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That's ok. Soon these voice models will be available running locally on your device and ElevenLabs will be looking for new niche to screw up.

Some lakes undergo drastic changes through the seasons. I know of a few that go from dark blue(late fall, early spring) to brown(spring runoff sediment) to dark green(algae in summer) in a single year.

The three lakes of Kelimutu in Indonesia are famous for changing color on a multi-year cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelimutu


Just tears.

What about Mason and Jason?

The USA need to weaken the power of the executive. Remove the executive order power. Remove the pardon power.

And I'd even recommend that the individual president position be replaced by a group of people each of which gets voted in on different years. The monarch-like persona does not belong in a democracy.


"but in the future we will no longer have aspirational goals"

Except making more money with US government and military contracts.


Better to ask the question: Why do people WANT to believe in the mouth flapping of corporate PR drones?

This 1976 SciAm article has a lot of info including photos of the mine: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24950391?seq=1

Would there be a way to share the article for those without access to jstor?

Not that I know of. Sorry. I forgot my uni gives my IP free access.

Anybody got statistics on air crashes in the US so we can see if the anomaly is only in the attention the crashes receive and not the frequency at which they are happening?


Small planes crash all the time:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/year/2025/1

Even if you only consider fatal crashes in the US, the last one before the DC incident was just this past Saturday.

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/473308


I know small planes crash a lot, but I feel like small jets crashing is a bit more notable? Maybe just because there arent that many comparatively.


I think the most recent small jet crash in the US was November 5:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/458776


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No, the last one was in 2009. 16 year streak for US airlines.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/30/business/us-airlines-warn...

> US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night.

There’ve been a few fatal incidents, but not crashes for the actual airlines.


Depends on if you're talking about the major airlines or just any charter flight ("Part 135"). Those crash much more frequently.


Please read the link I posted instead of just saying “No.” Your article is specifically talking about commercial airline flights, but mine was talking about any passenger-carrying flight.


Your post says “passenger airline crash”, and your link includes non-crash accidents. I also said quite a bit more than no, including a citation.

A C-172 can carry passengers, but is not an airliner.


Thank you, I have updated my post to be clearer. In the future it’d be great if you’d give the information in this comment in your initial reply.

Also, while I did clear up the wording, I stand by my original use of the word “airline,” as most if not all of these incidents (and certainly the most recent ones) were operated by commercial aircraft companies.


“Commercial aircraft” and “airline” remain different things. A cropduster is a commercial aircraft; it is not an airliner. Same for charter planes, sightseeing planes, etc.

The FAA regulates airlines as “Regularly Scheduled Air Carriers” under Part 121. Stricter rules, and a remarkably stellar safety record as a result. I was sad to see the streak get broken.


My dude, I (and the other poster you’re replying to) was using the term airline, entirely correctly, in the colloquial sense of the word.


West Isle Air is an airline. The 2022 Mutiny Bay DHC-3 Otter crash [1] was carrying passengers.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Mutiny_Bay_DHC-3_Otter_...



He is doubling down on your point, lol. Surely it supports your argument that it’s been even longer since the last fatal crash.


I was not making an argument in my post, and I wanted to be clear that we were both correct but talking about different things.


In the interest of precision: those were the last fatal commercial aircraft accidents. Fatal aircraft crashes in private aircraft are more frequent.


But: "For U.S. tax purposes, digital assets are considered property, not currency." https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

I wonder about digital assets "for constitutional purposes" though?


They are considered property because making it a taxable event every time you spend it sabotages its use as a currency, and the state knows that. Customers do not want to have to keep a log of every time they buy a pack of gum.


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