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[Deep State Witch]

1. Sure they Will

By firing all of the ATCs and replacing them with AI.

[Johonny]

2. Because they know how to do that, right?

[Rainman4u2C]

9. To be fair.

Not negating the fact that he is fucking crazy and a Rump lackey he does own the company that is out performing NASA. His company could probably improve ATC and at least upgrade them from the use of paper strips and floppy disc technology.

“Calio also said that it “blows his mind” that controllers still use floppy disks to upload data to IDS4 (Information Display System) computers in more than 200 ATC facilities. IDS-4 was first deployed in the early 1990s.

Calio said, “How is the FAA supposed to attract young talent and compete for jobs when they use technology that most 20-30 years old have never even seen?”


https://www.businessairportinternational.com/news/technology/airlines-slam-us-government-on-outdated-atc-technology.html

[tinymontgomery]

3. I won't be flying anytime soon. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Because they think they are so smart. "Move fast & break things" is not applicable to aviation safety

If a write to a database at X goes wrong, data for 67 users gets messed up.

If ATC software messes up on 67 users in a plane, .... there will be hell to pay.

[dalton99a]

5. DOGE will move fast and break things.

[travelingthrulife]

6. No more flying for me then.

[Prairie Gates]

7. God help us...I'ma stay off the planes until some grown-up fixes their fuck ups

[Oneear]

8. What happened to Fly the Safe Friendly Skies

Will the FAA add to the Rules for Drones that shall file a preflight plan before they launch Keep Us Safe FAA

[Mordred]

10. Why is this

Being treated like some crisis intervention?

1st US commercial airline crash in 15+ years in an era of 45k daily domestic flights. An over-reactionary remedy is beyond absurd.

[struggle4progress]

11. Admin Invites Elon Musk and DOGE to Wreck Country's Planes

... Musk, famous for self-crashing cars, will now be handling the country’s aviation system.

After a horrific start to his tenure, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has decided that our aviation system needs Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE’s help.

“Big News–Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” Duffy wrote Wednesday on X ...

https://newrepublic.com/post/191203/elon-musk-doge-transportation-planes-aviation

[struggle4progress]

12. SpaceX Starship rocket blows up

Jan 16, 2025 #elonmusk #spacex #starship

ELON Musk's Starship rocket reportedly exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight in a dramatic mid-air failure.

Incredible footage shows glowing debris raining down across the sky after the 400ft behemoth launched from Boca Chica, southern Texas, on Thursday ...

[struggle4progress]

13. ... Sean Patrick Duffy ... gained fame as a cast member on

The Real World: Boston,
1998's Road Rules: All Stars
and 2002's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Duffy

He has no ideas about what he's really supposed to be doing so he's just busily brown-nosing

[keep_left]

19. I've made a few posts over the years about Duffy and his wife...

...Rachel Campos-Duffy. And yes, they are best known for their appearances on several MTV "reality" shows. Rachel Campos-Duffy is one of the benchwarmers on Fox and Friends Sunday, a placeholder show that no one watches. (Until he was selected by Trump for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth was also one of the hosts).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216091204#post25
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216091204#post29

The Duffys have been on the wingnut welfare teat for decades. They're radtrad fundamentalist Catholics, so they also run that grift on EWTN etc...Rachel Campos-Duffy had some kind of sinecure job funded by the Kochs at one point. They don't seem to have any kind of regular job associated with an actual physical product or service. They're always making TV appearances, etc., all of which must be paid for...

https://democraticunderground.com/100217969495
https://democraticunderground.com/100217969495#post64

I didn't watch [MTV's] The Real World much...but I viewed enough episodes to see that Campos-Duffy was a constant antagonist on that show. One of the personalities on TRW was the son of a Black Panther activist or something, and another was a gay man living with AIDS (and who died during the show, as I recall). Campos-Duffy was always on someone's back about every conservative outrage du jour, and of course having a gay man and a "Black militant" as roommates meant that there were always fireworks when Campos-Duffy was around.

Campos-Duffy and her husband are constantly making TV appearances, and both of them now co-host Fox shows (Campos-Duffy on Fox News, Sean Duffy on Fox Business). I have also seen Campos-Duffy on EWTN (radtrad Catholic TV).

[Wingus Dingus]

14. Now we know how any political rivals or investigators will be "taken care of".

[alarimer]

15. Rapid and safety do not go together.

Look at Musk's rockets and how often they fail.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Pray for us.

[sakabatou]

17. I mean, it's not like Tesla's own AI systems have failed before right?

Oh wait...

[bif]

18. May have to put any flying plans on hold.