Be that as it may, the thing that sounds odd (and a bit arrogant) to most "outsiders" is using the name of a whole continent for a single country and its citizens. I (from Europe) would definitely consider a Canadian, Mexican or Columbian citizen as an "American" too, not only a citizen of the United States. BTW, I'm really curious what Trump thinks the "America" in his "Gulf of America" stands for - the whole continent or only the US?
Trump's definitely referring to the United States with his pointless renaming attempt because it's singular and not plural, but I'd be careful accusing him of thinking about anything. I doubt he does that very often.
I guess the Organization of American States exists. But usually it's pretty unambiguous which sense is being used; like, I guess you could call Mark Carney an American head of government but it's basically just being obtuse, unless it was in the context of, say, a meeting of Carney with other heads of government in the hemisphere, and then it'd be unambiguous what was meant.
Even "United States of America" is not unambiguous in the most pathological case; Mexico is also a country consisting of united states existing in the Americas.
All things being equal, I would assume that you are safer in an environment that's stationary and reasonably sturdy, rather than in an aluminum tube at 40,000 ft above ground? Ok, as they say, all things are rarely equal, of course people are more likely to die of old age or of various diseases at home rather than while traveling (simply because old and terminally ill people probably don't travel that much), but I would say that skews the statistics against the living room and should be discounted. And at home you can engage in various activities that you probably won't do while on an airplane (electrical repairs, cooking...), but if you get hurt while doing that, that's also not a fault of the living room per se...
That's just it though. You're safer strapped into a seat, doing nothing, than you are doing whatever it is you do at home.
Would you be safer in your living room doing nothing, strapped to a seat, never doing anything remotely hazardous (like walking around), vs the same in a tube in the sky? Yes, of course. But that's not what people actually DO in their living rooms!
What strikes me as odd is that this looks like the "naked" engine, without the cowling/nacelle that usually surrounds it? Anyway, if an engine departs the aircraft shortly after (last-minute) maintenance was performed on it, that's indeed suspicious...
The fan cowl and thrust reverser cowl are structurally fastened to the pylon/strut at the top, they only wrap around the engine, and are fastened to themselves at the bottom using latches. The strut considered part of the airframe structure. The inlet cowl is bolted directly to the engine, I saw in a picture that it was found approximately mid-field on the airport property.
If you're designing a new airport, sure, you can have runways with ample safety margins and generous overrun areas at the end of the runways. If you want to make an existing airport safer, and you can't buy up and demolish buildings around it, using EMAS is actually a cost-effective safety improvement.
Yes, the takeoff roll will be longer, the climb will be much more shallow, but it is possible to take off with one out of two engines (and obviously also with two out of three). Of course, after successful takeoff, the plane should turn around and land as soon as possible.
In this case however, with the wing already on fire (the engine is below the wing, so flames coming out of it would be visible behind and under the wing, not in front), I'm afraid that even if they had managed to take off, the fuel tank would have exploded or burned through the wing before they would have had a chance to land. Actually, this looks similar to the 2000 Concorde crash...
According to other sources (German: https://muenchen.t-online.de/region/muenchen/id_100983050/mu...) some experienced surfers also say that the water level has been unusually low since the reopening (1.40 m and has since dropped to 1.21 m instead of the usual 1.50 m), which of course influences the flow. So some issue with the weirs regulating the flow is suspected - if it's "only" this, it might be quick to fix...
Sure they could... the problem is just that apparently no structural changes were made during the cleanup, but the wave was there before they turned the water off and gone after they turned it back on. And they don't have to wait for a year, they can adjust the flow - the wave is situated in a "brook" very near the point where it exits a tunnel through which it flows under much of the city, so it's heavily regulated (see this map for all Munich "brooks" on the West side of the Isar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Karte_M%... - blue are the current ones, dark blue is in tunnel, the purple ones are historical, the Eisbach is #55 in the top right corner).
> Conversely if you're able to have a fulfilling, empathetic relationship with Claude, it might help people form fulfilling, mutually-empathetic relationships with the humans around them.
Well, that's kind of the point: if you have actually used LLMs for any amount of time, you are bound to find out that you can't have a fulfilling, empathetic relationship with them. Even if they offer a convincing simulacrum of a thinking being at first sight, you will soon find out that there's not much underneath. It generates grammatically perfect texts that seem to answer your questions in a polite and knowledgeable way, but it will happily lie to you and hallucinate things out of thin air. LLMs are tools, humans are humans (and animals are animals - IMHO you can have a more fulfilling relationship with a dog or a cat than you can have with an LLM).
Can you not have a fulfilling empathetic relationship with a tool? Or with any entity regardless of its expressions of animacy or present effectiveness?
I’m less arguing for its animacy than arguing for the value of treating all things with respect and empathy. As the sibling comment observed, there is a lot of personal and pro-social value in extending the generosity of your empathy to ever-wider categories of things.
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