Comments on: United Airlines brags about all LGBTQ+ crew

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:06:20 +0000

Always sit in the back so you’ll be last to the crash!

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 15:06:04 +0000

Strap on those seat belt. You’re in for a bumpy ride!

By: Rich Cook

Rich Cook — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:21:56 +0000

Art Deco

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/03/03/lgbtq-activist-mayor-linked-to-buttigieg-arrested-for-child-porn-n1675339

By: sonny wayz

sonny wayz — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:24:27 +0000

So, now, if *anything* goes wrong with United, some lawyer will point to this as proof that United doesn’t care about competence. Lost luggage? Corkscrew into a cornfield? No matter, we’re diverse.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 22:06:54 +0000

People on the right seem as likely to call anyone who’s transgender or gay a “pedophile” or “a wannabe rapist” or at the very least “mentally insane and should be locked up” as those on the left are to call anyone right of center a “fascist”.

Don’t give performances in elementary school classrooms and at the children’s room at the library and people will be less inclined to do that. #problemsolvingability

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:31:55 +0000

I remember being taken down to see the Salt River as a child when there was water in it. Big excitement. — Flash flooding in Arizona is very dangerous. High water in dry creeks can come up very fast.

By: Bruce Hayden

Bruce Hayden — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:26:42 +0000

@Gordon

Our subdivision backs up to the Phoenix Reach 11 open space. There are apartments backed up to it all the way down almost to Scottsdale Rd. Almost all built in the last 5 years. The change in runoff is stark – with little gullies running south towards my (Hayden-Rhodes) Aqueduct, getting deeper every year.

The funny thing is that we are in a 100 year flood plain. That requires flood insurance for a mortgage loan. In the middle of one of the driest states in the country. Never mind that urban Phoenix and surrounding communities all require significant flood mitigation for new construction of almost any type (partially consisting of large settling ponds ) strewn throughout the area, often disguised as parks. You might be tempted to ignore it, but my step son got caught in his F-250 in a big rain, driving into his house SE of Tucson last near, got stuck in the high water, which ended up destroying the truck’s wiring.

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:48:39 +0000

Bruce, I do love those Scottsdale downpours. Two inches in half an hour! Decades back the developers may have leveled off the arroyos and creek beds, but Nature has not forgotten where they were, and will remind us in dramatic fashion.

By: Bruce Hayden

Bruce Hayden — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:34:04 +0000

“Here in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix/Mesa), a whole lot of pilot training has always happened and continues to happen. One reason is that the nearest cloud is in Colorado. There’s a lot of pilots who are licensed for instruments and multi-engine, but it’s a big jump from there to a commercial license.”

Are you sure of that? Yesterday, at the car dealerships in N Scottsdale, looking east, the mountains were snow capped. And down here, the water from the rain the night before hadn’t evaporated yet (for the most part, it doesn’t sink in), which causes major detours around the large pools when walking the dog in the open space to the south. (Which is where I need to go right now – the dog is doing her “I need to shit” dance right now)

That said – just checked the video from our other house, in NW MT, and the ground was completely white there. Checked it yesterday, and it was only half covered. I did that after a guy at the car dealership told me the guy in the next office was from the other end of the state (Billings) and they had several feet of snow on the ground there to shovel.

But, yes, most of the time, the Valley is mostly cloudless. It’s just that this is Monsoon Season.

By: Sgt. Joe Friday

Sgt. Joe Friday — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:14:50 +0000

I wonder how these diversity programs at United and other airlines are going to work out. Flying is a cognitively demanding job, and on top of that men generally have better spatial perception than women. Are the airlines going to just let the trainees who can’t make the grade quietly wash out of the program?

For some reason I’m reminded of a quip that the late John McKay, the then coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers made about his team: “You know, 2 or 3 plane crashes and we’re in the playoffs.”