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
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    1371 month ago

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

    • @Zer0_F0x
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      611 month 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]
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      211 month 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
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        11 month ago

        And run it into the toilet like Xitter 🚽

    • Deacon
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      111 month ago

      I dunno but nice interrobang

        • @MajinBlayze
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          1 month ago

          I can‽

          Spoiler

          On Android, I press and hold on the question mark

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month ago

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

            ¿Por qué iOS?

            • @Feathercrown
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              11 month ago

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

              • @[email protected]
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                21 month 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.

          • @Feathercrown
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            31 month ago

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

            • @MajinBlayze
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              21 month ago

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

            • Deacon
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              21 month ago

              Yo right‽‽‽

              • @teamevil
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                21 month 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
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                  11 month ago

                  Settings > general > keyboard > text replacement

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

    • @[email protected]
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      131 month ago

      Most likely. Like you ask a guy to resign and everything doesn’t instantly crumble. Like I’m sure it can’t help with ATC shortages, but to assume this is related to that is just a massive reach.

      Trump is a horrible person and Elon is a cunt, but this seemed like it would happen at some point given DC has a lot of low flying choppers.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        Exactly. With that being said, ATC shortages are a serious, serious problem. I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t made more headlines, but maybe that will be a silver lining to this crash. Most major ATC facilities are dangerously understaffed with controllers working mandatory overtime. They are not hiring and training people nearly fast enough to account for the amount of controllers that are set to retire.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          It seems insane to me that you would have ATC people working mandatory overtime. Like it’s a role that is very stressful.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            Yeah FAA management is really shitting the bed. The controllers that I know also feel like they are unable to seek professional help for stress and health issues out of fear that they would lose their jobs. It’s amazing that there aren’t more disasters.

    • BoofStroke
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      231 month ago

      I’m good with the TSA being destroyed. That was just pork barrel politics and security theater from the start.

      • @[email protected]
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        161 month ago

        It’s also one of the largest federal work programs since the civilian conservation Corp. Getting rid of it without a replacement in line =bad for economy and jobs.

        • @reddig33
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          101 month ago

          I wonder how many TSA agents voted for Trump?

          • @[email protected]
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            241 month ago

            The TSA is the second largest employer of high school dropouts in the country, after Walmart. Education level is highly correlated with voting patterns.

          • @mipadaitu
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            Probably all of them.

            Edit: Well, all of them that can legally vote. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them had criminal records that prevented them from voting.

    • mattw3496
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      121 month ago

      Trump’s decisions are bad and wrong, but let’s leave ableist slurs out of it.