For their next trick, DOGE will fire the jet stream. - ThreadSky

tkingfisher.com • 1 day ago

For their next trick, DOGE will fire the jet stream.

Reposted from Jake Cole

Legitimately the stupidest man alive I cannot fucking STAND this shit

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karmauncensored.bsky.social•1 day ago

doomlobbyn.se•21 hours ago

So wait… Edolf is suggesting that United Airlines, a publicly traded company, is involved in some sort of government deep state inefficiency?
I thought capitalists always made the smartest choices and that’s why they should be ordained god-CEO-kings of the rest of us.

nvv49.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Is he a flat-earther?

tkingfisher.com•1 day ago

(Though as various people have pointed out, this route also avoids restricted air space, and probably also weather/traffic that isn’t obvious.)

justiceturtle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Isn't that also pretty close to a great circle route (the actual shortest distance between two points on a globe, which looks like a segment of a circle on a flat map)?

jfs.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was thinking that too, but that’s not it. Great circle looks like this:

jfs.bsky.social•1 day ago

The route is probably a mix of traffic patterns, weather, and waypoints. Aircraft can’t just go point to point. They need to not collide too.

keffy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah, okay. But still, I don't expect long flights to be a straight line, because. Round. And stuff.

deadcoil.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, no, fly right over White Sands/Holloman. Take your private jet to prove it can be done. I await the results with lots of popcorn and bourbon and a loaded belly laugh.

clodpool.bsky.social•1 day ago

“fly right over White Sands”

He’ll have his AI air traffic control program do that.

deadcoil.bsky.social•1 day ago

USAF response

cat-appreciator.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s a result I’d be happy with

ladymondegreene.bsky.social•39 minutes ago

And, potentially, is respecting the curvature of the earth?

aubrin.bsky.social•1 day ago

He can’t understand it, and since he’s a Generational Intellect, if he can’t understand it, it must be bad.
Except he’s an idiot who’s most defining characteristic is being a living manifestation of the Dunning-Krueger effect.

plainbrownwriter.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Earth is also, you know (though Musk apparently doesn't), round.

glacialavian.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, no, surely there's no reason not to fly right over the Sierra Nevadas... wait, I'm hearing that high mountains can cause extreme turbulence, sudden thunderstorms, and issues finding viable places for an emergency landing if needed.

kassil.bsky.social•1 day ago

The OP's followup to Musk said he asked the captain, and the reason was avoiding turbulence. Y'know, sensibly.

russet-burbank.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is it an ever-present danger of Twitter, that if you post your dumb thoughts, Elon will come and yes-and them?

keffy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would have gotten into trouble by telling the dude we didn't go straight because I had to make a pit stop in the sonora

roninkakuhito.bsky.social•22 hours ago

He just doesn't like the idea of not being able to make flying objects explode wherever he wants them to

tyrotcm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, while it isn't very relevant in this case, the Mercator projection is also a factor.

quijohn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh so you’re one of those round earthers

(The best advice I ever heard to figure out plane routes was to get a globe and a piece of string)

gravelgirty.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I think I just threw up on my brain

orangesandufos.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like the freaking arrogance in just assuming everyone who works in aviation was just like “straight lines? Who would have thought of that? Durr…”

zoesotetart.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Surely by flight standards that pretty much is is a straight line?

ladondwolf.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Hopefully when he personally goes to Mars, he'll insist the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Then he'll miss his target by millions of miles and won't have the gas for a correction.

zrath.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Always going after the air traffic controllers.
I wanted to be an air traffic controller at one point. But then they had a strike for better working conditions, and President Reagan fired them all.
So much for that career path.

niborris.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the guy who claims he can fix the FAA, I guess step one will be to dictate All Planes Must Fly In A Straight Line, you know, for efficiency. Maybe we'll get a re-enactment of The Zax, only with airplanes.

foeclan.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I look forward to him trying to send airplanes through underground tunnels.

brennafawley.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds like all atmospheric phenomena are about to receive an email from the Department of Greed and Evil demanding a bulleted list of what they have accomplished for American Greatness™️ in the past week.

gritmonger.bsky.social•18 hours ago

"We have a comprehensive plan to 'Minecraft the world' and correct its non-biblical curvature."

christoptomus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then, rehire it after the southwest burns and crops fall in the east.

egypturnash.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fire all air traffic controllers, replace them with AI, what can go wrong.

andraste.fuckbgp.com•1 day ago

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