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Inside: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/

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A Boeing 737 Max with Boeing livery, flying through a grey-blue sky. It has split in two. The tail section, which is falling out of the sky, has a large REJECTED stamp on it. A parachute sailing away from the wreckage suspends a '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' ASCII shrug emoji. Image: Tom Axford 1 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_sky_with_wisps_of_cloud_on_a_clear_summer_morning.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Clemens Vasters (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N7379E_-_Boeing_737_MAX_9.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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    • KathleenC ,
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    @pluralistic

    "Under AIR21, an aviation whistleblower who is retaliated against by their employer must first try to resolve their problem internally....)if HR takes more than 90 days to resolve your internal complaint, you can no have no further recourse). If you manage to raise a complaint with OSHA, it is heard by a secret tribunal that has no subpoena power and routinely takes five years to rule on cases, and rules against whistleblowers 97% of the time."

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/

    lhauser ,
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    @pluralistic Your Boeing post today was hard to read. I’m a Boeing baby...my parents met there. My grandfather worked there. It was such a good company. Now it's awful, and it hurts.

    techghoul ,
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    @pluralistic boeing-boeing!

    vxo ,
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    @pluralistic oh, only 420 planes were stuffed with reject parts? ONLY? yeah... uh...

    captainchaos ,
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    @pluralistic I think you have a missing word: "everyone a Boeing who knew how to build a plane".

    pluralistic OP ,
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    @captainchaos Thanks, fixed at the permalink.

    cohomologyisFUN ,
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    @pluralistic makes my blood boil. The FAA should NEVER have agreed to allow that company to be its own regulator.

    araya ,
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    @pluralistic
    Can the billions of people who live on the ground that Boeing jets are shedding parts over bring a class-action NEID suit against Prince Jim? My eight billion friends and I are suffering emotional distress over not knowing when a MRSA part will come crashing through our ceilings.

    pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (May 2) in WINNIPEG then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage: Nothing good has the acronym 'MRSA.'

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112366979097305884

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    Image: Tom Axford 1 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_sky_with_wisps_of_cloud_on_a_clear_summer_morning.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Clemens Vasters (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N7379E_-_Boeing_737_MAX_9.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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    • 18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Hey look at this

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    MIT Tech Review makes a fool out of Jack Valenti https://web.archive.org/web/20040529210502/www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N20/ValentiIntervie.20f.html

    Shatnerquake: bizarro novel about every Shatner character sucked into reality to hunt down William Shatner https://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/04/william_shatner_william_shatner_william_shatner.php

    US Trade Rep lies about Canadian piracy https://web.archive.org/web/20090503075121/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3912/125/

    Why neutrality is more important than connection speeds https://isen.com/blog/2009/04/broadband-without-internet-ain-worth.html

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Every 27 seconds, Canadian telcos hand over subscriber data to cops (mostly without a warrant) https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/04/telco-disclosures/

    Smooth sales-patter from Union Square’s Gentleman Peeler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0

    Serpent profiteers: how a summer camp snakebite turned into a $142,938 medical bill https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/29/717467217/summer-bummer-a-young-campers-142-938-snakebite

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    The platforms suck at content moderation and demanding they do more won’t make them better at it — but there ARE concrete ways to improve moderation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/content-moderation-broken-let-us-count-ways

    Big Tech’s addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by “terrorizing” employees https://fortune.com/2019/04/29/silicon-valley-nda/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Chase’s stupid poverty-shaming “inspirational” tweet, and Twitter users’ magnificent responses thereto https://mashable.com/article/chase-bank-tweet-backlash

    Duke University acquires the archives of Charles N Brown, founder of Locus Magazine https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2019/01/11/locus-archives-documents-the-history-of-sci-fi/

    Securepairs.org will send debullshitifying security researchers to Right to Repair hearings to fight industry FUD https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-security-experts-california/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Most US eighth graders have taken apart a gadget to fix it or see how it works https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/tel/student-questionnaires/

    Weak Institutions https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Yesterday's threads: Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress; and more!

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112361270161254930

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    Image: Matt Biddulph (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/13904063945/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ -- Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (May 2) in WINNIPEG then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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    18+ Ulan_KA ,
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    @pluralistic Estland seems to be off the airline nets at the moment due to GPS-jamming by Russia. Did you work on alternative routes already?

    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    @Ulan_KA Not sure. I'm guessing it'll be a train or someone'll drive me.

    18+ yaygya ,
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    @pluralistic I did not expect this at all, but I’ll be able to be in Calgary on Friday evening. Just booked my ticket, I can’t wait!

    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    @yaygya fantastic! See you there!

    18+ wtwagg ,
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    @pluralistic @jwz that one brings back some memories! Bring on the Sea Monkeys!

    sspopovich ,
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    @pluralistic I had been thinking the same thing...what was in their minds when they came up with that acronym? The other MRSA kills people in hospitals, and this one does the same thing in the sky.

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