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UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and ATC expert. Opinions are my own, not my employer’s.

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Joined April 2009
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Significant hail accumulation and most pea size or smaller in NW Portland (23rd/Flanders). Wow! #orwx
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Anyone else notice the gap in @AlaskaAir Main Cabin menu? PDX-LAS is 12 miles short of the 775 miles at which the airline caters cheese plates and the little jam sando. Only prepacked snack boxes. I would have gotten the cheese plate tomorrow, but instead I’ll pass.
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The complexity is it requires all the parents of a friend group to agree. Once two friends get phones, then it's very easy for everyone else in that group to be left out. The social pressure amongst kids, and therefore among parents, is tremendous.
As an outsider looking in at parenting, this doesn't seem that complicated to me. When your kid asks to buy them a phone, don't? theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Much as I love the Hops, let's all remember the legislature made time for funding a new ballpark, BUT NOT OUR SCHOOLS
BREAKING: New Hillsboro Hops City-Owned Ballpark Fully Funded Thanks to Final $15 Million Approval from Oregon State Legislature Read the full article here: milb.com/hillsboro/news/new-…
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This is such an important factor that is unappreciated by elected officials. Credit card/loan debt drives bank revenue and profit. But it's even harder to get out from under given the continued high costs of groceries and everyday items.
The cost to borrow money is an under-appreciated factor in public opinion on the economy. I suspect elites don’t realize how much Americans rely on credit. Monthly costs on the same purchases as 2 years ago are 2x-3x higher. Even a big raise won’t get your buying power back.
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Ice storm warning issued at 9:15am for PDX tomorrow and @AlaskaAir refuses to issue a travel waiver. Making customers pay hundreds of dollars so they don’t get stuck is terrible customer service.
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It’s well past time for @pdxteachers and @PPSConnect to find compromise and get back to work. Students and families are suffering incredible harm, but PAT is denying simple economic facts and blocking the path to reopening schools.
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We have hard choices ahead and PAT isn’t doing much to build trust with parents. Teachers deserve raises, but that will require all of us to push hard for greater funding, or face very painful cutbacks in 2-3 years.
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Should we pay our teachers more? Yes, of course. We need to fix the state funding model first. #pdxteachers going on strike hurts kids and threatens PPS finances— there’s no bailout coming.
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My wife’s first @AirCanada flights today: ❌ Seat changed at airport “for weight and balance;” orig. seat given to another pax ❌ Forced to check bag bc handle was sticking out of sizer… this isn’t Spirit come on ❌ 55-min wait for bag at YUL ❌ Bag came off belt soaking wet
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United (also Shuttle and TED lol) Redwood (#vxforever) Delta Northwest Southwest American RenoAir Citrus (AirTran) Alaska (also OG Horizon meatballs) Turkish Air Serbia Air France KLM Speedbird Iberia (and Level) Air Europa Swiss SAS Lufthansa Virgin Atlantic EgyptAir…
For all the traveling enthusiasts out there, I am curious to know which airline carriers have you flown on until now. I'll try to quote tweet my list and feel free to quote tweet yours.
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…Cathay Dragonair JetStar Air New Zealand Aeromexico LAN (Chile/Argentina)
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Reading others’ I forgot to include: Icelandair JetBlue Continental Hawaiian
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Wednesdays are for Bike Bus! @CoachBalto
How we roll to school in DC 🚲 Bike bus to @MundoVerdePCS! #bikedc
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Threads needs a link so that you can notify Twitter followers of your new presence. Some of the people I most want to follow — @garyleff, @WandrMe aren’t there yet, but I’m sure they will be. (I’m @aviopeter over there, but that handle belongs to a different Peter here)
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I was thinking about this the other day (late 90s I would grab a water bottle in the HS cafeteria) and how intriguing it is. Lots of cool observations in the comments. Water fountains! Nalgene bottles (had 1 in college)
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If you’re on the east coast, welcome to the legions of us who have experienced wildfires and dread them in a new way, even when you’re far from the fire yourself. These first 2 photos are from 2018, a hundred miles from the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise
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So that you can walk outside again, or open your windows for fresh air that won’t be laden with carcinogens. This is our new reality. We’ve known this in the west for at least five years. It is not unique to the west, though.
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This is not an anomaly. It will repeat. Maybe later this year, maybe in two years. Next you’ll become quasi-experts in fire science and you’ll start noticing pyrocumulus when you fly above it. Maybe then we can have a real conversation about solutions.
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