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Trump administration will accept a luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One (www.nbcnews.com)
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In other news, The Onion has announced they're closing up shop, "Reality is just too much of a parody in of itself" /jk lol

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In other, other news:

Chances they actually sweep this thing for bugs? Audio taps? Listening devices? Flight logs/data that somehow transmit to an unknown source for unknown reasons?

I'm going with 40% chance they try to do a bug sweep, 15% chance they do it competently.

EDIT: Also it would be immensely hilarious if they just included either a bomb or a fatal flight instability inducing kill switch into the thing.

Boeing has shown us you can do roughly the latter apparently unintentionally, I'm sure you could also do it intentionally.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

Absolutely at least a few kill switches.

“Do X in the next two minutes or find out how fast you can go from 40k to 0 ft.”