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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Boeing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 265
Re: Boeing
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68834525 A Boeing engineer told US lawmakers that he was harassed and threatened after he raised concerns about the safety of the company's planes. Whistleblower Sam Salehpour said Wednesday that his boss berated him in a 40-minute call and his tyre was punct...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: The New Solar Thread
- Replies: 92
- Views: 37039
Re: The New Solar Thread
The total solar eclipse moved the ionosphere just enough to shift the frequency of WWV standard frequency and time signals by +/- one Hertz over a period of a couple of hours, as measured remotely at the other end of a skip path. The transmitters are magnitudes more stable than that, as they are con...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Bye
- Replies: 1539
- Views: 762309
Re: Bye
Legal sports betting has also turned networks like ESPN into shills for the casinos. They used to run games you might have missed in the off-prime hours, now they run very dumb people discussing the over and under like they were in some damn bar. It's another step toward the total dumbdown of Wester...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Boeing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 265
Re: Boeing
Whistleblowers are testifying before a Senate committee. It's being covered by Nooz outlets that don't have marching orders to do all drumpf all the time. Boeing is in very deep doodoo. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68838169?src_origin=BBCS_BBC Witness Ed Pierson says the FAA "n...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1157
- Views: 837036
Re: Labor/Economics
> Detroit sign Culver City has one of those HOLLYWOOD sign imitations too. After all, that's where half the movies got made. Back in the days before generative AI, the Florida motion picture bureau had a deepfake photo of a FLORIDA sign right on the hill that HOLLYWOOD uses, city microwave tower and...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: The GOP Snowflake Thread
- Replies: 900
- Views: 421370
Re: The GOP Snowflake Thread
Isn't that part of aging? 20-year-olds and their recording artists jump on whatever song lyrics outrage their parents and sell lots of recordings and concert tickets, then 40 years later they're all on Internet with everyone else decrying pronouns, genderfluidity, liberal politics, and "those k...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Presidential ranking
- Replies: 53
- Views: 825
Re: Presidential ranking
Ray Gun gets a 9 on inspiring the base, but a 4 on policy. He did permanent damage to many industries such as media and communication, and basically gave the country away to the war planners, Ivy Leaguers, and old-money bloodsuckers. Everything since has been a descent into hell. History is a bitch-...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Presidential ranking
- Replies: 53
- Views: 825
Re: Presidential ranking
Ranking presidents is stupid. There's a feedback loop between the times and the president's rising to the occasion or not. A couple of Republicans had the good luck to be in office at the time Russia was going through a transition period, now they're saints for saving the world. That's why academic ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2728
Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Yeah, yeah, California is a shithole and Mississippi is the last best hope for civilization.
Then why aren't there hundreds of thousands of people going homeless just so they can live in Mississippi?
Then why aren't there hundreds of thousands of people going homeless just so they can live in Mississippi?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: DJT Stock
- Replies: 54
- Views: 773
Re: DJT Stock
I'd be funnier if I hadn't gone over my tolerance level for right wing media brainwashing. It's a full time job keeping that poison out of my head.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Racist/Corrupt/Immoral Police Thread.
- Replies: 661
- Views: 127498
Re: Racist/Corrupt/Immoral Police Thread.
Trump won't physically threaten people, he has the whole US right wing for that.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
- Replies: 602
- Views: 877121
Re: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
All this is happening when Netanyahu is in office. The US government plays a peripheral role at best. The US government didn't wall off Gaza and let it turn into a terrorist base. "Battle lines being drawn, nobody's right if everybody's wrong" -- Some forgotten 60s band that actually playe...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
- Replies: 602
- Views: 877121
Re: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
There's a causal texture to all this going back to WWII, at a minimum, and the dawn of civilization at the earliest roots. Gross oversimplifications do nothing except cause false hopes that make the problem worse. At a minimum, we need better leadership in Israel and a general rejection of extremism...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1157
- Views: 837036
Re: Labor/Economics
The Senate is dysfunctional enough without the Senators being picked in those proverbial smoke filled rooms by party hacks who got where they are by being rich enough to make megabuck donations. It's obvious that the filibuster broke the Senate. They should have imposed strict cloture but instead th...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1157
- Views: 837036
Re: Labor/Economics
Both parties make the problem worse, but the Republicans seem to do more damage more quickly, and it takes longer to clean up their messes. The current economic problems are deep-rooted, and caused mostly by bad policy and artificial shortages due partly to class struggle and partly by failure to ag...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2728
Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Too many people, too little transportation, no profit in lower-middle class housing, very deficient social services, weak leadership, vastly underrepresented neighborhoods, high taxes for low results, and far far too little insight.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Presidential ranking
- Replies: 53
- Views: 825
Re: Presidential ranking
Nobody won the Cold War. Both sides made disastrous mistakes. Russia dropped out first, due to its weaker economic fundamentals and essentially personality based political system, despite all its propaganda to the contrary. At some point propaganda has to be backed up with real governance beyond jus...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: 2024 General Elections Thread
- Replies: 181
- Views: 48423
Re: 2024 General Elections Thread
Good start, now someone needs to take on the news business.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Labor/Economics
- Replies: 1157
- Views: 837036
Re: Labor/Economics
With gas prices spiking it looks like we might be in for another round of inflation Some of the "experts" who yak on TV would agree with you. I would tend to agree myself. You can't have wars going all over the Middle East without disruptions to the shipping lanes. That causes these short...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
- Replies: 602
- Views: 877121
Re: Hamas fires 7000 rockets at Israel, starting major war
Many of the settlers are paramilitaries organized into de facto militias. Not all, but many. Some of the "settlements" are essentially forward bases. Not all, but some. Some of these disputed areas are mazes of checkpoints and roadblocks, making a routine commute to work take hours if you'...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2728
Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"
The laws are unenforceable when there are 45,000 homeless. The problem is not the law but the system. First the mental health system was dismantled, then the lower-middle class got priced out of decent housing. If you have any problems at all, such as mental illness or long term job loss, it's the s...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Terrorist state of Russia emboldened by Western inaction
- Replies: 28
- Views: 535
Re: Terrorist state of Russia emboldened by Western inaction
Actually history teaches us a lot of things, but unfortunately they tend to be interpreted by charlatans and served up to us in little bites of slanted information. The Middle East, having the world's worst case of too much history and not enough geography, has the potential to teach us everything w...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: South Carolina finishes perfect season with NCAA championship, beating Clark and Iowa 87-75
- Replies: 3
- Views: 225
Re: South Carolina finishes perfect season with NCAA championship, beating Clark and Iowa 87-75
This year it seemed to me that the women hoopsters were more popular than the men. We watched the last 15 minutes or so in a nice Irish pub on the way back to LA, though since they had a live band in the next room over the sound was inaudible. Lots of confetti. Then the TV went right into Newt Gingr...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Entertainment
- Topic: Paramount appears close to merger
- Replies: 1
- Views: 126
Paramount appears close to merger
Still dotting i's and crossing t's, but the winds of change can no longer be ignored. Paramount seems to be committed to merging with somebody. Probably it'll create another one of those lumpy conglomerates that does everything, a la MGM and Warner's.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: We need to end gerrymandering - PERIOD.
- Replies: 185
- Views: 43725
Re: We need to end gerrymandering - PERIOD.
The Senate was a way of avoiding a titled aristocracy in a House of Lords, which nobody wanted after their war with King George, while still creating an upper house for what was then an educated elite. The House was of course the new version of the House of Commons. The Federalist Papers, and other ...