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  1. Another good technical update on recent NTSB findings:

    The door cleanly disengaged from the plane and the stops and pads appear to have cleanly disengaged. Inspections have also been finding a BUNCH of loose bolts all over the plug door assembly in the MAX9 fleet, including even on the load bearing rollers that the door latches with. 

    Boeing is bending over and grabbing its ankles in preparation for all the extra inspections coming their way, and the FAA may appoint an independent 3rd party "technical nonprofit" org to oversee Boeing's QA overhaul. 

    Also, they cover the flight deck door opening unexpectedly. The maintenance manual says it's got blow out panels for decompression equalization, and even specifically states that it "is able to withstand the pressure difference" of a rapid depressurization. They're gonna update the manuals 🤦

  2. Wow imma, if getting facts thrown back in your face is "getting ripped to shreds" then you've gone soft lol. If someone comes in making a materially wrong claim and refuses to listen to anyone else or plain facts, they're gonna get shit on. If they keep on, or move the goalposts, they'll get shit on further. 

    Do you want a board where whoever speaks first gets to claim what "is"? Is correcting materially incorrect statements "toxic"? It's always fascinating to see where this mod team draws the line

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  3. 3 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Also, what is the point of Trump comparing himself to a police officer when police officers are not explicitly above the law?

    They may not be explicitly above the law, but cops are practically above the law. That's good enough for trump - being authority figure pig that's above consequence is right up his alley

  4. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24366209-critical-incident-review-active-shooter-at-robb-elementary-school

    DOJ published its critical incident review of the Uvalde shooting. 

    TLDR: The cops fucked up and caused more children to die at the hands of a madman. Plus, DOJ also found that the repeated lying about first responders helping people only made the misery worse for the parents, and many parents whose children had been killed were first told their children were ok. Just an absolute shitshow and failure by that town to protect and serve its citizens.

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  5. 29 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    harkens back to the old one-room school house of rural lore

    Ah yes, back when women couldn't vote and black people were property. It's a reflexive reach by parents for more control in a world and life they feel they have less and less.

    31 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    I know someone who is raising kids out in the country and they said when their kids reach high school age, the one high school that serves the area is like a 40 minute drive, for example.

    And I'm sure these sorts of cases exist, but they are far and away the exception for these homeschool cult-in-training groups. Almost always it's because the parents are """uncomfortable""" with teaching critical thinking and the scientific method, and don't want their perfect children interacting with those other kids

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  6. 15 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

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    You can't get more rural than this without getting into west Texas. 

    Something along these lines is coming.  There are distance learning companies already with the curriculum.  They just need a network of "proctors" throughout Texas to make these pods work.  

    Fucking insane that we require public educators to have YEARS of schooling and certification to teach, but we let any parent who's got an IQ higher than their number of teeth be a """proctor""" or claim their children are getting educated. I mean, I get it, they don't want children smarter than they are.

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  7. That's pretty stupid - there's already a "digital dollar" via digital central banking. He's playing fear games to get useful idiots mobilized.

     

    Say GRUhorn, aren't you supposed to be banned from this site? After your games of posting russian disinformation for years nobody takes you seriously anymore anyways

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  8. 22 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Lol. 2024 may be down 50%, I don't know. But complaining that it sucks after the ridiculously strong November/December is wild.

    Literally every finance person I work with commits this fallacy - failing to account for unexpectedly high growth in one time period, and failing to anticipate the return to the previous trend coming off the local max/min

  9. 12 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    It has in some places. Albania being one of them. Would bet they are involved in El Salvador's BitCoin revolution 

    Idk if you've been reading, but it's been more of a regression than revolution. Turns out BTC isn't a great currency for small transactions, and it's really hard to get security right 

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  10. 18 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I want big brother. I’m so fucking tired of doing everything. What do I owe in taxes? Bitch, you are the one charging me, you figure it out. Once you do I will review and pay. Driver’s License and Registration? Ugh, can you not just pull up my documents digitally by scanning my eyeballs or fingerprints. 

    In Texas, more than most states thanks to taxes than can be raised simply by goosing your property value! And we are blessed with further fee payments into the Almighty Free Market to cover the cost of their failure to maintain and steward public critical infrastructure. Thank God we have the Free Market to protect us in these extreme times

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  11. That letter to Boeing is pretty monumental as well - surprised it's flow under the radar. The FAA is alleging noncompliance with Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) and their FAA approved quality system

    https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/EIR2024NM420001_737MAX9.pdf

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    ALLEGED NONCOMPLIANCE: The above-described circumstances indicate that Boeing may have failed to ensure its completed products conformed to its approved design and were in a condition for safe operation in accordance with quality system inspection and test procedures.

    This letter is to inform you that the FAA is investigating this matter. We would appreciate receiving any evidence or statements you might care to make concerning this matter within ten (10) business days of receipt of this letter. Any discussions or written statements will be given consideration in the final conclusion of our investigation. However, if we do not hear from you within the specified time, our report will be processed without the benefit of your statement.

    Your response should contain the root cause of the encountered condition(s), products/articles affected, service impacts, the extent of any immediate/long-term action taken to correct and preclude its recurrence, and any mitigating circumstances which you believe may be relevant to this case.

     

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  12. Pretty big news - the FAA has extended the MAX 9 grounding for an overall audit and further round of inspections

    https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-boost-oversight-boeing-audit-737-max-9-production-line-2024-01-12/

    https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-increasing-oversight-boeing-production-and-manufacturing

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — After taking decisive and immediate action to ground approximately 171 Boeing 737-9 MAX planes, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced new and significant actions to immediately increase its oversight of Boeing production and manufacturing. These actions come one day after the FAA formally notified Boeing that the FAA has launched an investigation into the company as a result of last Friday’s incident on a Boeing Model 737-9 MAX in which the aircraft lost a passenger door plug while in flight. 

    The actions announced today include the FAA conducting:

    • An audit involving the Boeing 737-9 MAX production line and its suppliers to evaluate Boeing’s compliance with its approved quality procedures. The results of the FAA’s audit analysis will determine whether additional audits are necessary.
    • Increased monitoring of Boeing 737-9 MAX in-service events.
    • Assessment of safety risks around delegated authority and quality oversight, and examination of options to move these functions under independent, third-party entities.

    "It is time to re-examine the delegation of authority and assess any associated safety risks," FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said. "The grounding of the 737-9 and the multiple production-related issues identified in recent years require us to look at every option to reduce risk. The FAA is exploring the use of an independent third party to oversee Boeing’s inspections and its quality system."

    Yesterday, the FAA announced an investigation to determine if Boeing failed to ensure completed products conformed to its approved design and were in a condition for safe operation in compliance with FAA regulations. The letter to Boeing is available here

    The safety of the flying public, not speed, will determine the timeline for returning the Boeing 737-9 MAX to service. 

    See the FAA's statements on the grounding of certain Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft here.

  13. 20 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Does it look good for a March trial date?  Nah.  But not sure that was realistic in the first place.

    the big lebowski dude GIF

    Trumps ability to indefinitely delay justice does make me question the how realistic it is that he will face any meaning consequence. 

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  14. Just now, Hal Finney said:

    My Vanguard account is just in vanilla retirement plan stuff, but I have a feeling if I asked they would offer self directed trading including options, triple inverse etfs etc. Can’t get much more speculative than those options. 

    Those options are at least still for an actual asset in the real world, and not just a ledger value recorded in a distributed digital blockchain. I don't entirely disagree with your "whatabout", but they're still pretty distinctly different in my mind. 

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  15. 3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Now, whether everyone is smart enough or wealthy enough to avail themselves of repeatedly abuse the protections is an entirely different matter and not one I am addressing here.

    ftfy.

    This ain't trumps first time doing shit like this in the courts. He's been playing fuck fuck games for literal decades and his developed behavior of "laws don't apply to me" wouldn't exist if we stopped bending over backwards to take his LIES seriously.

    He is someone who is not bound by the legal system, and yet is protected by it.

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