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3D Megadoodoo posted:Do you think planes are plumbed in? No. I think that being a stowaway on a ship was a big deal because the stowaway endangered the life of everyone aboard. A stowaway on a plane should not be a big deal. All they’re doing is costing the airline a tiny bit of money and making bureaucrats angry. Being a stowaway in this century is not a real crime. It’s like jaywalking.
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You are going to build a wall against jaywalkers and have Denmark pay for it
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Platystemon posted:No. Eh, I would say having someone on the plane who is not supposed to be on the plane is slightly more of a problem not just because it loses the airline money but because having someone able to get on your plane anonymously could cause some serious poo poo if anything goes wrong. Seems harmless in this case and they shouldn't be charging the person with anything serious, but it is still something you want to avoid in case of a bad scenario.
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I'm gonna stowaway on a ship if I want and nobody is going to stop me
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Platystemon posted:No. Unless the capitalists start rationing fuel for profits. "We have exactly X pounds of cargo on this flight, so we need exactly X gallons of fuel, plus say 2% for a safety margin" and then some huge fatties stowaway and there isn't enough fuel.
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ImpAtom posted:Eh, I would say having someone on the plane who is not supposed to be on the plane is slightly more of a problem not just because it loses the airline money but because having someone able to get on your plane anonymously could cause some serious poo poo if anything goes wrong. Seems harmless in this case and they shouldn't be charging the person with anything serious, but it is still something you want to avoid in case of a bad scenario. Airlines operate on taxpayer money.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Unless the capitalists start rationing fuel for profits. "We have exactly X pounds of cargo on this flight, so we need exactly X gallons of fuel, plus say 2% for a safety margin" and then some huge fatties stowaway and there isn't enough fuel. They already kind of do this. Passengers and their carryon luggage generally aren’t weighed though, so there’s always some degree of uncertainty in the figures, stowaways or not. There are legal safety margins that keep planes from outright falling short of their destinations, but sometimes when there are unexpected weather/congestion/technical delays, pilots have to talk to controllers and cut in line. Fail to be assertive in this, and you get Avianca 052.
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Way to link to a 10 year old article that cites two incidents.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Airlines operate on taxpayer money. I am not sure how that changes anything I said?
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Australian woman charged with stealing van carrying 10,000 doughnuts https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67712369
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Way to link to a 10 year old article that cites two incidents. What’s your point?
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Platystemon posted:They already kind of do this. I remember an episode of Air Disasters where a plane full of soldiers crashed because they'd estimated passenger weight based on an average traveler. Normally, you have a mix of men, women, and children, with varying amounts of luggage, such that when with American fatties you end up with an average weight significantly less than with a planeload of specifically infantrymen with all have the same clothes and gear. It was enough to turn mild icing from survivable to "oops can't fly." Nothing to do with stow aways, I just like Air Disasters.
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I know they know what they're doing, but still
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The article.
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Sir Lemming posted:I know they know what they're doing, but still quote:I had decided this was the year I’d finally read Jane Eyre and it was a great distraction. I’m sure this is a British way of saying “a welcome distraction,” but I’m choosing to believe instead that reading Jane Eyre was more painful than her injuries, distracting her from them. That is in line with my experience reading that book.
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No that sounds about right
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Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-contaminated-on-purpose-fda-foods-chief-says-00131797 Uhh....
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That’s one of the most evil things I can imagine.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:In an apology for the recent ruckus, I offer a collection of “syntactically ambiguous headlines” from the past: Headless Body in Topless Bar
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DrBouvenstein posted:Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but: Getting some Monster with 21 Faces vibes. The unknown group of people who poisoned candy to blackmail the candy company and sent a lot of taunting letters to the police and media.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Getting some Monster with 21 Faces vibes. The unknown group of people who poisoned candy to blackmail the candy company and sent a lot of taunting letters to the police and media. They’re not saying that it’s that kind of intent.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Headless Body in Topless Bar I never realized just how crazy the story seems until I read the second part of it
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DrBouvenstein posted:Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but: Someone is trying to reproduce the boomer mindset.
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The boomer mind virus
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Joke's on them because you also gotta give em all easy jobs and dirt cheap housing too.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:In an apology for the recent ruckus, I offer a collection of “syntactically ambiguous headlines” from the past: The only headline I remember from my local paper is "Drunk Driver who hit Courthouse Narrowly Avoids Jail".
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DrBouvenstein posted:Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but: Going by the name, I can't help but believe that the FDA guy knows what he is talking about when it comes to poisoning sweet liquids...
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Kirsti, 43, Won Eating Competition "on Pain of Suffocation", Then She Became a Witch. (The on pain of bit is just the poo poo journo thinking words mean what they don't. I'm assuming she was just at risk of suffocating.)
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:The only headline I remember from my local paper is "Drunk Driver who hit Courthouse Narrowly Avoids Jail". Lol that's a good one
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https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1736912546450268419?s=20
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Famous Fortnite character Chun Li
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Chun Li - Fortnite
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Hoot has been a dirty, dirty boy.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Headless Body in Topless Bar A lot of work actually went into that headline Politico posted:Blogging on The Huffington Post, Charlie Carillo, who was in the newsroom that day, described an exuberant Musetto coming up with the headline after the news went over the transom. Carillo said Dick Belsky, then a city editor, subsequently called for a fact-check of the improbable scenario: Another account varies slightly on how it was confirmed to be a topless bar, but yes, they made absolutely sure before going with the headline.
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What is "Sims 4" porn? The Sim is ordinary people in realistic scenarios. That's just normal porn, right?Captain Hygiene posted:Famous Fortnite character Chun Li
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Tiggum posted:That's not what it says. The most-searched game is Fortnite. The most-searched character is Chun Li. These facts are independent. People searching for porn of various different Fortnite characters all get combined together into the stats for Fortnite as a whole, whereas people search for Chun Li much more often than for any specific Fortnite character. Seems to be exactly what it says???
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every character is in fortnite or will be at some point.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:
Oh, my mistake. I hadn't looked closely enough.
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Tiggum posted:What is "Sims 4" porn? The Sim is ordinary people in realistic scenarios. That's just normal porn, right?
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