None of this matters, because they're being replaced by people within Boeing that worked very close with them. It's not like they're bringing in fresh blood. This is the appearance of "doing something".

Oh not this again.

From the article:

As if Boeing wasn't ruthlessly focused on profit before the merger, like all large companies.

Most of this whining comes from legacy Boeing employees that lost out come promotion time to MD employees in the merger. The legacy Boeing people have been the source for many of these articles, like your source in the Atlantic, and they've been out of the company a long time. Most of them have no idea what's going on inside today.

Boeing's problem, like all other large corporations, is the culture of outsourcing. This is not unique to Boeing in any way. Witness the horrific problems Lockheed Martin has in producing the F-35, where an audit found that some aircraft had parts installed backwards. Lockheed spread production out across most of the Continental US, helping to ensure political survival of the project, but raising the cost and spreading production out among an unmanageable web of subcontractors.

Every large corporation in the world has these problems because every large corporation in the world is now essentially just a logo slapped on a product assembled by a third party in a low cost country or area. Apple's reputation for quality is due to their zeal in controlling every step in production, and even they are slipping here.

Ask any appliance repairman how much you should spend on a new refrigerator, washing machine, etc. He'll tell you to buy cheap, because none of it lasts anymore anyway. We all have that grandpa or uncle with a refrigerator in his garage that's been running for 50 years. And yet I can't get one to last more than 6 or 7 these days. The issue of quality is worldwide, and Airbus has them too, they're just not in the news as much. Airbus just settled a lawsuit last year over fuselage quality issues.

There's no way in hell that over a quarter-million bucks for a pre-fab home is reasonable. This experiment is gonna fall on its face.

No one is forced to live in expensive areas. Those areas are expensive because of the sheer number of people that WANT to live there. They could, in most cases, live and work in cheaper areas, and have a nice house and job. But New York is New York Expensive because legions of twentysomethings have a romantic itch to live that "New York Experience", and so the city is constantly stuffed with people trying to get in.

Everyone can't have a pony. And everyone can't live in the most expensive areas.

Your state government can't do more than one thing at a time?

And speaking of the Border, Texas IS trying to do something about it, all while the Biden Administration sues them, trying to prevent them from doing anything about the border.

I am in no way looking down on the trades. I'm an admirer of men that do such jobs, and I consider those jobs both highly important, and well-deserving of high compensation. My point is that some people are not cut out for various fields, and while people doing trades are in no way "dumb" (in addition to skill, many trades require a lot of knowledge and more than a good bit of practical math that average people would probably struggle with), they're still not cut out to do things like software development, which takes different mental talents.

Bottom line.... just as that, contrary to what we tell our kids, not everyone can be an astronaut or President, not everyone is cut out for CS or high-knowledge white collar jobs. And that's the larger problem: the media, politicians, high schools, etc, seem to think that CS and software development IS something that anyone can do, that it IS a field where any coal miner can learn to be a programmer with a few weeks of classes.

A software engineer... not just a basic programmer, but a real, full-stack software developer... isn't comparable to a plumber or concrete tech, though. So the comparison is a bit unfair. Those are skilled jobs, but a full-stack developer with a CS degree is more like a CPA, a white collar professional. One of the reasons that CPA and devs make the kind of money they do is that most people don't have the cranial firepower to do them... or there'd be more devs and CPA's. Which is also another reason why it's batshit silly to require CS to graduate high school. It's part of the same mindset that said "every child is an undiscovered math prodigy" that we saw in the 80's and 90's. Again, it's just not the case.

We have a LOT of people in IT that shouldn't be (just like college), and to a great extent they're in the field because guidance counselors and parents seem to think that anyone can be a network admin, or sysadmin, or dev, etc. And many would be better suited learning welding, plumbing, or some other skill.

Some insurance sectors don't make their profits on premiums. They make money by investing premium income somewhere else, and that money puts them in the black. This is especially the case in the reinsurance market.

LOL, Ariane's main purpose is to ensure French domination of European space launch.

"Cranky" and "Brilliant" are a thin line in physics. Remember, we have people that swear the universe is made up of a bunch of vibrating strings. They can't prove it, but they're held in high esteem anyway.

The whole notion of Dark Matter struck me as a kludge because cosmologists had what they thought was a beautiful model, and just couldn't quite deal with the numbers not adding up.

Essentially, "the math doesn't work, so we'll insert X here, and hey look, now it works" without having to actually prove X exists.

On what are you basing that statement?

The first meme of the two here explains it.

The ideal is a seedbox somewhere, where one can have all that stuff done offshore, then fetch your goodies via SFTP.

I was doing that for a bit, but then I mashed Transmission and a VPN client together in one container and started using that. Files land directly on my home server, while the VPN endpoint is in a country that takes a more relaxed view of "sailing the high seas." Keeping this URL in your BitTorrent client allows you to quickly verify that the VPN is doing its job.

We'll have a stripper, prostitute (real, not metaphorical), or porn star in a federal or major state office in the next decade. I'll guarantee it. Probably out of Vegas or Southern California. And yes, OnlyFans will be involved.

Now that he's in jail, he'll get his, in the end.