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Captainant

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  1. Lmfao Boeing outsourced this to avoid dealing with unions. This is what you get when you cut costs to the bone. Fuck ups.
  2. When you're only comparing opposite outliers to each other, that's what we call "cherry picking" - just so ya know
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. """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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Inb4 grounding order on the MAX10. Boeing QA and subcontractor QA is demonstrably crapola
  10. Also a good candidate for the "fuck the police" thread
  11. @YGIFS you are being INVITED to write a novel of a post, what's with the holdup??
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. Found some more good reporting - the plane that failed had previously known depressurization issues https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/alaska-737-max-9-that-lost-deactivated-exit-had-recent-pressurization-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.
  16. Pressure/depressurizing cycles puts alot of fatigue on connections, and id bet my bottom dollar one of the bolts that held the plug in place wriggled it's way free. Since it was a recently manufactured place, off the line in Nov 2023, there's gonna be one hell of a maintenance and torque checking regimine to recertify those airframes. Manufacturing defects like that rarely happen as a singleton
  17. I really doubt there would be this much acrimony towards NYT if trump had not targeted them so relentlessly. Because genuinely, I haven't heard a single addressable complaint aside from the usual "well they're just a RAG, ok??? MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING!!" If y'all had something more than boohoo victimhood it would be much more interesting
  18. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
  19. 🤣🤣 Such poor airmanship it caused them to ground the entire fleet? Gimmafugginbreak. Both were matters of quality control - the lawn dart incidents were because of slapdash programming by Boeing and a failure to properly integrate multiple systems, compounded by regulatory capture. Not sure why you're seeing this as a grudge though, just laughing at how fierce the defense of Boeing was in light of their continued negligence towards their customers.
  20. I'd love to hear from one of the resident surly pilots to hear how it was pilot error that caused the mechanical failure
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