Boeing 737 MAX-8 Makes History With Ethiopian Airlines And Lion Air Crashes.

That’s because this aircraft has a “crash into the ground” feature. This is an inadvisable feature to have in a jet.

It’s a system called MCAS that with but one (!) sensor failure, the horizontal stabilizer is automatically adjusted to pitch the nose down repeatedly with a fairly-complicated procedure being required to halt this behavior. I am not aware of any other feature in any other modern commercial airliner where only one (again: !!) sensor failure can cause low-altitude flight into terrain.

I am not a pilot, but I have read a whole lot about airliners, including their flight manuals, and if there is such a consequential and dangerous non-redundant and unverified (by other sensors) feature I’ve never heard of it nor read about it. I don’t believe it exists except in this new aircraft.

I’d advise anyone not to fly in this jet until the issue is resolved.

Did 10×300 on the deadlift earlier. That’s the first time I’ve ever been able to do that many reps at that weight. It wasn’t even that hard, which means I am doing well. Next time, maybe try to break my personal record on that lift.

I feel so much better than I did six months ago. Not surprised about how much stronger I am getting. I knew that would happen, given the work. What I am a bit startled by is how much it has improved my cognitive abilities. That was unexpected but very welcome.

Ever notice how the definition of being yourself (including all of those analogues promoted by conservatism, liberalism, and feminism) promote the ends of capitalism utterly? Consume, get massively fatter, pursue a dream job, buy a house, buy a car…buy, buy, buy, consume more and yet more. Funny that, isn’t it?

Being myself has nothing to do with capitalism or any of its goals. My ambition is to get away from all of that psychologically and physically. This is not wholly possible as neolib capitalism has subsumed all of society and civilization on the way to destroying it, but it’s still a worthy target.