It’s nice to see these old planes flying but at the same time maybe it’s a bad idea to be flying 80+ year old aircraft. Surely, they’ve earned their retirement by now.
Most of these aircraft share pretty much non of their material with their original selves. Unfortunately it’s rarely a mechanical failure that causes a crash.
The UN dogma of guns causing violence is ridiculous and insane. Switzerland isn’t Hell.
Civilians can’t easily own or carry guns in Haiti so only criminals are armed.
No one can uninvent guns. No one can stop smuggling. No one can stop illegal manufacturing. Gun control is a fantasy and/or totalitarian nightmare fuel.
Switzerland has far more gun regulations than the U.S. If you’re arguing for purchasing permits and concealed carry only by rarely-issued permits, sure. I’ll go with that. Better than what the U.S. has now.
Background checks in the US are practically equivalent to purchasing permits in CH, except the data retention is less specific because the date of purchase and what is purchased is harder to tell. Concealed carry was only restricted in the 1990s by gun-grabbers.
Also the US isn’t a monolith with one set of laws.
They both check you don’t have a criminal record and/or aren’t prohibited from purchasing guns. They both allow you to buy a firearm once they have cleared. You have to pay either way. Purchasing permits you get from the police, background checks are done by licensed dealers but the authorisation comes from executive power as well.
What’s the difference?
EDIT: My good faith is still on less shaky ground than the UN saying guns cause violence but having armed guards whenever and wherever they like.
The US has a well-known loophole allowing people to buy guns without any check or registration by buying from a private citizen or at fairs.
Switzerland has no such exceptions. To acquire guns, you need to apply for a permit and register them. Inherit guns? Same. Go to a gun fair? The cops are actually there so you can get an express permit if you had already been giving a valid one that’s less than a year old.
Licensed dealers aren’t allowed to check anything: you bring the permit delivered by the police, they check that and your ID and have to file the registration on purchase.
In Switzerland, there is no legal framework for gun self-defense and it states so clearly on the permit: it’s a permit to buy a gun (and related gear like ammo), you can keep it at home, take it (strictly unloaded including mags) to the range or an armorer and that’s it. Carry permits are only for professionals.
Edit: Switzerland is actually more permissive in the type of weapons one can buy as long as one gets the right permits. Buying a fully automatic short-barrel rifle with a suppressor would be much easier and cheaper than in the US. The hassle would be finding a place to shoot it since taking a full-auto to a range requires an additional daily permit and the range to allow it.
If someone has traces of THC in their system they’re automatically a criminal if they handle a gun. If they downloaded a film and they’re a convenient target politically they can also get in trouble (unenforced laws are enforceable).
It’s like Twitter and that manchild on top try to make the worst possible decision at any issue over and over again.
Here is another one for the 2024 Bullshit Bingo: Twitter employees sacrifice orphaned children to their dark gods. Some users consider using the site a little less for a few days.
This is absolutely gross and dangerous behaviour if this is what it sounds like: calling protests against genocide and Zionism as somehow “antisemitic”.
There are real antisemites to be fought against: actual Nazis, MAGA assholes, Casa Pound, Proud Boys, etc.
Anti-Zionists are not antisemites.
The same anti-fascists who are fighting against all these true antisemites are also the same people who are fighting against the genocidal ideology of Zionism.
Zionism is just another fascist ideology. It depends on apartheid, settler colonialism, and ethnic cleansing in order to build an ethnostate.
It’s absolutely disgusting of Zionists to pull out the “antisemitism” card when Israel and Zionism are being called out. They’re intentionally trying to muddy the water and it puts innocent people in danger.
I would love to see chargers more incentivized at workplaces. As solar becomes more common charging during the day is going to make more sense than night. There are already ways to track charging costs and bill them out or just consider it a job perk. Most people don’t need to charge 300 miles a day so even if every single employee drives an EV you probably only need to install enough chargers for somewhere like ¼ of the cars on site. Yes some people need to drive for work, but there are a lot of cars that sit all day and could be running on solar instead of charging off something else at night instead.
Bolts in need of “additional tightening” have been found during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9s, United Airlines has said.
Inspections began after a section of the fuselage fell from an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 on Friday.
United Airlines said “installation issues” relating to door plugs would be “remedied” before the aircraft type would return to service.
In its statement, United said: “Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug - for example, bolts that needed additional tightening.”
The door plug is a piece of fuselage with a window that can be used as an emergency exit in certain configurations.
It was this part of the Alaska Airlines plane which dramatically fell off mid-flight over the US state of Oregon, eventually landing in a teacher’s back garden.
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