Indeed 👍

That’s some vivid and disturbing imagery! :-)

So, no difference then?

Meanwhile, Ann Telnaes, the cartoonist at WaPo has resigned, after her cartoon (see link below) satirising all this toadying behaviour was rejected:

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

Ah, the Shaggy Defence.

Not 100% on this, but you might need to include the “https://www/.” part, rather than just the domain. Possibly not, but worth a try.

Are you pooh-poohing their poopologist protestation?

Fair enough - bear in mind that I posted 6 hours ahead of you, and I was getting info from a BBC live feed, not the posted article.

Regardless, I think we can agree that this is a horrendous tragedy and hopefully a full and accurate explanation can be found.

I don’t know, just reporting what was being said.

If enough (large) birds in flight got into the engines maybe it causes a fire? I don’t know though.

I saw a suggestion that the pilots may have been too distracted by other issues to put down the gear.

However, better to wait for a proper investigation.

I don’t know, just reporting what was being said.

If enough (large) birds in flight got into the engines maybe it causes a fire? I don’t know though.

177 now, and likely to be 179. Two survivors (both are crew members), everyone else dead. Horrible.

They’re saying there was a bird strike as they were coming in to land. Boeing may not be a factor on this one.

[Looks up Robert Smith’s mobile number…]

it doesn’t use any common protocols or software that anyone outside of NASA would be familiar with.

Suddenly Lemmy hates Voyager because it’s not FOSS…

Well hopefully not. I didn’t know it had been tried before, that’s interesting.

Sometimes they just really are giving away a MASSIVE YACHT!

If they gave the response “Alexander Dumas” wouldn’t it be rejected, regardless of pronunciation, because it wasn’t in the form of a question?

I guess, but for your average consumer that’s not going to be an attractive option.

Yeah, agree with all that, and something like this does have a feeling of inevitability about it.

I just feel concerned by the hero worship of this guy, it’s kind of disturbing to me.

Yeah, I know, but I feel like execs are more likely to want to go it alone and have exclusive artists than have to work out a way to share with each other.