It’s kind of interesting that you say elevator music is soulless, not real art, etc. There are some genres of music that are based on elevator music, hold music, weather channel music, “Muzak” in general. It’s just as real as anything else, and people do seek it out.

“They glow in the dark, but you can hit them with your car”

Pretty funny that the slang term “glowies” for feds was started by Terry Davis.

The post nut clarity of realizing that buying that porn game was not such a great idea

I’d argue that it’s very important, especially since more and more people are using it. Wikipedia is generally correct and people, myself included, edit incorrect things. ChatGPT is a black box and there’s no user feedback. It’s also stupid to waste resources to run an inefficient LLM that a regular search and a few minutes of time, along with like a bite of an apple worth of energy, could easily handle. After all that, you’re going to need to check all those sources chatGPT used anyways, so how much time is it really saving you? At least with Wikipedia I know other people have looked at the same things I’m looking at, and a small percentage of those people will actually correct errors.

Many people aren’t using it as a valid research aid like you point out, they’re just pasting directly out of it onto the internet. This is the use case I dislike the most.

Uranium is a toxic metal, even when completely disregarding its radioactivity

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At least some editor will usually make sure Wikipedia is correct. There’s nobody ensuring chatGPT is correct.

“Palmetto bugs” are just roaches, period. That name refers to either the Florida woods cockroach or the American cockroach.

I’ve had my 16TB ironwolf pros spinning for 5 years in my NAS, no issues. People love to trash Seagate but I can’t say I’ve had any issues. I also have 6x10TB barracuda pros and they’re fine too, for about 10 years.

There’s more evidence indicating it was a deliberate or accidental action by one of the pilots than evidence pointing to a mechanical issue, and that’s what I’m going with. There’s not “a million other explanations”. You seem emotionally invested in the outcome, calling various real life pilots making videos “rags”, calling me racist when I made absolutely no claims of the sort, claiming I’d feel different about various nations…

Guess we’ll see in that final report. I know what I’d be putting my money on, if I gambled. The preponderance of evidence at this point suggest an accidental or deliberate manipulation of the switches by one of the pilots.

Well specifically related to this:

If it’s spring based, and one side failed, it’s possible that next to no force will flip it to one side, but it takes the expected amount of force to move it in the other direction.

It’s the same direction for the supposed accidental move to CUTOFF you propose and the move to CUTOFF that didn’t happen when the plane didn’t hit the ground. The switches were placed in RUN and stayed that way until they were recovered. I have a very hard time believing they went to CUTOFF from some relatively light force during climb out, yet did not move at all when experiencing high forces during the crash.

See, there you go again. Don’t assume how I would judge American pilots either, I have no dog in this fight, and if an American pilot made a grave mistake or committed suicide that’s just as bad. The issue I see clouding your vision, as well as many other Indians, is nationalism. You need to let go of your national pride and take an objective look at this, I would say the exact same thing if it was a pilot from the United States. I don’t care what their motives are or how it reflects on a certain carrier from any country, it’s just what seems most plausible given all available evidence.

You’re the only one bringing race and nationality into this conversation.

It doesn’t seem like you’re familiar with the sequence of events in the crash.

The switches moved from run to cut off - who knows why. I believe the pilots did it, you believe it’s the detents.

The pilots then moved them from cutoff to run.

The switches stayed in run throughout the entire crash sequence. If the detents were bad before, why would they not be bad again here?

If the detent failed when they moved from run to cutoff during climb out, it would have also failed during the crash sequence, when significantly higher forces were experienced.

I’ll keep speculating until the final report is out.

So a mechanical failure let the switches go from RUN to CUTOFF during flight, but they remained in RUN during the entire crash sequence? I don’t buy that. The forces experienced by the plane would be magnitudes greater during impact with the ground than any kind of turbulence or other bumps.

So the detent was not strong enough to hold the two cutoff switches through some turbulence, but it was strong enough to hold them during the crash? That makes absolutely no sense to me. The forces experienced during the crash are significantly more severe than any kind of turbulence they’d experience during climb out.

Sorry dude, I don’t buy it. This is either one of the worst aviation mistakes ever made or a deliberate action. Race has absolutely nothing to do with it, nor did I ever imply that. Also, both pilots had 0 hours of flying in the previous 24 hours, so I don’t think fatigue of the mechanical or physiological kind, are at play here.

You’re right, I can’t say the motive. The evidence points to an intentional cutoff by one of the pilots, however. Maybe it’s an accident, maybe it’s deliberate.

It has nothing to do with their race so fuck off with the racism accusation. I never said a single thing regarding their race or culture, so don’t accuse me of such things.

The far more plausible scenario is someone toggled them both, especially since there was a 1s delay. That’s not something jostling the plane or falling and hitting the switches.

That bulletin says they were potentially installed without the locking feature but to my knowledge these weren’t new switches on the AI flight, nor were there any issues reported on earlier flights.

The probability of both failing would be the probability of one failing squared. I find this scenario to be far less plausible than someone toggling them, regardless of motive.

What killed them was a deliberate action by one of the pilots. The motive we may never know, but it doesn’t look good either way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525