Pronounce it "Pesky"

Regardless, this is gonna turbo-charge foil hats. I've been trying to find ways to make money off conspiracy nuts. It's a win-win: I'd get richer, and they'd get a much-needed wallet-spanking lesson in reality. Don't think of it as manipulation, but as Professor Reality getting paid for giving lessons.

Some context:

Aside from Mr Barnett and Mr Dean, there are some 30 Boeing whistleblowers

Still unusual, but 2 deaths among 30 middle aged plus folks isn't super unusual. Especially when you're putting them in really high stress situations like trials and corporate harassment.

And the first one, committed suicide in a parked car in broad daylight. An insanely (and needlessly) risky and difficult murder to stage.

And the second one, what? They gave him an infection and then waited for two weeks while he was hospitalized hoping it would do him in?

And for what purpose did they murder him? It clearly wasn't so he wouldn't talk because if he had any extra beans to spill he would have spilled them in hospital.

As a warning to others? You think people will be intimidated from blowing the whistle because they believed Boeing was responsible for this incredibly non-suspicious death?

It's just like the first whistleblower who died, sure on its face the idea of a whistleblower dying raises suspicion, two even more suspicion. But the moment you think about the details then murder is completely implausible.

If Boeing really wanted to murder someone with the right level of deniability I'm sure they could have found a suitably skilled engineer to set the car to swerve off the highway, or create a wiring fault in some appliance so he got electrocuted when he went to make coffee, or staged a failed mugging.

Something like the failed mugging would work beautifully because, even though that is another poorly thought out conspiracy theory (the only reason Seth Rich got pulled into it is he got murdered) it at least has the benefit of being the kind of murder that both makes sense as a hit and is plausible to pull off.

But broad-daylight parking lot suicides and only-sometimes-fatal illnesses? That's not how anyone would commit a murder.

Harvard claims it's part of academic freedom, and to let the scientific process correct bad ideas, not university administration. True or not, it seems an honest stance. But it may become a practical problem if too many attention-seeking nuts sink the U's reputation.

"How would you ever get rid of a poor leader? I mean, what if ants lived *thousands* of days? We'd be stuck with a bad queen seemingly forever!"

Stick them in a Truman Show tank, giving them plenty of distractions and fake admiration to keep them out of our hair.

But in wealthy countries, the birth rate is trending toward a shrinking population. Extending (quality) life may help reverse the trend.

Ironically, restricting calories has proven to help lab animals live roughly 10% longer. Thus, there is some truth to your joke.

Thank You David Sinclair for being humanity's guinea pig! Even if it doesn't turn out to work right, I applaud you for testing. Failure is scientific data also. Someday some brave soul like yours may actually stumble on the right formula.

I personally suspect it won't work until nano-bots can trek around our body and fix age-related cell DNA mutations. I'd guestimate that's at least 20 years away for the wealthy (done overseas to avoid regs), and longer for us plebes.

This is like sending coals from eastern Newcastle to western Newcastle.

Indeed; Windows 3.11 + Norton Desktop 3 - was a better UI than we have today on any platform.

I ran NDW (not Commander) on 32-bit Windows for years until the lack of LNF support and the fact the rest of the world have moved to actually using long filenames made it unworkable.

However in terms of a cohesive way to find and working with everything on the system nothing has duplicated it since.

add a toggle to disable VoLTE calls

With 3G being phased out, you'd be stuck on WiFi calling if you did that, effectively defeating the purpose of having a cellular phone.

STFU

Imagine the reaction the Chinese government if the US State Department or a large US business - so deliberately tried to circumvent and displayed such contempt for the intent of Chinese law. Bad actors are bad actors. Just because our own behavior isnt perfect does not mean we must just ignore problem behavior.

It might mean that we should exercise some discernment and proportion in our degree of judgement and condemnation but we can at least 'talk' about dilberate attempts to violate our policy without being 'racists'

I agree it looks bad. Given the MIC and deep state ties here where Boeing is concerned; I have no difficulty believing that anything *could* be possible.

However what *should* happen absent any evidence whatsoever this wasn't a freak medical condition?

Remember every event is coincident with some other event if you don't restrict the topics of the other event or allow enough time. Should we blow a bunch of tax dollars launching investigations into people who might want Boeing's critics silenced? Where do we stop, the Officers, board of directors, large share holders, Generals pushing for military contracts, Congress person with Boeing facilities in their districts, YOU with the mutual fund?

I remember reading a lot of criticism (including here) about these efforts, where the telecom industry took the money, but failed to deliver. And that's actually a general concern for social program spending: does it actually provide the promised benefits?

In the case of universal (or at least nationwide :-) ) internet access, success is pretty easy to measure. If Congress were functional (a big if, I know), they would be examining the results of the previous investments and seeing how to better invest the money to get the result.

Just about everything in nature is either growing or dying. I don't know why you'd expect a naturally emerging system like a free market place to work any differently.