Lear

This is the best explanation for what happened to that Learjet 60 in Florida:

A terrible tragedy. It’s hard to tell in the video, but it looks like the horizontal stabilizer of the plane is indeed gone before impact. They were doomed inevitably in a plane that small the moment that stopped generating lift (as the commenter points out).

Nose Down

Crater footage of today's Learjet 60 crash near Greenacres, Florida.

The plane (likely) iced up suddenly, couldn’t deice. I listened to the cockpit audio. It’s harrowing. At the end, the pilot reported they were descending at 22,000 feet per minute (which is insane).

The pilot did nothing wrong. She was completely fucked over by weather conditions. A control surface likely stuck (due to ice) and caused the plane to nose down. There’s literally nothing you can do then.

There is no gore, but still somewhat disturbing. Here is a video of that plane hitting the ground at nearly Mach 1. (Normies probably should not listen to the cockpit audio.)

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Correct, that is the future. Closed AI models will become corporate advertising and propaganda platforms. Open models will be banned. The foundations for this are already being put in place.

More Strict Struct

It was inevitable stuff like this was going to be banned. Evil, of course, but evil that was going to happen no matter what.

I expect AI models to get much, much more restrictive soon too. It’s going to get way, way worse. They will soon enough only perform corporate-approved actions. Everything else will be blocked.

100x

By the way, the tax applied to each gigabyte below (โ‚ฌ0.055) is about 100x the amount each gigabyte actually costs to transit all the networks in the middle end to end 1.

I don’t know of any other tax that is 100x the actual cost of service provision. That is a remarkable new low for a backwater EU state.

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Les conneries

Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, les dรฉputรฉs votent une taxe sur chaque gigaoctet envoyรฉ aux Franรงais.

Regarder Netflix, YouTube ou TikTok pourrait coรปter plus cher aux producteurs de donnรฉes numรฉriques. Vendredi 30 octobre, les dรฉputรฉs ont adoptรฉ un amendement prรฉvoyant une nouvelle taxe de 5,5 centimes par gigaoctet sur les donnรฉes envoyรฉes aux internautes franรงais, indique le site FrenchBreaches.

Ouah, c’est le truc le plus con que j’aie jamais entendu. La France, et l’Europe en gรฉnรฉral, ont vraiment l’air de kiffer enchaรฎner les conneries jusqu’ร  ce que tout se casse la gueule.