Seems pretty fucking basic here. No quorum means no business can be done. It’s the first step of any sort of meeting to conduct official business.

They’re performing fake business to show to their dipshit constituents that don’t pay attention and will believe whatever they’re told.

IIRC Lemon8 at least will have to stop just like TikTok. It isn’t TikTok specifically that is being banned. Rednote likely is affected as well.

They’re jumping ship to other sinking ships because the media has been providing incorrect information about what’s happening, as per usual now.

Not just that, they’re the epicenters of exported “US” culture. They’re the face of the country. They’re what we show off to the rest of the world as American.

Remove that from “America” and much of the world has no idea what’s left.

Re-read the title, ignore the meme.

The people I know with nut allergies 100% know what other nuts taste like and are confident they can extrapolate to figure out if they’re given what they can’t have. They also all carry epi-pens because their nut allergies are severe. A couple have accidentally had that particular nut, usually that’s how they found out they were allergic in the first place. So maybe not all, but my personal sample size of 4 has a 100% rate of knowing what their issue is and how to identify it. And that’s not including acquaintances I don’t know personally but know stories from.

It literally tastes like huts and honeyz because that’s 2 of the 3 ingredients. As soon as it touches your tongue it’s clear it’s made of nuts.

Whether she was told something wrong or not, there’s no reason a 17 year old should be completely ignorant of their deadly allergy, and the steps to take in response. They’re basically an adult, we’re not talking about a little child here.

Unfortunately, he has mental health issues that were exacerbated when Disney fired him upon his return from paternity leave.”

Unsurprising from one of worst companies on the planet. It’s how they’re as profitable as they are. Their entire business model is based around taking advantage of employees and abusing them as much as possible. And using their products to paint themselves as some sort of good company by association.

To be fair… that State is on fire pretty regularly, the President has nothing to do with that, the shitty utilities not maintaining infrastructure properly are usually to blame.

Seems like the symbolism is probably spot on. Just like you know the big ass lifted princess trucks are driven by those same guys.

Same goes for the drive thru! You don’t need your headlights to see 12 inches in front of you in a line.

Well then I guess a hot take… Those vehicles shouldn’t be street legal at night with those modifications unless you have some sort of alternative light system you can bolt on that brings the height down.

Probably just both honestly.

Accidentally cutting off fuel to the wrong engine after the bird strike, or possibly both engines, would mean no additional power to climb and do a proper go around.

And no engines running means no power, which would mean no flight data recorder since this plane predated required battery backups for that system.

Demand goes up, so do prices. Supply and demand at work.

Regulation to prevent exploitation? Nah. This is America.

IIRC the emergency landing gear deployment relies solely on gravity to drop and lock them into place, it’s a passive system. Not 100% effective, but something that doesn’t require a powered system of any kind for emergencies. Even if they didn’t lock into place, they would at least deploy, which doesn’t seem to have been the case here.

The cutoff to the wrong engine is sadly the most likely given the rest of the context like altitude and already aborting one attempt due to the strike. Lots of things to track that low to the ground, easy to forget you didn’t deploy the landing gear the first time when your focus was trying to keep it in the air at that point and then going around and realigning for another attempt while also shutting down an engine.

I’ll believe that only if his compensation for 2025 is the same as 2024 or lower. But we all know it’ll at least be $1M more.

He’s just indirectly providing a $1M interest free loan for the company.

Planes glide, fairly well. However, that requires having altitude and time to plan and maneuver since you cannot usually gain new altitude and any maneuver bleeds it off quickly. Control surfaces use hydraulics not electric motors, and standby power provides basic instrumentation, despite not powering the recorders.

And of course working landing gear (most landing gear drops and locks into position due to gravity, no power needed).

This particular case had basically none of those advantages, and possibly landing gear issues as well. There are a lot of questions in this crash, and many of the preliminary answers currently seem to be pointing towards things like poor maintenance, just bad luck, and the always possible pilot error.

This is why throat flight recorders are so useful. Hearing the pilot conversations in the cockpit helps with knowing what they were working through, and instrumentation logs help with what the plane was telling the pilots. Missing the last 4 minutes is the worst time for a gap, but the exact reason why battery backups are in newer planes. They should have been required to be installed in all previous ones as well.

Not very common for both recorders to stop abruptly before a crash. Unless they lost all power, which means both engines.

This particular plane seems to have been manufactured before backup batteries were required, so without main AC power the recorders would have stopped, standby power doesn’t connect to the recorders.

Even under rapid charging conditions with a full charge time of just 12 minutes, the battery achieved a high capacity of 705 mAh g⁻¹, which is a 1.6-fold improvement over conventional batteries. Furthermore, nitrogen doping on the carbon surface effectively suppressed lithium polysulfide migration, allowing the battery to retain 82% capacity even after 1,000 charge–discharge cycles, demonstrating excellent stability.

Assuming that this is scalable for production… Which is a big if for many of these “breakthroughs”, then this could replace current Lithium Ion batteries in most devices with a noticeable bump in capacity. Everything else is pretty par for the course though with current technologies.

The full charge time is meaningless without knowing what capacity they were working with. And a quick skim didn’t seem to have that in the article.

Well, it only looks like nothing because our power demands have increased as well.

Current Lithium Ion Polymer batteries are a far cry from the ones of a decade ago, despite being very similar tech.

The main issue with most of these alternative battery approaches are either low capacity, or low charge cycles. Finding a chemistry that both packs enough power in a small enough package to run devices for long term, and that don’t wear out quickly is difficult.