The White House budget director seems to have a good bead on the situation in the House. Mainly, that they're all pretty much addicted to the crazy.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46319622/budget-shutdown-mike-johnson/
*ANOTHER* 737 MAX problem. This could have been much worse had the plane been at a higher altitude and the pilots not reacted as quickly as they did. This could (and probably will) initiate a grounding of the 737 MAX fleet, again, until they figure out what went wrong. Scary stuff!
“A pilot forgetting to turn it off, that’s all it takes,”
https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/jan/05/boeing-wants-faa-to-exempt-max-7-from-safety-rules-to-get-it-in-the-air/
The widespread adoption, around 2000 years ago, of the Julian calendar placed most of humanity on the same footing, with Leap Years every four years helping to keep the year in sync with the seasons. By the middle of the second millennium, things had gotten so out of hand that a week-and-a-half needed to be removed from the calendar to set things right. Here's why so many "historical" dates are unreliable.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/humanitys-calendar-failed/
Just spending my elder years documenting my declining mental faculties. Love cooking, craft beer, snow, theater, and voting liberal. He/Him/Yo