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3 hours ago, TUFKAK said:

France should be very careful, they’re not battle tested, their doctrine is outdated, despite Russian failures they are at least actively engaged and learning 

If French troops are even there, they are likely technical advisors and support. But also, France has been fighting an insurgency in Africa for almost 10 years. They're as battle tested as US troops are. 

The last days of the Boeing whistleblower

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John Barnett devoted 25 years of his career working to make Boeing airplanes safer. But he'd spend the last few years of his life fighting to fix the distressing shortcomings he witnessed there.

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The Barnett family, which includes his older brother Rodney, issued a statement reading that “He was looking forward to having his day in court and hoping it would force Boeing to change its culture. He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to a hostile work environment at Boeing, which we believe led to his death.”
 

As I said earlier. Boeing didn't pull the trigger, but they created the conditions that ended this man's life.

37 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

I don’t know if this would get the traction you think it would. These positions were pretty popular for American factory workers — putting tariffs on foreign made goods — and I don’t know how much tariffs are on other people’s minds to begin with.

 

If I post this on my feed, it won’t get many eyes. Then again, it’ll probably be weird to switch from engagement photos to tariffs. 😬

I guess so, but that's a messaging issue for Democratic outreach. And the media can do its part in tying Trump's tariffs to the increase in goods prices that was seen even before the pandemic. 

Also, congrats  

This is getting all the media play because the media and some posters here learned nothing from 2016. 

THIS is what matters and what should be plastered all over peoples feeds. 

Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Chinese Cars Made in Mexico

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Donald Trump said he would hit cars made in Mexico by Chinese companies with a 100% tariff, double the levy he has previously said he would put on automobiles made south of the US border.

10 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

I wish I knew what it was about conspiracies that so many people find compelling. I know people who think that Qanon is obvious bullshit but do believe that Epstein ran a pedophile blackmail operation despite a lack of evidence for both. I feel like I’m missing something. 

In some cases, it just confirms peoples' prior beliefs. 

Boeing will do anything to stop this whistleblower -> Whistleblower dies -> Therefore Boeing killed him

Because it "sounds right"

Sometimes people just don't dig any further than that to determine what's true, what's likely, and what's possible. 

12 hours ago, Reputator said:

 

This is journalistic malpractice. This person the news talked to is drawing conclusions that may not be true and the news is just running with it. People who commit suicide have plans and love their families. And they still do it because of whatever reason despite this. 

This isn't proof that he was murdered and if I were Boeing I'd sue the piss out of this news station and that lady. 

1 minute ago, legend said:

How would this interact for salaried employees? Are you supposed to get overtime as a salaried employee if you work more than 40 hours per week now? Because, uh, that doesn't happen  Or would this be introducing new regulations about overtime for salaried employees as well?

 

(Not that I expect this to push though, just curious)

 

 

Counterpoint: I'm sure it's a pleasure and privilege to be in meetings all day with me  

 

See my post from 3 hours ago.

My work would just change how overtime would be paid out for exempt employees. We'd work our 32 and would only get our overtime after working the 40th hour. The workload wouldn't be decreased and we as an industry can't hire ourselves out of that hole. So we'd just still be doing 40+ work weeks and getting paid for 40 before OT kicked in, if it did at all. 

This is great and I want it to happen. But there are sectors of the economy that will sidestep this with very little effort. 

What a great show. 

9 minutes ago, GoldenTongue said:

Wondering (and hoping against) seeing (spoiler from events in those two episodes)

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Tech's face when the specialist Imp clone trooper is unmasked

in the next episode.

Would not want this either, but it might just be that this is how it happens. 

13 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Aren't most people who live on Crimea ethnic/linguistically Russian?  I thought that was one of the reasons why the 2014 invasion of the island was such a cakewalk for Russia. 

People need to get this out of their heads. 

Crimea was linguistically Russian, yes, but the cultural reality there was because life revolved around the Russian military bases on the peninsula. This would be like thinking Okinawa is culturally American. 

And it was a cakewalk in 2014 because of two things: 1. The Russians had absolute and complete surprise, and 2. Ukraine didn't want to resist with force because they wanted to prevent casualties, had hope for a diplomatic resolution, and frankly were caught off guard by the complete and utter betrayal. 

I remember a Ukrainian air base unit marched out to an attacking Russian unit who demanded they surrender the base. The Ukrainians carried the national flag and the unit flag which was the Soviet era flag as a show of the shared history. The Russian soldiers fired live rounds over the marching Ukrainians heads. 

2 hours ago, Brick said:

 

You sure about that? 

Yes

Boeing didn't pull the trigger, but they certainly created the conditions that cost this man his life. Along with the lives of hundreds of others lost due to corporate ineptitude. 

Yes, he did rebuild the economy--under a militarized industrial plan, which was explicitly against the terms of Versailles. Like, that was the express purpose of it!

"Beclowned" is a great word though.

I fucking hate John Mulaney. I don't find him funny. That bit was even worse than the Melissa McCarthy bit. 

Godzilla won an Oscar and that's perfect. 

4 minutes ago, 69los said:

Did they go to a model home to take this pic?

 

That is the most Alabama-looking-ass family I have ever seen. 

12 hours ago, Chris- said:

The new Rivian models announced today look absolutely beautiful. I don’t really know much about cars or Rivian’s quality but goddamn this design rules. 
 

 

 

Where have I seen this shape before....

Oh right! The Lada Niva!

I punched one in for UNCOMMITTED today here in Tennessee. 

That'll show ol' Genocide Joe what's what. 

I'm going to be picking a Dem ballot (open primaries, yay!) and voting Uncommitted to express my displeasure at Biden's policy towards Israel. 

Then I'll pull the lever for him in November. 

That makes sense too. 

48 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

And their leadership is blind enough to just say "okay well 3 jets couldn't take it out, but maybe 7 will..." and keep throwing material at the problem. Obviously this has worked for Russia in the past in terms of men/artillery (throw a million men at an emplacement and eventually the defenders run out of bullets), but it's much harder to do with advanced tech that you can't replace.

I think what you're missing here is that they ARE replacing them. 

2023 saw three "batches" of Su-34s delivered to the Air Force. That's roughly 12, and those are from contracts signed back before the war started. They've signed contracts with the factory to produce more in 2024. So there doesn't appear to be a net loss of Fullbacks in the Russian Air Force. In the last three years there's been roughly 24-26 delivered. 

Russia's air force has really always sucked at SEAD. So I'm not surprised here. 

I really wonder how accurate these numbers are. But I imagine taking down two AWACS removed a huge amount of early warning coverage from the battlefield and this is the consequence.

Masterful gambit, President Putin. All you had to do was literally nothing and this could have been prevented. 

1 hour ago, best3444 said:

The guy setting himself on fire was mentally, emotionally, and spiritually checked out. Sad. 

He was, in fact, very checked IN. He had a history of being incredibly giving to people in need in his service work and he made statements before his protest that clearly articulated why he was doing this, knowing it was the most extreme form of protest against something he fundamentally and vehemently opposed. 

His statement prior to immolating himself was:

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I am an active duty member of the US Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. 

I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers it is not extreme at all. 

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.