This Is Your Captain Speaking
Argentina’s first transgender pilot has debuted the new uniform designed for the female pilots of the country’s national airline.
Traniela Campolieto announced his “transition” to passengers during a flight last year, after which one person tried to get off the plane. pic.twitter.com/v1h3Iyl128
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And hey, every passenger wants the pilot to be a bewigged, mentally ill fetishist who bangs on about the super-girly tightness of his uniform, and who takes endless, pouting selfies in the cockpit.
To say nothing of the heightened risk of suicidal inclinations. Ah, the thrill of modernity.
Before becoming a shimmering vision of womanliness, Mr Campolieto was a professional bodybuilder, a proverbial brick shithouse. Hence the bad wig, the transformative powers of which may have been overestimated.
Update, via the comments, where WTP adds,
From the above Publica link:
In 2020, the country’s President, Alberto Fernández, passed a decree establishing employment quotas in the public sector for individuals who identified as transgender. The decree mandates that at any given time at least one percent of all public sector workers in the national government must be transgender, as understood in the 2012 Gender Identity Law.
And so, the pilot in charge of 250 tonnes of Airbus A330, and on whom the lives of 400 or so passengers depend, is a man whose perceptions are wildly unreliable, at least regarding himself.
Previously: Banking and mental illness, together at last. Oh, and policing and mental illness. Because unstable personalities, such that a person isn’t entirely sure who or what they are on any given day, are very in right now.
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Daniel, yeah.
Custom microcode. Network interface cards. Real time os kernels. Memory managers. Schedulers. System reliability tests. Low level drivers. Disk controllers. Font scaling & rendering. Etc.
My respect for most contemporary “coders” is approximately zero.
Well, there’s “working as designed,” and then there’s “working as coded,” and ne’er the twain shall meet.
It looks so amateurish.
I don’t think I’ve seen this word used here.
Why do you always hold out on us?
“I looked better than you and you couldn’t handle it”.
Is he a pilot too?
“Won’t someone please think of the furries” said no one ever.
Suggestions of illegal mind-altering activity
this word
Not one as a long-term English speaker I have ever come across but it does bring to mind unsavoury pictures of fat, elderly men straining at the leash – as it were.
[ Thank you, but I have already booked a psychiatrist’s appointment.]
[ They call it mellow yellow. ]
I don’t think I’ve seen this word used here.
Great word, and extra points for the “ffi” ligature, but the kerning is awful.
Meanwhile, regardless of one’s stance on the issue, this is painful to watch as not a single one of the lefty loons can muster a single rational counter argument, all they have is arrogance and condescension. Feel free to skip around, ignore the guy clearly off his meds.
‘Cockwomble’ doesn’t get nearly the airing it should either.
I would wager that entire exchange was a “said no one ever”.
Dining out in NYC? Meh. I wouldn’t normally say this but f*** these “victims”. They voted for this crap, even those working/visiting there at this point are fools. If your work “requires” you to be in NYC and you don’t put up significant resistance to that idea, you get what you deserve as well. You enable it with your complicity.
Am I Racist?
“Republicans are Nazis”, “the entire system has to burn”, “you [‘good’ white struggle session volunteers] cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people”, “this country is a piece of shit”… That’s Saira Rao , isn’t it?
Who exactly are the open racial supremacists, the open racial haters, the inciters of racial violence (metaphorical of course), what’s their ideological and racial background, and who are they targeting? Somebody should tell okely-dokely whites that it’s worrying combination if somebody (a) hates you, and (b) has plans for you, and that you can’t do much about (a) but you can do something about (b).
“Should anyone present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace.”
The groom might have saved himself many years of misery and lost riches if he had thought to say, “We were in a break!” Maybe. You never know how it might turn out tho.
Looks like her. I was toying with the possibility that the woman was a Rao lookalike who was in on the joke, and that the dinner was staged (the white women would be real marks), because look at the camera work: that’s not a hidden camera — that’s a high-end camera.
Also, she sounded a little over-the-top, even for Rao.
But who knows anymore.
Exceptionally useful name to call someone.
Yellowstone caldera reasserts itself.
A word for the weekend
https://x.com/AlaskanCourtney/status/1816240216648368565/photo/1
Funny how he can turn back into an angry man.
We don’t see what starts the altercation, but the dynamic that follows is certainly familiar. Much like the receding hairline, it’s a common pattern. The sudden transition, as it were, from Wig-Stroking Pretend-Lady to Wig-Hurling Chap With Big Man Voice.
I’m now pondering the implication that the Wig Hurling Moment was meant to be shocking. As if what it displayed wasn’t obvious beforehand. As if it were some third-act Scooby Doo reveal: “Jeepers! The ghostly pirate is actually Mr Johnson, owner of the spooky fairground!”
I suppose that could be, but it seems more likely that it was a reflexive act. Different crazy people have different habitual behaviors.
[ Rummages in bathroom for sunblock, squints. ]
If the use-by date on the sunblock has long since faded into illegibility, I’m guessing it’s time to throw it out.
It seemed like a much more threatening act to me. It was a reveal meant to emphasize that underneath he was a real man who could do her some real damage.
But it applies to so many.
With PTSD.
From putting on the makeup, wig, heels, dress, . . .
I should have been clearer. That’s sort of what I meant.
If the use-by date on the sunblock has long since faded into illegibility, I’m guessing it’s time to throw it out.
If it is faded just remember when the last time you were out of the country, that should get you a ballpark date.
AI struggles with concept of TARDIS dematerialising.
It needs the noise. 😀
Definitely. I do like the idea of the unearthly wheezing sound as the thing just slowly trundles off camera.
[ Rummages in bathroom for sunblock, squints. ]
With my limited knowledge of English weather, I’m guessing that by the time you find the sunblock, the sun will have disappeared. 😉
Even crueler, the clouds block the warmth and sunny cheer but let the skin-burning UV right through.
AI struggles with concept of TARDIS dematerialising.
Maybe it isn’t de-materializing as much as running away before it starts to melt as the Dalek is.
I’m guessing that by the time you find the sunblock, the sun will have disappeared.
No ephemera, looking for sun screen – my guess is that he is headed to Ibezia, or some similar place where last he used it.
En garde!
en garde
…the majority of transgender women who interact with corrections systems (i.e., poor transgender women of color…
What a surprise
Of course transgender women housed in women’s prisons are particularly likely to harass, be violent to, and maltreat other inmates as well as staff.
Of the two arrangements the first seems preferable.
“The decree mandates that at any given time at least one percent of all public sector workers in the national government must be transgender, as understood in the 2012 Gender Identity Law…” Reduce the number of public sector workers to 0. Problem solved…
[ Recalls with unexpected fondness the Collars of Obedience from The Gamesters of Triskilion. ]
For anyone who thought RFK Jr. was any kind of libertarian because of his anti-Covid vaccine stance, I give you, Drug
GulagsFarms. I won’t link to Mother Jones, so here hare some snippets…Of course, organic because…
Right. How will this be paid for you ask?
We’ll fix your drug “problem” by taxing other drugs.
Well OK, sounds about right. For those keeping score, this has already been tried. May not have been a success, but they did have a kick ass jazz band…
California Über Alles
Über Alles California…
So asylums where the patients are given something to do besides sit around contemplating their navels. Not seeing the problem with that. How it’s paid for is a…tax. Outside of direct user fees, taxes collected here to pay for things or to be applied to costs over there is generally a scam anyway. There’s some parallel but the inevitable unevenness eventually all comes out in the wash. It’s not like governments are big on fiscal discipline.
Not a new word to most around here, but it’s, you know, apt.
What if Nick Fuentes is a plant. A fed.
I don’t follow Fuentes at all, so I don’t know, but the dude makes an interesting case.
The contents of women’s purses, in Russia.
One for our host…