I get what you're saying. The empirical evidence just doesn't agree AFAIK.

You might not get stabbed, but driving is incredibly dangerous. Even just in terms of violence: road rage is tolerated to a large extent in America. The difference is that the news doesn't report even a small fraction of the traffic deaths in this country. In Iowa, the state I used to live in, around 300 people died every year from driving. I don't know a single one of those people despite their death being a tragedy. Whereas the stories you linked were broadcast coast to coast.

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

The 2025 crash near DCA, of course, absolutely spiked the number of recent commercial aviation deaths, but we haven't had any other aviation tragedies of that magnitude in more than a decade.

This can be a preventable tragedy without there needing to be a conspiracy behind it.

The only negative I can think of is that it will generally involve accepting and responding to clearances on short final. I think adding more tasks to that critical stage of flight probably increases danger a little. Especially for low time student pilots like myself. That's particularly relevant in the U.S. because we have a higher percentage of student and private pilots than most of the world.

Overall, though, I'm fully convinced this would be safer.

Something like this:

https://a.co/d/4pVIpRV

I think you just find one with the same output specs as your PS5.

ADS-B out is still relatively new (especially in aviation terms) so I expect we'll see this continue to evolve.

[1] https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-reentry-pollution-dama...

I'd love to see some hard data on this (I've tried to find it in the past, but there's so much fluff about this subject)!

For that reason, I've never understood the obsession with loading the plane quickly.

[1] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a...

Not saying that's a good thing. But giving up plastics (not just in our personal life, but across the entire supply chain we rely on) would probably be harder for the average American than giving up alcohol for a drunk.

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Basically, the only way to know if you need a protein supplement is to track your macros. That means logging everything that you eat throughout the day. Personally, I eat lots of meat, and only need a protein shake occasionally. Before I started tracking I way over-indexed on protein. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it was a waste of money (carbs and fats are both cheaper).

Additional protein won't hurt you, but it's not going to increase muscle growth. Especially not without hypertrophic exercise.

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Reminds me of a Philip K. Dick short story titled Progeny. In its universe children are raised exclusively by robots. Unlike humans, they never make mistakes or commit abuse. The child, once grown, ends up seeing his Father as an animal and the robots as his kindred. In the last pages, he chooses the sterile world of the robots instead of joining his Dad's work/explorations in the far reaches of the solar system.

Our current chatbots are still flawed, but they're still sterile in the sense that you can trash them and start anew at any moment. You're never forced to converse with someone who is uninteresting, or even annoying. Yet, these are the very things that grow people.

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It's a game changer to be able to copy photos directly from my Google Photos and not worry about it bloating my web pages.

[1] https://github.com/JosephNaberhaus/naberhausj.com/blob/05846...