re: Meet the dream team that made the plane door that just blew off in the middle of a flight

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The Force is Female

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The patriarchy was better and women need to get their asses back in the kitchen. Sorry but it's true. The world just works better when men are running things.

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some description from some random person on twitter.

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United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be women or people of color. They’re promoting flight attendants to make that happen.

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This is as dumb as the shite my aunt posts on FB. We have no idea why these silly women are acting a fool other than some description from some random person on twitter. Is this board majority boomers?

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In December of 2022, a Boeing 777 operated by United Airlines took off from Hawaii in heavy rain. About a minute into the flight, the aircraft plummeted towards the ocean. It came just 750 feet from hitting the water at high-speed, which almost certainly would have killed all 280 people on board.

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So a couple of years ago, United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be women or people of color. They’re promoting flight attendants to make that happen.

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It turns out that United partners with several historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, as a way of recruiting pilots. One of the popular statistics-focused accounts on X, which uses the name i/o, noticed that two of the schools that United has decided to team up with — Delaware State and Elizabeth City State University — are, “in the bottom 2% of all undergraduate institutions in the United States.” Elizabeth State, the account noted, “had the distinction in the 1980s of being the only university in which the average SAT math score was lower than that score which would have been produced if a person had guessed ‘B’ on all the multiple choice questions on the test.”

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