“I was laid down with bad flu 3 days at home. Temp up to 102. Got my flu vaccine a few weeks ago. I know it would’ve been much worse had I not done this. Please folks, make sure you get your flu shot”
Guys, tell me any other field apart from medicine where this logic would fly
Don't worry guys, your prezzy this year from Santa is to bail out the FAA even more than you already do! Merry Ho Ho Frequent Fliers!
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is primarily funded by air travelers through the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF), which accounts for the vast majority of its budget.
The primary sources of FAA funding include:
Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF): Provides the bulk of the agency's funding (roughly 68% to over 90% depending on the fiscal year). It is financed by federal excise and ticket taxes paid by users, including USAFacts:Domestic and international airline passenger ticket taxes
Air cargo and flight taxes
Aviation fuel taxes (commercial and general aviation)
Fees on frequent flyer/loyalty program purchases
The General Fund: The U.S. Treasury's General Fund covers a smaller portion of the FAA's budget (typically around a quarter or less, though supplemented during special circumstances or infrastructure acts).
Congressional Appropriations & Supplemental Acts: Congress periodically provides special or emergency funding packages—such as through infrastructure legislation or specific budget acts—to support air traffic control modernization and airport capital grants.
Would you like to know more about how specific ticket taxes are calculated or where the FAA's budget is allocated (such as operations versus airport grants)?
2 against 1, and it's still unfair for the 2! @saifedean destroys MMTers 🔥
“you haven't given me one reason why I would in any way sympathize with the existence of central banks, except for the fact that you just cannot fathom the idea that they don't exist. And because of the fact that you continue to assume that all of their actual track record of the last 112 years — raping, pillaging, and destroying the planet, and funding war and funding mass theft and genocide, and creating a global enslavement system where the entire planet is being impoverished to enrich a few small group of people — you want to treat all of that as just something that we could just ignore.”
“You are under an extremely delusional belief that somehow if we just vote for the right kind of thieves, we can fix this institution that has caused more evil than anything in human history, and replace it with pink unicorns and flowers, and fixing the weather and climate change, and fixing homelessness, and all of that stuff. No, you can't.”
Full episode:
https://t.co/IN2bWuejzG
https://t.co/JBaHTIv03j
Most people are not special, rational, or particularly good. They're tribal primates running social scripts, ranking status, and defending comforting lies over evidence. Intelligence, drive, and outcomes are heavily genetic. Equality of result is a fantasy. The average person will never produce anything of lasting value, and the world is carried by a thin minority they resent.
@JenRWick@baddietvv 2 things can be true- she lost her child (horrible, awful, would NOT wish that on anyone). And she is not a kind good person. She brought up family. What a trap. Mary sucks.