Electric submarines, OTOH…
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I can’t believe D&D is 50 years old.
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To refresh everybody’s memory, this was after the two accidents where Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets got faulty sensor data and the flight computer over-compensated for what it was being told was a nose too high condition.
The problems at Boeing quieted down but it looks like there’s quite a few underlying problems that are now coming to the surface.
Boeing sold its Wichita division in 2005. Through various purchases, that plant is now owned by Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the flight deck (“cockpit”) for most of Boeing’s airliners and the fuselage for the 737 range of jets. They make other assemblies for Airbus.
One of the 737 MAX 9 fuselages shipped by rail to Boeing in Washington State last year had damage to rivets around a door plug. If a company doesn’t want a door at that point and they’ll have less passengers than makes a door mandatory, a door plug can be installed, saving weight and money. The rivets were fixed and the door plug reinstalled, but it wasn’t bolted in. It came out shortly after takeoff on January 5th. The plane landed with several passengers injured but no deaths.
Since then, inspections 737 MAX 9 planes at United and Alaska found loose hardware. The New York Times just reported that mechanics at Spirit used Dawn dish soap as a lubricant while fitting a door seal, then wiping it up with wet cheesecloth. Boeing is looking to purchase Spirit to bring them back into the fold. The Department of Justice is starting a criminal investigation into the door plug plug blowout.
Boeing has also changed their bonus plan to shift the focus from financial results to safety results. One airline said they don’t expect to take delivery of some planes for quite a while and they’re making plans to operate without them. Passengers are refusing to board flights when they find out the plane is a MAX 9, with one instance where I think the person was assured it wasn’t but it was.
And to cap it all off, John Barnett was found in his car in South Carolina, dead from a self-inflicted wound. Barnet was a former safety manager at Boeing who was a whistleblower about their ongoing safety problems. He’d provided more information in the last week or so, which brings up the question of what was going on that he felt he had to kill himself at this particular time.
As I understand it, he’d completed one day of interviews with the investigators, and was scheduled for a second. Which makes the situation even more odd.
Turns out, it was all likely just a con job. The same pastor was convicted on Monday for five federal crimes involving wire fraud, attempted extortion and making false statements to the FBI.
Funny way to say he was killed. Or invited to pull the trigger in the most strong terms.
Funny how that keeps happening.
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If it was the former, then the person who killed Barnett would have to make sure that the point where the weapon was had to match how he would have been able to hold it for both the horizontal and vertical angles, and how it went into him, so it would look self-inflicted.
The articles don’t say what type of wound it was. If it was from a gun, then those same horizontal and vertical angles the bullet was traveling would also have to match whatever material the bullet went through after it left his body. No mention of broken windows in the articles, so look at the roof, walls and floor. (This would cover the case of Barnett being killed first then being transported to that spot.)
Since if it was a hit it was likely a public/private joint venture I would imagine that it would be better planned than some of the odd suicides around the Clintons. 
I don’t watch the news much but I usually catch wind of what everyone is talking about at least and this whole issue just seems to have been squeezed for the fear clicks and then dropped. Like the biggest US airplane manufacturer literally falling apart in the last 10 years is no big deal.
The Temu ads have been replaced with Alibaba ads. There’s a site I sometimes visit that has more of them, which has lead to the interesting result of displaying a woman’s dress in with industrial hardware items.
I have no idea when the last time was that I saw an ad on the internet.
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The kids on our robotics team didn’t believe me this weekend when I told them that people held up and waved lighters at concerts before they did the same with cell phones. This hurt me.
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They did? (context I cant handle the volume of concerts and thus dont go)
Yes, they did.
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Don’t you mean “Yes, we did”? 
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I have an app that is a virtual zippo.
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Some tips to make your packages lighter.
- Use lighter packaging.
Thanks, Canada Post.
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Go to hospital planning hospice care for my dad.
Nurse asks if he needs anything.
He says " Fill your hands you son of a bitch"
Me, just about totally lose it. She doesnt get it at all.
His heart is too thick and only expelling 16%, so not long.
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My dad is also in the same situation.
Picked up something funky with his heart. Apparently the years of smoking took its toll and one of his heart valves are not working as it should. (He stopped smoking a couple of years ago, went completely cold turkey).
He said it is not worth it to have a heart op, because his heart may then be working, but (in a sense he was prophetic) what about should he start losing his mind, or something like that?
Now his dementia is getting more and more pronounced by the day, and it is extremely discouraging and sad to see how his world is shrinking.
I do not want to go like this.
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Wondering if I can pull off bangs.
John Wick style?
Go for it…