Theory: ATC role will change from making decisions to verifying decisions, reducing their workload & freeing them up to monitor/oversee more effectively.
Capitalism Reality: ATC ideal-state workload reduced, so ATC headcount reduced. When AI fails or screws up, not enough ATC to recover. *boom*

It would be a cool irony except the islands affected by this are blue.

Islesboro leans conservative, but they have a daily ferry so of all the islands involved they will be the least affected if Penobscot Island Air has to discontinue daily USPS services.

No one seriously thinks it is. Venture Capitalists are investing other people's money into anything that looks like it will fail so they can collect their commissions and fold.

Think Mel Brooks' "The Producers"

Might I respectfully submit a small adjustment?

Donald Trump wanted a commemorative stamp with his face on it but the focus group said 65% of Americans would spit on the front side and the other 35% would lick the backside so hard it would remove all the adhesive.

Donald Trump wanted a commemorative stamp with his face on it but the focus group said 65% of Americans would spit on the front side and the other 35% would lick the backside.

So we gotta keep fighting for the youngers. I hope we see some stability. I just don't expect it, really.

Is FIFA issuing Medals of Honor now? Or will that one come from Palantir or a Trump company?

And he will keep leaving the Church over and over until someone cares, I guess.
No one will, of course. Not even the skin-bag of festering hate he has sworn allegiance to (and if you believe in Catholic doctrine, apparently has sacrificed his immortal soul for).

I was going to type a snarky comment similar to that but you've captured the sentiment far better than I could.

... but then, once that has settled, if we still have a country and a world interested in pursuing peace, we have the opportunity to slowly recover and eventually make it better.

I'm close to 60 years old and do not think that will happen in my lifetime any more. But someday, with enough work...

It will get worse right up until he no longer holds thrall over a significant portion of the US population for reasons I will never understand.
Then it will continue to get worse in the thrashing of the death throes of all the horrible things he has built and the horrible people he has enabled. ...

In general, the guys would intend to bring their would-be bride to the US. For the women, this can be an accelerated path to citizenship.

A former friend made several trips to find "the one". He ended up marrying one who was the perfect "trad wife", a few years later she got citizenship & left him.

Far Side comic with a man in a fancy uniform sitting at a desk in an opulent office with a large portrait of himself on the wall. Two people in lab coats have just entered the room and one of them is saying: "Sorry, your Highness, but your're really not the dictator of Ithuvania, a small European republic. In fact, there is no Ithuvania. The hordes of admirers, the military parades, this office -- we faked it all as an experiment in human psychology. In fact, your highness, your real name is Edward Belcher, you're from Long Island, New York, and it's time to go home, Eddie."

When you give information to someone as insecure and self-absorbed as Trump, they just *have* to play "I know something you don't! even if it's incredibly important that the "something" be kept secret. The US would be far more secure if no one told him anything.

Trump needs to be an Eddie Belcher.

I mean, I'm imagining the posts on "Truth" Social:

"BE AFRAID, IRAN, 52 BOMBERS ARE FLYING IN FROM THE NORTHEAST TO TARGET [list of targets] AND WILL ARRIVE AT 12PM EASTERN TIME! FEAR THE MIGHT OF THE USA DESPITE WHAT SLEEPY JOE DID TO OUR READINESS! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"

"I liked it very mulch, thanks!"

The "3" in front of it will either be "3 gallon maximum due to rationing" or the Trump administration will decide that the US needs to immediately convert to the Metric system, starting with selling gasoline by the liter instead of the gallon.

The gnomes that move electrons around for Bluesky are apparently either on partial strike, very drunk, or both.

(more seriously, it usually just means there is too much traffic for the site to handle - which could be a LOT of active users or a denial-of-service attack or both of those things)

Ook.

Not all heroes wear capes, but it's okay if you do, in fact, wear a cape.

So, ironymaxxing, then?

Sorry, still not buying it.

No, if you mention turbines to him he would probably confuse it with "turban" and start targeting Sikhs in his next racist tirade. Best to keep terms simple for him so the fewest people are harmed.

Only to a Waffle House, and when they are blind-drunk. But if those conditions are met, sure.

I realize you are joking but this is very likely the crux of the looney-toons conspiracy theory at play here.
"They land way out at sea so there are no witnesses to observe that no one gets out of the capsule/the 'astronauts' climb into the capsule form the boat unfilmed before they get out/etc"

The power is just electricity that can go on the grid, or be used to charge EVs on site (which can be done via free or paid stations).
The shade would benefit all car owners regardless of "fuel" type as it would save significantly on having to cool cars down on hot sunny days.

I thought you were kidding. Ethanol-powered porn is the best, innit?

I'm as average as they come. Today was the first I learned of him and... study? no. I look back to yesterday when I was not aware of his existence as a slightly better day (not much, given how fucked the rest of everything is, but being unaware of him again would be a small but nice thing).

If Tucker Carlson hates it, then the mistake was a highly productive and beneficial one to society as a whole and we should cherish that.

Not really a new kind, sadly, but a kind that would generally not have received a lot of airtime 30 years ago except on some bizarre fringe MTV-after-the-music-died reality TV show, or a kind that would simply have not manifested in public because the opportunity to gain attention for it was rarer.

From "looksmaxxing" to "agemaxxing" in a decade, huh?