My Intro to Journalism class in high school was like this. Everything we wrote was scrutinized to ensure it was focused through the proper, correct lens. Our teacher was a raging Feminazi, of the ERA and NOW type. Stickers everywhere on her car. Loved wearing Che Guevara shirts. Basically a Commie bluehair before technicholor hair was permissible in society.

One semester and I walked. And along the way lost whatever respect I had for journalists / newspapers. That was 1987. Every year since then has shown me that teacher wasn't an isolated thing -- I'd say all journos do it to push their agenda, "reporting what happened" is way, way down on the list of things that matter to them.

Selling the News and Pushing Narratives is their job. Reporting on what happened is a mere side effect, and has been for a very long time now.

That pretty much started the day CNN came into being in 1980. 24 hours to fill.. with what? There's not enough news in the world... then or now.. to fill 24 hours of news channel. So, they did what journos do best -- spout opinion in the hopes The Plebes will consider it fact. Judging by the state of the world, they were successful.

Shall we talk about the BBC? I peruse their site every now and then, as a counter-balance to American news outlets. Why is the BBC so preoccupied with Africa? I'd say 70% of the BBC News front page is all about Africa and has been for at least a decade. Does the UK feel that guilty about their past in Africa that they won't shut up about it?

I lay the pieces of the broken modern world at the feet of the "journalists" of all countries who contribute to the worsening divisions in our world. "Hate this group! Hate them! They're different than you! And look at that other group! Isn't it an OUTRAGE that they do what they do? Heavens! Where's my clutching pearls and smelling salts?" -- the result of modern journalism.. prob. since Pulitzer and Hearst.

Trust No One. Do Your Own Homework, Form Your Own Opinions.

TruSt tHE SciENcE

The Science: Stating the obvious -- water's wet, fire's hot, sleepless nights make for tired people WHERE'S MUH MILLIONZ IN GRANT MONNNNEY?!?!

No wonder people lost faith in all our institutions -- not just "scientists"

America.. where those who can, do.

Those who can't, sue. Or teach. Or teach others who can't do, to sue.

You mean... "A manipulation in how we read things have resulted in us declaring CO2 to be a bad gas, so we can push forward our plans to have the entire world be like Europe, while delivering *massive* windfalls to China in the form of heavily increased battery purchases from them."

Fuck that. CO2 wasn't a problem before 2014 and now it is. Why? Why why why? First it was "there's a hole in the ozone, stop with the CFCs." OK, done. Now our ACs are worse than ever, requiring ever-larger compressors, evaporators, etc. Then when that drum's skin broke from the constant beating, they had to trot out a new fear target.. CO2.

I will vote for anyone who stands up to Europe on this front. I will vote for anyone who reverses the EV mandates. In short, I wish someone would bitch-slap Brussels with a dose of cold reality. Their own farmers are trying.. and winning. Didn't protesters hose down some EU bigshot building with liquid manure a few weeks ago? Glorious.

Eloquently and succinctly put. This should be the dictionary definition of "woke." It is also strangely reminiscent of Struggle Sessions. ...it's almost like a Cultural Revolution is *trying* to start here. And here, like in China 50 years ago, it's the brainwashed youth pushing it.

No. People will still fly. But, people will stop flying your airline or your airplanes if you start showing a trend of killing passengers, or shedding parts while in flight. Or worse, lose a whole airplane or half a dozen.

Can your company take it, or will something like this make it tank?

Once lost, confidence is very hard to regain. Take Pan American World Airways, for instance. One of the nails in Pan Am's coffin was people started associating Pan Am and "bomb" and "palestinians" and then Lockerbie happened, and .. *poof*. Gone. People will stay away if you're known for killing people, fault of yours or not.

Someone give 'im a thump, he's stuck in the groove again..

Ruf. Ruf ruff! WOOF! RrrrrrrrRUFF! *angry paw shake* RUFF RUFF ruh RUFf, WOOOF *more paw shaking*

It would seem the dog took offense at being mis-specied.as human.

Man. *anything* today creates outrage! Even the dogs are riled up and angry!

TBF I've been doing this, or a variation of this, since kindergarten.

Yes, fellow slashdotters, since 1974 I've been pretending to go along with the flow, pretending to be alright, pretending pretending pretending.

The truth is I hate crowds. 30 kids in a classroom is a crowd.

The truth is I hate office life. Ringing phones, the babble of half a dozen conversations, etc. The least productive environment I can think of.

The truth is I hate factory life -- and yes, i've worked assembly line, twice.

So to a lot of you this seems appalling, that an employer would dare suggest this to its employees - but some of us have been using this as a survival mechanism for decades.

The parallels are scary. What killed Douglas, what put them in the position they did where they merged with Boeing with Boeing's money -- was bad airplanes. Or certainly comparatively so.

And now, for those very same reasons, it's happening again.

Only this is aviation, and there's no rubes in aviation. Or at least, there were rare.. and usually ended up destroying the airline. Eastern, Pan Am, TWA, US Air, all victims of Bad Management.

Point is -- the airlines will start looking at Boeing with suspicious eyes. It's probably too late at this point. They'll go to Airbus. They have no choice -- Lockheed got out of the passenger business a long time ago, and it's a shame too -- Lockheed makes good airplanes. They should buy Boeing.

Before Airbus does.

Tolerance stacking is a bitch..

Don't get me started. I don't know what causes this Soviet / Russian ... "Russian-ness" but they've made it a centuries-long tradition of bad worksmanship and materials.

My thought is that it's the same problem that plagues capitalism -- greed. How? Essentially the same way. Those who issue the orders have incentive to keep things cheap. Those who actually make them don't care, likely because they've got no money, no future, no food, even. How can you turn out a fine part on a lathe if you're constantly worried about other things?

Greed, folks. Envy. Jealousy. That which drives those in power, and a fair number of peasants, too. Keep up with the Joneses. The sooner people get over that, well, maybe there'll be hope.

Oh, and for the record -- the one Soviet thing that was made right was the AK47.. and it's really an M1 Garand flipped over. The trigger group's damn near identical. If you're gonna steal, steal from the best, right? (Garand kinda stole that trigger group from Browning, anyway..)

https://www.thefirearmblog.com...

Amateurs. To do it, you do it like Harley-Davidson did to Indian and Cushman.

For those who don't know, before the Japanese Invasion of the 1960's. Harley was King of the Hill, and had two domestic competitors -- Indian, and Cushman. Harley bought both and slaughtered them wholesale. Then came the japs and both the Brits and the Americans shat their drawers, because that little Honda ran so much better that America.. and the world.. bought them hand over fist. Then Harley has the BALLS to go to the Government and ask for a tarrif on Jap bikes to protect them from Big Bad Honda.

Boeing is so fucking stupid and myopic. I know I absolutely rag on them for being the son of Douglas, but -- when Boeing bought Douglas, one of the things they got was the MD-95. You've probably flown on it as the Boeing 717. It's really the last evolution of the old DC9. Point is.. this plane was born for the small field life. No support needed, no facilities needed, had its own airstair in the back, APU for power and cooling on the ground.. it had it all. And stupid Boeing killed it because it threatened the 737. DC9 was a much smaller plane, it was 2-aile-3, about a foot or a foot and a half narrower than any Boeing single-aisle jet. It was literally made for the small field market.

Fast foward to now, and Boeing did the shit it did to Bombardier, trying to muscle into that market.

I know I ridicule Douglas, and the DC10 -- but the DC9 had more life in it and is a much better ride for the passenger than any bizjet-turned-commuter, which is all the Bombardiers and CRJs and Fokker 100s and the like are.

DC9 was a beautiful, if flawed gem. Yes, flawed. Electrical problems were a thing. It would've served brilliantly for another 40, 50, 60 years with fatter turbofans. It would've filled that gap Boeing has for small-field ops and it would've not threatened the 737 in any way. Anyway so what if it did? YOU MAKE BOTH OF "EM! Stupid fucks.