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Strikes rarely happen under the Railroad Labor Act. Management and labor need to go through A LOT to get to the point where a strike is a possibility. Ultimately the National Mediation Board will release both parties into a cooldown period of 30 days after they reach an impasse. Depending on the president, the NMB is made up of presidential appointments, it can take a very long time to get to that point. Sometimes it just never happens. Pinnacle Airlines for example was in labor negotiations for a very very long time. They had a 99% strike vote and were just waiting on the NMB (Bush appointments) to release them. During this time management kept complaining about not having the money to offer improvements to the pilots. However, they somehow had the money to buy two other airlines (Colgan and Mesaba) during this timeframe. These days Pinnacle is known as Endeavor Air and they have had an updated contract. They are also now owned by Delta. Once the cooldown period ends the NMB can release both parties to "self help" and that is when a strike or other labor actions may occur. The President can force employees to go back to work if the economic impact is too great. The RLA was created in the 1930s. While it does give labor unions extra benefits (contracts don't expire, unions are national instead of spilt up locally, etc) it also can hold them back as well. Now companies are so large it is unlikely to see a large company have labor released to self help due to economic impacts to the nation. Smaller airlines have been able to go on strike but if any of the big three (American, Delta, United) were to go on strike it would likely be too great of an economic impact and stopped. The shear size of a company reduces a labor union's power under the RLA and that needs fixed. EDIT: Just to add, yes, airline unions are included in the RLA.

This type of schedule exists within aviation as well. The good news is that airline pilots don't have this issue any more. These horrible schedules do exist in the charter realm. The general rule is "if I can't have a drink it isn't a day off."

Dude is going to turn up dead or in jail for speaking his mind.

To be fair it is highly likely that Trump threw his lawyers under the bus and had the docs moved prior to their searches. I would say most people fully assumed the FBI set them out that way like they do with drug busts. Pretty sure a "look at our haul" picture is compulsory at this point.

Definitely shows how shit Russia's air forces are currently. They are in a wide open field and don't seem to be under much of a threat.

Please don't let Trump be part of the dataset 🤞🤞

A three+ party system will never work in this country. Gotta get rid of the Electoral College first and we all know that is almost impossible in this current environment. The EC essentially requires a two party system.

True, but also because Russia is literally on their doorstep if Ukraine falls.

Not when you randomly pull the biggest economies out of the whole and separate them in the graph. Yes, Europe is still lagging far behind. But not as far as the original graph would make it seem. The GDP graph that was posted flattens the curve considerably and shows a more accurate representation of giving. You can't really combine the EU anyway. Aid packages are up to the individual countries. Judging the EU as a whole just doesn't work. Eastern European countries are contributing far more than the US.

Didn't see this yet. This is definitely the better way to look at this than what I had quoted earlier. It makes it far more sense when making comparisons.

This graph needs some modifications IMO. Would be better to show it as a % of the GDP or something similar. Not all countries have the same capacity to give like the US and just showing total cash given wouldn't be accurate. It would be like Bezos donating $1 billion to a charity and then chastising Mark Cuban for giving far less.

Maybe he is thinking about what will happen to Jones in prison if/when found guilty of having child porn...

I really hope this is his "please clap" moment...

To be fair her testimony about the SUV ride is hearsay. Hearsay is evidence but it must be weighted appropriately. I do not believe it is lock tight evidence that the event occurred but it is enough evidence to go down the rabbit hole and see what they find. I hope they take the plunge and find the truth but if the reports are true that the USSS deleted possible evidence then 🤷‍♂️

I do add a few shots of Jet-A in my morning coffee...

How is it not bad for them if they keep doing essentially the same thing over and over again expecting a different result?

I wouldn't read into this very much. Low cloud ceilings put a damper on all kinds of stuff in US Aviation as well.

Gotta use large numbers to get GOPers to give you what you want. My guess is Biden/Zelenskey expect to get far less once the GOP get their hands onto the legislation.

That is the closest he has sat with someone at a table in two years. Give him a break.

That is why I said "full on nuke." 😉

I don't expect a full on nuke being used in Ukraine. The fallout would just go into Russia. Winds *generally* flow west to east. The jetstream is sitting right on top of Ukraine currently and would just pump radioactive crap into Russia.

Easier said than done. Not to mention that Putin is not the only high ranking person in Russia that wants this war. The only way Putin gets removed any time soon would be via an internal movement.

Attack helicopters and tanks really are losing their place in modern warfare pretty quickly...

Ah yes. My pet peeve when flying internationally. Flying in an ICAO country and people not using the standard language (English) thus reducing situational awareness for anyone that doesn't speak the local language. As an example when that 777 does a early go-around I would like to know since that means I will be more likely to be flying through their wake turbulence as a result. Huge safety issue. Especially for small aircraft. That said, I haven't flown a 777 but I do recognize the autopilot disconnect sound. The other sounds like a master caution. No idea what happened but it probably sounds worse than it actually was.

Russia is blaming it on Ukraine. I'm not exactly sure how Russia could spin this one in their favor. Either direction they take is bad for them considering all the propaganda they have been feeding their people.