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"Sure, me and millions of other Americans are done with corporate democratic candidates chosen for us by the DNC."

100% oops:

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

"Millions of Americans" have no idea what you're talking about Clown.

For most Americans, it is a Democrat versus a Republican.

'Tis clear you prefer the Republican ... more self-righteous for your comfort, nes pas?

0 for 2.

Tesla is level 2 autonomy, the driver is supposed to intervene when it's headed for the tracks.

The human ATC was intervening the entire time, the humans in the truck did not respond to radio calls.

Anyways, here's a basic introduction from NASA on the subject of AI/ML research for Air Traffic Management.

ntrs.nasa.gov

Like the comments to Lamp earlier about stock algos, we're again back to the Long Short Term Memory model for 4D deconfliction (x,y,z,time). Sequence prediction in time-series data so we know the probability of where an aircraft could be eventually.

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Another regional airline shut down overnight, all flights off
www.thestreet.com

... With jet fuel prices hovering at highs unseen for years due to the war in Iran, many smaller regional and charter airlines that already faced a tough market are at particular risk of bankruptcies and shutdowns.

In Europe, charter airline H-Bird was declared bankrupt by a Swedish judge earlier this month, while Mexican holiday airline Magnicharters just canceled all flights for two weeks in a situation that left hundreds of travelers stranded at popular vacation destinations across the country.

The abrupt shutdown left the Mexican government having to step in, working with larger airlines such as Aeromexico and Volaris to get travelers on evacuation flights.

In another shutdown that came very suddenly, German aviation giant Lufthansa revealed that it is permanently discontinuing its regional brand CityLine.

Established just five years after Lufthansa in 1958, the regional carrier served as a feeder airline, getting travelers from different cities in Europe to their flights at major airports such as Frankfurt (FRA) and Munich (MUN). ...


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Jet fuel prices double, leading airlines to increase baggage fees, raise fares
www.npr.org

... Jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the start of the war in Iran, a price increase even sharper than the spikes seen in gasoline and diesel.

In response, airlines around the world are cutting routes, raising fares, adding fuel surcharges and boosting baggage fees.

In Asia, some countries have been rationing fuel and restricting exports to cope with the profound shock to fuel supplies and to jet fuel in particular. "This is an Asian crisis," says George Shaw, an analyst at the trade analytics firm Kpler. "They're in a worse position than anyone else."

In Europe, several groups have raised alarm bells. Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, recently told the Associated Press that Europe has "maybe six weeks or so [of] jet fuel left." ...


Let's talk about the Islamic structure. There is no head, in fact, that is part of it strategy. The authority is decentralized, with religious guidance provided by diverse, independent scholars, imams.
It's fair to say there are moderates, but there are a large number of extremist "imams".

Given the following, we can now answer with a better perspective.

Incompatible with American society or incompatible wth the White Christian Nationalism that the GOP seems to be espousing?

Which mosque? Which Muslims?

What are those? Below is the stance of the many extremist Muslims; it's not just an opinion, they practice it, and expect you to practice it as well.

Lets take women/females, are they equal or subservient to men? When we look around the Islamic world, what do you see, treated as equals?
Lets take other religions? When we look around the world do the Islamic countries have large populations of other religions, or just "token" membership?
Lets take slavery? When we look around the world, what countries still have slaves (sure, sure they claim they are outlawed to get UN money, but its not enforced)?
Lets take homosexuality? When we look at the Islamic world, is homosexuality in the open?
Lets take food? Is non-halal allowed in Islamic countries?

How about blocking the roads to pray?
Call to Prayer throughout the town/city??

If Christians did this, would you have a problem?

Are these American society values? I contend they are not. Is the US an Islamic nation without the religion?

How do you know the mosque being built is moderate? Or extremist? Or is it possible to be built as moderate and turn extremist?

All of these reasonable questions the West isn't talking about. As I have stated, the West needs to neuter Islam extremism.
This will be very difficult given its proposition.
Its funny for me on the outside, as Muslims are clearly as intolerant, if not demonstrably more so, than Christians, yet the Lumpers will argue for Islam and not for Christianity.
In the end this is about the Tolerance Paradox.

@#2 ... if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran," ...

Geneva Conventions of 1949,
Article 51 - Protection of the civilian population
ihl-databases.icrc.org

...
1. The civilian population and individual civilians shall enjoy general protection against dangers arising from military operations. To give effect to this protection, the following rules, which are additional to other applicable rules of international law, shall be observed in all circumstances.

2. The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.
...


It's WillowBy.

He got locked out of his account and made a new account.

More from the article ...

...Diplomatic cables show Iran war is damaging US on multiple fronts across the world

The documents show the fallout for the US in Bahrain, Indonesia and Azerbaijan as it struggles to catch up with pro-Iran messaging.

The Iran war is risking America's global security ties and damaging its reputation, especially among the world's Muslims, according to a set of State Department cables obtained by POLITICO.

The cables, dated Wednesday, described the fallout of the war for America's standing in three countries in different parts of the world: Bahrain, Azerbaijan and Indonesia.

U.S. diplomats at embassies in the countries' capitals painted damning portraits of an America under siege in multiple media spheres by pro-Iranian actors that are exceptionally agile in the digital space.

In Azerbaijan, what had been a significantly improving relationship has hit a plateau at best, and appears to be faltering. Bahrain's government is facing questions about whether the U.S. abandoned it to fend for itself against Iranian drones and missiles. And Indonesia's leader could face growing calls to reduce security ties with the U.S.

Some of the cables describe anti-U.S. sentiment that is having an immediate impact, while others raise concerns that relationships could be in danger if the war continues much longer. Taken together, the cables paint a picture of countries where the U.S. is losing the population's trust, and potentially that of their governments.

The cables carry veiled requests for the Trump administration to free up American embassies to fight such negative narratives online and in traditional media. ...


That's a shame! Seems like a decent person in real life and she played one of my favorite characters.

Hoping for the best for her.

Kelly Bundy Rests small

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