FAA is confirming staffimg issues at Jacksonville ATC. SouthWest has confirmed they're having to stop flights into Florida for the same reason.
Folks, it would appear we have a vaccine mandate strike among air traffic controllers.
@StutterBox20
Magneto was sent to Auschwitz as a kid and watched his entire die
Wolverine was turned into a lab rat and suffered so much torture he lost his memories
Shoto Todoroki was bred to be a perfect hero, and was subjected to abusive home conditions to turn him into a weapon
-Plain clothes
-Personal vehicle
-No identification
-No tools
-After dark
-Taking photos with a telephoto lens
-Trespassing on the home of a SF Colonel
-Two cellphones
-Works for a firm owned by a Moldovan with ZERO English language presence
On 5/3/24, a Delta Force soldier shot this unarmed utility worker five times and killed him while he was doing his job in a small town by Fort Bragg. Needless to say, the sheriff's office is keeping the shooter’s identity a secret and blaming the victim.
But, its not like that would matter anyways.
Local authorities are arresting farmers for being on their tractors.
In a field.
By themselves.
Due to Zero COVID policies.
There is this myth in the west that the CCP is some forward looking chessplayer able to look far into the future. The reality is they are just as reactive as Western powers - and are more likely to choose wrong due to information isolation.
Hey, remember when Patriot Front got arrested in Idaho?
Turns out, the FBI helped them get off by refusing to turn over evidence to either the municipal prosecutors or defense attorneys in a timely manner.
@AsheSchow
Swine Flu had a lower r0 (1.5 vs 2.28), lower cfr (0.01 vs ≤1.5), lower complication rate (insignificant vs 20%), and asymptomatic infection period. This means it will infect more people, faster, and it will hit those who're in the risk group harder than H1N1 did.
Further a third of farmers in Jilin, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang can't get fertilizer or seeds for the spring crops.
Because said fertilizer and seed is stuck in cargo holds in Shanghai.
The logic of dictatorship turns subordinates and advisors into christmas tigers and mires leaders in the sunk cost fallacy.
Which is what we're seeing here.
COVID isn't a zombie plague.
Xi isn't trying to fuck over the world.
He's trying to stay alive. Literally.
@kathleenmRDN
The Med diet? The diet created due to Phoenician and Carthaginian merchants creating trade routes between Anatolia, North Africa, the Levant, and Europe?
That diet?
For all the folks reading this and assuming some master plan, Xi is facing his third term.
If he fails in his bid to secure that term, he's a dead man. And if he admits he was wrong about Zero COVID, he looks sufficiently weak he may lose his bid.
And now truckers are just dumping food on the side of the road because they're being told they will have to be locked down in their trucks for weeks if they enter the city.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Shanghai, Anhui, Hebei, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Jilin, Guangdong, and Fujian have all gone a step further and shut down access to highways entirely.
Hey, remember when Obama traded five Taliban officers for a deserter?
Those guys were among the Taliban delegation in Doha who helped coordinate what we're seeing in Afghanistan.
Heckuva job, Obama.
Shandong
-101 M people
-Important source of fruits and vegetables
-One of the few major sources of domestic oil and natural gas
-Single largest agricultural export region in China
-Heavily dependent on Korean and Japanese tourism
@AtheistTakes
@doofgeek4011
Somehow, I'm not surprised to find I had to go to the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia to find he was condemned for claiming to be a wizard.
Martyr for science and reason indeed.
Just found out my grandfather may be going Home before the dawn comes tomorrow. If y'all could say a prayer to help ease his path, that would be greatly appreciated.
Semper Paramus, Grandpa.
Shanghai
-25 M people
-Financial hub for China, vital source of hard currency to secure importation of coal and food
-Primary gateway for imports into China
-Central ship building node
-Central node for the Real Estate sector which local governments have relied on for revenue
@liftweldshoot
@BadLegalTakes
The Highway of Death was against Iraqi military forces who hadn't surrendered. It is perfectly acceptable to attack military forces who are retreating.
Hebei
-74 M people
-Surrounds Beijing
-Primary industry is feeding Beijing with wheat and maize and millet
-Central node in petroleum and coal industry
-Central node for iron processing and steel production
Liaoning
-145 M people
-Central node for iron, steel, and tool and dye work
-Primary node for mineral extraction across Northeast China
-Central node for machine parts for light industry such as textile manufacturing and food processing
-Core node for agriculture
Fujian
-41 M people
-Key source of seafood
-Will be staging ground for China's invasion of Taiwan
-Military logistics a major industry
-Heavily dependent on imports from other provinces due to deliberate lack of investment ahead of future war with Taiwan
Guangdong
-126 M people
-Second largest subdivision economy on the planet by PPP
-Second most important cargo hub in China
-Central node in food processing
Jilin
-24 M people
-Key source of rice and lamb
-Key source of lumber
-Primary source of traditional medicines
-Central node for shale oil extraction
-Large molybdenum deposits
@jonathanalter
Except D.C. can't be made a state under Article 1, Section 8. The capital is supposed to be in a district under direct Federal control rather than in a state.
@StutterBox20
Sansa Stark. Just, Sansa. Poor girl.
Theon Greyjoy/Reek. You know why.
Harry Dresden.
The Doctor is known as the Lonely God for a damn good reason.
SCP-085 is a living 2D image who is fully aware of her status and is going insane because of it.
My sources are here, feel free to check my data.
Understand I'm extrapolating based on the way China censors their media and how much of the reality of this is subject to laws making hard data into state secrets.
@FallerForIt
The stupidest part? Studies show high levels of testosterone and combined with the discipline of regular workouts creates less toxicity in men.
Dudes hopped up on estrogen on the other hand...
@ManuelVenator1
@NewAtlantisSun
I'm not going to pretend I'm a China Watcher but people forget how recent Tienanmen Square was and how mutually insecure the Xi, the Central Committee, and the regional party cliques are in relation to each other and the population as a whole
@WorldWarWang
I could post a thread of just examples of tofu dregs construction disasters. All from the last five years.
You do NOT want to play this game.
@AnimeJ
@ACLU
He kidnapped two youth ministers, stuffed them in the trunk, tried to empty their bank accounts and pawn their rings, then shot them both and left them in the car. Which he set on fire.
@PalpyYT
Truce at Bakura
Thrawn Trilogy
X-Wimg Series
Jedi Academy Trilogy
Outbound Flight
New Jedi Order
Legacy of the Force
All were better stories. All were stripped of canon status.
The sequel trilogy sucks and should be removed from canon.
@AlexWebb_99
@Aaron4KS37
And blackmailed her (KS Stat § 21-6501) for explicit pictures of her (KS Stat § 21-5610) which he then released to the public (KS Stat § 21-5611 and KS Stat § 21-6101).
@lecrae
Its not the right who is instigating riots in primarily black communities; riots which will further impoverish those communities.
Its not the right who are fighting to trap black students in government run schools which leave them functionally illiterate.
@StutterBox20
SCP-231-7 is pregnant with a world ending monster and must be subjected to a battery of horrors to prevent said unborn threat from destroying reality. She has to be regular subjected to an amnesiac drug lest she become numb to the torture and give birth to the monster.
A bunch of people are unfollowing me tonight.
Y'all, I'm an American Catholic who obviously leans GOP based on my position as a Minarcho-Capitalist.
What did you think I was going to say about the potential to reduce the number of innocents murdered in the womb every year?
@PostOpinions
@David_Moscrop
Yes, how dare they...
*checks notes*
...oppose restrictions on travelling within their own country.
How authoritarian of them, promoting freedom of movement.
@AlbertLEtranger
Dude was, literally, the original James Bond. His step-cousin, Ian Fleming, has admitted to using Lee as inspiration for the character of 007.