FlowVoid
@FlowVoid@midwest.social
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
Did I hit a nerve, Chicken Little? Are you afraid a big bad plane gonna crash on your head?
Schoolyard language is the only language you understand. Go on, keep amusing me.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
You’re the one who has spouted lies over and over and confused it with the truth. But did you really expect anyone to believe your fantasy that commercial aviation is dangerous?
I can’t get mad at children, or those who act like children. Nothing will change them but experience, and you’ve still got a long ways to go.
I’m sure you’ll sleep well, probably dreaming about how you single-handedly stopped advancements in aviation. Or maybe about how you bravely resisted dangerous new forms of vaccination. You folks are all the same.
Keep dreaming, meanwhile the rest of the world will move on without you.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
Clearly you still can’t tell the difference between facts and opinion.
Don’t worry, nothing is going to fall on your head, Chicken Little. Go to sleep and let the grown-ups get back to work.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
I never said “nuh-uh,” and if you have to lie about what I said and have to keep making stuff up, you’ve clearly lost the argument, and you know it.
Pathetic, lmao
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
“The sky is falling” isn’t a very good argument, dude. Most people learn this in elementary school.
The FAA and I claim the same thing. Commercial aviation is safe. All commercial aircraft, of any size, are safer than any other commercial vehicle. The facts are on our side.
You are terrified that commercial aviation will be unsafe in the future. but you have no facts on your side. Merely speculation based on fear of the unknown. People have been afraid of things “crashing from the sky” since the birth of aviation. People were afraid of jets, they were afraid of transatlantic flights, they were afraid of autopilot systems.
Anything new can strike fear into the uneducated.
The FAA doesn’t think the future will be less safe, because they have educated themselves with the facts. And I trust the FAA. Their success speaks for itself.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
No, it’s an opinion. Actually, “fearmongering” is the right term.
You are afraid of new technology. The FAA isn’t. And if the FAA isn’t, then neither am I. Because they understand aviation, and you don’t.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
“Excellent safety record” is a relative term
Small commercial aircraft have an excellent safety record relative to every other commercial form of transportation.
you continue to conflate all commercial aircraft with small aircraft
Do you really need to have it explained to you how private aircraft have nothing to do with this conversation? LMAO.
We are discussing small commercial aircraft here. And small commercial aircraft have an excellent safety record relative to every other form of commercial transportation.
to continue to insist that these tiny aircraft
If the FAA thinks they are safe, then I believe they are safe. I am definitely not taking your opinion over theirs, since you know nothing about commercial aircraft and are incapable of distinguishing commercial aircraft from private aircraft.
adding a whole lot more of them to the skies
Another uninformed opinion. It must be very convenient for you to ignore FAA safety guidelines. But I trust the FAA to determine whether the skies are too congested, not you.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
And yet you keep ignoring the fact that all forms of commercial aviation have an excellent safety record.
That means that if you add up annual US fatalities in the small 2-4 passenger planes that you are irrationally worried about, plus slightly larger planes of 4-10 passengers that you are irrationally worried about, plus charter planes of 5-50 passengers, plus regional carriers, plus major airliners, plus any other air passengers you can imagine …
… the grand total would average about ten deaths per year. Still less dangerous than lightning.
And now you want me to believe that this excellent multi-decade safety record would magically be upended by building more aircraft, even though we are already building more aircraft - of all types - and have been for decades.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
I’m arguing that building these planes is no worse than building any other plane.
And there is nothing to suggest that air travel is currently unsafe due to congestion, if anything air travel is decreased from previous years.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
The risk increases with any aircraft, the size is irrelevant. You might as well complain whenever Boeing sells a new airplane.
Fortunately, the ATC regulates the number of aircraft - of any size - that can safely fly in a particular section of airspace.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
Major airlines have two pilots and expensive avionics. But “commercial aircraft” refers to all aircraft with paying passengers, including propeller planes with a single pilot that take a few passengers sightseeing.
And all pilots are guided by air traffic control, from major airliners to solo private pilots. Air traffic control is meant to prevent mid-air collisions, an air traffic control system that ignored small aircraft would be pointless.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
Flying is safer, period.
In the US, there are only about ten fatalities per year on commercial aircraft. You are more likely to die of a lightning strike.
And if you only consider major airlines, in the last twenty years there have been only three passenger fatalities.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
I don’t see why this should be of more concern than someone designing an inexpensive new fixed wing aircraft or traditional helo. Which happens all the time.
- Comment on AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends 1 year ago:
The FAA mandates extensive training for anyone who wants to fly with passengers, regardless of the form of the aircraft. Especially paying passengers.
Nothing in this article suggests that pilots of this vehicle would have less training than pilots of other aircraft.
- Comment on X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training 1 year ago:
Researchers were required to use opt-in databases long before they trained AIs. It may be less convenient than taking someone’s data without consent, but it’s also more ethical.
- Comment on OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. 1 year ago:
Because until now they weren’t competing against individual content creators.