• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    That’s not why she died. She died because she was incompetent. She was a bad pilot and after a crash the man that was the radio expert quit. She didn’t know how to work the radios and broadcasted to listen on a channel that her radio couldn’t use, she didn’t know how to use the trailing antenna that could have saved them so she had it removed, etc…

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    They were listening on the frequencies she told them to listen on. How could they have known she didn’t know which antenna to broadcast on?

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      To put things in context, this is what they used for communication between a tank and its commanders in WWI:

      A tank with a pigeon being released from a hatch.

      When the Titanic sunk in 1912, they had a telegraph on board, but no voice radio.

      In the 1920s radio took off as a one-way broadcaster to receiver technology, but it still was only rarely used as two-way communications. That only really started for communications between ships in WWII.

      So, although she didn’t know how to use the radio in her plane, it was mostly because radio communication was a brand new thing. I’m sure what they put in her plane wasn’t some off-the-shelf radio that had standard switches, antennas and parts. It was probably cobbled together from various parts and only the truly tech-oriented people understood it.

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        Doesn’t matter why she wasn’t able to handle her communication tec, she did not die because of male ignorance. If anything it was her ignorance for not learning how to use her equipment

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      fr. what the fuck is the deal?

      It’s ironic that the same reason that Amelia Earhart apparently died, is what causes people to want to censor themselves.

      Amelia Earhart fucking ✨died

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      I love this simultaneously anti- and pro-censorship meme. Gets me every time. laughs my parents’ ass off

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        Also shitty social media that takes down content for bullshit reasons leading to people self censoring to avoid having their stuff taken down.

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    If you play the triangle in the Bermuda triangle everyone who’s ever died there comes back to life, but with a catch. All the men have Jenkem filled balls and all the women have smegma filled tits. That’s why no one has ever done it, no one wants hundreds of disgusting abominations risen from the dead.

    There’s one exception to this though, a weird Christian cult in the 1970s believe that when Jesus resurrected and escaped from his tomb he actually walked on water all the way to the Bermuda triangle where he died for realsies. The cult members all made a pilgrimage there to play the triangle to resurrect him again but they all died.

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      no one wants hundreds of disgusting abominations risen from the dead.

      Uhhhhh, hold on. I need to buy a cruise ship ticket, and bring a triangle! I absolutely want to bring a swarm of human killing zombies to life. Also, I need the cruise ship to be empty besides me, and crew. We need the space to bring all the zombies aboard, and then bring them all to America. Where they’ll be free to kill all the humans.

      Yes. I absolutely DO want this! Booking cruise ship now.

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        They aren’t like killer zombies though, literally just people with jenkem balls and smegma tits. You wouldn’t be able to tell them apart from other people unless you had sex with them.

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      Only if you ignore most of the facts about the situation that got her killed, if i recall correctly the mission was a bit rushed, there were some miscommunication, and for some reason her radio wasn’t able to receive from the ship that she was supposed to meet up with, so the ship could hear her but she couldn’t hear them, and thus she couldn’t locate the ship