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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Cool. Now wait until it's loaded with Agent Orange, and shoot it down.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

After how many billions spent to overhaul the current AF1?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're "donating" this to Donald Trump to keep personally, not the Trump Administration. Just more flagrant corruption.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yup, this is getting donated to his presidential library after he gets out (rather, it's supposed to).

That being said, what's the listening devices per square foot on this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What is this Presidential Library? I've never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Roughly 2x remote disabling devices.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Loaded, but none of them at asshole height, there's too much noise interference

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

~~asshole~~ diaper height.

FTFY.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Asshole height to me is whatever altitude this thing is cruising at

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

But that’s all of the heights ?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

I could be wrong, but this seems problematic...