What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.

 Lies, damn lies and statistics.  

As far as I can remember, four presidents have been assassinated. I had to look up the names: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. Several have survived attempts.

I honestly thought some extreme left wing nutter would try to assassinate Trump. Wishful thinking I guess

The US has had 45 presidents (it’s too soon to count Biden in this calculation). 4 divided by 45 is 9%, near enough.

Boru

[Fireball]

Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.

 Lies, damn lies and statistics.  

As far as I can remember, four presidents have been assassinated. I had to look up the names: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. Several have survived attempts.

I honestly thought some extreme left wing nutter would try to assassinate Trump. Wishful thinking I guess

Most of the nutters are reich wing, and they have most of the guns.

[Fake Messiah]

The world's oldest uneaten chocolates are over 100 years old. A tin of chocolates from the coronation of King Edward VII from 1902 sits in the St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum.

[Anomalocaris]

Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.

Most dangerous job in America is being Republican.  Roughly 90% have become brain dead while being Republican.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.

Most dangerous job in America is being Republican.  Roughly 90% have become brain dead while being Republican.

I don’t disagree with your assessment, but that’s not actually a ‘job’ job, is it?

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Just learned that one of Santa’s reindeer is misnamed.

In the first published copy of Clement Moore’s ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’, the last two reindeer are named ‘Dunder’ and ‘Blixem’. Moore altered the names in several later versions, eventually settling on ‘Donder’ and ‘Blitzen’. The name ‘Donner’ (German for ‘thunder’) didn’t come into use until the early 20th century, well after Moore’s death.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co-pilots had also fallen asleep.

[Anomalocaris]

Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co-pilots had also fallen asleep.

On a modern passenger aircraft,  the safest part of any flight is no doubt when both pilots are asleep and thus incapable of interfering with the autopilot.


When you take a look at how save passenger flight statistically already is and much effort continues to be invested into making passenger flight ever safer, you have to conclude is safety fear of flying is as irrational as it gets, and further investment in making it even safer is not only irrational but obscene in the face of other threats unaddressed by any serious investment.   The statistical chance of any passenger dying on commercial flight is lower than the chance of that passenger dying due to a large asteroid impact.    How much do we spend making passengers ever safer on flights, compare to how much we spend to avert and asteroid strike?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co-pilots had also fallen asleep.

On a modern passenger aircraft,  the safest part of any flight is no doubt when both pilots are asleep and thus incapable of interfering with the autopilot.


When you take a look at how save passenger flight statistically already is and much effort continues to be invested into making passenger flight ever safer, you have to conclude is safety fear of flying is as irrational as it gets, and further investment in making it even safer is not only irrational but obscene in the face of other threats unaddressed by any serious investment.   The statistical chance of any passenger dying on commercial flight is lower than the chance of that passenger dying due to a large asteroid impact.    How much do we spend making passengers ever safer on flights, compare to how much we spend to avert and asteroid strike?

You make a good point about the autopilot. It seems that the most important feature of a modern human pilot's job is to wake up the passengers periodically to impart the vital information that, if they look out the left side of the plane, they will see nothing of interest.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

There are two main thoroughfares in the capital of Kosovo named after former US Presidents. One is named George Bush Boulevard and parallel to it is Bill Clinton Boulevard.

It does make sense that they honor Clinton this way because he did save them by bombing Belgrade and thus stopped Serbs from massacring them. Although if some comedians are to be believed, they should have named it Monica Lewinsky Boulevard because, according to them, he only bombed Belgrade to draw attention away from the affair.