to think growing bipartisan consensus regarding content moderation/social media regulation, paired with concrete attempts at the executive level and hard legislation passed by other major world governments, has no coercive impact on the content moderation practices of th...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

I am so here for it. I’m rooting neither for nor against Elon, but Twitter is an absolute dumpster fire so the bar for a better outcome is set pretty low IMO. The key challenge I see for Mr. Musk is the fact that Twitter is NOT an engineering challenge, it is something entirely different. And from ...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

The problem with that take is that it’s almost always still the government coercing platforms to “moderate content” more rigorously. Government coercing? It's mostly advertisement revenue "coercing". You can allow free reign and FrEe sPeeCh and wind up with a nazi pedophile sewer like 4Ch...

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

Didn't you get the memo? It's okay to stereotype and call all Republicans racist. LOL "Please ignore our cross country purges of all non white books, our armada of confederate flags, our banning of teaching black history, and regular whinging about white replacement theory--it has nothing to d...

Re: 787 with extensive wing paint peel?