danielschonfeld

I agree with your mom’s sentiment. It’s exactly that. I also feel that generally hope is gone - nobody actually sits there imagining the US becoming what it felt like in the 90s and that’s probably the root of the problem. We all kinda internalize this is the decline.

This is it. It’s amazing how accepting people of this reality and how resigned they are about it.

Build human scale cities with narrow streets and lots of outdoor parks and easily accessible reliable and frequent public transportation.

Not our American excuse for cities ruled by automobiles and asphalt everywhere with very limited options of all of the above.

PS - I imagine I’ll be downvoted because the epidemic is world wide and not unique to the US. That said, our acute situation is unique in that our infrastructure literally steers you into loneliness and no chance of randomly bumping into people and striking conversation.

Thoughts and prayers are all we have in this country. Nothing will be done about that just as nothing is done about guns or healthcare. Just more thoughts and more prayers.

I think the efficiency of the market for lack of better term is showing its hand here as it is in everything else.

You used to go to an airport and see maybe 10 different airplane types and about twice that in trials and airline colors. Now you see three for each roughly.

I don’t have those I’m sorry. Not that much into it.

If you need a better understanding look for a video of a pilot I think in South Africa or Australia who took a cameraman and his wife and stalled shortly after takeoff.

It’s interesting to see how many warning signs throughout the whole video are glaring at him yet he keeps flying all the way into the crash. What’s also interesting is that that’s it. Just warning signs but if you really try to put yourself in his shoes it’s entirely hard to accept the warnings as everything on surface level understanding seems normal, controlled and flat. Very very very flat.

I think the biggest problem with real life stalls as compared to training world ones are that they are either more benign or entirely out of left field and believing you’re about to go into one doesn’t even begin to enter the pilot’s mind let alone correct recovery techniques.

While some base to final stall accidents are as simple as you make it sound a good chunk of them happen when you try to come OUT of the turn at an already slow speed increasing the angle of attack on one wing alone. The stall and subsequent spin catches the pilot entirely surprised unaware of why they’re even stalling and with very little escape bandwidth.

The FAA has been trying for better angle of attack instrumentation but what I described above isn’t an easy fix with technology.

When you talk to pilots who inadvertently stall spin and lived to tell the tale most of them will tell you they didn’t even recognize that they were in a stall. That’s where the problem starts.

I wish this was the top comment. Eradicated is exactly the the right word capturing the full gravity of the situation.

Respectfully save me the Ayn Rand. Some of us live in the real world and not the political utopias of our minds.

Every time the topic gets of healthcare comes up I always wonder how many doctors have tried themselves to interact with their own clinic (has to be their own)

Trying to do simple things like:

- Setting or getting an appointment.

- Calling to sort out their office’s coding error that resulted in me getting an erroneous bill

- Trying to get access to their portal or getting results for tests transferred in a realiable manner to another doctor’s office.

I truly think that they would be mortified beyond words and wouldn’t believe their name is on the sign up front.

American healthcare is the epitome of capitalism run amok.

It’s terrible and the only thing worse than the exorbitant fees is the complete and utter lack of consideration to the patient’s time.

Slight difference is that:

1) everybody read pretty much the same content. And not highly curated personalized content. So if you did strike a conversation with someone you’d have some common ground.

2) When starting said conversation the newspaper didn’t keep vibrating in your fingers or making sounds begging your attention back to it and you didn’t experience the FOMO of not giving said attention to it.

In other words. Sense of community was easier to establish and the artificial attention grabbers weren’t there for the social aspect of our beings to come between us as we try to do that social thing our species is known for.

I beg to differ. He didn’t divert, a diversion was pushed down his throat.

It’s also arguable that the diversion was the lesser safe course of action given his location.

Following along that logic. Nobody would fault the LH pilot for a similar judgement call requiring an immediate landing at the closest suitable airport, namely SFO.

ATC was in the wrong here and the attitude displayed was neither called for nor professional.

American Airlines (at JFK) proved you can call emergency just because you feel like it with no repercussion.

And really the pilot in command is the one in control. For the attitude that controller had he should have declared an emergency and told him what he was going to do and have him clear all airplanes around them.

Bullying attitude don’t belong in a game with 500mph (~300mph in this case) objects. If you’re going to be a bully expect others to play the game in the same manner.

That’s entirely lost in translation due to language barrier. Expecting a non American to pick up on that is futile at best.

Having that said, it’s incredible that pilots forget time and time again that as PIC they are the drivers of the airplane, not ATC.

This pilot could have easily declared an emergency and be asked to be diverted to SFO and be number 1. Deal with the ramifications later. And as we saw from American in JFK who was in a rush to get home early, nothing happens.

This has always been the problem with folks in all levels of education.

They view the world with glasses looking backward applying them to the present and future. (A form of if all you have is a hammer)

If yesteryear the rote learning curriculum was about knowing Who was X and what did Y do then they’ll expect that everybody coming in today should know that verbatim and convince you it’s in your future’s best interest to commit your memory to it too.

Rarely does life work that way. More so in real (western) life, it’s all a game and you score high if you can find how to cheat the game or carve a niche for yourself.

A society that punishes heavily for failure can’t expect that people would emerge well rounded. It can absolutely expect that people would be professional gamers.

This question is answered in the interview. She is saying that a household with a stable long lasting relationship is what’s driving these better outcomes. She’s also saying that in America marriage (unfortunately) seems to be the only way to keep people together for a long while (long enough for a child to not experience a parade of parents by the time they are 15 according to the article).

In my personal opinion. I think what she’s stumbled on is yet again proof of Americans hyper individuality rearing its ugly face. The Europeans can stay together longer without the marriage piece of paper because

1) Selfishness derived from hyper individuality doesn’t drive people to nope out of relationships at the first sign of minuscule problems or one side not getting their way

2) Since over there not everything is an economical benefit proposal people value the relationship with different metrics than our countrymen and women do.

I am not expert but I think OP means different hormones would start to get produced and others would become suppressed to support the creation of a placenta, to support the the lining of the uterus and to cease ovulation and menstrual cycle as well as to start supporting the growing embryo in terms of nutrients by means of generating and connecting blood vessels.

I read somewhere that pregnancy (unlike what is normally described) is a tug of war between the embryo which is the leach if you will on the mother which is the host. The embryo basically try consumes the host and so long as everybody is doing what they're supposed to, all the mechanisms end up keeping that war at bay with both participants making it alive at the end. If some mechanisms (and signals) were to misbehave one of the two would cease to exist.

That would imply that from a biological stand point it should have had a self serving purpose. But it kills the host. So what gives? Where is the logic?

Nah in the US we only save businesses. The bigger they are the better.

All this creative thinking is nice, but what has the US done in the past decade that is a full foot forward in terms of progress and increasing any quality of life? Everything is at a stalemate or deep freeze whether by politics, greed or just sheer ignorance.

Ground Proximity Warning System

…for those who aren’t into aviation

One has to wonder what it’ll take in this country to move away from cities meant for automobiles and not humans.

And the cost of your Aetna PPO per year?

Also this is anecdotal. I too have an Aetna PPO and can tell you of horrid stories and countless hours on repeated phone calls with them.

Not saying you just did this (you obv did not) but as a whole in this country we need to start dropping the “it didn’t happen to me so something must be wrong with you” mentality. It is pervasive in the healthcare topic and unfortunately in many other facets of American life.

Germans in WWII that enjoyed the fruits of the regime have sang its praises - that didn’t mean the war machine on the whole wasn’t decimating the people and their country. We shouldn’t lose focus of how our country is being decimated by our collective ineptitude.

Can we just finally admit that colleges are passé and have become nothing more than a signal and perhaps even a useless one at that?

This article tries to gently update the public’s 1930s worldview in teaching us that bank reserve don’t matter anymore and haven’t for a long while and to a lesser degree their respective central banks don’t either.

What matters is balance sheet capacity and how constrained it is or isn’t (Hint: it’s very constrained since 2008).

One thing I feel is clicking for me this year is that of inelastic systems. Be it monetary systems or one’s life occupation. The name of the game is being elastic and rigidity is the end all. Unfortunately as we age ?and as systems age) rigidity seems to be the default path and it takes greater and greater power and aptitude to fight that.

One I’m working on still is the unfairness of life. I understand it is unfair down to the level of the cell but how to come to terms with that I still grapple with.

If to judge by SF passing the first round of voting on Police use of deadly force with robots then I’d say we’re doomed.

I just wish I knew who are these people that vote yes on these things. They’re completely foreign to me.

That follows DHS guidelines. Ie do the same or worse.

Let me fix the above. It’s time to dismantle the DHS. Gut it.