Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I don't know that I agree, but I take the point. At the very least, though, I think Teslas cross pretty far past the line at this point.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> i think this is well into "moral OCD" territory rather than any serious political analysis</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I mean, yes? To varying degrees, but we've been on a pretty direct road to fascism for decades at least, and a lot of those steps have been really ordinary things people went along with.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> by this logic, every American is a collaborator. i dunno.</p>
<p>Seen: bumper sticker reading "I'm a Tesla driver, not an Elon supporter."</p><p>Friend, that's not how it works. If you're driving a Nazi car, you're still driving a Nazi car even if you feel bad about it.</p>
<p>anyway, here's the ntsb report (and updates) <a href="https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA25MA108.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/</span><span class="invisible">DCA25MA108.aspx</span></a></p><p>and here's the rail accident report about the people who cut a hole in the tube <a href="https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/penetration-and-obstruction-of-a-tunnel-between-old-street-and-essex-road-stations-london" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gov.uk/raib-reports/penetratio</span><span class="invisible">n-and-obstruction-of-a-tunnel-between-old-street-and-essex-road-stations-london</span></a></p>
<p>apart from the shocking number of near misses, one thing that stood out was that the runways in question are rarely in use</p><p>so the accident does have that clusterfuck vibe to it</p><p>a rarely used route and runway getting a little busier with regular night flights, an understaffed and overworked air controller, and where business as usual involved way more luck than people realised</p><p>it really does feel like this could have happened at any time</p>
<p>i guess anyone who looked at the route map and went "a helicopter route? under an active landing path? are you serious?" can feel a little bit vindicated by the ntsb's recommendation of "don't do that. don't even hold the helis in place while planes are landing, find an alternate route."</p>
<p>reading up on the ntsb report on the dca heli collision, and they've put a jaw dropping graph inside</p><p>it shows how narrow the safety margin is between the helicopter route and landing path</p><p>the last time i saw such a striking "don't do that" graphic in an incident report was the northern and city line incident, where someone tried to drill through an active subway line</p>
