So, it's looking like Sean Duffy made everyone switch to a stupid fucking Al system but the T1 lines that connect everything couldn't handle it. Duffy said the problem is “old copper wires from the 80's." That's T1 lines. It's the shit all of use for our house phones and shit. I live in the middle of nowhere. My internet connection is through a T1 line. You can access Al systems via a T1 line because you're just sending text to a massive data-center and the Al computation is done there. But, from what I've read up on, in order to have the entire system all run on this Al bullshit, to have the actual network itself be propped up on Al, you need fiber-optic cables. Few weeks ago Duffy was asking for $30 billion to update the system. Kinda tells me that someone with an actual brain warned him that switching to the Al system wouldn't work on the old grid, something he'd never considered because his background is in reality-TV, not tech. So, they switch it over anyway, everything goes to shit, and now he and Markwayne Mullin are out there telling everyone the outdated system failed. No. Your tried to run a janky Al on legacy hardware. That's like trying to play a fully-modded out version of "Cyberpunk 2077" on a fucking Nintendo64. It's fucking stupid. The old system worked perfectly. I mean, it DID work perfectly before Elon’s army of DOGE-twinks fired a bunch of people, including newly-provisional air traffic controllers and maintenance staff that worked on the grid. The catastrophic failure of our flight systems yesterday were not because what we had doesn't work. It happened because a reality-TV President put a reality-TV moron in charge of the FAA after allowing a Ketamine-addled dipshit to take a fucking chainsaw to every government agency with no oversight. They flung shit around the room, set things on fire, and when everything stopped working they proclaimed "look how bad things are! Give me more money so | can clean shit up!”