
Captainant
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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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10 hours ago, Homercles said:
Just rented it, and can see why this was an excellent pairing with Barbie…watching it after Oppenheimer would be like a sweet, simple dessert after finishing your shag roll at Uchi.
In the same vein, Oppenheimer paired well with my on/off fascination with nuclear weapons. I’ve long been enamored with the assembly, operation and controls surrounding them but cared little for the personalities behind one of the greatest wartime engineering undertakings ever.
Stuff like Always/Never (Sandia labs video), Swords of Armageddon and Dark Sun fascinate me. Therefore I’m more fluent on exploding bridge wire vs slapper detonators than I am on Oppenheimer’s role in the Manhattan project…or know more about the Teller-Ulam design than what Edward Teller was like as a person.
“Oppenheimer” helped fill a void for me.
Regarding the movie itself, I really enjoyed it and it left me with one of those ‘existential dread’ feelings that a smart, dialog-driven drama should. It also captured, very well, that transitional period where things went from an urgent wartime science problem into one dominated by the massive government/military personalities over their use. The fact that I missed so many cameos is testament that the story and personalities were the real star. Bravo.
Was definitely a Nolan film with non-linear flow, challenging plot points and lack of cgi. I happen to enjoy that kind of film, but I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I agree with others in that this mostly wasn’t a “gotta see it in IMAX” due to fewer “holy shit” visual/score combos than something like Interstellar.
Anyways, guess the point of my long cat post here is I’m glad I finally saw it and it’ll fuel my curiosity surrounding the people involved in that whole rodeo…but Interstellar is safely still #1 in my Nolan hierarchy.
You should read (or listen to the audiobook of) "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", it's a much more in depth telling of that history that really gets into the people and the mad dash through the scientific method to build the bomb
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31 minutes ago, troph said:
They will be phasing it out. Our Torchys is their test kitchen. It’s going away, at least that’s what the bartender told us Saturday afternoon when I ordered the salmon taco and she said they don’t have it anymore, nor the sausage, barbacoa, and the other stores are next. Menu even still shows them available. Nope.
Both tacos?
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42 minutes ago, DaysOff said:
UAL is supposed to begin receiving MAX 10s in 2024 or 25. That plug will be an emergency exit that's hinged at the bottom with a slide similar to a 757-300.
Inb4 grounding order on the MAX10. Boeing QA and subcontractor QA is demonstrably crapola
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Also a good candidate for the "fuck the police" thread
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28 minutes ago, YGIFS said:
Speaking of 2024, health and lawsuits permitting...we're getting John Oates to a baseball tailgate and have him throw out first pitch versus UW. Stay tuned, gonna need some help from some of y'all but I got most of the key personnel in line already.
Don't let your memes be dreams
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1 hour ago, bolverk said:
Spill it.
@YGIFS you are being INVITED to write a novel of a post, what's with the holdup??
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My team at work had a big "if you're sick or even just feeling poorly, WORK FROM HOME" meeting last week. Of course a few weeks prior we had our team Christmas/holiday get together, and more than half the team was sick through the holiday. Including me!
My wife's office manager keeps coming in despite being actively ill and won't go home unless a senior partner tells her to. No idea why the OM feels that is appropriate
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Can we talk about how Boeing has gone from a world class aviation company and world leader in the industry, to a negligent and dog shit company? The McD D MBA team has thoroughly fucked their shit up and killed the engineering culture in favor of outsourced work and pencil whipped inspections.
The MAX7 is requesting a cert exemption for busted deicing, the MAX8 had a real problem with killing hundreds of people at once, and the MAX9 has entire panels of the fuselage just flying the fuck off >10,000 feet.
Boeing is such a tragic example of enshittification in the name of chasing quarterly profits by idiot MBA beancounters
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1 hour ago, G650 said:
I'm not saying it is, but you can't just credulously read something because it's in a particular paper. Saying it's in the NYT or WaPo doesn't mean anything
Being WaPo or NYT doesn't mean it's golden, but it's also at least sourced reporting and not the "people are saying" bullshit.
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Found some more good reporting - the plane that failed had previously known depressurization issues
Preliminary information about the accident remains scarce, though two people familiar with the aircraft tell The Air Current that the aircraft in question, N704AL, had presented spurious indications of pressurization issues during two instances on January 4. The first intermittent warning light appeared during taxi-in following a previous flight, which prompted the airline to remove the aircraft from extended range operations (ETOPS) per maintenance rules. The light appeared again later the same day in flight, the people said.
Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
in Daily Texan
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UAL has found 5 more planes with loose bolts on plug doors.
https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/united-finds-loose-bolts-on-plug-doors-during-737-max-9-inspections/
Inb4 some more braindead defense of Boeing