"Tongue in cheek" is a new phrase for me. I'm 33 so maybe it didn't make it to my generation. I should've googled it first. Whoops
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 2:02 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > True, choosing a catchy name is half the battle. Like the FURRIES Act in > Texas: > > > https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-lawmaker-proposes-bill-targeting-furries-measure-seeks-ban-non-human-behavior-schools > > > > Maybe USAID should have renamed themselves “US Against Infectious Disease” > so people wouldn’t associate them with foreign aid. > > > > Dept. of Energy should have pivoted to Dept. of Nuclear Weapons. > > > > Didn’t work for Voice of America though, it had America right there in the > title. Maybe they need to move their HQ to the Gulf of America. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince > *Sent:* Friday, March 21, 2025 1:45 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation > > > > They attack "DEI" because no one knows what it's about. If they had called > it "fairness in hiring", they would have a tougher time attacking it. How > would it sound to say you're against fairness? > > Similar (but different) with Antifa, which was shortening of anti-fascist. > If they said we're in favor of fascism, it might not have played a well. > > > > bp > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 3/21/2025 11:02 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > DEI has been a target for Trump + Republicans the last few months. They > don't really know what it means, just that DEI is 100% to blame for every > plane situation for the last few months. > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM Dev <d...@logicalwebhost.com> wrote: > > Women are quite often better pilots from the ones I’ve tried to train, > more intuitive. Whatever the situation, if the mountains and the earth > attached to them suddenly get very large, the plane doesn’t care who’s > flying it, or used to be. Dirt matters. > > > > On Mar 21, 2025, at 10:06 AM, Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> > wrote: > > > > Yes, they messed up. Why even mention DEI? The requirements to be a > commercial pilot are the SAME for all races and genders. Stop parroting > what the alt right is saying. > > > > There will be an investigation. They probably check for intoxication, > enough sleep, distractions, etc. If they're both straight, white males, > then what? What does Maga have to say about that? > > > > Mistakes, crime, whatever are bad no matter who the person is. Why does > the right always bring race, sexuality, ethnicity, gender into everything? > It's weird and cult like behavior. > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 11:47 AM <ch...@go-mtc.com> wrote: > > How in the hell do you mistake a taxi way for a runway? > > > > Red vs Yellow signs? > > Big assed white center stripe vs small yellow center stripe? > > Big Numbers and big stripes. > > > > Two guys or gals up front. > > > > Has to be a DEI situation…. (removing tongue from cheek). > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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