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Captainant

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  1. 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. 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. Because our government kowtows to fascists regularly. 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.
  4. Yes, but it wasn't assembled by the current generation of Boeing that cares more about profitability than safety
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. Depending on the court the argument is heard in, it certainly might be enough.
  9. JFC if he's just quoting libzoftiktok then buckle the fuck up it's about to get hella racist and xenophobic
  10. Hey look! The GOP strategy of flooding the zone with bullshit is working on the useful idiots
  11. Using Twitter to pump and dump crypto is like one of its core business uses right?
  12. How completely shocking that an apartheid heir would think that black people are inferior
  13. Lmao "both sides"? Gimmafugginbreak. It's just incredulity thread shitting and ignoring plain facts
  14. 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
  15. The Poseidon ASW aircraft is literally just a 737
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. The number of times you say "no union" and "conservative" and then "no racist" make me infer the opposite lol
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