And if a colleague tells me that something is making her feel unwelcome, my prior is that she's sincere and an alternative should be found to the something.

Not original with me.

Any image in a paper can be reduced to one bit by Huffman coding starting with "Is it Lena?".

Yes. There's one objective material world, yet everyone has their own inner movie that they're experiencing. Now, if all is material, then there's no need for that inner experiencer. We would just react and process like a machine that's sophisticated yet has no sentience. A machine could replicate a human in every way without needing to also be sentient. But people who deny the problem kinda claim that the sentience is irrelevant, or an illusion of sentience, yet if you were not sentient then there would be no you experiencing life at all.

Yep. One of the many ways otherwise productive reasonable smart people are made by the system to waste time in mindless drivel and be paid to do so. Meanwhile people who do produce actual survival value get run into the ground.

No parole, but a common thing in Federal is to follow a prison sentence with a term of "supervised release", which has key features in common with parole. If that was included in the SBF sentence, he'd have a badly limited life.

Even that is only if the prisoner can avoid chickenshit or dishonest disciplinary actions.

Nothing by our standards, but one thing the BOP does right is electronic messaging kiosks. Google Corrlinks, I think it is. Plain text and limited length, billed per minute.

There are bigger issues. People getting out of Rip van Winkle sentences don't know how you apply for a job now. We need much better re-entry preparation.

Every one of which currently appears to be beyond Boeing's reach.

What part are you having trouble with?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I hope you understand "parallel" and "bus".

It's long been understood that if a plane sets a trap for a pilot, the solution is to eliminate the trap and not to say "pilot error".

A single point of failure would have been unthinkable.

The black box I worked on was only important enough to turn on a yellow light if it failed, and it ran the same algorithms in parallel on two processors with inputs inverted and logic DeMorganized, and it had a backup, and IIRC it could listen to more than one bus for air data.

Not just installing defective parts, but retaliating against the employee who reported it. Everything points to a decomposed culture, not a one-off or routinely fixable thing.

Long and interesting history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I talked to one aerospace engineer who said his company immediately destroyed defective parts so there would be no risk of accidentally installing them.
On top of that, in any healthy organization it would be unthinkable to install them deliberately.
On top of that, when someone reported the situation, it should have been corrected immediately.
On top of that, it is pathological to retaliate against someone for doing his job.
It is hard to imagine fixing a corporate culture so utterly rotten.