Trump cares nothing about the Iranian people and he will leave their oppressive regime in power. Just like Venezuela, the end goal is a deal entirely about oil. The Iranian people will be left far worse off and will continue to suffer under a newly empowered regime that will reinforce their oppression.
The AWACS, RC-135 and JSTARS aircraft (all Boeing 707 airframes like the KC) also have bailout chutes but no parachutes on board for the same reason. Bailout is likely to be far less safe than trying to recover the flyable aircraft. If the aircraft departs controlled flight, you can’t effectively use the bailout chute. So there are no bailout procedures for all these aircraft.
There is a bailout chute on the KC but the crew do not train to use it or have active procedures to use it since the airplane needs to still be flyable to be able to succcessfully bail out so if you can bail out, you can try to recover the aircraft. Plus bailout from the front chute is not exactly safe (not great chances of not getting bounced along the bottom length of the fuselage and catching an antenna or other edge)
@CWLemoine I wonder if the receiver was another heavy aircraft and they collided while trying the refuel. If the receiver was able to keep flying but the KC wasn’t, it sounds like they may have been similarly sized aircraft.
Also the job of every law enforcement officer is to de-escalate when possible. ICE immediately escalated the confrontation by advancing aggressively in numbers on her car, yelling at her and trying to get to her inside her car. She was immediately put into fear for her life fight or flight mode by them. And she chose to try and flee. She was scared and defensive. And that’s when they killed her.
@squawksquare Because Tesla has pure shit for PR so they have no way to present their superiority over these claims that they are losing their autonomy mote. NVDA is controlling the narrative and doing it much better than Tesla because Musk is out to lunch on effective PR.
@WR4NYGov The real question is why is Tesla doing something completely different releasing delivery estimates for the first time ever after Elon got both his stock comp plans approved?
Tesla's vision-only approach could turn out to be its achilles heel. If NHTSA rules that Lidar is a safety necessity for autonomy, Tesla alone will have a massive problem.
Not surprising. Rivian is far superior to Tesla at product promotion. With Tesla, its negligence to not invite you. With Rivian, it’s calculated. Watch Rivian stock jump on their vaporware announcement today. Without anyone fact checking their claims, Rivian investors will eat it up.
@SawyerMerritt Maybe if Tesla had a PR dept. they could do a much better job of controlling the narrative. They don’t seem capable of learning this lesson.
Yet, this is the subjective truth that this major influencer is successfully peddling to far more uninformed people than all the other pro-Tesla influencers combined are reaching. This is why Tesla is losing the PR game and FSD is not being adopted. Millions of people now think a headrest speaker is a better feature than FSD.
Tesla should be using positive reinforcement to sell FSD, not negative. This is like removing all speakers in the car unless you buy the premium audio system. That’s punishment of the customer for not buying their upgrade. Dumb Tesla and again proves they have no clue how to sell FSD.
Shouldn’t we be asking the question why every mysterious death surrounding Trump benefits him in some way? Epstein and victim’s death protects him from being tied to a pedophile ring. Charlie Kirk killing helped him galvanize support from his radical base, which he was losing. Assassination attemp death helped him win the election. National guardsmen shooting helps him increase his military takeover of liberal cities. Strange that these murders are positive for Trump.