Comment Re:Powerful democrats (Score 2) 143
Several of the cameras were still working. Not a very effective conspiracy.
Several of the cameras were still working. Not a very effective conspiracy.
"We'll see if he "kills himself in prison at the same time the cameras malfunction". He lost access to all those funds so he isn't able to make protection payments or party donations."
Some of you people need serious psychiatric help.
Sadly those who own the robots are the ones who benefit the most. I seem to recall something about owning the means of production, but my American public education didn't seem to cover that subject.
With 70+ years of examples of how collective economies work, are you seriously arguing for Marxism?
First world problems: we have all the guns, money, and influence but our country is "in decline" because the price of chicken nuggets is up this week and someone has purple hair.
In case you haven't been to a grocery store, car dealership, realtor, college bursar, etc lately, the price of pretty much everything is up. Maybe you're making so much money that you hadn't noticed.
We have more guns than everyone else.
It's not even that so much as "Do as we say or we cut off trade/investment/loans/grants".
America may be in decline, but it still has a lot of influence, money-wise.
Is there a way to opt out of this protection racket?
Sure. Declare strict neutrality, and pay for your own defense.
"A decent private school costs anywhere from $2500-8000/year."
Are you on crack?!
Wasn't the blockading of the South a major factor in their economic downfall ?
Getting kids off of social media is good for them, but it shouldn't be paired with Florida running it's already-pitiful educational system into the ground. The politicians doing this are purely doing it because they can't control social media the way they can the school systems.
It would be more accurate to say that POTS technology is being phased out. "Landlines" are simply transitioning from POTS to VOIP. Fewer people have home phones, but they'll always exist, and they're simply being moved to ATA adapters.
Link to the Boeing announcement
Quick summary
There's a link to a letter from the CEO, but both my ad-blocker and my pi-hole object to it. Great job, Boeing, where the heck did you put that letter? Right next to the door-plug removal documentation?
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".
Boeing's problems have very little to do with DEI. The primary problems came from when Boeing merged with the then struggling McDonnel Douglas and somehow the MD management ended up almost completely in charge. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/boeing-737-max-corporate-culture/677120/. They even moved the corporate headquarters to be deliberately further away from the factories and engineers. So what was once one of the most engineering focused of businesses became completely business focused.
Oh not this again.
From the article:
But in 1997, Boeing bought another aircraft manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, in what turned out to be a kind of reverse acquisition—executives from McDonnell Douglas ended up dominating and remaking Boeing. They turned it from a company that was relentlessly focused on product to one more focused on profit.
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.
From the article:
This 900-square-foot home will cost roughly $300,000 - about $100,000 less than a similar custom-built home...
It will rent for $2,000 a month.
I understand that this is a Proof of Concept, but I have to wonder if anyone involved has an idea as to what "affordable" means.
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.
The real problem is over-crowding. Everyone is forced to live in the same place, which is driving land prices up and up. Instead force jobs to move elsewhere, that will bring down the demand for the same piece of land.
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.
MBAs: Let's outsource and cost-cut our way into danger!
Right-wing idiots on Slashdot: Der her look what DEI did!
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