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It is telling that the UK voters feel that eradicating Labor for sake of Trump’s friends Reform party would be … more morally right.

Clean-up Labor, deeply & rigorously, but … switching to Trump’s confederates in the UK??

Brexit was good for you??

You want more of that??

That is exactly the kind of ideological polarization that will have the PLANET doing its rampaging-consolidation, shortly.

& civilrights won’t be allowed, in ideology’s world, anymore.

Honest cleaning-up, deep, thorough, rigorous, that is the only means of saving humankind’s life.

& if the opportunity is let-go, it won’t come back: the ideologues will take & use control-of-the-world for all their worth, until their oligarchy/feudalism/fascism has extinguished our world’s viability, knowing that in their religion, accountability cannot ever touch them.

An incompetent bet, of course: ALL contained-energies get recycled, in universes, including meaning, but … their religion is their religion.

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As 1 yt video, which had a doctor remarking on his condition, explicitly stated:

he’s already had a stroke: the droopy side-of-mouth, the coordination problems, etc…

& the earlier MRI was about that, too.

My point is that a stroke can remove ANY subset of someone’s brain, & in his case, it’ll remove the humanness & the humaneness, leaving the ideological-ruthlessness, savagery, & drive.

Selective removal.

WHEN enough “believing” is torquing some event, THEN conventional-probabilities can go out the window: mind is an actual force-of-nature ( as the non-evolved existence of airliners proves, & as intentionally modifying one’s brain through meditations also proves ).

Rasputin was too-hard-to-kill precisely because of the force that unconscious-mind was pouring into making him be the representative of unconscious-mind’s ego-myth, in that context, on those believers.

Trump’s the same, in the current context.

Conventional-probability isn’t as applicable as it would pretend to be, once powerful unconscious-mind gets committing in something…

I’ve other evidences, but since this is a Western discussion, & Western cultural-prejudice automatically-contempts that mind is real in the ways that my frame-of-reference has tested & found-to-be-true, then just contempt my position as being “not based in Physicalism/Materialism/Existentialism”, & that’d be good-enough for those Confucian & Western religions.

His phase-change will be coincident with the same kind of phase-change among multiple lives, though,

some aligned as his committing is aligned, others aligned the opposite direction.

Were you the kind to find that … yeah, maybe mind or LivingSpirit could actually produce measurable-results in history … then I’d recommend Eknath Easwaran’s “The Bhagavad Gita” to you ( beautiful work, his ), simply for a concept buried in it for all to see.

There are Equilibriums ( Ages we call them, now, the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, called his Age “the current generation” ), & there are Punctuations between those Ages.

We’re now in a Punctuation ( not even gotten really going, yet ).

We’re now in the last survivable Punctuation of this world’s lifecycle.

It’s cyclical.

Here’s a truth that no Christian will readily accept:

There’s a stock symbol used in the biblical predictions/“prophecies”: that of an empire being represented by a great all-consuming monster, with iron teeth, & weaker & weaker materials going down, until clay feet.

That symbol represents BOTH the Roman Empire AND the US of A’s empire.

IOW, it represents the all-consuming empire at the end of an age, and NOT some specific one, but ANY one, see?

It’s cyclical!

Our cycle just happens to be moar worser than the previous cycle.

So, the destruction of the Roman Empire was BAD.

This time, though, it’ll be ABSOLUTELY WORSE.

& when you reach a sufficient level of unconscious-mind power, in a situation, then you’re engaging humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s global-commitment, which massively changes the rules.

So, I’m saying that this punctuation is going to … pop the Status Quo “governor-device” from our world, & replace it with the Destroyer-Heart current, which always has short-term ( mere-decades ) advantage in such Punctuations.

& that if that requires some temporary medical “miracles” … that that IS within humankind’s unconscious-mind’s power.

Exactly the same as people who’ve just been in a crash sometimes display superhuman-strength in prying-open wrecked cars.

Same substance!

just different use, is all.

Everybody devout to Physicalism/Materialism/Existentialism ought contempt everything I’m saying, because I hold that those are all falsified by physics ( spooky action at a distance itself can’t happen, in those regimes, in their pure/absolute forms, & since experiment has proven spooky action at a distance, to distances of over 100km, then pretending otherwise is ideology, NOT physics ).

Anybody who’s got the scientific-guts to hold to Empiricism’s method: simply wait & see!

well, as a method, it works.

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Did the people in Democrat states, whom ICE is waging war against, give permission for their states to be avalanched by ICE forces?

Permission is, in Trump’s lingo, “for losers”.

He’ll act, not ask, once he’s got the dictatorship he “NEEDS”, & the constitution is overthrown.

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Sorry, that’s got nothing to do with it:

Thoughtshapes are themselves, & some are more “atomic”, & others are more “molecular”, & others are merely-associating.

I have to fight the urge to use “=” as double-hyphen, to indicate more-atomic, & “-” to indicate still-atomic-just-less, to try to communicate what thoughtshapes I’m meaning, & how their forms work/are.

Translating from thoughtshapes to English … is clumsy-as-hell, breaks many meanings, & prevents entire categories of meaning from being expressible.

I’ve been told by multilingual-people that what I’m describing exactly matches their frustration with getting meanings from 1 language into another.

White psychology holds that there are only 3 innate-mind-languages: VAK…

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic

but there are 4, at-least:

• Abstract-Shape cognizers
• Visual cognizers
• Auditory cognizers
• Kinesthetic cognizers

Each of those is mind-blind to things that the other kinds can see.

Temple Grandin did a TED Talk on exactly that, but didn’t mention the abstract-shape cognizers, iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temple+grandin+ted

She COULDN’T have put the Fukushima-reactor emergency-generators at the bottom of pits, beside the ocean, because she would have SEEN that the tsunami that hit the building, which those generators were supposed to provide power after, would have drowned the things.

Obviously, non-visual-cognizers made that decision, mind-blind to the consequences, obliterating the usefulness of them.

From what I’ve been able to discover, abstract-shape cognizers are common only in physics.

There aren’t many ( I’ve met 2 others, that I’m certain of: I asked them, because their thinking was so different from the VAK types ), & it seems to be the only place where such kind-of-mind has significant … either advantage, or familiarity, not certain which.

So, TL;DR is:

using hyphens in trying to communicate which thoughtshapes are more-atomic, vs which are merely-associating, using the clumsiness of English’s words & grammar/syntax/punctuation,

so you people can get the actual feel for the intended thoughtshapes, themselves.

( instead of the English-bound approximations of them )

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Their anchoring on +1.5C is delusion.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19798

I tried adding-in the methane, & the current planetary-equilibrium-temperature is more like +8C or +9C, not +1.5C.

The speed-of-warming follows something like a bell-curve:

the speed-of-warming begins at zero, at or before the 1800’s, sometime ( global-warming already wiped much ice-shelf off of Antarctica between the original-explorers & when commercial-fishing mapped the edge of it, in the mid 1900’s ).

Then the speed-of-change increases, to some maximum.

We haven’t reached that point yet.

Then, the speed-of-change decreases, settling-down back to zero, at the new planetary-equilibrium temperature.

So, we’re now in the speeding-up portion of the curve, & the slowing-down portion of the curve probably takes as long as the speeding-up portion did.

So, we’re looking at it continuing its changing for the next … century or 2 or 3.

& the speed-of-change is still accelerating, so we’re not at the “middle” of that speed-of-change yet.

+1.5C is based on assuming that we can stop it, somehow ( magically? ) outright, from still-speeding-up.

Our behavior proves we “can’t”, because our profits & wars come 1st.

That isn’t going to change ( hell: the regional-consolidation stage of this century, beginning as soon as Trump crosses the total-dictatorship tippingpoint, no sooner than mid-Feb, will itself remove climate-mitigation from ALL our countries’ primary-commitments: survival of the imperialism’s going to come 1st! ).

So all “plan” type things anchoring to … delusion … are kinda not really worthy of respect?

Nice effort, but … delusion’s delusion.

TTBOMK, most of: { California ; Texas ; Sahara ; Saudi Arabia ; India } become uninhabitable, outright, later this century.

Why wouldn’t Trump “NEED” to butcher Canada, if taking territory to feed the US is required, since the US is losing territory nearer the equator due to the “hoax” of global-warming, as they call it?

Same with the climate-enforced wars elsewhere.

China, strategically, is probably using coal as a means of snuffing India’s competition, later this century, through roasting India into non-competition.

It’s really that kind of thing, now…

We’re bracing for “warming”, while enforcing that perhaps a billion-displaced … be produced within mere-decades, if that-long.

Bandaids on broken-bones, same as usual…

That powerlaw which maps directly from atmospheric-composition to planet-temperature, that isn’t model-which-leaves-out-too-much based, that is simply data/evidence based.

All the climate-models which … left-out Greenland’s ice-melt, until just a couple years ago … WTF??

That’s making-believing, not modeling.

& the fact that Antarctica’s interior is heating at 2x the speed allowed by the models … can’t that falsify the models’ validity?

They aren’t using models which are aggressive-enough to match the actuality!

That powerlaw, though, it does.

At least it does if you add-in the methane, using CO2-equivalent.

Methane we NEED to be keeping out from the atmosphere, immediately.

That researcher whose paper got cross-examined by oceans of authorities, because it stated this fact, was exactly right.

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The beauty of that, is simply that it proves that the market is ENGINEERED TO BE irrational.

Until the markets are engineered to be rational, with all required ratios being posted, all relevant competitive-information, etc, then bubble/crash/bubble/crash is enforced on our economy, perhaps industry-by-industry, but it is enforced.

& who has the courage & integrity to enforce that markets be made rational?

< crickets >

Nobody: that’s who.

So, it’s actually all just a pretence, used for the concentration-of-wealth, & so long as the pretence is profitable for the “haves & the have-more’s” ( the ones G.W. Bush admitted, to them, that he served ), then nothing’ll change.

Rational-market REQUIRES objective-information being where-it-is-needed, consistently, reliably.

That takes guts & integrity, in setting-up the rules of being in the stock-markets.

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I believe this is the sourcebook for programmers wanting to NOT botch things that kind of way:

https://www.manning.com/books/secure-by-design

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Saw this, a long while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU

It measures clean code to wreck performance to terrible degree.

From the looks of it, in Molly Rocket’s view, clean code is an industry-wronging cult.

They’ve multiple videos on the subject, from different angles

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=molly+rocket+clean+code

Just putting this here for hopefully-more-accurate-view.

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The whole presumption that we’ve got years before Trump takes Alberta & annexes Canada, using Greenland to snuff our EU-lifeline, is an absurd joke.

We’ve got weeks or months, at most.

Trump’s going to do to Canada what Russia’s been doing to Ukraina, but 10x.

That tippingpoint’s coming, quick.

No sooner than mid-Feb, but … ANY time after then.

10x the force AND 10x the speed, too.

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There are some people who can do page-at-a-time comprehension.

But I suspect that with lawyers, it is instead that it isn’t words they are comprehending, rather, it is phrases which changes the whole equation.

I guarantee you that in legalese, there are a gazillion boilerplate/stock phrases, & once one recognizes the phrase, one can skip past it to see what that-“atom” pertains to.

Same as how, in music, one can see a particular phrase or series-of-phrases, & just flow through the playing of that, from one’s programming, not bothering to concern oneself with the sheet-music until that phrase/series-of-phrases is ended.

I’ve encountered enough diversity-in-mental-capability that I’m not balking at that claim of theirs: it’s possible from what I’ve encountered among others.

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some of us were born without navigation, just as some of us were born with arithmetic-defect, or dyslexia, or face-blindness, or whatever.

We are locked-out without such help.

There is a balance between using help you actually-need, vs indulging-in-having-one’s-capability-displaced-by-help.

THAT is the thing that is making AI into the lethal-recreational-drug that it’s turning into.

People using it to substitute for reality, instead of using it for brainstorming & intelligently-condensing, or for editing-critique, etc.

If I ever get my not-for-profit started-up ( health problems come 1st ), then at this point I expect to have to fire about 19/20 of the people I hire, just because “if YOU sign-off on it, then YOU wrote it” … just “does not compute”, anymore, in this fake-fake-fake everything world.

When I found out that some people have a defect in their language-brain such that they CANNOT get spelling to work in English ( because their spelling is always auditory, & English is engineered to make that not-work ) … & then I found out that dyslexia is MUCH worse in English than it is in Italian, same root-problem … then I began understanding that English is engineered to lock-out many people, & I’d been blind to that…

just providing alternative-context, is all.

It’s the same as the “in the old days, the tough survived, & that was the right way” … yeah, except that accepting such a stupidly-high needless-death-rate to produce those few “successes” … was sociopathic, by today’s standards.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=1800's+playground&ia=images&iax=images

shows why broken-necks were so common in playgrounds, back in the early-photography days…

Nowadays children are DRASTICALLY more-likely to reach adulthood, & I think that’s a good thing … so the “weeding out” isn’t quite so heavy-handed, now.

All disabilities, though, can be rigged into a weeding-out.

The shorter-lifespan of left-handed people ( enforced stress ) is but 1 example of systemic-bias’s effects…

& I’m saying that over-relying on AI will, itself, produce a reduction-in-viability.

The “easy money: getting without giving” culture’s narcissism … isn’t going anywhere!

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I think you’re missing the fundamental-intent:

learned-helplessness.

A population which has been beaten & brainwashed into learned-helplessness, is a population who can be mere-carrion, fed-upon long-term.

All the battering we’re getting from apparently-intentionally-wrong-design, UI & UX, and all the endless-battering from AI’s displacing reality from our world, well, if the point is to make certain that we don’t resist having our worth “appropriated” from us by the corporations which feed on our lives … then it’s working, isn’t it?

It isn’t us using as tools the good stuff, it is us not-having-any-say-anymore, & just aquiescing to anything that is decided on our behalf, re continual-machiavellian-licensing-alterations, re UI & UX, re everything!

The point is that we stop having any say, & get used to being used/abused.

Globally.

In all contexts.

Battered into all-pervading helpless aquiescence.

That is the intent which matches the implimentation we’re being subjected to.

“the benefit of the doubt” expired years ago, now.

This is DarkTriad war against our meaning, & validity, enforcing its totalitarian dominion through the tech our infrastructure is.

Because not-for-profits are as machiavellian as the for-profits ( as sickening as that is ), then there is NOBODY competing against the machiavellianism, displacing that malicious infrastructure with good infrastructure.

Marginal-competition isn’t counting in the world’s economy ( PieFed.social, Lemmy.World, etc, do NOT compete against Reddit at the economics-scale, & the “journalism” of the world is helping to enforce non-competition, too. )

Our gov’ts have gone full-in backing that rigging of our world: no alternative, in their policy’s eyes.

Ideally, some not-for-profits would begin competing against machiavellianism, & would begin simultaneously competing against the machiavellian infrastructure, but they’d have to do it against ALL the required-infrastructure, all the big-platforms…

What establishment would tolerate that?

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Interesting!

Looks like a critical improvement, but…

it’s still Oracle one is trusting with one’s core infrastructure, & Postgres ISN’T Oracle, & so I still don’t see why people would go with MySQL rather than something which isn’t Oracle?

I remember reading, a few years ago, that Oracle had engineered it so that, due to licensing, it was no-longer-possible to guarantee that FLOSS ( MariaDB ) was MySQL compatible: they’d locked-down some key part of it, making it closed or proprietary, or both…

Just leave all such “relationships”, & pay up-front, instead of forever…

https://mariadb.org/when-oracle-drops-the-ball/

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TechnARCHY, not -ocracy: it’s feudalism, just by tech-elite, not everybody-voting-as-equals which the -ocracy suffix would imply…

Feudalism by a slightly-different standard, & technologically-enforced class/caste system: unbreakable concentration-of-rights-authorities-wealths-and-privileges to the owners/rulers.

Yeah, it’s inevitable SO LONG AS government is by & for “the owners”, as that Aussie bizman called the economic-rulers of the world…

shrug

It’s theoretically possible for government to be evidence-based, objective, for the good of the world, etc, but that would take far more spine than the ideologies would permit, far more than the political selects-for-DarkTriad process would permit.

Human-narcissism being the relentless underlying mover-&-shaker of the whole thing.

The change required is more fundamental… probably more-fundamental than humankind would allow.

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There are some nice ones, there…

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PS:

I’m telling people this stuff, relentlessly, because I’d PREFER that some people orient to actuality, & survive what’s coming.

Relying, instead, on comforting making-believing, will just get more dead.

Some would prefer that.

But sometimes getting someone who’s comfortably-numb OFF the traintracks, BEFORE the train comes whipping-through, can save their life.

Even if it is “traumatic” for them to have their comforting-believing trashed.

The trauma of the alternative, of just not having responsibility, & just being helpless-victim, is worse.

Deem my certainty that Trump is going to continue escalating until he’s broken all limits, controls, guardrails, fetters, checks, & balances, to be baseless nonvalid delusion, if you want, in spite of the evidence of his ever-escalating & ever-accelerating swing into total-dictatorship, with the help of his boosters…

but the evidence backs that, & extrapolating that curve … crosses a tippingpoint, soon.

US of A is going to be being run much more like Russia, shortly.

& I expect … perhaps 1/2 or 2/3 of North Americans to be dead by the time that the Republican regime is finished, in the 2030’s?

Something like that.

Not thousands: 200-million or more.

I HOPE I’m dead-wrong.

but that curve, that accelerating-escalations curve, it says that the rules snap, soon.

That’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.

I want the unbelieveable-slaughter to be less, & denial isn’t moving-the-fulcrum in the right direction for that.

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All this presumes that social-pressure … can coerce his regime into compliance.

That is leftist delusion.

He will keep escalating, until he can break rule-of-law completely from him, & then he & Putin will be equally dictators, 1 for each hemisphere’s worth of the West.

This, above, is “playing the wrong game”…

Please read the book “A Spy’s Guide to Strategy”, by “John Braddock”, a former CIA spy.

There are 3 categories-of-game:

• Positive-Sum game - Win-Win alliance
• Zero-Sum game - competitive narcissism
• Negative-Sum game - competitive nihilism

Putin, mass-shooters, etc, are playing negative-sum game, & zero-sum game tinge added-in.

The more destruction a negative-sum game player can enforce, the “higher their score”.

The negative-sum game player cares that NOBODY after them be significant. That is an actual driving-motivation, in that category of game.

The foolish, who hold that social-pressure will be obeyed, so therefore all one has to do is to make enough social-statements & the other-player will be coerced into obeying social-pressure WHEN THE OTHER PLAYER ISN’T EVEN PLAYING THAT CATEGORY OF GAME … get people, THEIR people, dead, by relying on wrong-method.

The bluntest example of this is all the times good cops have told people some variant of:

“IF somebody is taking you from normal-context to some secondary-crime-scene, that they have prepared in advance, FIGHT TO THE DEATH, RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THEY WILL BE DISMEMBERING YOU IF THEY GET YOU TO THAT SECONDARY-CRIME-SCENE.”

IOW, one’s assumption that social-pressure will coerce them into complying, therefore one ought go along with them, while just making them like one more, gently applying social-pressure, …

… when the game they’re playing is serial-murderer game, & you’re just 1 of many they’re slaughtering+dismantling… THAT is the category-of-error being made here.

shrug

Maybe people are just incapable of understanding.

Maybe only dead people understand, I don’t know…

But pulling the asserting-social-pressure-therefore-you-have-to-obey game on people who aren’t even playing that game, gets not-only-you dead, it gets your children dead, too.

whatever.

Trump will cross the tippingpoint soon, & break the constitution’s limit/hobbling of him, use the de-naturalization law to remove citizenship from … probably ALL who won’t give their allegiance directly to him ( NOT to the constitution, NOT to the country ), & then all who aren’t in his cult, who no-longer have any citizenship, all of them can be ICE’d.

His denaturalization law & ICE are 2 sides of the same coin.

He isn’t kidding about them having, in his eyes, “TOTAL immunity”: they exist to eradicate all the Democrats, once he has removed their citizenship ( or somehow “deal with” them all ).

It is the elegantest evil, the elegantest coup, ever. Exactly as Hitler used law to remove the rule-of-law, he’s doing it too.

The “checks & balances” aren’t either checking him, or balancing him: they’re spotty, they’re too-weak, & they’re being systematically bypassed.

Shortly they’ll be utterly-meaningless.

In a world where his-regime obeyed social-pressure, the above would mean something.

But investing in action which … makes no result, whatsoever, … while getting people invested in … making no result … that isn’t effective.

Prep, if you can: invest in the psychological-leverages you need to be able to survive the coming Americas-war, when Trump will be enforcing his annexing of Canada ( using Greenland as a base to snuff Canada’s EU-lifeline ), AND Civil War Part2, AND his imperial-rampaging of Central & South America.

“21 Days to Resilience” is good, find other understandings that help you become robustly-viable in the coming wars.

Invest in what makes your mind, your meaning, able to endure the next-stage of this world’s dysfunction, because it’ll be lasting into the 2030’s.

Trump is, in values, allied with Putin.

He is working at becoming more & more completely aligned that way.

Nobody understands just what’s coming.

Social-pressure isn’t going to make him obey.

That tippingpoint is coming, after mid-Feb, … I think within mere-weeks of then.

This isn’t “2 vehicles dented each-other, & now there are going to be bills to pay”, no, this is going to be “total crash: many dead” kind of thing.

Everybody’s assuming that normal is going to reassert, & all the world will obey/comply with the LORD Status Quo…

Status Quo is about to be blown to smithereens, soon, & nobody is accepting that that could possibly be true.

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Good information to know: things have changed a bit, in the last few years, then…

( Kingston has improved, apparently )

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NASA did work on turboprops being much more efficient than turbofans, years ago.

2 things I remember from their paper ( 1 of zillions: trying to re-find a particular paper can waste days )…

1. blade-flutter can destroy the thing, at those high-speeds & high-energies
2. the MORE blades, within limits, the more efficient, & that was measured, so near-transonic props seem to behave DIFFERENTLY than low-subsonic ones do ( where fewer blades == more efficient )

Generally, the lower the pressure-difference between the suction-side & the pressure-side of a prop-disc ( because you made the prop-disc bigger ), the greater the efficiency, you ideally want the speed-difference of the air to be limited between before & after, to something like 7x or less, AND you have to limit the suction-side-of-the-blade air to below transonic, or the shockwave can damage your blade,

so using an open rotor/fan, with MUCH bigger prop-disc, should be a no-brainer…

I know Boeing was researching into it, & them & Airbus both seem to have decided that slipstream-straightening blades/vanes, just behind the fan, gets enough spiral-energy converted into straigh-back energy, that it’s worth doing

( as opposed to the massively-more-complicated counter-rotating props ).

You can see those flow-straighteners sticking out of the nacelle ( that isn’t idiotic-AI-bogosity: that isn’t a 2nd-prop, that is flow-straightening vanes )

I suspect that Hondajet-style engine OVER the wing would be required, … to get the things far-enough from the ground…

… but then you have a different problem: in a go-around situation, where you HAD been landing, but now you need to be climbing…

with engines above the wings, when you increase thrust, now you nose-down.

Which would need countering, just right, EVERY time.

It’s Airbus, though, so they’ll probably put some software system in to do that for the pilots?

Just some things which normals wouldn’t have noticed, so you can get more understanding out of what’s going-on, is all…

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