▪️When I saw this meme I instantly knew it was false. But was curious how the dazzling minds at Feminist News came to this conclusion. Turns out they actually linked to a news story in the comments, which quoted an FAA report saying, “one air traffic controller was doing the work normally assigned to two people”
▪️Feminist News misunderstood this to mean there was only one controller in the tower, which was most certainly not the case.
▪️Anyone familiar with aviation knows that controllers frequently take on multiple frequencies or jobs. Often clearance delivery will also be ground control, sometimes one controller will even handle everything; tower, ground and clearance, depending on workload. This is nothing new or remarkable, and it does NOT mean there’s only one person in the tower, certainly not in an airport like Reagan.
▪️Whether or not this was a factor in the accident remains to be seen. From this report it’s not even clear which controller they were referring to (was it tower or ground?) Generally, controllers are quite competent and can handle working two jobs. Listening to the ATC audio before the crash they didn’t sound particularly overwhelmed or rushed.
▪️From what I can tell, the controller asked if the helicopter had the CRJ in sight, they said yes, and were told to maintain visual separation with the CRJ. It’s likely they confused it with another aircraft, or lost visual, and that lead to the tragedy. So many (who know nothing) are trying to come up with alternate theories that align with their politics.
▪️This is a proposal that pertains only to graduate level nursing degrees, not undergraduate ones (which were never considered professional degrees). The proposal will have a 30-60 day public comment period next year, where groups can object, before the DoE will decide on it.
▪️This is about how much federal student loans someone can take out for a particular degree. The cap on graduate degrees is $100k ($20,500/yr), while a “professional degree” limit is $200k ($50k/yr).
▪️Under the new rule proposal, professional degrees include:
🔹Pharmacy
🔹Dentistry
🔹Veterinary medicine
🔹Chiropractic
🔹Law
🔹Medicine (including osteopathic medicine & podiatry)
🔹Optometry
🔹Theology
▪️The nursing degrees excluded are ones like master of science in nursing (MSN), doctor of nursing practice (DNP) and PhD in nursing. These degrees would be limited to $100k in federal student loans, like all other graduate degrees.
▪️These changes came from the One Big Beautiful Bill’s...
▪️The left keeps using this meme but they don’t actually believe it. If you believe SNAP subsidizes companies to pay below a “living wage” this implies that if you take food stamps away they would suddenly pay a higher, “living” wage. So why not get rid of food stamps, then?!
▪️Except they know, and everyone knows, this isn’t true. Wages are set by supply and demand, not some mythical “living wage” metric. Absent food stamps there would actually be downward, not upward, pressure on wages, because the reality is food stamps subsidize the poor to not work as much as they might otherwise need to.
▪️Without SNAP, some low income people would need to work more hours to make ends meet, increasing the availability of low-skilled labor and lowering wages (all else being equal).
▪️Plus, we all know the left loves and supports food stamps. Which means, by this meme’s logic, they love to subsidize corporate profits. But they don’t really, they just think this ...
▪️Wait, this is the guy libertarians and the new right rave about being a great historian?! This sounds like a clueless meme from The Other 98%, except they wouldn’t add in the bizarre defense of feudal lords. Feudalism didn’t deprive peasants of their livelihoods for abstract goals? This is total fantasy.
▪️Amazon employs 1.55M, so this is less than 2% of their workforce, although these cuts will be to corporate, which employs 350k, so 8.5% of that. The CEO says there is an excess of bureaucracy at Amazon, and AI can automate certain repetitive tasks. Also, much of the cuts will be to HR, which is expected shrink by 15%, yay. Managers and HR are peasants now?
▪️I don’t know the inner workings of Amazon, and neither does Darryl, but this seems to be normal management practice to keep a company efficient and competitive. Given the immense size of Amazon the numbers look large, but far bigger shakeups happen all the time in the private sector. Apparently, under the new ...
