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  1. 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.

  2. 32 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    In a lot of ways, it evens things out.  For every disgusting defendant like Trump or Jones, you have a poor schmuck on the wrong end of a credit/loan dispute that could be absolutely cleaned out forever if collection mechanisms were stronger.  And sometimes you have civil suits between roughly equal parties where the fault is debatable and giving one party a big fat judgment and the means to collect it easily might be a miscarriage of justice.

    Your ability to handwave and justify the kids glove treatment of trump, jones, and every other fascist in our justice system is breathtaking. Bravo.

    Yes if we didn't cut the fascists a break, then we'd have to bring back debtor prisons, or something.

  3. 56 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Wait, he did let him talk? FUcking why?

     

    52 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Terrible capitulation by Engoron. He effectively just told Trump and his supporters that bomb threats work. 

    Because our government kowtows to fascists regularly. 

     

    14 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yes oh this is surely the evidence you have been looking for. 🙄

    Look motherfucker, do consequences exist for fucking around in a courtroom or not? Literally anybody else NOT named "Donald Trump" would be getting contempt rulings and the fucking book thrown at them FOR INSTIGATING FUCKING BOMB THREATS AGAINST THEIR JUDGE!!!

    Failure to punish these out outbursts like they would with ANY other citizen is just another instance of using kid gloves with trump and the fascists. 

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  4. 3 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

    From a practical standpoint can Alaska Airlines bolt in a new door and put that hull back in service?

    From everything I've read so far, there's remarkably little to zero damage to the airframe or door frame. It just needs a new plug door and connecting hardware - perhaps it's first ever complete set of hardware lol. 

    However, the FAA still has a emergency AD out for the MAX9 airframe in general so I don't think it could come back into service yet. 

    The NTSB is going to evaluate the found door and determine if the bolts WERE installed and failed, or if they weren't installed at all. If it's the former, then this is an even bigger scandal and failure. If the bolts just weren't installed at all, then this is fixable with simple inspections and maintenance. 

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  5. 8 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Because Congress has never acted pursuant to the Emoluments Clause, this is neither a crime nor any kind of civil infraction.  The only thing that can be done is sue for an injunction against further violations, if that.

    The fuckin constitution has a thing called the "emoluments clause", I would like to think that's in play to enforce some accountability, and that the constitution just a weapon for the far right supreme court to take away more civil rights. 

    But this is the 2020s who am I kidding? The worst and most corruption friendly thing possible will continue to happen. 

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    Pretty good technical breakdown of what NTSB has found and told the public so far, delivered by an aircraft mechanic. Some harrowing details that were new to me: the cockpit door blew open when the door came off, the pilots headsets got sucked off their heads and blown out of the plane along with their fuckin emergency checklists, and that the (now found) door is missing one of its guides. It's very possible that the plug door was missing lock bolts AND structural bolts. Oh yeah and the cockpit door blowing open is officially a feature and not a bug - they just forgot to include that detail in the manual. I wonder what else Boeing omitted from the manual. 

     

    I'm very glad I flew a 90s era 737-900er home today and not a Boeing plane made within the last decade

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  7. 20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Aggy on aggy accounting: “from the inside you can’t explain it, and from the outside you can’t understand it.” Which, I gotta tell ya, is not gonna be the best legal defense.

    Depending on the court the argument is heard in, it certainly might be enough. 

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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 

  11. 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

    https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-urges-737-max-inspections-possible-loose-bolt-faa-2023-12-28/

    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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