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  1. https://apnews.com/article/ntsb-chair-boeing-accident-investigation-52cab375dbdefe343421ff8b9cd38206 Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board argued Wednesday over whether the company has cooperated with investigators looking into the blowout of a door-plug panel on one of its planes during a flight in January. The safety board’s chair, Jennifer Homendy, told a Senate Committee that for two months Boeing repeatedly refused to identify employees who work on door panels on Boeing 737s. Investigators want to interview them. Homendy also said the company has failed to provide documentation about a repair job that included removing and reinstalling the panel on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 that suffered the blowout — or even whether Boeing kept records. “It’s absurd that two months later we don’t have that,” Homendy said. “Without that information, that raises concerns about quality assurance, quality management, safety management systems” at Boeing. ... It is still not clear whether Boeing kept records about who removed the plug — a panel that takes the place of extra emergency doors when those doors are not required — on the Alaska plane last September. “If the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share,” Boeing said. Boeing has been under increasing scrutiny since the Jan. 5 incident in which a panel that plugged a space left for an extra emergency door blew off an Alaska Airlines Max 9. Pilots were able to land safely, and there were no injuries. In a preliminary report last month, the NTSB said four bolts that help keep the door plug in place were missing after the panel was removed so workers could repair nearby damaged rivets last September. The rivet repairs were done by contractors working for Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, but the NTSB still does not know who removed and replaced the door panel, Homendy said Wednesday. Homendy said Boeing has a 25-member team led by a manager, but Boeing has declined repeated requests for their names. The manager of the team is on medical leave and unavailable, and security-camera footage that might have shown who removed the panel was erased and recorded over 30 days later, she said.
  2. And therein lies the rub. The "right" operates on such a fact-free basis that they namecall and lie just to attack their opponents, and do it so frequently that they begin to believe their own lies. And so when the "left" sees fascism, articulates why it's fascism, and can support that assertion with facts - the "right" just categorizes it as namecalling.
  3. This thread is really stressing me the fuck out. My wife and I both have ancestors that fought for Texas' independence, our family roots have been in Texas for generations on generations. This state is our home. But our home is fucking infested with goddamn fascists. We are having a daughter in a month and a half or so, and I can't imagine her coming of age in this handmaiden's tale-to-be of a state. Education is absolutely shattered and being targeted for privatization, women's rights are being rolled back - not to mention women's health outcomes are worst in the nation, and our state is hurtling towards a fundamentalist evangelical theocracy. And to top it all off - more than half the fucking state thinks that the above is a GOOD thing and that saying negative things about it is just another expression of team sports/politics. Our enemies are too goddamn stupid and up their own asses to see the terrible and completely avoidable calamity that this state is hurtling towards.
  4. huh my wife is about to leave commercial litigation as well, she's burnt out after 4 years of it and dealing with clown fiesta courts and disorganized clerks
  5. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    I mean but wouldn't that.... be... two chicks at the same time?
  6. What the fuck does this even mean?
  7. It's not youf ministers, but Liberty University was fined a record breaking $14,000,000 for failure to disclose criminal rapes under the Cleary Act Liberty has marketed itself for years as having one of the nation’s safest campuses, with more than 15,000 students enrolled at the school in Lynchburg, Virginia. But its police department had a single officer with minimal oversight for investigating crimes during most of the time period reviewed by federal investigators, 2016 to 2023. The U.S. Department of Education said it identified numerous cases that resulted in the misclassification or underreporting of crimes. And there were several incidents that the university determined to be unfounded, without evidence the initial report was false. “This was especially common with respect to sexually based offenses, including rape and fondling cases,” according to the department’s Final Program Review Determination. Federal investigators cited a case in which a woman reported being raped, with the attacker telling her he had a knife, the final program review stated. Liberty’s investigator “unfounded this case based on a claim that the ‘victim indicates that she consented to the sexual act,’” the final program review stated. “In point of fact, the victim’s own statement merely indicated that she ‘gave in’ in an attempt to get away from the perpetrator.” That episode was ultimately counted in the crime statistics, the final program review stated, after Liberty’s Clery compliance officer realized the case was “mishandled at several points in the process.” Many victims of sexual crimes feared reporting because of concerns of reprisal, the final program review stated. Several were punished for violating the student code of conduct known as “The Liberty Way,” while their assailants were left unpunished. “Consequently, victims of sexual assault often felt dissuaded by Liberty administration’s reputation for punishing sexual assault survivors rather than helping them,” the final program review said. “Such fears created a culture of silence where sexual assaults commonly went unreported.”
  8. Not like we've had laws on the books that made it a crime to criticize Israel or anything. It's been weird scary shit, we're all just realizing how far off the fuckin map we all are
  9. Fuckin Bush 0 (dubyas grandaddy) was a key actor in the 1933 Business Plot where American business owners attempted to overthrow Roosevelt's electoral victory. They've always been goddamn fucking fascists supported by and working for corporations.
  10. This is the biggest concern I have with the stupid delta8 and whole rainbow of synthetic weeds - it makes the opening for contaminants to get on, where a well regulated weed industry with lab testing wouldn't have those problems.
  11. Is Boss Hogg GRUhorn? I'm pretty sure he's posting as "Cum Rocket" in the crypto 6sJ thread
  12. A funny thought that came to me is that all the folks who are most voiciferously licking the corporate boot are typically also the most "WOOOHOOO FREEDOMFLAGEAGLE" folks on the site. But when you look at what corporations are doing with their enshittification - arbitrarily ramping up prices, adding new taxes and fees with no reason, new constraints on using their property, etc etc - it is striking similar to much of the American Colonial gripes towards the british crown prior to our nation's birth. Why is that when our forefathers resorted to property crime to express their grievance at being exploited, it was virtuous and their cause was just - but today things are exactly the opposite just because it's a corporation exploiting us? It's the same end result to Joe Public's life. Very very strange stuff.
  13. apparently, less than a box of fucking rocks if you think that trump and HRC are equivalent in their behavior post-electoral loss
  14. I don't think there's anything I could say to convince you that trump did anything wrong, but I would argue that the brightest red line was crossed when they had to evacuate both chambers of congress, and when trump was ignoring their calls while they were actively under siege, and acting against his military commanders repeated requests to go quell the situation
  15. Yeah, but just think of the profits that went to the shareholders! They needed those funds more than the folks you were distributing aid to, it's not like they had quarterly sales goals (that they made up) to hit!
  16. He didn't just push the lie. He submitted fraudulent documents to states. He actively conspired and planned to get the false documents accepted into federal proceedings. They wanted to hang Mike Pence because he would not accept the fraudulent documents. THEY BROUGHT FUCKING GALLOWS TO THE CAPITAL That's not just talking about things, man. That's conspiracy and insurrection.
  17. I think it's a perfect crystalization of why so much of boomerdom is so reflexively extremely hateful towards anything they construe as "WOKE" - this is in their mind an image of the ultimate triumph and zenith of when our country was at its greatest and most righteous, and the damn woke mind virus is trying to destroy it because they hate america raaggbabbhbhabhhghl You and I both know that things were only good the time if you were a straight white man. But that image is still an indelible and (before I knew about the background story) CLASSIC image of the thrill of joy at the end of the war. I still think it is, but that context is important to include. We should never erase or alter history, but definitely don't need to use an image of nonconsensual kissing to define VJ day
  18. I'm told by attorneys on this very board that we should expect what trump's attorneys do as just normal business for defense attorneys. So yeah, maybe try fucking around - it seems that finding out is off the menu. Maybe you have to be a fascist for it to work though?
  19. I'm fucking sick and tired of watching this Cheeto Benito skirt on fucking every charge he fucking faces and successfully throw sand in the gear of EVERY legal proceeding he's ever been involved in. This fucking fishing expedition should have never started in the first place - it was only allowed because the judge is scared of appeals from trump and so is giving FAR more leniency and space to play fuck fuck games than he would ANY other defendant. I'm also fucking sick and tired of the army of useful idiots amplifying the message of "DA IS CORRUPT!!!" when it has fuck all to do with the facts of CRIMINAL ACTS that are documented and alleged. It's people that are desperate for something, ANY reason to turn off their critical thinking. It's just the dumbest shit when people decide to go ungabunga and fixate on a detail that doesn't make a difference to the core of the grievance. Said another way, trump gets to fuck up over and over and over and over and it's in fact his strength that he's so fucky. When the prosecution makes a mistake - that again has nothing to do with the criminality - it's all of a sudden the end of the fucking world (if you're a redhat) and it means that we have to let trump grab justice by the pussy. It's just fundamentally unbalanced and we keep fucking doing it over and over like things will be different the next time.
  20. They're both using the same intellectual property slight of hand and abuse of the DMCA wherein they encrypt all the connections and put a chip in things that don't need a chip - like in the axle for your tractor or in your ink cartridge - that adds no functionality and solely exists to limit functionality to the spec of the manufacturer and guarantee that NOTHING else but an OEM part will work on it. Since it's encrypted, breaking that encryption to add your own parts is a violation of the DMCA and you could find your ass getting sued. JD has not yet taken this route because suing your customers is a bad look, but they've been fighting right to repair laws tooth and nail. HP and JD are both strong opponents of right to repair, because they would much rather have a monopoly on all service in perpetuity on the products they sell - and have the threat of legal penalty if anyone dares to repair something on their own
  21. And those just seem to keep happening to favor trump, strange yeah?
  22. We have so many other pieces of evidence and text messages and emails and all the receipts of them knowingly pushing the lie that "the election was stolen from trump". How is fabricating that story, working with multiple billion dollar media empires to amplify that message, coordinating a funding a rally to bring all the rioters to the capital on J6, SPEAKING AT THAT RALLY AND TELLING THEM TO MARCH AND THAT HE WOULD FOLLOW THEM, and then actively preventing the military from taking substantive action against the fascists as they attacked? You didn't think ....... THAT was insurrection? What, did he have to be shouting "IM DOING AN INSURRECTION" as he did it for it to count? What the fucking fuck?
  23. Nope, but that looks pretty similar to Amazon's Q or Azure's AI Language where you can integrate it with your knowledge sources (confluence, sharepoint, ServiceNow, etc) and it can help answer contextual questions - but it's tied into that one system. We've got an in-house built system that started as a tech learning project and grew into an nice little internal tool, but under the covers it's just interfaces and API's so new intents and functionality is coming every month or so as more folks contribute to it
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