That Jan 6th participants were almost uniformly let off the hook is a stain that will continue to haunt us until pardon power is finally reigned in.

Without holding those who do wrong to account, positive movement will always be dogged or straight-up negated by those who do wrong without facing justice.

I think of IBM and GE as being cut from the same cloth back then- they treated their people well and dominated their markets.

Any chance someone ripped that old site? Do you remember the URL? I don't have a Ford, just always curious about this stuff.

charm.li covers Fords and many other makes too up to 2013 ish. It is a pirate archive site holding workshop manuals for thousands of cars. Very useful. Very free. Long may it stay hidden.

More legitimately, alldata.com has repair data, workshop manuals for most marques up to today and will sell you either single vehicle (called "DIY") or a package aimed at independent mechanics where you can access anything. Same manuals either way, but you pay per vehicle with DIY (and have to contact support to switch.)

I use alldata for my GM truck, it is fantastic.

I love whoever is behind charm.li very much- after the bad old days of Haynes manuals and broken PDF links on make-specific forums, it's a breath of fresh air to have one repository like that.

I didn't know they had shop manuals. That's been a pretty big limitation of my spouse's Buick is that there isn't any information or exploded-view diagrams of anything so we basically have to pay an hourly for someone else to change emissions parts in response to trouble codes.

ETIS is dead and Ford finally pulled the plug, though since the current backend is some semi-custom IBM bloat I would not be surprized if you could get by that without too much hassle (took them three years to find out I was downloading all my car's travel and charging logs before they banned the dummy account, but now they track it and discontinued most of it anyways).

I won't go into details but searching around with the "forum" keyword and etis might get you somewhere (at least that did the trick a few years ago, now with LLM slop I don't know, and what the other person posted).

> The babies look unhappy

> Add more balls

Fun simulation. The novelty of stuff like this still hasn't worn off for me in this era where we've got ray tracing in-browser.

> I enjoy the moment, and have the memories.

I don't disagree with your "enjoy the moment" thesis, but I also envy your memory recall capability. For me, photos can resurrect memories I don't have access to normally.

Yes, me too. I have a photographic memory that is getting worse with age. I remember things vividly but have no emotional attachment to the memory, and memories of myself doing things are in the third person so I can't seem to "enjoy" the memory of an event, but visually "see myself" in the memory (which doesn't make sense). Photos and videos help me "relive" the moment.

That being said, I have far too many photos (and camera bodies!).

Whenever I see stuff like that I ask myself "who is this for", like who wants to see those elements animated for no good reason?

> I still haven't seen evidence that they were running understaffed at that moment.

I think the disagreement you see is based on the definition of what "understaffed" means. Having one ATC to do ground and air control simultaneously seems like an under-staffing situation to begin with, regardless of whether it's a common practice.

There is also the angle of: even if there is an appropriate amount of controllers in the tower at a given time, how they do it can also hint at the issue. Being an ATC is a taxing job, mandatory overtime and 60 hours work weeks screams understaffing to me.

It is possible for ATC to be understaffed as a profession, LGA to be understaffed as an airport, individual controllers to be overworked, and for it to be 100% reasonable to have a single controller at LGA in the middle of the night.

Its weird that there strict laws that limit pilot hours to under 40 hours a week but no laws that restrict number of hours ATC works.

> Having one ATC to do ground and air control simultaneously seems like an under-staffing situation to begin with

Do we have evidence that one controller did all ground and air? The only evidence I've seen was the NY Times said that, according to a source, two controllers were working and two more were in the building.

In situations like this there is as lot of disinformation. The best thing to do is not add to it - a pile of bad information is not improved by piling more on. The best thing is to patiently find reliable info and stick to it.

That one controller was handling both ground and air is still a bit of a tell that there was some short-handedness afoot, though, by my eye.

> The best thing is to patiently find reliable info and stick to it.

No disagreement here

> That one controller was handling both ground and air ...

Why do you (or why does anyone) think that? My point in the GP was, I have yet to see evidence that there was only one controller, and I have seen evidence that there were two.

Because in the ATC recording you hear him directing both

I get it now. That's of interest, definitely, but I wouldn't conclude it was universally true - that the one controller did both for everyone.

You can listen to the ATC recordings before and after the accident.

Does someone say there is only one controller working? Just because that particular recording has only one controller doesn't mean nobody else is working.

You can hear him directing ground and air traffic.

I know it's an anachronism, but I just can't like square watches- that round shape is just "right" to me, even though it's a terrible form factor for displaying most things like maps and apps.

Cool idea, but doesn't Meshtastic already do this but with better range because it uses radio instead of BT?

Meshtastic is great if you're willing to carry extra hardware. Everyone in your group needs a LoRa radio (which can range from $30-50 each), and you need to pair them, flash the firmware, configure channels, etc. For a SAR team or preppers who already own the gear, it's definitely a solid choice.

Red Grid Link was more so for those already carrying their phones and those that don't want to buy anything else. The trade-off is range for convenience. BLE gets you maybe ~50-100m in the open, ~20-60m in densely woooded areas. That's enough to keep tabs on a hunting party spread across a hillside or a hiking group. Absolutely not a replacement for a radio relay across a valley.

Different tools for different problems. If I need a 2km mesh range I'd set up Meshtastic too.

Good points. I like the ghost marker functionality, helps with the shorter-range of BT.

Thanks, yeah the ghost markers ended up being one of those features that came out of necessity. Once I accepted that the BLE range was never going to be amazing, the question became what happens when someone drops off? Felt wrong to just remove them from the map.