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32 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
apologies. I didn't realize there were TWO contempt hearings occuring at this moment. The above is Judiciary and the mentioned is Oversight.
The Jayapal moment is still fairly humorous.
Hey look! The GOP strategy of flooding the zone with bullshit is working on the useful idiots
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Using Twitter to pump and dump crypto is like one of its core business uses right?
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Lulz noCR tho amirite?
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35 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:
Y'all need to let it go. Both sides of this need to stop. beginning to sound like idiots. Ruining a good thread
Lmao "both sides"? Gimmafugginbreak. It's just incredulity thread shitting and ignoring plain facts
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My wife and I stayed at the Wyndham Rio Grand Mar for our (her lol) babymoon and have had an absolutely wonderful trip. We landed late Friday night and basically just got in and slept. The next day we took it easy and my wife got a spa day and manicure and I watched football and enjoyed the resort. Sunday, we rented a car and drove to Old San Juan and walked the big fort on the tip of the island and had some incredible food in a tiny hole in the wall place behind a store. Monday morning, we drove to El Yunque and hit every <1hr trail and observation point, and walked down Angelito trail to the river to dip our feet in. Absolutely incredible and beautiful. Today, we hoped to swim in the ocean some more but every beach has red "don't swim here dumbass" flags up so we settled with driving through Luquillo and getting some souvenirs and enjoying the local food.
Biggest thing was getting a rental car - it made the island SO MUCH smaller and easier to get around. A one way taxi from the hotel to San Juan was $80, a rental for a day starts at $65.
But man, we lucked out and got a Wrangler for our rental. Driving through a rainforest with the roof off and listening to the nature is really something else. Highlight of the trip for sure
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20 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
TIL there is a fighter bomer variant of the 737 max
The Poseidon ASW aircraft is literally just a 737
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8 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
Jesus dude give the workers of the world unite bullshit a bit of a fucking break.
Boeing is unionized. So is the vendor. What more do you fucking want?
Would seem to me its going to boil down to the spec and certification documents on who was responsible for the integrity of the plug. Alaska will seemingly eat some shit here too because as reported the plane had given a few decompression warnings recently
Well for one they should probably be paying their aircraft assembly and machinist folks more than $45k/yr (according to Glassdoor) which is basically $20/hr. It's no wonder they're turning out fast food quality airplanes. They're paying fast food level wages to the people that are building fucking 200 person airlines.
Also this isn't just an Alaska airlines thing. United has found multiple planes with the bolts missing upon doing their maintenance checks. This is a "profit above safety" corporate culture issue. I'd like them to fix that culture issue and treat their skilled labor like skilled labor, but that doesn't make beancounters happy
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7 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:
One can be conservative and not be a racist. Lots of manufacturing prefer a non-union workforce. Your inference is an assumption, which would make me infer you are skeptical, a cynic perhaps.
No, it's more that you felt you needed to call it out as "not racist" is why I posted what I did. My inference IS an assumption, but it's based on the number of racists I've seen who will be the first to tell you they're not racist
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30 minutes ago, elfenix said:
spirit's a union shop.
Boeing doesn't deal with the union, spirit does. Boeing doesn't have to go with spirit, but they do even though Spirit has a fuckin track record of failing to properly bolt bolts
Edit: this article doesn't link spirit to the loose rudder bolt problem, so my bad on that. However. 737MAXs be having hella loose bolts, yo. Which is generally not advisable
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UAL has found 5 more planes with loose bolts on plug doors.
Inb4 some more braindead defense of Boeing
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Lmfao now they can call holds on Washington eh?
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2 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:
The shoot your dick off screen.
impressive
[Greg Davis liked this]
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11 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:
B'ham has a decent medical community. Auto manufacturers love the no union South. Huntsville has the Aerospace /Tech thing going. Lower AL has water. Tons of people taking equity and moving to Baldwin County towns like Fairhope, Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and paying cash. Cheap/less expensive alternative beach communities minus the craziness of FL and lots of people love the conservative climate. No BS riots, shutdowns etc.. very homogeneous (no racist) populace, conservative, easy going etc... close to New Orelans if you want that, 40 min flight or 5 hours to ATL. Easy-ish commute to FL if you want. Much more progressive state than MS or LA and if they get a bridge over Mobile Bay, it will boom even more. New airport going in downtown Mobile, cruise industry has taken notice plus there is a large deep water port on Mobile River that if they really got their way and got their shit together, companies will move out of LA to Mobile. There is a B$ downtown riverfront revitalization project going on now. I do a lot of business there and if they play it right, could be a game changer. If a fraction of the out of staters currently roaming Bama and AU campus stay in state, they could have something.
The number of times you say "no union" and "conservative" and then "no racist" make me infer the opposite lol
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1 minute ago, LonghornSean said:
No reason not to go for it.
Except for that I guess lol
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3 hours ago, SuperSport said:
Would love to know who's truly responsible, but the unions are pretty good about shielding their own from scrutiny...assuming there was no alcohol or malicious intent involved.
Lmfao Boeing outsourced this to avoid dealing with unions. This is what you get when you cut costs to the bone. Fuck ups.
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41 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
Yeah. The claim was private schools are "lily fucking white", which isn't true for the good ones. I mean our school district is "lily fucking white" compared to Northshore, and looks like a rainbow coalition when compared against the Woodlands.
When you're only comparing opposite outliers to each other, that's what we call "cherry picking" - just so ya know
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Man if only one of our resident men of the cloth could explain me why it's not the gays and drag book readers molesting children, but rather all of the Holy preachers of His Word keep fucking the children.
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16 minutes ago, MrBig said:
It’s time to dust off the old Apollos that took us to the moon few times because this new technology isn’t doing the job.
It's a failure of planning and management by the mission planners - it has nothing to do with technology. I posted a video up thread of a credentialed dude speaking to the NASA administration and Artemis mission planners outlining just how far they've strayed from the Apollo playbook in terms of minimizing uncertainty and ensuring redundancy.
It's an hour long, but a really REALLY good critical analysis of the Artemis mission and overall modern mission planning
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1 minute ago, longhornmatt said:
Ok, I'll be that guy who wanders into the beginning of the thread and doesn't read the rest before responding, so I assume this has already been covered. HOWEVER ... did I really just read a citation of the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS as an example of when America was homogeneous and united with everyone having the same motivations and aligned incentives?
I don't know, maybe I'm not a history buff. But something about that seems wrong. Pretty good troll game, though.
It's Chrispy lol
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3 hours ago, Bevo said:
Financial constraints can lead toward more accounting business leadership and away from engineering led leadership.
"""Financial constraints""" normally means some pissant financial analyst set a sales goal that was not realistic, but the can-do MBA middle manager doesn't know shit about fuck so they run their part of the company as if missing that synthetic target would harm the business - and do massive damage to long term stability in the process.
It's how you end up with Boeing selling off and outsourcing their manufacturing and QA and every other meaningful part of their business. They all get framed as cost centers, rather than investments for long term business stability.
It all reeks of brainless following of whatever the consultant of the week said last time they stopped by. It's great for meeting next quarters targets, but it'll fall apart after enough time. Just ask Jack Welch how that goes - one of his MBA prodigies is fucking over Boeing as it's CEO right now.
It's always the same fuckers running the same playbook. And it always fucking end the same way with enshittification
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12 minutes ago, bolverk said:
One immediate issue here in Texas is that of school vouchers. Oh, so you support giving just enough of a subsidy that only big city upper-middle-class and rich parents can use for their kids can go to private school (if they're not already going)? How is that going to help your poor ass send your kids to one? What did private schools do in Arkansas when vouchers passed there? They all raised the tuition so that kids like yours can't go.
The knock on effect too is that since it takes more money to attend, it filters out the poors which tend to be non-white. Private schools are lilly fuckin white, and that's why they're desperate to send their kids there instead of public schools
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4 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
75th percentile means that it's higher than 75% of wages. The top 25% has the highest wage growth according to this chart, and the group that makes more than 25% of the population (the bottom 25%) saw their wages fall.
Also, the average is above the median which is another indicator of top-heavy distribution
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
in Daily Texan
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JFC if he's just quoting libzoftiktok then buckle the fuck up it's about to get hella racist and xenophobic