Yeah. That’s only like 3 tractor trailers (assuming they’re not just running overweight too)

As many times as you want, at least until the auto-pen breaks.

Do these experts also have license plates that say “TRAVELER?”. Is admiralty court involved? Does it involve crossing out the “penalty of perjury” line on the 1040 form?

I’m pretty sure some of their flights out of DCA were moderately delayed. It was horrific!

I’m pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.

On airplanes that don’t do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.

(This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)

We might never know. Subway has been accused of bread shenanigans in the past (in addition to short-selling their footlongs).

The FBI crime lab didn’t even do any forensic analysis on whether the sub measured up to the full 12 inches or not.

It was such a shoddy investigation.

Some more practical tips.

• if the autopilot is engaged, you can’t physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
• That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It’s got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
• if the plane tells you there’s a “stall, stall” you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
• the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it’s set up.
• most important: the switch for the “fasten seatbelt” sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the “no smoking” sign).

Haha. You know the bill is bad when they write an explicit severability clause into it. They’re expecting this to die in the court system.

No bill in Congress can override the first amendment, which outlaws viewpoint based discrimination against protected speech. That’s why it says at the top “material support” for terrorist organizations. There has to be some kind of overt action of support, not just speech. Also, the terrorist organizations this applies to are only foreign orgs, not domestic. And they are published on a list that the State Dept. maintains.

This material support has been a federal crime for a while, and there have been a few prosecutions that have held up. The effect of this bill is it adds a possible passport sanction without proving the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

Overall, this bill doesn’t do the stuff we know the admin wants to use it for. And it’s pretty much a constitutional nightmare on free speech, due process, 13th amendment grounds, and 10th amendment right to travel stuff.

There’s a federal rule that says that if you can prove that the prosecution is vindictive or selective, then the case is dismissed.

A prosecution is vindictive if it is only happening because of personal animus against the defendant. You have to prove that the animus caused the prosecution, in a legal “but for” sense.

A prosecution is selective if you’re getting singled out. That is, if other people in similar circumstances are not getting charged for the same behavior, but you are. For example, Attorney General James alleges that Ken Paxton is also a state Attorney General, and he also has multiple “second homes” with mortgages that he rents out and never visits, but somehow he has not been charged.

James is alleging both vindictive and selective prosecution, but she only has to prove either one or the other to get the case dismissed.

What the fuck is Justice Jackson doing ?

Here’s one analysis:

Jackson gets this application because it’s from the 1st circuit, and she is assigned to initially handle all shadow docket matters from the 1st circuit. By writing this admin stay, she potentially keeps the full court from stepping in and doing it for her. And this way she gets to set the 48 hour limit. This could cause the whole case to be decided one way or another a lot faster.

The supreme court let the trans passport case sit on the shadow “emergency” docket for 48 days. This stay gives the 1st circuit approx the weekend to make their decision, then the 48 hour deadline puts some oomph on the rest of scotus to make their decision.

If Justice Jackson did nothing, and 5 votes on the court intervened to issue a stay at 1 am, then there would be no 48 hour limit.

Federal employees will get back pay if that provision is in a bill that Congress will eventually pass. It’s not a guarantee, as you stated.

New York Times claims that one engine fell off the plane.

🎶 These are the good years, flowing right along. Like ketchup on a bun. 🎶 Ketchuuuuuupppp.

Monty Python is technically a proper name, but they went with the snake, because they wanted a last name that “sounded slippery.”

“Monty” may or may not be a reference to Field Marshal Montgomery, from world wars 1 and 2.

The programming language is named after the comedy troupe, not the snake.

I would expect the price or relative value of gold to latinum to collapse once asteroid mining becomes viable.

It appears to be German.

It’s cool. There’s always money in the banana^HH^HH^HH church restroom.

Long bacon sounds a bit too adjacent to long pork to my taste.