Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California
A US air force civilian contractor had become disoriented recording data at an airport in California last year when she walked into a jet’s rotating propeller and was killed, officials said on Friday.
In a statement outlining the findings of a report into the contractor’s death, the air force materiel command said that 32-year-old Stephanie Cosme was mortally injured on 7 September when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an MQ-9A that was parked at Gray Butte airfield.
I hope she at least died immediately, that sounds like a terrible way to go.
That’s a reaper drone. The bottom of the prop is about 4 or 5 feet off the ground. I’m confident it was quick, morbid as that sounds.
She was working on reaper drones. I hope she died a painful slow death.
Don’t cut yourself with that edge
Grow up.
Warfare equipment is required to defend, as well as attack. Let’s see who you’re calling evil when a would-be attacking nation waltzes in and rapes your family while you’re tied up in the corner, and then murders you like the Russians were doing to the Ukrainians.
That woman was doing the hard work that you were unable to, because you’re too much of a bitch to accept reality.
Lemmy: Communism is when no military!
“grow up” followed by a rape fantasy to justify simping for the US military
Your context makes no sense. Who is having a rape fantasy?
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'muricans don’t have a brain, holy shit. If you want to suck military dick so much, at least set up an onlyfans so your capitalist hellhole doesn’t fuck you quite as hard.
What are you even talking about? I don’t even care about the military–I’m just telling you that if you don’t have a weapon, the next guy who does is going to come in and make you regret it.
I didnt make the rules–im just telling you how it is. Stop being a dumbass.
That’s what these ruzzia bots are trying to do. They want as much of the world as possible weak and undefended so they can rape it like Ukraine. Legit inhuman savages.
Where is your evidence of those “rules”?
Literally all of history.
Funny, you seem unable to point to evidence. Or do you think, when asked about evidence of an exoplanet existing, a physicist will say “well, look at all of physics”?
Oh look it’s the same “grow up” logic from the Genocide defenders.
I see those reaper drones helping israel commit Genocide by mapping Gaza and bombing Yemen. They’re not doing much to defend Ukraine.
Are you calling me a genocide defender? Explain.
Why are you even suggesting that I am a genocide defendee we when the very example I gave was to help prevent a genocide in Ukraine? Lol.
Ah, it’s probably because you don’t actually have a winning argument, and you’re just grasping at straws to defend your fantasy-hopes-and-dreams world views.
You didn’t give one you dreamt one up.
Comments like these make me want as many drones in Gaza as possible.
Evil.
Yes this woman was evil.
If you have a mirror, and you do, look no further to find that.
Lemmy: ACAB EAT THE RICH
Also Lemmy: why would someone say something negative about this woman working for the military to directly help them commit massive war crimes?
No. I’d rather the warmongers who deploy them take her place. Karma should hit the top of the hierarchy not the bottom.
“Disorientated” gets me. Why not save a few letters and use “disoriented”? You don’t orientate yourself to your environment, you orient yourself.
Disoriented is the US version; disorientated is the British version.
Never thought about that. People frequently say orientate at my work (I am a stenographer) and it bothers me to no end, because it takes me longer to write orientate versus orient. But now it makes sense, British language.
What is your orient vs what is your orientation?
Orient is weird to me in most circumstances. Also reminiscent of referring to Asia as “the Orient” aka the orient express.
Also: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/orient-or-orientate-is-it-a-real-word
I dunno if I’ve heard someone say “What is your orient?” Usually more allow me to orient/orientate you to this map. I prefer orient because that’s just O-RNT in stenographer world. Orientate is O-RNT/TAEUT, with the slash representing a second stroke, so twice as much effort. I’m a low effort kinda person.
Btw, I don’t hear people say “orient” except as a verb, but I do sometimes hear “oriention” used the same way as “orientation.” Orientation is more common tho ¯\(°_o)/¯
Still doesn’t make sense to me. There’s no need for the “tate”. She was disoriented, not properly oriented. Do you say “orientate” for the verb, or “orient”?
It is not uncommon for words in English to have variants which are slightly longer than they need to be, and our collective response to these words is somewhat capricious; some of them make people Very Angry (irregardless, conversate, preventative), while others (commentator) seem to elicit little more than a shrug.
Yeah, I take issue with all of these, including commentator, despite it being commonly used. Just say commenter. They’re commenting. I don’t care for all these extra taters.
Commentator is a better fit for grammar in general speech IMO.
On Tuesday John Doe, a commentator for the local….
On Tuesday John Doe, a commenter for the local…
Commenter sounds like someone made a comment as opposed to commentator which sounds like a job title. At least to me.
Fair enough, you make a point with that. It serves a function there, but I still contend the tate in orientate is superfluous.
Irregardless is just straight up incorrect though, it means regardful
Correct - its a double negative. Similar to “inflammable” which should mean “not flammable”, but doesn’t.
IIRC, “irregardless” was added to more US dictionaries in the late 20th century. I had a coworker in the early 90s who would become viscerally angry when others would use it…so the rest of us would use it often.
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There are many occasions when speaking another language (yes American English is a different language to British English imo) where you just have to say, “that’s how it is, it doesn’t make sense, but there we go”. The English took the word from the french désorienté, which means to turn away from the orient.
For me, it was the article describing walking into the propeller of a jet. Clearly someone didn’t read this over before clicking submit
It’s a turboprop plane, so a jet engine driving a propeller. Definitely sounds weird when phrased like that though.
It’s like how for awhile there you would hear the phrase “jet helicopter.” Meaning a helicopter powered by a turboshaft engine, like the Huey. You don’t hear that very often these days because there’s virtually no helicopters in significant service with reciprocating engines that aren’t made by Robinson.
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Tbf, she probably died very quickly. Now the mess after her is going to be nasty. And everywhere
mistifying.
Is disorientated a word? Isn’t it just “disoriented”?
Disorientated is the proper word in English, disoriented is the American misspelling.
Classic British prescriptivism
If anything, it’s the US that is prescritivist. You decided to change half of your words for no freaking reason.
That’s not what prescriptivism means lmao
Apparently you’re also illiterate. Here, have someone read this for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescriptionRemoved by mod
Are you aware of the level of hypocrisy in your argumentation?
Prescriptivism is assigning rules to language as opposed to descriptivism which takes language as is and analyzes it. You saying American English decided to change half of their words for no reason is a classic prescriptivist stance, ignoring the fact that the language diverged due to distance and loss of shared culture. Not to mention many American spellings and pronunciations are closer to the originals before the split than Modern British English is :)
Actually we had a reason, back in the colonial era printers charged by the letter. Hence a lot of words became simplified, solder keeping its silent l is a bit weird though. Also solder is pronounced soder, the English latinized their dialect awhile back for some fucken reason.
TF you mean the l is silent.
In solder the l is silent, the Romans pronounced it with an l but by the time it got to English it had been dropped. Blame the French. Frankly Latinizing a dialect seems a hell of a lot harder than just changing the spelling to sauder, soder, or sodder which I have seen as acceptable alternatives to the frankly weird solder.
I’ve never heard it spoken without the l. Neither in England nor here in the Netherlands.
In Australia we spell and pronounce it solder
10 years in electronics, and I’m yet to hear solder once despite working for an international firm.
Soldier is pronounced with an /l/ in most English dialects. I actually can’t think of a major variety where it isn’t.
S O L D E R
Solder is pronounced using /l/ in varieties like British English and often in Southern American English
Really? Ever wonder where the word “Soccer” came from?
It’s an abbreviation of “association football”.
Why Americans would call gridiron football when it involves neither feet nor balls, now, that truly boggles the mind.
It USED to involve a lot more kicking than it currently does. The rules have changed considerably over the years, but the name never did. That’s the reason if you were actually curious.
First, why would I care? Second, I do know where it comes from. Third, how does futball relate to the discussion?
Pray tell us, which words?
Nearly every word with a “ou” diphthong, “s” into “z” or vice-versa, “c” into “s”, the swap of “-re” for “-er”, etc.
Nearly every word with a “ou” diphthong
Not a diphthong. A digraph. Either way American English didn’t “change” this, the now-prevailing British and American standards just standardized different spellings.
“s” into “z” or vice-versa, “c” into “s”, the swap of “-re” for “-er”, etc.
I assume you’re referencing words like realize/realise, defense/defence, maneuver/maneouvre. In which case same thing as for o/ou, Americans didn’t “change” this. These were spellings that were already common throughout Middle English; American and British varietes of English just happened to diverge around the time of the printing press (because the printing press was introduced to the English right at the beginning of colonization of the Americas) and they adopted different standards based on the many, MANY spellings already in use.
Saying the Americans were [more] “prescriptivist” because common standard spellings in the US and common standard spellings in the UK are different is… a take, for sure.
Not a diphthong. A digraph.
Ah, yes, I love the flavo-ur of tomatoes. Their odo-ur is quite nice.
The “ou” digraph was only merged as a single “o” where it represents a diphthong. Way to instantly discredit yourself.
Today I learned.
How very “Breakout” of her.
Okay, that was bad. Poor lady.
Why was a civilian allowed to record around active jets and expected to safely lead themselves? Pokémon go had to warn people not to walk off cliffs and into traffic, but the Air Force is accessory to this without having someone to watch her movements and nothing?
Her job was to be on active tarmac near running aircraft. She isn’t some random person that shouldn’t have been there.
It appears she wasn’t paying attention and people tried to stop her from walking into the propeller.
“Others began shouting and waving to get [Cosme’s] attention as well,” the report said. It added: “Without looking up to determine her position relative to the aircraft, [Cosme] proceeded to walk directly into the propeller … sustaining fatal injuries.”
Probably an accident due to familiarity. Some guy off the street is gonna pay attention around a running airplane, someone been working around them for years might just get distracted.
Over-familiarity and comfort is a major cause of accidents.
I do a lot of woodworking, and the most dangerous things are repetitive tasks. Make the same simple cut 200 times in a row on a table saw, and it gets more dangerous as you get in the groove, not less.
