What happened for those not in the know?

That doesn’t make sense because he eliminates the excuse not to seat her by trying to force the shutdown to end.

Yeah but it’s devastating to resale value. A gem twice the size can be worth orders of magnitude more than the other. Talking about reducing something worth probably a third or half billion dollars to maybe a few million in scrap value.

I mean there is an entire black market of stolen paintings in private collections, so clearly not impossible.

GPS, modern navigation and logistics technology is the biggest reason.

But that was a time when there was significantly less air travel and less ATCs than we have and need now.

This actually isn’t true, at least the “have” part.

There were ~14k ATC controllers employed before the Reagan strike. There are currently ~10,600 controllers. The required staffing level to fully staff all 313 facilities is ~14,600.

Would I fail if I just did 25 different species of birds?

You would think that… But before the strike there was 14k ATC controllers, full capactity.

Right now there are currently 10,643 fully-certified air traffic controllers operating 313 federal facilities across the nation.

The total number of certified controllers required to fully staff all facilities to established staffing targets is 14,633.

The American national airspace system is 72.7% staffed with controllers. There is a deficit of 3,990 certified controllers.

You could easily make a machine that monitors vitals and titrates out like Fentanyl and Midizolam or Alprazolam or whatever benzo to take care of that.

Apparently it’s Rubio’s obsession too. The Daily has a good podcast about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/podcasts/the-daily/us-venezuela-maduro-boat-attacks.html

It can void the mortgage in some cases, letting them walk away with a free house minus what they already paid.

Because Trump won’t live forever and few of the factions pulling Trump’s strings likes him.

Only because people don’t understand what capitalism is so the conversation doesn’t go anywhere. People think abandoning capitalism is abandoning commerce.

Most people who understand the distinction and sit down to think about it come to the conclusion that Capitalism is essentially a pyramid scheme.

They are still being paid too… Kind of fucked to tell ATC to work unpaid and then go on paid leave.

Pilots should strike because it’s simply unsafe.

I wonder how long it would take to redistribute the wealth if the Billionaires funded the government.

They aren’t talking about ATC, they are talking about Pilot unions.

Calling it now, this dude will be the first to flee to Argentina.

And staffing still hasn’t recovered since that.

The full FTE to serve the country is ~14,600 and there are 10,600 employed currently.

That would be such a hilariously sad type of self harm. I don’t think the staffing has even fully recovered from the Reagan layoffs.