I would argue that the one that exploded over DC last month had almost certainly ceased to be a plane by the time it hit the ground.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's breadwang!

Bingo. That is literally how the people (term used loosely) currently dismantling government DEI programs have been spinning it — "These programs divided Americans by race [...] and resulted in shameful discrimination" — the fault is more in the assumption that this is something unique to DEI programs, and not that any program could be doomed from the start so long as a sufficiently-motivated demagogue is willing to lie through his teeth to see it dismantled. Or that the ones opposed to such a program need to be lied to in the first place. They could probably just say "we're ending DEI 'cause fuck 'em" and get near-identical results.

LEGO CITY 2025 CENSUS

RACE/ETHNICITY (check all that apply):

[ ] Caucasian

[ ] Black

[ ] Plastic Man

[ ] Ambiguous Nougat

[ ] Pineapple

[ ] Halloween

[ ] Fish Guy

[ ] Hog

[ ] Bird

[ ] Golden Idol

[ ] Robot

[ ] Antique Globe

[ ] Dreamworks Face Cat

[ ] Skull

[ ] Just Eyes

[✓] Other

I sorta interpreted it as "We wanted to put Stargate on the list, but Universe is the only one that actually takes place in space." SG-1 and Atlantis definitely spend their fair share of time on spaceships, but that's outnumbered like 30-to-1 by time spent in the gateroom or the scenic woodland vistas of Vancouver.

Well the cynic in me says "to undermine the public trust in the safety of air travel so people become more isolated, unwilling to organize, and dependent on either corporate-controlled media or gasoline-powered cars to maintain contact with any part of the world outside a 20-mile radius," and the nutjob conspiracy theorist in me sure thinks he could make a convincing corkboard out of it if you gave him enough thumb tacks and red string, but once again I could be making the mistake of assuming they're going into this with a plan and not just flailing wildly to make it look like they're addressing a problem they have no idea how to solve.

This better be the fucking street fight from Anchorman with a hand grenade and a circular saw and a dude with a claymore.

Shiiiiiit. I was looking out my window around quarter to nine and saw a weird bright orange spot off towards DC. Didn't think anything of it in the moment; I'm right under a flight path, not too far from a military airfield, all sorts of weird lights flying over all the time. But looking at that footage that's exactly what it looked like. Christ.

Yeah, it's called taking out the competition. If you wanna win a race you gotta know where to throw the banana peels.

He hallucinated through a sunroof! And he gets to be a Large Language Model? What a sick joke!

Guess they better start feeling comfortable with not owning their company.