If he’s going to dress like the, he’s just asking for it.

I work in aviation regulatory law but, a friend of mine does work in this arena. I did ask him if my analog existed in the nautical world and he was able to walk me through how he’d managed to avoid any regulatory oversight. There’s SOLAS but, other than that, it’s a gap that apparently needs to be closed.

I don’t know, I’m an aircraft structural engineer and, based upon what technical commentary I did hear him make, it kinda sounds to me like he knows what he’s talking about.

I don’t know about the others, but Coast Guard gets paid regardless. These events justify their budget. It wasn’t an “extra cost” to the taxpayers.

A kid and a researcher who made regular trips to document the flora growing on the site.

Those are the two I’m most familiar with in my profession, at least as far as civilian authorities are concerned. Can’t really say “no” and, I’m pretty sure neither can you. On the other hand, feel free to prove me wrong with a counter example. :)

The CEO was very careful to skirt applicable regulatory laws. He even called his passengers “crew members”. In the aviation world, I have some experience harmonizing multiple regulatory authorities. Because of “international waters”, there will need to be some agreement and harmonizing of regulations. There’s already SOLAS so, I think it can be done.

United States Federal Aviation Administration, I believe EASA is similar.

In the aviation world, an experimental aircraft may not be used for “compensation or hire”. The only exception is that a kitplane manufacturer is allowed to give demo flights.

You have no idea how apropos this is to an argument I’m current embroiled in.

I’ve been curious about going “both ways”, but never acted upon it… ;)

I guess I did follow people on Twitter, I had friends there…then Musk made it weird…

I gave Mastodon a look when Twitter started to get all “Musky”. I wound up going with Counter.Social in the end.

Having tried both, I think I prefer Lemmy

Dad?

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Wound up creating a Lemmy account as well as this one. Still getting accustomed to it but it appears that, instead of relying solely on the mods to manage content, more control is given to the end user. As long as I can easily block trolls and other content I don’t care for, I’m good.
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On the other hand, where FB is concerned, you just can’t make it go away. I’m stuck with that account because of events and messages but looking for work-arounds for both.

On FB, I generally only post to “Friends” or “Close Friends”. Yet, I keep getting these “Suggested for You” posts in my feed. Some are advertisers, many are clearly from bot-farms trying to start arguments. I mean, the Fediverse may have it’s bad actors, but not on the coordinated scale that Facebook has.

Firefox is my go to but I keep a chromium based browser for when I really need it. Currently running with Vivaldi for that. As for other browsers, I’d love to see Gnome Web (formerly Epiphany) start allowing extensions like Bitwarden, etc.