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  • It’s the way ATC routing works. In this case they might route SFO - IAH traffic over the southern route because it doesn’t interfere with westbound traffic heading to PHX or SFO, and this might be over southern airways. Go IAH - SFO and the route might be northern over LAS as route you plotted shows to mesh with the larger traffic flow going E to W. Who knows. But ATC routing often doesn’t follow a straight line, there’s lots of factors that send aircraft over less efficient routes.

    It’s still not a great question in the context OP posted it because, as others have mentioned, the question is phrased as an accusation (JAQ-ing off) that makes no attempt to understand the airspace system and is probably asked in bad faith by Petersen.



  • Take it a little easy on that.

    Unless you have adults that actively ignored or knew you had ADHD and refused to deal with it you’ve got to cut people a little slack. There’s centuries of raising kids where people forced them to conform, for good or ill. Centuries where adhd was not recognized. Centuries of sweeping mental differences under the rug. They just didn’t know.

    We’re barely starting to acknowledge and accept mental health and non-normative brain wiring today, and there are still huge numbers of people that refuse to accept it, want to force conformity, or have some BS clickbait “treatment” for it.

    My family is late diagnosis. It really hurt my other half because her parents knew but did nothing. She felt like years of her life were wasted because she never could stick with things that would have advanced her life in positive ways. I was an “inattentive” type that was essentially unrecognized because I wasn’t hyper. No fault of my parents because it wasn’t a thing to look for 40 odd years ago. Now I fit the diagnosis to a T. Even one of our own kids had issues that took us years to figure out even after suspicions on our part. Took the kid to local specialists and they’re all “Nah, normal but difficult kid.” Years more go by with lots of problems and we’re fed up, pay a fortune out of pocket (because insurance doesn’t cover mental treatment if it isn’t a problem) to a legit children’s specialist facility in a metro area and within a week we had a proper diagnosis, things have improved with the kid and our relationship with the kid drastically over the intervening years. Point being that, even though we tried to get a diagnosis it didn’t work, and we had to go out of our way, even if we were unsure of the issue, and spend a lot of money to figure it out. Not everyone has that kind of time, money, or stamina to sort out a difficult kid after already being told the kid is “normal”.

    Sorry, WoT response, just offering a perspective.



  • I had the opposite. Jellyfin just works. Plex kept losing my movie folders, refused to play videos, wouldn’t screen cast, had problems with audio tracks, there always seemed to be a disconnect between app and server, they refused to connect despite both being the correct versions. It worked great initially, but got steadily more and more problematic over time. I gave up, even though I’d paid for it, and made a jellyfin server and have had zero trouble since.

    Don’t know why two programs should have such radically different experiences, they should just do what they’re supposed to.




  • TBF there are different types of communism. Marxist, Leninist, State, Libertarian, etc… I don’t know enough about how they all decided to become all these sub-genres, but my basic take is that there’s communism, the kind where workers have the power and the distribution of goods and wealth is shared among society; and then there’s the communism that we all know, the authoritarian regime that controls the classes and distribution of goods and wealth.

    Personally I think the latter shouldn’t be called communism at all, it’s a completely different animal than the original idea, but IMO conservative politics have so thoroughly conflated tyrannical state control with communism, along with Stalin’s\Lenin’s authoritarian brutality claiming to be communism, that the two will never be separated.