David Delagarza

Interesting that the international line regularly dips into the negative, whereas the NZ line never does so. Price drops only occur in a competitive environment.

Still #internationalcatday on the other side of the dateline!

Our little country does some cool things sometimes.

And in return we get...15% tariffs for no apparent reason.

The 3d print file had an alternative to allow LEDs to be installed, with solar charging, but I'll be happy with red nail polish for now.

New toy for my desk in New Zealand. #OG303

32 here. Airports only adds 1 that I can recall.

I need one...

To my knowledge there are no modern incidents of these switches moving shutting off one engine, much less two. It is an important line of inquiry, but at this stage it's highly improbable.

Pilot action is, by far, the most probable cause. The question is whether it was inadvertent or intentional.

I mean my brain has short circuited and I've accidentally put the salt in the refrigerator before, so muscle memory does weird things.

But this is more akin to turning your car off on the interstate, which I've never come close to doing.

TLDR: Stop. Building. In. Floodplains.

It should be noted this is not unique to Texas or the USA even. I've worked in multiple jurisdictions, in a number of countries and they all struggle with this.

Then the whole cycle repeats. After all, floods are cyclical.

Yes, climate change is increasing the frequency of damaging floods, even pushing floods above design events.

But the vast majority of losses in Texas, and most flood events I have examined, were in areas of identified flood risk.

And the authorities, unwilling to be perceived as impinging on property rights, continue to allow development in areas of known flood risk.

And then the floods come. And the refrain is "we will rebuild!" And governments, wanting to appear helpful, step in and fund the rebuilding.

A large part of my career has been dedicated to the science of identifying flood zones and impacts. And time after time, I have seen that advice go unheeded.

"I've lived here 40 years and never seen a flood that bad" is a common refrain.

The Texas tragedy is awful. And it was preventable. No, not through more warnings and day-of action.

It's said that floods are manmade disasters. They are manmade through the choices we make as a society in placing people in harm's way in the years and decades preceding the - predictable - event.

Fair enough, with the exception of A-line and 16th St. I'd go out of my way to avoid it too

USB-A in Christchurch. (I happen to be on a bus right now)

We've got charging ports on our city buses in Christchurch, is that not more or less standard now?

The number of times I've said, "An AI is only as good as the data it was trained on" over the last year...

You can make most every argument about how anything in history could have been done better but there is just no case that Achilles at Troy, Lincoln at Gettysburg, Truman after Hiroshima, or Churchill on D-Day would have been more effective by concluding:Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Just learning about this as well!

Lots of Andor vibes lately, especially Ghorman.

This almost certainly happened because someone used AI to generate the list and didn't bother checking it. It just goes to show the completely arbitrary and thoughtless nature of that administration.

How did they include several islands that are part of other countries (e.g. Norfolk and Reunion) & uninhabited subantarctic islands?

Answer: someone used AI. And no one bothered to check it.

This is a completely unserious administration. It'd be hilarious if it weren't playing with fire.

what do you want to bet the 'track other aircraft' feature gets turned off after a few instances of passengers panicking when they don't realize the aircraft they think is about to collide with them is a mile below them?

The location-specific ones! Could introduce to a less linear game by putting up "toll gates" that need to be cleared prior to continuing at major stations. Or carefully craft a ChatGPT prompt to have it generate a location-specific challenge.

SpaceX lost another Starship and is again posing a major and unacceptable safety risk to air traffic in the Caribbean.

The FAA needs to stop this from....ah shit that's right Musk owns the FAA now, or whatever. Cool cool cool.

I think if you go and spend your American dollars on Canadian products, they'll be happy you're there. Not going would be a de facto boycott which is the opposite of what they need. Foreigners are well aware that it's not all Americans who support the current regime.

Witnessed a little bit of history today, as the RNZAF landed one of their retired C-130 Hercules on the grass outside the Air Force Museum of New Zealand.

Though it’s a former airfield, it closed 16 years ago, and is now mainly a housing estate, with the main road built along the old runway.

Yeah, I got a heads up it was coming, but had unavoidable conflicts