Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about--international flights are not "commonly slightly overloaded." Cargo and passengers are routinely moved around or offloaded when weight and balance limits are not met.

With regard to dumping fuel, it's because max takeoff weights on large aircraft are higher than max landing weights (because the forces on e.g. landing gear are higher when landing than they are when taking off).

You'd think so, but the war in Ukraine shows otherwise. The Russians suffered heavily early on due to using cell phones--and they kept using them even after figuring out they'd lost something like four general officers due to them/staff/bodyguards using their phones, causing even more losses. I can't help but agree with the GP, some assholes are always going to come to the conclusion that "everyone else shouldn't do it, but it will be fine if it's only me."

They didn't feel pain, which is good, but I would say that they almost certainly "suffered." They knew they were fucked for some period of time before they died, and they spent their last minutes sitting in their coffin in the dark two miles below the surface. I imagine the father/son duo had it particularly awful, with dad knowing that he killed his kid, and the kid knowing that his dad killed him. I wonder if they discussed that fact amongst themselves while waiting to die.

Is Trump still going forward with Musk's recommendation to deorbit the ISS in 2027?

SpaceX was awarded a $843 million contract to deorbit the ISS back in 2024 (Biden was president) in the year 2030.

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Was there an update to this plan that I didn't hear about?

You forgot Joan Rivers.

Here, I'll spoon feed you the relevant part of the linked story:

I don't like Darth Cheeto. I don't like that he ignores the law and the constitution when it suits him. But you cannot blame him for something done by the Biden administration.

Great. Post some of those links. Hell, post one of them.

I'm going to assume that the above is just a typo, and you meant "each floppy disk drive." Even still, it makes no sense. Are you seriously suggesting that legacy users are consuming three times the annual production of the entire market at its peak? Do you not know what the word "peak" means?

Sure. But that's a one time issue, and after five years your carried forward deductions add back up to 100%. The change was just a short term revenue boost for the government, not anything that affected anyone long term.

R&D tax credits did not end. The way they are accounted was changed. IIRC, instead of being able to claim 100% of the credit in year one, you claim 20% of the credit in each of five years. This is a rolling period, so after a five year adjustment period, the credit is essentially a wash.

Your link only says, essentially, "congress should have given us more money" and not "evil mustache twirling republicans are the reason for our problems." So, I did look.

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (first I could find post Dubya administration) was, indeed, somewhat contentious (most house democrats voting against the final conference bill, though the senate was less divided). I don't know why the bill was controversial, maybe it was direct funding, but I don't have the data. The FAA Reauthorization Act(s) of 2018 and 2024 were both broadly bipartisan, so I will make the (possibly poor) assumption that 2012 was about other things rather than a specific dollar amount.

From 2009-2024, the democrats have controlled the senate for a total of ten years, the republicans for six. The democrats controlled the house for six years, the republicans for ten. The democrats controlled both houses for four years, the republicans for four years. The democrats controlled the executive for twelve years, the republicans for four (and each with a two year period of full control of government, with the democrats having a ~3 month period of theirs including a filibuster proof senate majority).

So, where is the evidence of your claims that this is a single party problem? Which record should I be looking at?

Given that a Republican controlled congress (with broad bipartisan support) and a Republican president appropriated that money and manpower 22 years ago, I would say that you are the one being purposefully ignorant.

<OldManVoice> Back in my day, it was all about hot grits and a petrified Natalie Portman, and Goatse was just a giant gaping asshole without a dick shoved in it, dammit! We had CowbowNeal and polls, and we liked it that way! </OldManVoice>

As usual with your claims, [citation needed]. Floppy disks being sold today new all appear to be old stock manufactured in prior years or used, rather than rolling off a production line (and, really, "thousands per second?" If we define "thousands" in the lowest possible term (i.e. "two") that would be 7.2 million per hour, 57.6 million per eight hour shift, 288 million per five day week at one shift per day, and roughly 15 billion per year... which is triple the number of floppy disks sold per year at the peak of the market).

I agree it's worth being angry about, the problem is that blaming this on Republicans is simply bullshit. The issue appears to be the typical "bureaucracy cannot accomplish useful work" rather than the claimed "mustache twirling villains are responsible."

I'm just gonna put this right here.

Two decades ago, Republican majorities in both houses and a Republican president.