But supposedly we’re getting kei cars, so at least there’s that.

That’s the thing, they aren’t buying up “troubled” things, they’re looking for high return investments to future proof them against the decline of oil or anything that buys them western influence or street cred. A disgraced, homicidal, drug using pilot isn’t any of those things.

He might be able to get away with a flying gig somewhere in the world but not in any first or second world and most third world countries. Saudi is way too on top of their shit to allow his dumb ass in a cockpit again; his only options are truly the bottom of the barrel worldwide.

The FAA will never issue him even a private pilot certificate again in his entire life, let alone a commercial to be allowed to fly as a bush pilot.

Saudi isn’t the type of country that would overlook this, especially with the taboo on drug use in the Middle East.

The countries that would overlook this are few and far between with other serious issues making it not worth trying.

Not quite, someone posted that he could end it and he responded that if the WFP provided a plan showing the specifics of how world hunger could be ended for that amount he would fund it. WFP then provided a plan for how that amount could be used to help reduce world hunger for a short time and Elon said “the claim was end world hunger, not reduce it temporarily” which meant they didn’t meet challenge.

This is nothing new or unique. As much as it sucks when it’s blatantly obvious like this, there isn’t a true and objective way to draw perfect districts. If you cut the state into perfect squares then you group completely unrelated communities on either side of a large river that have nothing in common and one overwhelms the other. Sometimes one niche population is one county over from another one that’s twice the size. A lot of times a certain state does have a serious political bias. Independent districting committees with members from both sides still come up with wildly gerrymandered maps. A lot of times they aim for “highly competitive” elections where both sides have a real chance at winning any given election, but if the state is genuinely deep blue or red, that’s gerrymandered as well even if it “feels” democratic. 538 had an awesome map where you could visualize unfair advantages for each, highly competitive districts, compact districts (no absurd shapes like this one) and compact but follows existing county lines, but when ABC bought them they gutted everything good about 538 and just used the name for their existing garbage election reporting hoping to lure in a few more viewers so it’s now wiped off the face of the internet.

It’s only a small portion of Austin. If you take a sliver of a city where 20k people live and add it to a large rural district with 30k people across thousands of square miles you then spread the population of the dense city across the rural districts without overwhelming the ratio.

Downvote all you want without responding but it doesn’t change the fact that you’re not quite the aviation expert you think you are internet . A sub 250g drone is quite unlikely to bring down a large, multi engine aircraft on its own. You really should give the aviation engineering and safety world a bit more credit, the worst generic and isolated damage that could do is take out one of its engines, but realistically it’s probably more likely that they could continue to run it just fine until they are well clear of everything with little to no immediate ill effect, it would just make it more expensive to repair to keep using it. For low level ops they will have a one engine out climb out calculated for ridge crossings and several other things would need to go very wrong to compound a small drone strike into a full crash. The bottom line is drones are more or less equivalent to birds and planes hit birds all the time. Occasionally they lead to some bigger mishaps like the massive flock of very large geese that caused the miracle on the Hudson, but in general, large planes don’t stop flying from a small object hitting them.

Now none of this means it isn’t still incredibly fucking stupid, selfish and dangerous. The asshole that did it deserves to have the entire book thrown at him with serious federal jail time. What he did was horrendous enough it doesn’t need ignorant hyperboles about nearly bringing down the plane from a small ding that could have gone unnoticed in flight. It’s still expensive to repair, degraded the capability of the plane and reduced firefighting against the fire and could have been far worse had it gone into an engine, but the plane landed just fine after the impact.

Except it kept flying and made a safe landing. It would be completely possible for the crew to not even notice that impact if they didn’t happen to see it and only discover it on landing.

A small Cessna or helicopter are a different story but for a single impact from a drone of that size to cause a CL-415 to crash is extremely unlikely. Losing and engine or going through the windshield and injuring a pilot are definitely possibilities (although I would be surprised if the windshield wasn’t rated for some gnarly birdstrikes due to its low altitude based mission) and it’s still dangerous as fuck but planes like that are built to withstand far worse and have sufficient redundancies to keep flying safely in the event of an impact like that.

Insurance is literally a market of risk assessments. The odds of any given event are x, y and z and the cost of each of those events are a, b, and c. Take the number of people who are applying for policies and spread the cost based on the risks and figure out how much each needs to pay to be able to cover x, y or z should/when any of them occur. There’s discussions to be had on how much a percentage of profit should be allowable on the top and how much to subsidize on known high risk coverage that is not mathematically reasonable but it all boils down to buying risk based on the chance and cost of any given event happening. Act of God/Force Majeure make complete sense when framing it this way. The insurance policy is based on known and predicted risks. You don’t have volcano insurance in NJ and you don’t have hurricane insurance in Kansas because they aren’t expected disasters so they aren’t included in the risk calculations. Act of God is a catch all term for things beyond the expected scope of the policy which is based on clearly established limits and scenarios.

Don’t let reason and logic get in the way of his edginess.

Thankfully a single drone is unlikely to bring down a full aircraft like that but it’s still dangerous as fuck, not to mention the loss of firefighting capability while it’s down for repairs.

They’re not smooth brained at all. They know exactly what they are saying, but them gaining full control always takes priority over all other factors. Just because a foreign adversary did it to us, which they don’t like, doesn’t mean that they don’t still want to do it to us.

They’re novelty guns that aren’t generally circulating around. I’ve seen, held and shot some unicorns throughout my life but weldrods and clones are just too esoteric to really be out there. Spas 12, calico, mark 23, Glock 18, etc all fall short of the true myth that is a welrod, even with the modern production. I know someone who has a true SG44 and I’ve even disassembled a real HK G11 and checked out the XM8, still no welrod.

Welrods don’t really exist outside of video games and museums. You’re not going to see them on the streets or black market. It was almost certainly a homemade suppressor that caused malfunctions.

It’s not that easy. The vast majority of imports are banned and the remaining sporting imports are subject to significant restrictions. The overwhelming majority of guns sold in the US are produced in the US, even ones from foreign manufacturers. It’s not that dissimilar to cars.

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Airsoft?

That’s absolutely it, before the NRA gave up on promoting gun rights and imploded its political power never came from “buying politicians with industry money.” It came from a large pool of highly active voters with a shared primary issue. Their report card was more effective than any donation or individual campaign. Mobilizing large groups of voters is far more powerful than deep pockets. That’s also why nothing has changed since their collapse, pro-gun voters had been jumping ship to more effective groups for more than two election cycles now. “Defeating the NRA” didn’t result in a gun control win because by the end the NRA’s corruption did more to hurt gun rights than anything Bloomberg could buy; ripping that bandaid off entirely allowed the community to rebound even harder.