Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Vox" channel.

  1. The irony of your comment is that Europe has been living off of American charity for decades in the form of military support/NATO. Had the US pulled out like it was supposed to in the 1960s, Europe would be a very different place now and not in a good way.
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  2. The citizenship question was part of the US census in the past, and no one complained about it. What gives people the right to complain now? Why are the immigrants of today special compared to those of the past?
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  3. Dangic23 As more people test, the database gets sharper and sharper. This Vox report is BS.
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  4.  @gtas321  If the US fractures, it will put the world in severe danger including those who want it to fall apart. New nuclear armed nations with battle axes to grind is a horrible idea.
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  5. marrobax They own you. You just never knew it before.
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  6. Abhishek Dev Don’t be so quick to say that. You would be shocked at how much information can be extracted from a 1% match. Take that ethnicity match, then find it in your chromosome paint map. Start looking for anyone else who matches you in that same area. Yes, sometimes if it is not a good match it can be a dead end, but often it can reveal some incredible stuff.
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  7. WeeWeeJumbo No offense, but Basquiat was proof that a black man can create garbage like Pollock too. Crap does not respect race.
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  8. you rock Someone tried that a few years back with 23&me. They sent cat spit instead of their own, and when the email came saying that the results were ready the link went to a page of kitten videos.
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  9. No mention of the crews ripping the AOA vanes off by over speeding at an unacceptably low altitude. Bad job, Vox.
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  10.  @jambott5520  It takes 20-30 minutes to get through TSA at the airport, and another 30 minutes on average to get to the airport depending on your origin point. Under the most optimum scenario in NYC, to get to Penn Station takes about 45 minutes from any of the outer boroughs, and longer if from the suburbs. The train has a defined number of destinations based on the track layout and availability, so new routes do not just pop into existence based on demand because they cannot. Airline routes are constantly opening and closing based on demand, so there is no real comparison there. BTW, good luck getting intercity train service that goes through a rural area with no stops. I will root for you on that, but the chances of you explaining to some hick congressman why his constituents are not important enough to get a stop while needing to put the trackage through his district is absolutely zero.
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  11.  @KRYMauL Where?
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  12.  @DutchSimmer1  You do realize that American policy in Latin America was responding to Soviet policy in Latin America, right?
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  13. Jimmy McGowan There is something going on beyond mere training with this. I really, really suspect there is a fundamental difference in pilot skills between USA pilots and third world ones, and that the overall system architecture of the 737MAX was intended for USA pilot skill levels alone. The third world doesn’t do rules the way the first world does, and I believe there is high probability that contributed to these accidents. Remember that crash at SFO a few years back? Asiana? Clear as crystal day, no wind, no clouds, a pilots wet dream of a day. Yet that crew managed to smash the threshold. Why? Because they literally didn’t fly the plane. They came in on autopilot, and had no idea how to compensate for it because they were never trained to do so. The plane was fine, the crew was not. I suspect that may be the case with these 737MAX incidents as well.
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  14.  @commentorsilensor3734  Buses are for minorities. This is an irrefutable fact of life in the US; visit any Greyhound or local mass transit system and examine the ridership and it will become very apparent where the distaste comes from. HSR would be no different and the problem of access would ruin it from the start.
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  15. Dr. Riq It’s going to happen no matter what. Even if they cannot get dna from the living, they can get it from the dead which will identify you all the same. No use in fighting this. Better to make the best of it and use it for good.
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  16. Bullies have dreams too, you know...
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  17. seban678 Uh...everything you just said basically exonerates Boeing. You do not re-engage MCAS after disengaging it. If this is true that they did that, while maintaining the ludicrous speed and altitude they were at then...pilot error. It almost sounds like they might have gone into panic mode instead of trying to follow the QRH and diagnosing the problem.
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  18. waterglass21 Bob Ross was craftsmanship. Application of learned skill and technique. Jackson Pollock was erratic splattering of paint on a canvas without form or meaning.
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  19. Michael M. Dahlheim They are moving the finish line by banning her.
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  20. Alberto Mattia Perronace XXY? Can’t be. That’s Klinefelters syndrome and she has none of the classic symptoms of it. More likely she inherited estrogen insensitivity of some sort. A whole genome scan would find it quickly.
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  21. 123puta3 She’s a sociology professor. I’m sure she has no agenda to push...(engage hand rubbing)
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  22. Moe Snert Try to cut US doctors pay, and the healthcare system will cave in on itself. Americans are not going to accept it like the Europeans do. They’ll say “see you” before you can finish dictating their new salary to them.
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  23. Schei MJ But here is the question though...why would any pilot choose to get even remotely close to an aircrafts vmo right after takeoff and below FL100? We know autothrottles were NOT engaged on both flights, so how did the speed get so high?
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  24. James Allen AFR447 was an operational structure accident. The plane was fine; the crew and oversight was garbage...
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  25. It is great around cities like Chicago or the BOSWAS corridor, but anywhere else it is really just land cruise service, for the tourists not the commuters.
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  26.  @yesidothecooking  It is sad that they do that crap. The hobby really has so much more to offer, and all these goofballs can think about is "muh percentages". They have no idea what it is capable of when it comes to no just merely personal or family history, but overall history as well.
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  27. Justine Louise It’s a numbers scam played out on the state level to cheat in elections. If you already know how people are going’s to vote in advance, you can work the math to make it impossible to lose. This is a major flaw in American politics.
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  28. Who is threatening to invade Australia? Papúa New Guinea?
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  29. No, the wealthy and powerful aren’t telling us what to do. Whites don’t want to live close to blacks because they know what comes with it. Black culture.
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  30. Country club memberships are not cheap either.
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  31. Zaxor Von Skyler Popular vote is a nice idea, but it invariably leads to disenfranchisement and separation.
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  32. Sarah Isles Uh, ever hear of Libertarian party? How about Green?
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  33.  @matthewwelsh294  The American worker cannot be trusted to handle gear like the Japanese do. To put high speed trains in the hands of drugged up Americans is a death wish.
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  34. Visual One Studio Shhhhhhh...there might be a safe space nearby!
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  35.  Riktim Salm  So multiple brand new nuclear armed nations with axes to grind with each other and foreign nations? Sign me up.
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  36. Mobil206 Mobil206 There is really, really easy and reliable way to destroy the AOA after takeoff...
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  37. The trains only serve cities and a few rural communities, which cannot compare to the access that roads provide. TrainBrain is a serious disease.
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  38. S Userman Two AOAs are part of an option package at time of purchase. US carriers to my knowledge have two. If Ethiopian had just one, and ripped it off because they tried fly a 737 beyond its manufacturer recommended operational speed limits, then the crew and airline are guilty.
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  39. John Smelt I wish I could give you 1000 thumbs up. This is exactly what I have been saying all along. I would not be shocked if they find that the jackscrew got stripped from them turning MCAS on and off like they did. Leave it off and get back on the ground is the rule.
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  40. Harvey Smith You do know that airbus has more onboard computers than Boeing, right? Are you familiar with something called fly by wire? Airbus was the first with that. You need many computers to handle it.
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  41. Kobe O'Neal No need to. Engine placement is fine, door height is fine.
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  42. He made people feel good and did bring about the end of the USSR, but apart from that he was a senile buffoon. He cost the US about 20 years in terms of infrastructure development and is directly responsible for the illegal migration crisis as well as globalization.
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  43.  @seban678  They might have been able to turn the trim wheels if they had eased off the speed...we will never know until the investigation is finished and the final evaluation given. But the consensus I have heard from pilots of the type appears to be unanimous. Breaking an aircraft Vmo is a bad idea.
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  44. theylied1776 I’d like to know more about this, care to share?
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  45. Is there a copy of the original Vacation script floating about? I know that Sixteen Candles got slammed for the asian stereotypes at the time.
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  46. Gouda cheese got you down?
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  47. raf221 Question: who pays the healthcare that compensates the drugstore?
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  48. Dejvid Çera What good would that do? The plane still would have crashed because the crew didn’t know what to do.
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  49.  @robertkirchner7981  Carter was so bad that he got replaced by a former B-movie actor. That is not a good legacy. One term presidents are one term for good reasons.
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  50. ludwig josh Depends on where they are from.
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