The NTSB’s role is to not to assign blame.

We aren’t in the aviation industry, and neither are we the NTSB.

Prosecutions and convictions do occur as a result of aviation incidents, pilots loose their jobs, pilots loose their licenses, ATC staff can be prohibited from ever working in the industry again.

We free to talk about all of those aspects here.

The NTSB also isn’t the organisation that makes any changes nor, as you suggest, assigns any penalties.

The NTSB only makes recommendations.

Because know one owns a $300 billion dollar hammer that literally runs on fancy calculators.

I dunno.

I was at school for 12 years.

There were two good teachers.

The rest of them, and all the staff at those four schools, are hopefully spending the rest of eternity burning in hell.

I get you. I'd say I had three good teachers, one absolutely awful one (that I would likewise condemn to hell), and the rest... meh. I hated their classes at the time, but with an adult perspective I can say that they didn't do me any harm, some people well, and (in at least one case) more (albeit non-academic) good for me than I could have recognized as a kid.

Should we do better? You bet your ass. I have all kinds of ideas....

Nevertheless, both of our experiences put the lie to the GP's hyperbole. Bad as the rest might have been, you had at least two teachers who were exactly whom you'd want to be there.

Maybe it seems like I'm being pedantic, picking on GP's wording, but I'm really not. I'm trying to point that even those of us who had a bad time in education (and, to be clear: I did, too) experienced a few bright spots. It's important, if we're going to engage ourselves with any kind of reform, a) not to shit on the entire teaching profession, b) to consider what made those good teachers good, and c) think about how to support the quality people already in the system, and to attract more like them to it.

Don’t leave us hanging, what exactly is happening at the crime scene?

Read the news.

- Trump received $4B in bribes last year.

- Widespread arrests and murder / deportations of US citizens.

- Federal agents routinely kidnap pregnant child abuse victims so they can be transported to Texas where they're denied health care + forced to carry their assailant's child to term.

- Blowing up fishermen + using the footage in weird 80's movie montage propaganda films.

- Installing censors at most news organizations in the US.

And literally hundreds of comparably bad stories. They arrive at a rate of 2-3 per day, and have been for over a year.

I go further.

Even if I am expecting a call from a service provider, insurance, bank, whatever…

They’ll want you to identify yourself, name, dob, address.

Never do this to unverified inbound callers.

And how do you verify an inbound caller is who thru claim they are and not a scammer?

You don’t. You tell them you never give out PII to inbound callers as they are indistinguishable from scammers.

Then call the them on their publicly listed number and deal with the issue from there.

We need to encourage service providers to stop doing that as it is exactly leads to people being more easily scammed.

I believe cordless VoIP phones are still a product one can purchase new.

They need only an electrical outlet for the charge stand.

Never.

Come April, all the production and construction capacity will be commandeered for the war machine.

I’m all for burning less gas, it’s too important a resource to simply burn for heat.

But we need to build the nuclear reactors first.

In the mean time, no: people can’t just freeze in the dark.

Heat pump exists. I’d rather burn gas in the (mostly existing) gas plants than put more gas pipes into the ground.

Heat pumps don’t solve switching away from gas.

If you don't put in heat pumps, nuclear reactors are one of the more expensive ways to heat a home.

If you do put in heat pumps, nuclear reactors are still one of the more expensive ways to heat a home, but you need a third as many of them as compared to the no-heat-pumps case, if you insist on heating only with nuclear power.

Nuclear power is really only important if you also want spicy atoms, because it's by far the cheapest source of spicy atoms. Annoyingly, this is now a thing a lot of countries have a solid reason to want.

They solve a large part: heating. They don’t solve gas as an industrial feedstock, but you need a lot fewer pipes for that use case.