FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
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Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”

Summary

FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker resigned on Jan. 20, leaving the agency leaderless amid a major aviation crisis.

His departure followed months of clashes with Elon Musk, who criticized the FAA for imposing $600,000 in fines on SpaceX and called for Whitaker’s resignation.

Musk accused the FAA of obstructing space exploration.

Whitaker’s exit comes as the FAA faces air traffic controller shortages and a major runway collision investigation.

  • @teamevil
    137•8 days ago

    Why the fuck is this racist apartheid loving non elected fuck have any say‽

    • @Zer0_F0x
      61•8 days ago

      Because the elected racist, apartheid loving fuck gave him the power. Money buys politicians, politicians make the rich even more so.

      It’s a big party and we’re not invited

    • @[email protected]English
      21•8 days ago

      We elected a CEO to be president, essentially adding the country itself to his business portfolio. He’s obviously going to trade a part of that power to other CEOs in exchange for favors and loyalty to benefit himself. It’s nothing more than a business deal to exploit the country and its people for profits, something all wealthy business owners are familiar with, and something Trump didn’t even try to hide his plans to do if he was elected.

      • @DarkSpectrum
        1•7 days ago

        And run it into the toilet like Xitter 🚽

    • Deacon
      11•8 days ago

      I dunno but nice interrobang

        • @MajinBlayze
          3•8 days ago

          I can‽

          Spoiler

          On Android, I press and hold on the question mark

              • @teamevil
                2•7 days ago

                YOU FUCKING WIZARD!!! Could you please let me know what magic you used for that? I’ve been trying to get my friends apple to do it too.

                • @FordBeeblebrox
                  1•7 days ago

                  Settings > general > keyboard > text replacement

                  Once it’s set up if I type a ! and ? right next to each other it becomes ‽

          • @FeathercrownEnglish
            3•8 days ago

            Yoo how have I never considered looking through the press-and-hold alternatives for symbols‽

            • @MajinBlayze
              2•8 days ago

              Tbh I googled it. I’d never noticed it either

            • Deacon
              2•7 days ago

              Yo right‽‽‽

          • @[email protected]
            3•8 days ago

            RIP iOS. It only offers me the regular question mark or the inverted Spanish one.

            ¿Por qué iOS?

            • @FeathercrownEnglish
              1•8 days ago

              Technically this is a keyboard function, not an OS function. Can you install different keyboards on Apple?

              • @[email protected]
                2•8 days ago

                You can, but I wouldn’t. Whenever I’ve looked at the permissions they want to send all key presses to a server. Like installing a key logger.