Alex Williams

Music Producer, Photographer, Cinematographer. Kellianne - 04.06.22 🖤

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@NJTransit_CA @NJTRANSIT Okay but for June, my pass still says 2 zones. What do I say to a driver that stops me?

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@NJTRANSIT Would you mind explaining why my Lyndhurst to NYP monthly rail pass has suddenly dropped to only 2 bus zones this month, despite always offering 3 zones previously (the required amount for a Lyndhurst to PA trip) and still qualifying based on the info on your site?

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@NJTRANSIT I just called and they said they can’t help me and to send an email. Being sent in circles, 10/10 service from NJ Transit. 🙃

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@CollinRugg You’re a piece of shit, you know that?

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@NJTRANSIT what happened to the 6:17 departure from NY Penn to Trenton via SEC? It didn’t show cancelled, and you have a whole platform worth of people here, only for it to disappear from the board? Some clarity please?

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@LeakerApple Bring back my stainless steel premium iPhone!!!

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@realBrandd @LeakerApple They better. Nobody wants a hard brick in their pocket.

[Crazyistmanever @Crazyistmanever]

@WallStreetApes Say it with me Snoopyluver99..

[David ImeI @DurvidImel]

I’m about to have a generational crashout

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[Josh @JoshAlexCairo]

The UK public celebrates a genuine national treasure on his centenary, which coincides with a landslide of council votes for a political party that rejects net zero, wants to defund the institutions that Attenborough's life has enriched, and doesn't care about nature. Go figure.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Actually, different salaries should only affect how luxurious your life is, not your food quality or ability to afford rent. If you work 40 hours at any job, your income should be enough to live in the town you work in. Thinking otherwise is an abysmal indicator of your humanity.

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@nicksortor God you’re a fuckwit.

[Joanna Stern @JoannaStern]

Cook: No, John, it’s not “good morning.” It’s “goooood morrrrning.”
Ternus: OK, got it.

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@billybinion Tell me you’re out of touch without telling me you’re out of touch.

[Global Box Office @GlobalBoxOffice]

Ryan Gosling’s PROJECT HAIL MARY has officially gotten an extension on its theatrical window, Amazon has agreed to delay its release on Prime Video.

The movie is now expected to cross the $600M mark at the global box office, the second biggest movie in Gosling’s career.

#CinemaCon

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

In the 1930s, average rent was $18 a month. At $0.25/hour, you could pay rent in 72 hours of work. Today, to pay $1000 rent at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour, you gotta work 138 hours.

[Alex Williams @bowtiesbraces]

@DrDiGiorgio You’re a prick playing an idiot.

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth

And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working

This scene is now canon 😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.

Both pilots are dead.

Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.

A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.

The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.

The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.

Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.

Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.

The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.

The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.

The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”

One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.