Diaz Claims Wrongful Termination: Former Police Chief Adrian Diaz is suing Seattle and Mayor Bruce Harrell. Last year, Diaz was fired after a slew of discrimination and harassment allegations against him came to light and a rumor about a romantic relationship between him and a staffer circulated. Diaz claims that he was actually fired because he didn’t fire Officer Daniel Auderer, the speeding cop who killed pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula in 2023, like Bruce Harrell told him to do. According to Diaz, Deputy Mayor Tim Burgess had previously told him that Diaz couldn’t fire Auderer because of his role in the Seattle Police Officers Guild. Anyway, a sticky situation. Diaz said he didn’t toe the line and then was retaliated against when a rumor surfaced about him having a relationship with Jamie Tompkins, his chief of staff. What’s true? We’ll need to tune into the trial. Drama!
Please Do Not Walk on the Highways: A pedestrian in Tacoma was walking in one of the lanes on southbound Interstate 705 at around 11:30pm on Tuesday night when a car crash involving four cars also struck and killed the pedestrian. It’s unclear what caused the crash.
A Little Density, as a Treat: The Seattle City Council still hasn’t made any progress on passing the Seattle Comprehensive Plan, the legislation that will map growth in Seattle for the next 20 years. As a sort of stop gap, and as a way to comply with new state laws on zoning, the council approved a temporary housing plan for all neighborhoods. The plan, in step with state law passed in 2023, allows areas previously reserved for single-family zoning to accommodate up to four units per lot and up to six units per lot in areas near transit. Nothing here is really different from the existing law of the land, so don’t give the council any real praise here.
The Tribe Has Spoken: Okay, props to Paige Cornwell at the Seattle Times for the best “find the local angle” story possible. In the news story about Survivor‘s upcoming 50th season casting announcement, Cornwell managed to plug the fact that Washington Attorney General Nick Brown not only played in Survivor‘s second season (Australian Outback, duh), but he made the jury. In Survivor world—and I guess in the law world—the jury is key. Brown was good at Survivor! As Cornwell notes, Brown was not chosen to play in the 50th season. Though, he’s not opposed to donning a Survivor buff again one of these days.
Elon Voted Off Trump Island: Elon Musk is officially out of the federal government—at least, so he says. Musk’s departure comes after he talked smack about Trump’s domestic spending bill, saying it would increase the national deficit. It must be acknowledged that Musk did not accomplish any of the goals he set out to accomplish, like, for instance delivering generational savings by cutting government waste. Instead, he wreaked havoc on the government and real people’s lives. And for what? It’s unclear what will happen to the Department of Government Efficiency without Musk at its helm. What’s pretty juicy about this whole thing is that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is subtweeting the fuck out of Musk. There’s a rumor floating around about Musk, Miller, and Miller’s wife.
The weather: It’ll be cloudy today. That’s good. We need to build up our sun tolerance slowly.
Two Charged in Pioneer Square Triple Homicide: Earlier this month, three people were shot and killed outside the OHM Nightclub. Police arrested two men, a 24 year old and 25 year old. A third suspected shooter is still at large.
ICYMI: Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano blew quite the gasket earlier this week.
STUNNING video of Mount Kilauea shooting lava upwards of 1,000 ft into the air during a recent eruption. 🌋
📹: @USGS— MyRadar (@myradar.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Well, That’s Just Sick: The bozos in the Trump administration are either stupid or evil, and possibly both. On Wednesday, the administration canceled the over $700 million in funds awarded to Moderna to work on its late-stage bird flu vaccine. “The cancellation means that the government is discarding what could be one of the most effective and rapid tools to combat an avian influenza outbreak,” said Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Reuters. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the cancellation was due to the project not meeting “scientific standards or safety expectations.” Man, shut up. Just say you want us poor, sick, and hungry so we’re easier to control.
Trump’s Illegal Tariffs: The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which he enacted via economic emergency legislation, are illegal. He cannot invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in this way, the court, comprised of three judges appointed by Reagan, Obama, and Trump, ruled. The summary judgment blocks all of the tariffs the president invoked under IEEPA, but leaves intact tariffs on imports of automobiles, steel, and aluminum. Trump, as you can imagine, is not pleased. Stephen Miller, whose wife may have just left him for Elon Musk, is fuming. “The judicial coup is out of control,” Miller wrote on Twitter.
Let’s Go to the Polls: Seattle sure hates its elected officials. The newest poll out of Northwest Progressive Institute found every elected official has a negative job performance rating. The most hated? Council member Rob Saka, that bumbling fool. He has a negative spread of 27 points. Meanwhile, both City Attorney Ann Davison (a Republican) and City Council President Sara Nelson have seen their disapproval numbers have ballooned in just a few months. As NW Progressive Institute puts it, “More than twice as many voters disapprove of Nelson’s work than approve.” This could be a very interesting election year.
New Pluto Alert: Scientists discovered a new dwarf planet hanging out on the far reaches of our solar system. They’ve dubbed it Planet Nine, an insult to Pluto, the real Planet Nine. This is especially hurtful to Pluto because Planet Nine is three times smaller than Pluto. So, no one here is a real, actual Planet Nine. The new planet will be dubbed a dwarf planet.
At Least Your Pussy Is Pest-Free: A study in United Kingdom found that tampons had traces of carcinogenic pesticides in them. Those traces were 40 times higher in the tampons than the legal pesticide limit for drinking water. That’s especially bad because chemicals absorbed by the vagina go right into the bloodstream. Vagina owners, next time your partner goes to eat you out, tell them they’re lapping from the Silent Spring.
Something to Do: I highly recommend you go see “The Unfair Advantage” at the Seattle Repertory Theater while it’s in town for the next month. The show is unlike any theater experience. First, it’s intimate. Only 35 audience members gather around magician and casino security expert Harry Milas’ card table. Second, it’s just unique. Milas spends the show talking about himself and about his skills, mostly those that enable him to cheat at cards. He’s spent decades of his life mastering these skills and secrets. He even shares some of those secrets, though they won’t be as good if you don’t work at it as he did. All of this is good and entertaining, but the striking thing about it was Milas’ credo: “The time will pass anyway.” He spent years of his life mastering the skill of memorizing decks of cards, among other things. That sounds like a lot, but what else was he going to do with that time? We can all do so much with the time we have if we so choose. It is only our faults if our lives pass us by. Mastering a skill slows the ever-ticking clock. I haven’t stopped thinking about Milas’ words (or his charm, swoon). Go see the show.
Also “in case you missed it”, since Nathalie did:
“Man shot twice near notorious intersection in Seattle’s CID” – Wed, May 28th 2025:
https://komonews.com/news/local/man-shot-twice-near-notorious-intersection-in-seattle-chinatown-international-district-gun-violence-crime-drugs-police-medics-navigation-team#
“Bystander shoots, kills suspect who shot 2 victims in downtown Seattle” – Thu, May 29th 2025:
https://komonews.com/news/local/three-injured-in-downtown-seattle-shooting-spd-police-department-gun-violence-king-county-investigation-99-union-street-victims#
Seattle police investigate fatal stabbing of 30-year-old man near 5th Ave and Pike St – Thu, May 29th 2025:
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-department-spd-30-year-old-man-4th-avenue-pike-street-king-county-fire-department-sfd-custody#
7 people injured in shooting at Harry Todd Park in Lakewood – Thu, May 29th 2025:
https://komonews.com/news/local/shooting-gun-violence-harry-todd-park-gun-violence-lpd-pierce-county-washington-state-victims-american-lake-8-pm#
Remember, Sloggers, make sure you’re a good Progressive, always dismantle your White Privilege, and protest against those evil awful fascist Christians!
“protest against those evil awful fascist Christians!”
Don’t forget “stupid.” They’re incredibly fucking stupid.
Hey, I just want to belatedly comment on yesterday’s Slog AM and Megan Seling’s refreshing rant on the Kraken’s coaching search and why they might as well make Shannon Miller the first female head coach in the history of the four major North American professional sports leagues.
I don’t pretend to know what I’m talking about, but sure, why not? My only concern is that Miller will just be the next fall guy/gal for the Kraken’s problems that run deeper than coaching. And you know what they say about pioneers in some field. The one that goes something like, if you’re the first, make sure you’re not the last. And of course, things shouldn’t work this way.
But really, I just wanted to say that, I’m very casually following the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers are basically in a league of their own. And the teams they’re beating, like Dallas (probably by tonight) and Carolina, are themselves light years ahead of the Krakens of the world. So non-delusional Kraken fans have no choice but to trade in any hope of Stanley Cup glory any time in the foreseeable future for the satisfaction that comes from the love of the game and loyalty to your team. Kind of like Florida Panthers fans have had to exist for most of their history.
(Feel free to insert snarky Mariners comment here.)
I also wonder why people chose to protest a weird political/religious rally targeting the rights of vulnerable minorities when they could be protesting murder. As a matter of fact yes I was dropped on my head repeatedly as a baby. Why do you ask?
@4, there’s no need to “wonder why” in the comment section, it leads to nowhere.
Wait, Diaz’s argument is that he wasn’t actually fired because of his rumored sexual relationship, but because he refused to fire a piece of shit cop when his boss the mayor asked him to, and * that’s * the wrongful termination? That argument is more embarrassing than being a Disney Adult.
@1, Under new publisher Noisy Creek, The Stranger has apparently given up on two progressive positions:
The war on guns.
The war on cars.
@7 And in all this time you haven’t given up on your War on Windmills. Or shouting at clouds.
“I thought that The Stranger’s positions on X and Y were wrongheaded, and now I’m REALLY MAD that they appear to have moderated on those positions!!1!” XD
@7 no
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/05/21/80066689/slog-am-may-deserves-a-weather-award-joe-kent-is-making-maga-waves-kristi-noem-thinks-habeas-corpus-means-trump-can-deport-whoever-he-wants/comments/9
@1 – Slog AM was never meant to be a police blotter or even a rundown of all the top stories – but a smorgasbord of musings at the delight of the Slog staffer. Today was no exception, such as the cunnilingus.
Quote from yesterday’s Slog AM: “Hannah will be posting more about the protest on Slog later today. Stay glued to thestranger.com.”
Whatever happened to that???
@1 Do you go to Komo and comment about the fact that they didn’t post about a bunch of the stuff on Slog too, or does it only work one way for you?
@9,
If I’ve learned nothing else from five years of Trumpism, I can certainly attest that it’s much easier for a stubborn and childish person to declare victory in the face of evidence to the contrary than it is for them to humbly accept that they’ve been wrong all along.
Colonel Angus? The mighty one, smooth and wiley, expert navigator through the swamps of the dirty south? Bringing relief and joy to the womens folk. Nice play Nathalie, nice.
@11
If you’re going to glue yourself to the stranger, it’s best to do so in a well ventilated area, lest those fumes mess with your head.
@8, I don’t know why you think I am unhappy with such a change.
Were I a progressive, I would have to wonder if The Stranger had decided that at least some Progressive positions were flawed, or at least over-rated, based on whatever evidence leads them to that new conclusion, or if The Stranger is caving on their prior editorial principles to keep more readers, sell more ads, etc.
If its the latter, maybe they aren’t principled, they are just about greed, not principle, not giving a voice to marginalized communities, etc. They appeal to that niche, because they see enough revenue there to make a profit in a niche no one else is serving, but now they want to expand beyond the niche by moderating somewhat. The Gordon Gecko specializing in satisfying greed by appealing to the marginalized.
BTW, The NTSB report is out on the Baltimore Bridge collapse. No recommendations for tug escorts. They are recommending that bridges over channels with large ships be hardened to better withstand impacts from ships that lose power in the future.
I.e. It’s cheaper to pay large capital improvement costs then the ongoing cost of tug escorts.
@16, Found by typing ‘slog cars’ and ‘slog shooting’ in my phone browser:
April 24, 2025: “Our culture is built to see anything that poses even the slightest challenge to cars as an extinction-level threat to the greatest freedom America has ever known.”
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/04/24/80027418/slog-am-pike-place-market-kind-of-bans-cars-people-in-washington-keep-pointing-lasers-at-planes-alaska-airlines-loses-millions
March 3, 2025:
“Two Dead After Night Club Shooting”
“Shooting Near House Party”
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/03/31/79992102/slog-am-shooting-at-rainier-beach-night-club-france-bars-marine-le-pen-from-election-israel-killed-and-buried-15-aide-workers-in-mass-grave
May 21, 2025: “Cars running red lights, cars speeding, cars cutting off other cars: this is transportation as a demolition derby. To go from home to work, or from work to a grocery store means entering a competition that is often deadly. It is you against all other drivers. Indeed, one reason (if not the main reason) why automakers will not design vehicles that run at a fixed and safe speed is because this would be like removing the lions from a Roman arena. When you are behind the wheel, you and Maximus are one.”
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/05/21/80066689/slog-am-may-deserves-a-weather-award-joe-kent-is-making-maga-waves-kristi-noem-thinks-habeas-corpus-means-trump-can-deport-whoever-he-wants
I don’t mean to let evidence interfere with your slog fan fiction universe, just as long as you understand that it’s fiction
@17, That is certainly a maked decrease in volume on the subjects over The Stranger’s historic norm of commenting in the SLOG on nearly 100% of them. Now maybe its 1 in 5 or 1 in 3.
Heck, The Stranger used to be so obsessed about the topics they’d find something from a city hindreds of miles away.
Sometimes, whenever I eat M&Ms, I like to hold two M&M’s in between my fingers and squeeze as hard as I can until one M&M cracks. I eat the cracked one, and the one that didn’t crack becomes the champion. Then I grab the other M&M, and force it to compete with the champion in this deadly game of M&M Gladiators. When there is only one M&M left standing, I send a letter to the Mars Wrigley Confectionery division of Mars Inc. with the champion M&M in it with a note attached that reads: “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.”
@18, This list is not exhaustive, it’s just the first few stories that came up with a quick search through my cache. You said they “gave up on two progressive positions” because you didn’t see specific stories mentioned in the morning news, and this is more than enough evidence to disprove that. You don’t get to move the goalposts because you lost.
There is less coverage of everything because the volume of content has been in decline for years. There used to be a page or more of new content daily, now it’s not unusual for the morning news to be the only post. The modern internet has all but killed the alt weekly business model.
Besides, stories about shootings and car fatalities are not “progressive.” These are routine fare for local news outlets, regardless of their editorial stance. Do you think komo is a progressive outlet because they’ve published 3 stories about shootings listed @1? You only think it’s “progressive” when it’s covered by the stranger because you’re a doofus who has fallen prey to confirmation bias, longstanding grudges, and the smell of your own farts.
Regarding the poll, given even Mercedes Rinck is negative (less than a year into office), I doubt this will equate to wholesale electoral change (this seems to be people shouting at clouds).
@16 Garsh, it’s hard to tell why one would think you’re unhappy with the change. Maybe it’s you telling the reporters about all of the stories that they missed Every. Single. Day, as if not including them was an oversight on the reporter’s part?
If you were a progressive, you’d be a different, and probably infinitely more bearable, person. I don’t presume to speak for other progressives, but this self-identified progressive thinks that any change in editorial direction is probably a good-faith difference of opinion between the old and new ownership about what they want to cover. And even if they are abandoning some of what the old Stranger’s core principles were, the Progressive tent is a pretty big one and moving around in the tent doesn’t mean that they’re abandoning Progressive Principles ™ as a whole. They may be just focusing on different aspects. Assuming there’s a profit motive and then spinning out a whole narrative about corporate greed is reading far too much into the tea leaves.
It will be interesting to see where the elections endorsements land. Even if they pick the slightly-more-moderate candidates though, that doesn’t mean that they’re abandoning progressives. They might be (and in my mind, they should) be endorsing the most progressive candidate with a reasonable shot of winning the general election.
Re: the NTSB. Was that the recommendation report issued March 20, 2025? (https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MIR2510.pdf). I don’t see a newer on on their website. If so, you’re badly wrong about the recommendations. In that report, NTSB only recommends that the FHA, USCG, and a number of state DOTs work together to (a) determine whether a list of bridges meets current AASHTO ship strike vulnerability requirements and (b) if so, develop a risk reduction plan with short and long term options. It doesn’t say anything about what those options are. If you’re looking at a different set of recommendations, by all means post a link.
@20, @22, If you want to know what causes a publisher values, look for how many column inches they dedicate to an issue. Look at how frequently they cover it. The Stranger is shrinking coverage of those topics 30% to 80%. If that isn’t an indication of diminished commitment and concern about those issues, I don’t know what would be.
@22, So you agree that the NTSB did not recommend tug escorts, as I believe you strongly suggested made so much sense, in the wake of collapse. Where is the recommendation for tugs in that report? You can’t quote it because its not there. So it won’t be happening.
When the NTSB sees the absence of something as a significant cause of an accident, they aren’t shy about being specific about telling the regulator to adopt a requirement for it.
@22, Progressives are big tent? Ha, ha, ha. They are the most intolerant bunch there is, with the most fractious debates about progressive purity tests.
@23, The stranger is shrinking column inches across the board, you tedious windbag. The entire paper is a fraction of its former self, and adding numbers to your bullshit doesn’t make it more convincing. You said the stranger doesn’t post about cars and guns at all anymore and that is objectively false, and you haven’t explained how shootings and car accidents constitute “progressive” news stories when all media outlets cover them.
It’s weird to me for people to openly admit to not being and not wanting to be progressive. So you don’t want progress? All change is bad and we need to stay the same always for eternity?
It’s the same with people saying they are against antifa… so you are pro facism?
You’re an odd duck.
NotMyopic dear, do you people get a broadcast fax with the latest anger points or something? The old “the left is intolerant” seems to be making a resurgence among your crowd.
@23 That’s all you have? You’re even dumber than I thought. What part of “short and long term options to reduce risk” excludes tug escorts? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. So it proves nothing. Sure, NTSB could have mandated that bridge owners mandate tug escorts. But that would be presupposing a solution when they don’t even know if there’s a problem. The NTSB recommendation is to determine if there’s an unacceptable risk of ship strikes on the other bridges, and then move on from there. Because you first want to find out if you have a problem before you decide what the solution is. OK, not you, because you seem to prefer a Ready, Fire, Aim approach. But any rational person or regulatory agency would. Of course, you’re neither of those.
Oh, and incidentally, the AASHTO risk calculator for bridges has a component of the risk of a ship hitting the bridge after a casualty. That probability would be substantially affected by whether there’s a tug escort system in place or not. So a bridge could plausibly pass the criteria with an escort system but fail without it.
@24 There are a lot of people who call themselves progressives. I can’t speak for all of them. I can only say what makes sense to me.
@18,
Here you were in this (and several other threads) a month ago whining about how their writers weren’t covering the latest Denny Blaine beach news, and claiming that this was proof positive that the paper had undergone some sort of ideological shift.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/04/29/80035577/slog-am-the-virginia-inn-isnt-closing-liberal-party-wins-canadian-elections-man-rescued-from-mount-fuji-twice/comments/5
And then they posted about it several times over the course of the next couple weeks, thus proving you wrong yet again.
The reality is that they’re a tiny staff with limited resources, a diverse & eclectic set of interests and motivations, and news write-ups that reflect those diverse attributes. I would actually assume they probably are somewhat less progressive on the whole of late with the departures of Hannah & Ashley, same as they had a weird flirtation with some right wing politics back when Katie Herzog was within their employ. Their precise ideology is obviously going to ebb & flow across the ideological spectrum depending on who is on staff at any given time, though there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever to think that those changes are part of some managerial mandate or profit driven agenda.
You’re just a weird ass loser that’s been trolling the writers here for nearly 20 years, and I’ve gotta figure you’re probably desperate to see something, anything to help you personally justify such a sad, pointless endeavor. I kinda can’t blame you for that honestly.
@21 or people are just broadly dissatisfied with the Council, which despite campaign rhetoric has been more performative than the last one.
My point at #1 was that The Stranger very obviously and deliberately ignored all the news of the latest shootings, stabbings, and murders in downtown and the greater area this week, because Twee Naive White Progressive Guilt is the Stranger’s religion. I would bet $10,000 that no whites were involved in any of the crimes I listed in #1, except for maybe the guy who shot and killed the other guy who shot the two teens in my second listed link.
Somehow none of yall were able to understand that. Get woke!
@31, well for one you’re competing with another dipshit who thinks the new publisher told the staff not to cover shootings because it’s too progressive, but also you genuinely suck at this. If you have to explain the troll you’re not doing good work, but don’t fret because there will be plenty more opportunities for you to be weirdly racist for no reason.
@32
What I am, you will become.
@32 I also notice that you didn’t take me up on the bet hahaha
gee whiz I wonder why
“The teen shot and killed after shooting two Norteño gang members on 1st & Union last night has been identified as Kale Vaughn Kellen Nusbaum, 16-years old.”
https://x.com/HomicideSeattle/status/1928256193232884037
Oh wow I was right about my second link at #1, sure didn’t see that one coming! I’ll take that off my bet.
Anyone else want to bet on the other ones? Let’s do this!!!
If you want to list the demographics of random criminals you don’t need to be so performative about it, you can just do it
@31,
Why did Nathalie cover the charging of the two black men who are accused in the Pioneer Square shooting?
@21: B-bu-but Rinck defeated Tanya Woo, who was supposedly hugely popular because she’d never won an election, or something! Yeah, that’s it! Take that, all of you right-wing conservatives in Seattle!!1!
Somehow, I rather doubt the Stranger will like the results of Seattle’s 2025 elections much more than it did the 2021 and 2023 elections.
@37
That shooting happened on May 17, a full ten days ago, and all she was really reporting was that some men had been charged (“Jamarquel J. Williams” and “Hakeem J. Dowdy”), and all you are doing again with your supposed “gotcha” is tacitly proving that no whites were involved in those murders either. You should dismantle your Unearned White Privilege though! Thanks!!!
Quote from yesterday’s Slog AM: “Hannah will be posting more about the protest on Slog later today. Stay glued to thestranger.com.”
Whatever happened to that article? It was supposed to be posted yesterday. I really want to read it, I could use a good long hard deep gut laff.
Did Hannah get too stoned to write it? Did she decide that it would embarrass her?
Where did it go?
@39,
Aaaahhh, I see now. So your claim that The Stranger doesn’t report on black crime wasn’t in fact the nefarious, progressive conspiracy you were implying, but rather a devious ploy to get linked to more stories about black crime!?! And I would have to assume this gets you hot. Ya got me, you sly devil!
@41
I have no doubt that Slog will be forced to report on all the non-white murders, shootings, and stabbings that happened in the last few days downtown and around town, but it will take them about a week to ten days, just like you proved in your earlier comment @31.
Also, I never wrote “black crime”, that’s all on you, bud. I wrote that no whites were involved, except maybe for the bystander guy who shot and killed the non-white guy (now proved beyond all doubt to not be white) who shot the other two “teens” downtown. Kale Vaughn Kellen Nusbaum, the dead shooter, isn’t white, but he isn’t black either, and he shot two “Latinx” (lol) Norteño gang members.
You can deny reality all you want, but it never goes away. I find it hilarious how “worldly” and “aware” you naive White Seattle Progressives pretend to be. Please do keep it up though, it makes me laugh at your expense.
@28 While a tug escort certainly mitigates some risks, I’m pretty sure I’m still crashing the boat while l come.
Oh shit did I ruin Slog’s progressive circle-jerk echo-chamber again?
Where did everybody go?
You could just stick your fingers in your ears and shout “Waaah Waaaaah Waaaaaah, I can’t hear you!!”
But you could read, (if you haven’t read it for the first time) Eli Sanders’ Pulitzer Prize winning article that he wrote for The Stranger:
Be a Good White Privileged Seattle Progressive, your White Guilt marches you into the grave:
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2011/06/15/8640991/the-bravest-woman-in-seattle
What have you done to Dismantle your Unearned White Privilege today?
You are not a good White Seattle Progressive in Good Standing unless you are actively and forcibly dismantling your Unearned White Privilege every single second of every single day. Turn your blind eyes to the logical results of your naivete.
White privilege is just another term for, Black sour grapes.
@43 Have you ever done an escort tug analysis? Seen a steering and braking report? Designed an escort tug? If not, maybe lay off the uninformed takes.
I work for one of the biggest tug boat companies in the world and I agree with @47. But if everyone stopped posting uninformed takes there’s be almost no comments on here.
@47 I think for the escort to get analyzed after the tug costs extra
@28, They didn’t call for tug escorts.
As noted, the NTSB is not shy about calling for SPECIFIC safety recommendations when the lack of them is part of the accident chain.
We have all kinds of specific instruments on airplanes because the NTSB told a regulator that kind of instrument needed to be developed and required in airplanes.
E.g. The TCAS system which automatically reads the transponder signal of other aircraft and then automatically advises the pilots of both aircraft what avoidance action to take to prevent a collision. One aircraft will get a “climb” audible for the pilots, and the other “descend” or whatever the computer calculates as the best action by both planes to separate as quickly as possible. NTSB specifically recommended the FAA require such a system. The FAA took that SPECIFIC recommendation and created a requirement and industry developed the system.
Tugs are not new tech. It’s readily available tech, not something that needs to be created from scratch. Yet the NTSB is silent. Given the context of how specific NTSB is in other contexts, with systems that don’t yet exist, or exist only in experiments, the silence on an off the shelf tech like tugs is deafening.
@25, The SLOG, which is on-line, is still published five days a week. It does not have the column inch limitations of print. Yet the quantity of war on cars and war on firearms stories, usually tied to some local tragic case of unlawful, or even lawful, violence, is shrinking. Not because of some print limitation, but because of editorial choice.
How has no one else acknowledged the gem that is @19 swiftress’s comment? This is the content I’m here for.
@47 It would come in handy if people learned to stay in their lane.
@48 It’s frustrating when someone, especially a professional, doesn’t quite have a good grasp of the subject at hand.
Mark my words, bird flu will be this administration’s Waterloo.
@54 CKathes: And may it be swift, wiping out the entire Mu$k and his Mein Trumpf MAGA batshit regime.
The world can’t wait much longer.
@28 boatgeek, re @23: Mr. Magoo is new here, and obviously using raindrop’s antiquated cue cards.
I usually just scroll past anything he posts.
Elon $limelord Mu$k and his Mein Trumpf never should have been IN in the first place!