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Trekkin

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« Reply #34755 on: February 12, 2020, 09:06:48 am »

I am just wondering how buttigeig is getting so much love.

Its an open ended curiosity, it just does not seem to fit for me.

I sat down with a science journalist once and we got to talking about how popular science reporting is motivated, and ze said something that really stuck with me. Every "sci&tech" article in the popular press is read for one reason: because people want to feel like they're Very Smart for "understanding" a Complicated Science Thing. (Air quotes zirs.) Accuracy almost doesn't matter, because people get the same ego boost for disbelieving the article on minutiae as they do for getting enthusiastic because gee-whiz all them figures sure have lotsa stuff in 'em. The point isn't to educate or inform, but to make people feel good for having read them, and that means fitting into the intersection between as many existing narratives as possible and eliding anything that might snag on the way into the average mind.

Buttigieg is the political expression of that ethos. He's conventionally impressive to unimpressive people in easily understood ways, and he fits neatly into several galaxy brain takes about how Democrats only win when they run moderate Republicans like Obama or how we need a young fellow to shake up the establishment. If it makes you feel better to think he's going to snap like a twig and become more like you as soon as he encounters "the real world", he'll fit that too. He's happy to be your pawn for whatever scheme you want to endorse about how politics works now, and that's historically been a good way to get promoted.
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« Reply #34756 on: February 13, 2020, 10:27:33 am »

Bipartisanship is when both the Democrats and the Republicans are trying to derail the Iowa Caucus.

This shouldn't be a timely joke.
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« Reply #34757 on: February 13, 2020, 12:13:48 pm »

Bloomberg is now trying to get his name and message out to the youth via the most effective way possible; dissemination through INSTAGRAM MEMES
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So this is the power of unlimited money...
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« Reply #34759 on: February 13, 2020, 12:47:22 pm »

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« Reply #34760 on: February 13, 2020, 01:05:30 pm »

I'd viral that
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« Reply #34761 on: February 13, 2020, 01:21:12 pm »

"I have 61.9 billion dollars."

"I'm actually feeling much better."

Kek.
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« Reply #34762 on: February 13, 2020, 01:28:21 pm »

Meanwhile, the FAA has issues a NPRM that will basically require all remote controlled aircraft (the exemption is "anything less than 250g" yes, 0.55 lbm, not a typo, which is laughable) to be registered and either broadcast directly or via wi-fi location, ID, and barometric pressure while in flight to some contracted database provider.  If you don't want to do this and have an "amateur-built" aircraft, you will only be able to fly in "designated zones" that can only be approved within 36 months of the rule taking effect (the wording is ambiguous, but makes it look like they won't approve of new zones after that).

And even within the designated zones only allow a 400ft flight radius from the "person operating the controls"; any more than that and you'd have to have the broadcast capability (And even better: if you have a model that has to have broadcast capability - because it's commercial not homebuilt - you have to broadcast even while in a designated zone).  Oh and if something goes wrong with the internet or whatever, you are supposed to land immediately. So no having fun in the park if there's a power outage or the cell towers are out.
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« Reply #34763 on: February 13, 2020, 01:44:13 pm »

What is the point of this?
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« Reply #34764 on: February 13, 2020, 01:44:36 pm »

On the one hand, that seems silly.

On the other, an exhaustive list of people I know in real life with a remote controlled aircraft matching those restrictions:


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« Reply #34765 on: February 13, 2020, 01:50:41 pm »

Bloomberg is now trying to get his name and message out to the youth via the most effective way possible; dissemination through INSTAGRAM MEMES
Spoiler: cringe ahead (click to show/hide)

So this is the power of unlimited money...

It's a good enough fake that they didn't go with any obvious jokes.


Meanwhile, the FAA has issues a NPRM that will basically require all remote controlled aircraft (the exemption is "anything less than 250g" yes, 0.55 lbm, not a typo, which is laughable) to be registered and either broadcast directly or via wi-fi location, ID, and barometric pressure while in flight to some contracted database provider.  If you don't want to do this and have an "amateur-built" aircraft, you will only be able to fly in "designated zones" that can only be approved within 36 months of the rule taking effect (the wording is ambiguous, but makes it look like they won't approve of new zones after that).

And even within the designated zones only allow a 400ft flight radius from the "person operating the controls"; any more than that and you'd have to have the broadcast capability (And even better: if you have a model that has to have broadcast capability - because it's commercial not homebuilt - you have to broadcast even while in a designated zone).  Oh and if something goes wrong with the internet or whatever, you are supposed to land immediately. So no having fun in the park if there's a power outage or the cell towers are out.

Yeah, enough people have done stupidly illegal shit with them that it's unsurprising they want to register them.
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« Reply #34766 on: February 13, 2020, 01:57:21 pm »

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Meanwhile, the FAA has issues a NPRM that will basically require all remote controlled aircraft (the exemption is "anything less than 250g" yes, 0.55 lbm, not a typo, which is laughable) to be registered and either broadcast directly or via wi-fi location, ID, and barometric pressure while in flight to some contracted database provider.  If you don't want to do this and have an "amateur-built" aircraft, you will only be able to fly in "designated zones" that can only be approved within 36 months of the rule taking effect (the wording is ambiguous, but makes it look like they won't approve of new zones after that).

And even within the designated zones only allow a 400ft flight radius from the "person operating the controls"; any more than that and you'd have to have the broadcast capability (And even better: if you have a model that has to have broadcast capability - because it's commercial not homebuilt - you have to broadcast even while in a designated zone).  Oh and if something goes wrong with the internet or whatever, you are supposed to land immediately. So no having fun in the park if there's a power outage or the cell towers are out.

Yeah, enough people have done stupidly illegal shit with them that it's unsurprising they want to register them.
That makes sense
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« Reply #34767 on: February 13, 2020, 02:09:05 pm »

It's a good enough fake that they didn't go with any obvious jokes.
It ain't fake, buddy
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« Reply #34768 on: February 13, 2020, 02:14:33 pm »

The problem is massive barriers to entry and discouragement of recreation.

I mean the examples the NPRM gives for trying to stop are things like people overflying the World Series or using a drone to drop propaganda.  The registration requirement isn't going to stop someone from home-building a drone to do those things.  It's not going to stop someone from flying a drone without identification.

The real reason for the system is because of all the shipping companies who want to use drones to deliver packages; they need much more low-altitude air traffic data than is currently available.  So basically this is regulatory capture to enable the drone-delivery people to do their thing, screw the kid who wants to fly an RC plane in their backyard (because backyards cannot, by the terms in the NPRM at least, be a designated area; only "community based organizations" can request a designation).
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« Reply #34769 on: February 13, 2020, 03:24:34 pm »

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Yeah, enough people have done stupidly illegal shit with them that it's unsurprising they want to register them.

On the flip side, with how prominent drone photography is, I would not be surprised if such a database is used to attempt to get people to shell out money for attempting to take drone photography of poeple's stuff.
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