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    03-14-2024, 10:47 AM
    I don't know if you work for a publicly traded company but this is the way it goes. Executives aren't generally paying attention to things like quality, employee happiness or retention, or even fitness of purpose. I just left my employer of 23 years recently and one of the reasons why is because I was told point blank 'we don't want to offer great support to our customers - we want to give them good support'. And I had at least a decade of listening to executive townhalls where the overarching goal was 1) share price and 2) profitability (which is basically the same thing). This is as much an artifact of the corporate model as anything else. It's very tempting for a corporation to realign its interests to those two points above all others - and they have rings to put in the employees' noses to pull them along. You don't have to be working long for a big corporation before you start getting stock options and profit sharing dangled in front of you. It's pitched as a way to improve quality and buy-in, but it does the opposite. Most people go along with it because money. But there are still a critical mass of people who aren't motivated by money as much as they're motivated by quality. I guarantee you all that someone at Boeing knew exactly what was going on prior to the first crash. That person may even have tried to bring attention to it. And it's likely some middle manager had a discussion with a VP and they decided the best way forward was to issue a bulletin in 8 point type buried in some other corporate messaging saying 'oh by the way make sure your pilots know that occasionally they'll need to disable this system manually'. Or, maybe Fight Club style, they just ran the numbers and figured out that doing something about it was more expensive than the fallout from not doing something about it, and they didn't. Managers are trained to think this way. Either that or they only allow sociopaths at higher levels. They have ways of not only not listening, but letting you know in no uncertain terms that if you bring it up you're losing your job. In some corporations, this is the only thing besides Weinstein-style sexual harassment that will get you dismissed.
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    03-14-2024, 10:32 AM
    I ran into this idea a few weeks ago. The narrative is this: Boeing installed faulty sensors that would trigger the plane to start diving. Boeing installed faulty control software that would disallow the pilots from manually correcting when the plane entered a dive. Overseas airlines didn't train their pilots on how to disable the system that didn't exist on other planes. Therefore the airlines are at fault and this was pilot error. QED. And people are buying that argument.
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    03-06-2024, 12:50 PM
    That was my point. The surface reason for banning it, listed in the memo, is that it was nonconsentual. The fact that it was staged renders that reason nonsense. Anyone could have figured that out and pointed it out prior to issuing a memo and making a whole big thing about it. If their stated reasons are lies, then there's some other motive. These people don't care what's banned and what isn't. They've gotten caught red-handed doing the exact things they publicly cry about so many times we can't even begin to list them. Their goal wasn't to get the photo banned. Their goal was to make a whole big thing about it and get the public consciousness further in line with the new order. The fact that it wasn't actually banned is immaterial. It's "Baby it's cold outside" again and again until everyone gets the message that they make the rules about what's ok.
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    03-05-2024, 01:27 PM
    Here's the thing. We already know the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima was a reconstruction of an earlier event that was staged specifically to be able to get that photo. I'm pretty sure photography wasn't really at the point in 1945 where someone would just turn and snap and get perfectly framed photos. The fact that there's also another perfectly framed photo from a different angle showing the same exact kiss with the same bystanders in frame, tells me this was was also staged.
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    03-05-2024, 10:35 AM
    On a related note: If you live in a state that has decriminalized cannabis, start growing some. It doesn't matter whether you partake or not. I don't, and I always have a plant or three going. What it does, is forces you to learn how to grow - and everything you learn about cannabis translates directly to other plants. Plus the turnaround is as short as 2 months. I learned more about NPK ratios and deficiencies, nurturing seedlings, pruning, grow lights, etc than I ever would have working with one set of tomatoes a year. Also, if you set up an indoor operation, everything about growing cannabis is still kinda engineered around keeping things on the DL. You learn how to grow inside a tent with low-wattage lights that not only save you money, but don't generate the heat or the energy usage spikes that they've used in the past to figure out whether you're running a grow operation.
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    03-04-2024, 04:34 PM
    The problem was illustrated back on page 7. Nobody thinks of black mothers when this topic comes up. Nobody thinks of Hispanic mothers or Chinese mothers. Nope. Always white mothers. And the white fathers are always absent, or cowed, or threatened by the state.
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    03-01-2024, 07:10 AM
    The only surprising thing about this story is how she's managed to look that good at 64.
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    02-29-2024, 08:57 PM
    So soon after all the Putin notoriety, too. I sure hope there is at least an intimation that we had a chance 16 years ago to prevent all of this. Or at least an exploration of how the rotten elections stuff that happened to Ron shows we have a bigger problem than just 2020.
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