Highly recommend everyone give this a listen. It covered most of the other possibilities people are bringing up in this thread:

• They have to be pulled out, moved, and pushed back in to change the state
• The plane cannot take off with them in the wrong position
• There is no procedure to ever toggle both off at the same time, and no procedure to toggle them off period at their low altitude
• Both were toggled off within 1 seconds of each other
• The engines were functioning normally when they were toggled off

Captain Steve really tried to not blame the pilots in previous videos about this crash, in fact he really believed it had to be something else, so it says a lot that this is the only conclusion he can come up with.

I watched this video awhile ago about 3 Yale professors leaving the U.S. because of the rise in fascism.

From that video, Marci Shore, Historian of Totalitarianism:

There’s an expression in Polish: “I found myself at the very bottom. And then I heard knocking from below.” In Russian that gets abbreviated to “dna ne sushchestvuet” - “there is no bottom”. What starts to matter, is not what is concealed, but what has been normalized. There’s no limit to the depravity, and the sadism, and the cruelty that we are watching now play out in real time.

Yeah, every time there is a post on the topic, moderators say that the tools they have are insufficient.

It’d be great to have some community focus on that going forward, whether through direct Lemmy changes or creating better bot mod tools. I’m not in a position to contribute right now but maybe in a few months.

There is a subset of Lemmy that absolutely hates any idea of automod tools because it reminds them too much of issues they had with Reddit. But as Lemmy grows (and given it’s volunteer nature) it feels inescapable at some point.

Meanwhile just a few posts above this:

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

This is a fair assessment, but all of them should know better than using Signal for this kind of thing.

For all the people cheering or indifferent to this:

1. This would affect more than social media - this would affect ANYWHERE that has user accounts that can post content - blogs, wikis, website builders, hell, even email.

2. The summary states this is so it can be “renegotiated”. Considering the current authoritarian direction of the United States, now would be absolutely the worst time to rewrite online content policing laws - it will absolutely be used to silence dissent.

But surely one user posting illegal content would get blasted to all connected instances making everyone guilty.

So… Worse. Much worse.