What the hell is wrong with drivers and that intersection?

Dude. Come to Florida.

You have no idea what you're missing!

 

Dude. Come to Florida.

You have no idea what you're missing!

I can imagine. We called them Florida Q-tips back then. Old ladies sitting so low in the car all you see is the very top of their heads, just before they run you over.

 

 

I can imagine. We called them Florida Q-tips back then. Old ladies sitting so low in the car all you see is the very top of their heads, just before they run you over.

Worse than that: we got all the New Yorkers now (full time, not just in the winter).

 

Worse than that: we got all the New Yorkers now (full time, not just in the winter).

There are times when I would gladly trade.

Even when the weather is nice.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/03/10/world...t-strays-off-course-after-pilots-fell-asleep/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/03/10/world...t-strays-off-course-after-pilots-fell-asleep/

As a father, he gets a pass on this one.

 

Typical, Portland has gone to hell and they wanted you to pay just to drive around it.

 

 

California family survives small plane crash after aircraft deploys parachute

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The plane’s engine lost power about five minutes after taking off, according to the sheriff’s office, and as the pilot began to troubleshoot, he noticed that the plane’s altitude was too low for recovery.

 

It's not about TikTok fitness influencers. Please slow down.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...cers-killed-in-houston-car-crash-sources-say/

The vehicles were reported to have been traveling at a high rate of speed before the accident.

Rose said multiple witnesses told police that the vehicle had been going in and out of lanes with predicted speeds over 100 MPH.

They ultimately lost control of the vehicle, causing the car to split in two.

“This crash (was) very preventable,” Sgt. Rose said. “They didn’t hit a wall. They didn’t hit another vehicle. They were just traveling at a very high rate of speed. Had they been driving anywhere close to the speed limit, (based on) the injuries in this crash, I’m confident that with this type of vehicle, it would’ve not been fatal.”

 

It's not about TikTok fitness influencers. Please slow down.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...cers-killed-in-houston-car-crash-sources-say/

I'm a bit baffled here. What does their being "influencers" have to do with the crash? I see morons driving like this all the time. They died because they were terminally stupid, at least they managed not to take anyone else out with them. Now, if the story is trying to establish a link between people that are so full of themselves that they have to call themselves "influencers" and people that are so full of themselves that they feel they can weave in and out of traffic at 100 mph with impunity, I can see the potential for there to be a correlation.

 

I'm a bit baffled here. What does their being "influencers" have to do with the crash? I see morons driving like this all the time. They died because they were terminally stupid, at least they managed not to take anyone else out with them. Now, if the story is trying to establish a link between people that are so full of themselves that they have to call themselves "influencers" and people that are so full of themselves that they feel they can weave in and out of traffic at 100 mph with impunity, I can see the potential for there to be a correlation.

They were probably doing some sort of jackass video for their TikTok channel ... and won the Darwin award

 

I'm a bit baffled here. What does their being "influencers" have to do with the crash? I see morons driving like this all the time. They died because they were terminally stupid, at least they managed not to take anyone else out with them. Now, if the story is trying to establish a link between people that are so full of themselves that they have to call themselves "influencers" and people that are so full of themselves that they feel they can weave in and out of traffic at 100 mph with impunity, I can see the potential for there to be a correlation.

The story got an extra few min of fame because of it. To most of us here us, the "influencers", don't matter but like it or not , it does to a segment of the population that could kill us and/or our families because of them follow the "influencers" D award winning stunts. I really don't want any parents to pick up the remains of their children in a bucket.

Speed kills.

 

They were probably doing some sort of jackass video for their TikTok channel ... and won the Darwin award

I might have missed it, but I didn't see any indication that their driving had anything to do with their Tik Tok channel -- weren't they some kind of "fitness influencers".

Now, if they were recording this behavior for ratings, that's a very different matter and makes it very relevant to the story. But the impression I had was that it was story worthy of covering only because they happened to be "influencers".

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/business/uber-lyft-minneapolis-minimum-wage/index.html
Lyft and Uber to cease operations in Minneapolis after new minimum wage law

Uber said in a statement obtained by CNN that it’s “disappointed the council chose to ignore the data and kick Uber out of the Twin Cities, putting 10,000 people out of work and leaving many stranded.”

Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said he supports a minimum wage for rideshare drivers but opposed the ordinance because it didn’t factor in a Minnesota state study that analyzed how much drivers should be paid.

“Everyone wants to see Uber and Lyft drivers get paid more. But getting a raise doesn’t do a whole lot of good if you lose your job,” Frey said, according to CNN affiliate WCCO-TV. “There will be a massive impact felt by our region.”

 

 

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My Wings Are What??

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Amazingly, this has happened more than on one occasion, and thankfully, due to the incredible design of the aircraft, and the cool minded professionalism of the pilots, the aircraft were able to be recovered and the crews left a little wiser

 

My Wings Are What??
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It's largely a consequence of the design requirements of fighter aircraft. In order to perform high-gee maneuvers, you need a wing plan that is capable of producing lift that is seriously in excess of what is needed to maintain level flight even when fully loaded. Hence, you only need a fraction of the wing area producing lift under normal loading, especially if you either don't have, or have jettisoned, all of your external stores. Another huge contributing factor, which really comes into play in asymmetric wing situations, is the tremendous control authority that the control surfaces, particularly the stabilators, have. Again, this is due to the need for such authority to execute high-gee maneuvers.

Israel had one F-15 that had the entire starboard wing sheared off in a collision with an A-4 Skyhawk. The plane recovered on it's own and, because the fuel cloud obscuring his vision, the pilot was unaware that the wing was actually gone as opposed to just being damaged.