Downvote all you want without responding but it doesn’t change the fact that you’re not quite the aviation expert you think you are internet . A sub 250g drone is quite unlikely to bring down a large, multi engine aircraft on its own. You really should give the aviation engineering and safety world a bit more credit, the worst generic and isolated damage that could do is take out one of its engines, but realistically it’s probably more likely that they could continue to run it just fine until they are well clear of everything with little to no immediate ill effect, it would just make it more expensive to repair to keep using it. For low level ops they will have a one engine out climb out calculated for ridge crossings and several other things would need to go very wrong to compound a small drone strike into a full crash. The bottom line is drones are more or less equivalent to birds and planes hit birds all the time. Occasionally they lead to some bigger mishaps like the massive flock of very large geese that caused the miracle on the Hudson, but in general, large planes don’t stop flying from a small object hitting them.

Now none of this means it isn’t still incredibly fucking stupid, selfish and dangerous. The asshole that did it deserves to have the entire book thrown at him with serious federal jail time. What he did was horrendous enough it doesn’t need ignorant hyperboles about nearly bringing down the plane from a small ding that could have gone unnoticed in flight. It’s still expensive to repair, degraded the capability of the plane and reduced firefighting against the fire and could have been far worse had it gone into an engine, but the plane landed just fine after the impact.

Except it kept flying and made a safe landing. It would be completely possible for the crew to not even notice that impact if they didn’t happen to see it and only discover it on landing.

A small Cessna or helicopter are a different story but for a single impact from a drone of that size to cause a CL-415 to crash is extremely unlikely. Losing and engine or going through the windshield and injuring a pilot are definitely possibilities (although I would be surprised if the windshield wasn’t rated for some gnarly birdstrikes due to its low altitude based mission) and it’s still dangerous as fuck but planes like that are built to withstand far worse and have sufficient redundancies to keep flying safely in the event of an impact like that.

Insurance is literally a market of risk assessments. The odds of any given event are x, y and z and the cost of each of those events are a, b, and c. Take the number of people who are applying for policies and spread the cost based on the risks and figure out how much each needs to pay to be able to cover x, y or z should/when any of them occur. There’s discussions to be had on how much a percentage of profit should be allowable on the top and how much to subsidize on known high risk coverage that is not mathematically reasonable but it all boils down to buying risk based on the chance and cost of any given event happening. Act of God/Force Majeure make complete sense when framing it this way. The insurance policy is based on known and predicted risks. You don’t have volcano insurance in NJ and you don’t have hurricane insurance in Kansas because they aren’t expected disasters so they aren’t included in the risk calculations. Act of God is a catch all term for things beyond the expected scope of the policy which is based on clearly established limits and scenarios.

Don’t let reason and logic get in the way of his edginess.

Thankfully a single drone is unlikely to bring down a full aircraft like that but it’s still dangerous as fuck, not to mention the loss of firefighting capability while it’s down for repairs.

It’s not that easy. The vast majority of imports are banned and the remaining sporting imports are subject to significant restrictions. The overwhelming majority of guns sold in the US are produced in the US, even ones from foreign manufacturers. It’s not that dissimilar to cars.

I assume everyone is owned by someone terrible, but the individual policies and changes are what drives me to swap.

I pay for things on sites processed by PayPal too, I just don’t have an account.

Just standard credit card processing for purchases and zelle or venmo for transfers.

Good thing I deleted my PayPal years ago over a previous TOS change.

And this is where you went? This is literally Reddit’s bias taken to the level of hyperbole. The extremism groupthink here is the primary reason it hasn’t and likely will never go mainstream.

Most of the truly ridiculous knife laws are in states with equally ridiculous gun laws. A few have been challenged under 2A grounds with some degree of success but it just isn’t being pursued that much.

The media are absolutely working together to push specific political viewpoints. This specific manifesto being blocked fits perfectly with the openly stated political goals of the majority of media in the US.

They are released very quickly if they fit the desired political narrative, just look at the buffalo shooter and how quickly every major news article dove into his manifesto as soon as they got their hands on it. If and when it can be used to promote a specific view it is released, if it doesn’t promote the correct view it sits for a while until they can figure out how to spin it or the hype dies down and if it hurts the desired view it is blocked like this one.

I would also suggest that you never speak or write any of these assholes’ real names. The notoriety is what they seek and every time a stranger mentions them by name they get their wish.

How is this different from any other shooting where there is a manifesto left behind? This is nothing new and it is very common that they are released very shortly after the shooting.

I sold it for market value, it was a rare 6 speed one and since then manuals command an insane premium in some segments.

They’re a joke to all the manufacturers that went all in on EVs before the market fell out from under them.

Prices for even 200k mile used vehicles are skyrocketing and cheap new cars simply don’t exist. Yes, ICE is the majority of vehicles out there, especially in rural areas, but they are more expensive and less available than ever. 10 years ago I bought a 100k mile Volvo wagon for $10k, put 50k more miles on it then sold it for $5k; if I wanted to buy the exact same car back today with 250k miles i would need to pay $15k for it. As manufacturers shift to EVs that problem is only going to get worse.

There is a logical reason to be against forced adoption before the technology matures. For a lot of the country they are not a viable replacement for ICE yet. They’re improving, but not as fast as ICEs are being phased out and that leaves a lot of places where a dwindling used market will be the only option for many people.

It’s such a minor thing but fuck it’s annoying.

I have never listened to the radio in my car by choice. My phone is plugged in (currently Apple CarPlay but I used Android Auto with my last phone) but for simple play controls the buttons on the dash or steering wheel are still superior.