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* This morning, all airline flights were grounded due to software issues at the Federal Aviation Administration. This could distract Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is on a mission to fix racist roads and punish Southwest Air Lines for computer software issues. The Department may fine Southwest. Transportation, and reimbursing expenses to stranded passengers. Do you think anyone at the FAA could lose their job or be demoted for this failure? Will the FAA pay any passengers who are stranded? Heh.
I don’t think Mayor Pete’s 2024 presidential ambitions will be helped by today’s fiasco. It is encouraging to see that the Department of Transportation has their priorities straight. The latest DOT budget appropriation
The system that crashed was also NOTAM, which used to stand for “Notice to Airman” before the FAA took possession of Stanford’s banned words.
* Now the climatistas want all of our gas appliances to be taken away, starting with stoves and ranges. I have only one message for them: They can take my Wolf gas range (especially the middle one), wrapped around my large assault spatula.
Guess who won’t give up their gas cooker?
* Scientific American continues to be free-fall into becoming WOKERific American.
But when will they drop the “American” from their titles? They didn’t get the Stanford language instructions.
* Stanford has removed the silly document. This is what happens when universities are caught being willfully ignorant. Here are a few nice points from the article
“I’ve always felt proud to be an Iranian American immigrant. But to follow Stanford’s new language standards, I would need to call myself an ‘Iranian U.S.-citizen person-who-immigrated.’ This seems awfully wrong,” Code.org CEO Hadi Partov wrote in a Twitter thread.
“Stanford University published an unapproved list of harmful language they want to eliminate. YouTuber Iman Gadzhi tweeted. “And you still believe going to college will make your smart and successful?”
This question is being answered by more people, especially young men, who are often disapproved of higher education today. Despite the fact that the U.S. population continues to grow, college enrollment fell by 650,000 this year.
* It seems that the Stanford announcement was not sent to USC’s School of Social Work.
When will the USC School of Social Work remove the term “Work” from the department’s official title? Isn’t “work”, another oppressive term of white supremacist oppression?
Chaser–from a Press Release from Bentley University highlighting the expansion of their DEI Programs:
LinkedIn reports that diversity roles and inclusion roles have increased 71% worldwide over the past five years. Median salaries range from $84,000 to $126,000. Industry experts predict that there will be continued exponential growth in the future due to the racial justice movement.
We get things like the Stanford language book and USC’s self-abasement in return for all that money.
UPDATE: A knowledgeable reader has made an update on the first item.
The FAA’s Notice to Airmen system was originally a teletype thing back in the 40s, 50s. It was designed to ensure pilots were aware of dangerous and unusual conditions on a short-term basis.
It has been dragging it along since years. Bureaucrats, Ass Protectors, and others have been adding stupid stuff to the system for years. It turns a few bullet points into pages and pages of reading before it’s time to fly. Many of them are a waste of time and a complete waste of money.
It is not clear if the platforms on which the program runs are capable of handling the workload or if it was hacked.
