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   Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:11:07 JST Rob Landley

   I love how people just assume the only possible large social change is covid, not the Boomers sundowning or any fallout from the Rump administration destroying most regulatory enforcement and enabling corporate malfeasance.

   https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/112083109242920496

   Nope, it could only be covid. Nobody ever got sick before covid. We studied it a dozen times more closely than SARS or avian flu and found a dozen times more effects? Coincidence! It's not like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome already existed.

   Sigh...

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:11:06 JST Rob Landley

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     The Boeing "737 MAX" was a mess from day 1.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings

     "This article is about the 2019–2021 groundings of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. For the 2024 groundings, see..."

     If you DO want to blame covid, how about the supply chain issues?

     https://www.freightwaves.com/news/california-ports-piling-up-again-with-long-dwelling-import-containers

     https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/boeing-nike-wrestle-with-supply-chain-pressures-over-china-risk

     Yes, covid was big and it was bad and it's ongoing. So is the fallout from the 1918 flu pandemic (still, to this day, hence "flu shots"). But reasoning backwards from your conclusion remains exhausting.

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:11:07 JST Rob Landley

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     Seriously, Boeing. The company that spent $36 billion on stock buybacks and then needed a $36 billion bailout to keep operating, got caught cutting corners. And you blame Covid.

     Remember when Coca-Cola spun out its bottling operations into a seperate company (which they were the only customer for) to make its books look better? Boeing pulled that trick on its major cost center, and then demanded the new subsidiary somehow be profitable:

     https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-seeks-to-buy-spirit-aero-19-years-after-selling-off-troubled-wichita-plant/

     And you're blaming _covid_?

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:12:55 JST Rob Landley

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     "In April 2017... another employee wrote, "This airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys"... the aircraft’s “piss poor design"... "patching the leaky boat."

     Boeing said that the communications “do not reflect the company we are and need to be, and they are completely unacceptable.” The company issued a statement acknowledging the committee’s findings and saying that the victims of the crashes were “in our thoughts and prayers.”

     https://whdh.com/news/i-want-to-get-off-the-plane-the-passengers-refusing-to-fly-on-boeings-737-max/

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:12:55 JST Rob Landley

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     Netflix was streaming a documentary about the 737 max being crap a year _before_ that door fell off.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall:_The_Case_Against_Boeing

     I miss having functioning government oversight. Alas, the Boomers strangling the government are busy clutching their pearls at the Series of Tubes, using KOSA to ban TikTok. (Clearly Faceboot's relationship with Cambrige Analytica and Musk's relationship with China and Russia _weren't_ concerning.)

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:12:56 JST Rob Landley

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     The main whistleblower recently testifying about Boeing's insufficient safety standards just MYSTERIOUSLY DIED:

     https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/112079221056105270

     Obviously he must have died of covid. Couldn't be anything else...