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On the 31st of January 2003, a huge four-engine Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashed just short of the poorly developed airstrip in the town of Baucau, Timor-Leste, killing all six crewmembers. The crash was briefly noted by the world press but never made headlines, nor would it have been likely to do so, because accidents like it happen all the time.

Cargo flights into remote and impoverished warzones on behalf of short-lived paper companies form a dangerous but essential underworld of the global aviation industry, bringing crucial supplies and humanitarian aid into some of the most desperate places on earth, while simultaneously supporting a shadow industry of arms trafficking, human smuggling, tax evasion, and other criminal enterprises. These flights crash with alarming regularity, but almost all of these accidents are never properly investigated and very little is known about them — sometimes basic facts such as the number of people killed, their identities, and even whether the crash happened at all are left up for debate.

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Cream cheese, slap ya mama, and jalapeños from a jar. Microwaved.

6.5/10, but it's not a quesadilla.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 110 points 6 months ago

Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 90 points 6 months ago

I am a biological woman. I identify as such. I don't know what the same person plus 30+ minutes with a curling iron has to do with cheating. Effort? Vanity? This is far, far beyond me somehow. I am also very old so there's that.

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[-] Plum@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago

Come to !wikipedia@lemmy.world. We've got lots of stuff for you that will in no way impact your sleep schedule.

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[-] Plum@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

He's Bachelor #3. I have no problem with that. The jackets even match.

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[-] Plum@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago

It's him. He's the whore.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

Voyager fangirl here. I have used boost, sync, and jerboa, and voyager won pretty quickly.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago

Sort of.

She was ranked the most politically left compared with the rest of the senate freshmen in 2018. Bernie was the second most politically left of all the senators in the same session.

I know there's another site that shows how they voted on everything but I haven't found it yet.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Putting equal emphasis on the opinions of both sides is what got us in this fuckhole to begin with. No matter how niche a voice, your opinion matters equal on any and all topics including reproductive health and climate mechanics.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

No good will come of this.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago

This is why Citizens United needs to die.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

Have.... Have they never had a card declined for insufficient funds?

Because that is surely a thing. Sometimes banks are extra dicks and let the charge(s) through to save the cardholder from 'embarrassment' but then tack on an insufficient funds fee to every single charge separately. That they allowed. Knowing you had no money.

Maybe that doesn't happen anymore, but it sure as fuck happened to me.

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 146 points 2 years ago

And then Jesus showed up and said, and I quote, "...if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell." But in Aramaic, I guess.

Problem with sexy ladies? Not their problem.

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