• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Just remember how things were so much worse with Biden, we didn’t even have planes, just horses and carriages.

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      7 hours ago

      Who has private jets? There’s the answer. If anyone is going to suffer, it will be the commons first.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    How long before the announcement that they are awarding one of their billionaire buddies with a no bid contract to replace air traffic control with an LLM based system?

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      7 hours ago

      That’s basically what Musk and DOGE were trying to do earlier this year. So yeah that doesn’t seem very far fetched.

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    8 hours ago

    The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, has warned that flight reductions could reach 20% if the shutdown persists, and on Sunday he predicted a “substantial” number of people in the US would be unable to celebrate the upcoming holidays with their families if the shutdown wasn’t resolved.

    Trump administration dysfunction on full display for this holiday season.

  • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    We had Nashville tickets for next week to visit family. We thought about it and decided to cancel it ourselves rather than suffer the delays and certain inconveniences of cancellations beyond our control. I already consider air travel dehumanizing so it was an easy call for me.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Who else in this maladministration besides Pedonald and Duffy are mostly known for being on a reality TV show?

    This timeline is just so fucking ridiculous.