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  • stinktoSlop.@hexbear.netYa gotta love dem messaging!
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    This bill addresses aviation safety by increasing requirements for aircraft tracking and communication using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology and expanding oversight.

    As background, ADS-B for broadcasting (Out) and receiving (In) transmits information (e.g., location and weather information) between aircraft and air traffic control.

    Under the bill, aircraft must generally operate with ADS-B In equipment to provide the aircraft with location information of other aircraft and traffic advisories. Current law does not require this equipment.

    Current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations allow aircraft performing a sensitive government mission to be excepted from requirements for using ADS-B Out equipment. This bill limits which flights may be considered sensitive government missions (e.g., not training flights) and requires additional reporting and notifications for the exception.

    The Government Accountability Office must review the use of the ADS-B Out exception and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Transportation must annually audit FAA oversight of operations that use the exception.

    Further, the bill repeals a 2025 law that exempts certain military helicopters from the ADS-B Out requirements for the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

    The bill also requires

    • the OIG of the Army to audit the Army’s coordination with the FAA,
    • the FAA to establish an office to coordinate airspace usage of military aircraft and review the safety of flight operations and routes around airports, and
    • the FAA to enter into memoranda of understanding with military agencies for safety information sharing.


  • I was in a fratenity in college, quickly realized that a majority of cis men are just psychopaths.

    It’s one thing to make college kids do pushups and squats, it’s another thing to make them do the vile shit that “brothers” pitched.

    Drinking a liter of soy sauce killed a kid at a school near us, and after this happened the “brothers” thought it’d be a good idea to follow the trend.

    A lot of alcohol hazing that I had to intervene and stop, a lot of things that would cause damage I also prevented.

    We got in trouble with the university while I was there, I thought shit would be done for but they ended up only getting a suspension from holding events for a semester, great punishment! The national chapter got involved, but didn’t do anything other than making sure the pledges wouldn’t press charges and sent us on our way. I wanted to drop at that point but realized these kids had no other protection if I left so I stuck around to make sure nobody died.

    The one rule was that you couldn’t do to the pledges what didn’t happen to you, which was just incorrect, plenty of these kids joined through covid and had a soft process but turned around and did worse things as soon as they had the power to do so.

    I think the chapter is defunct now though, after graduating I would hear through the grapevine that they were in hot water due to grades, parties that ended up with hospitalizations, severe property damage, drugs, etc.









  • I taught as a substitute during / slightly after covid. These kids had no motivation. They would show up, take a nap, ask if they could leave early. I saw a kid with a 3% in his class.

    They were provided with no support, nobody cared about them or how things were at home, no interventions to identify the problem. School districts are too scared to fail children as well, they receive less funding, or risk a parent screaming and threatening lawsuits.

    I was subbing these 6th graders once, standing on tables, screaming, not doing any of their work. I gave about an hour for each assignment, but there weren’t any markers in the room that would let me teach the lesson plan to the class.

    Because Minecraft Education Edition is installed on all their laptops, they would play with each other for ~55 minutes, then I’d tell them to wrap up their work and they’d say they weren’t given enough time to do their 15 questions they were assigned. I called them out for playing minecraft and they were so shocked that I knew what the game was, like it didn’t come out when I was their age lol.

    I really can’t blame the kids though, it was the same when I was going to school, plenty of kids who had working or uninvolved parents. Now they’re at school and the teachers are uninvolved as well, administration will gladly spend millions they don’t have to grift some new AI tool that will never be used.

    My mother, thankfully, was involved deeply when we came home from school as a child. I’d get home at 3, had an hour to play outside or watch TV while she cooked, then after dinner it was homework / studying until bedtime.

    What parent can be involved in their children this much, now, in the west? I’m not talking 💩 but a lot of my peers are having children only as an accessory, just following the motions of what society is expecting of them. How many people would sacrifice the time to make sure their children are nurtured to the best of their abilities? Schools were good enough to mask that problem, but they’ve gotten so bad to reveal all the flaws.

























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