O’Hare has those but it’s not helpful for emergencies that happen on the runway itself.

Well, sure, but in that case it's expected that the runway is closed.

The fire truck was responding to an emergency which is why it needed to cross an active runway.

It’s not a money thing. It’s a shortage of people who are mentally able to do the job mixed with terrible hours and early forced retirements. ATC school has a failure rate of over 50 percent.

It's partially a money thing. ATC is under-compensated. They'd get more - and more talented - people interested if the money made up for the stress, hours, and early forced retirement.

Or increased their hiring funnel. Air traffic controller applicants must be under 31 years old for initial hire, which rules out a lot of potential hires.

Why not both? If it paid better then more people would apply to ATC school.

ATC positions already have a very low chance of even getting a spot in ATC school. There are tons of applicants for every opening.

And their elevated pay is a function of all the other folks making a ton of money in white collar PMC work.

As they should be. I don’t want to fund DHS and I’m happy my reps are doing their job to keep it shut down. Funding TSA specifically is acceptable and has in fact been voted down in the senate by republicans several times now.

Why do you oppose FEMA funding?

What’s left of FEMA? Anyway their disaster response is not impacted by the lapse in funding. They’re currently on the ground doing something or other in Hawaii.

This is completely incorrect. FEMA has ceased public assistance for ongoing and historical disasters.

You should let FEMA and the state of Hawaii know then. They must be really fucking confused. Thanks 0xy for bringing the knowledge.

https://www.khon2.com/kona-low/governor-green-kona-low/amp/

Did you read the post you replied to? I very clearly stated ongoing and historical disasters. Meaning disasters that started before the DHS shutdown and were still ongoing, not new disasters.

Wrong.

https://www.fema.gov/about

I drop the word need there.

But yes putting it as part of DHS was a mistake and mistakes can be fixed.

But how slow is too slow (faster than you’d think) and even then, you’re in for $25,000 for even the most basic on-premise slow LLM.

Furthermore a fair number of the largest crypto trading firms (DRW, Jump, Wolverine) are HQ’d in Chicago.

They demoted or fired all the people in the room who would raise a concern for being gay and woke.

Yep. This is a nationalist christian war. We all feel for Bibi getting roped into this. Thank goodness the marines have his blessing.

It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.

It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.

You'd be hesitant to trust a brand if it can't keep consistent styling. Branding helps users identify a brand and believe it or not the aesthetics of a brand make a great deal of impact on consumers.

As others have said, your point comes across as "let's remove design who cares" because design and human computer interaction roles stopped where your understanding ends. Everything looks the same to you after all (it doesn't, you just haven't noticed it affecting your decision making).

Consistency is not the same as making a technically-unique-but-visually-indistinguishable Helvetica clone.

It’s subtle, but attention to detail all around will add up to something that looks polished. I appreciate that as a user, at least

Fine, I’ll take the bait. If this is true, then why isn’t everything in the world Arial/Helvetica?

Because people are stupid enough to worry about many things which don't matter. This includes, but is not limited to, font choices.

Interesting how you seem so sure about what matters to other people, when the reality is that anything matters that people say matters to them. If people care about fonts, they do care about fonts.

If I follow your train of thought to its logical conclusion, nothing matters. Which is correct, but sort of pointless to state. On top of this nothingness, we typically stack personal preferences.

The designers are generally the ones doing and watching presentations on design. They are also the users of the office suite in this case.

We stopped deforesting the US in 1920. We have more forest here than we did 100 years ago.

We do in terms of acreage. A lot of that is reclaimed farmland. Old-growth hardwoods are still down overall, and will remain so; that can take multiple hundreds of years to recover, since cleared forests regrow in phases.

Right. And tree coverage is not the be-all-end-all. My family visited the plantation where a few of our ancestors were enslaved; it had been turned into a state-run forest preserve (partly as a bid for the prior owners to hide the extent of the operation). Unfortunately, the farming practices employed back then have scarred the land; near where one of the slave cabins had stood, we were shown a large anthropogenic ravine that had been created by farming-related soil erosion. These places aren't quite the same forests as they were before European settling.

There's also the case of the near-loss of the American Chestnut.

Actual facts on the ground do not fit neatly into a one-liner, especially stable forests; this sentence is meant as a one-liner to win bar arguments.

source: current graduate research papers in forestry

Could you maybe give us the 4-5 liner version then?

They’re all so upset that they have nothing worth saving and they take it out on everybody else with wanton destruction.