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Peppycito , in Boy Scouts of America rebranding to more inclusive Scouting America

Jesus. We’ll never hear the end of it from the right wing wackos. They’ll use this as justification for starting up the Nazi Youth

Catoblepas ,

Not like they weren’t going to do it anyway. They’ll always use LGBT+ people and women existing and wanting to be full members of society as justification for whatever they pull.

stembolts ,

O no, they changed the name of an organization I was never a part of and know nothing about.

I will now complain to every white stranger I come across.

PoV of white bald guy, they always think I’m on their team unless I’m dressed “flowery”. Then they just assume I’m gay and don’t talk to me. If I’m wearing camo tho? Best friend.

firadin , in NYC mayor tells students 'walk away now' as police descend on Columbia

Columbia journalism students are reporting live: …columbia.edu/…/online-streaming-and-running#

ShepherdPie ,

“404 not found”

Interesting.

BertramDitore ,
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Schmoo ,

I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t freestyle jazz.

jmcs , in Judge holds Trump in contempt for violating gag order in hush money trial

This is a joke right?

disguy_ovahea , (edited )

The maximum fine in NY for this is $1,000 per infraction. If it continues, the judge could sentence jail time but the fine would remain the same.

nova_ad_vitum ,

So it’s basically designed for rich people to be to ignore?

newthrowaway20 ,

Sure is looking that way, isn’t it?

HocEnimVeni ,
@HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world avatar

It’s like handicap parking spots, it’s basically just a super expensive reserved parking spot that every parking lot is legally required to have.

Telodzrum ,

The judge addressed that concern specifically and said that when $1k isn’t sufficient to cow a contemnor, detention should be imposed.

meleecrits ,
@meleecrits@lemmy.world avatar

This is key. If he jailed him right away, his attorneys would call for a mistrial saying the judge was biased against him and they would probably succeed in getting the trial thrown out. It would still go on with another judge, but when the tactic is delay, they win.

This is the first step towards jail for contempt. There can be no doubt Trump is maliciously violating the gag order.

That said, I have little doubt some 11th hour fuckery will happen to prevent him from being jailed.

Daft_ish ,

The Supreme Court will stop all of the democracy dismantling they are doing to say the do-nad can’t be imprisoned.

sndmn ,

Yes.

Just like all the other laws.

whotookkarl ,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

Any criminal law punishable with a fine only (and bail in general) is fucked up because justice is supposed to be about applying fairness under universal laws and our means are not fairly distributed.

law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2022/jud/…/751/ has it also starting with 30 days max along with the 1k & it would be interesting to see how often those charges come with jail time.

kent_eh ,

And the judge acknowledged that point in his statement. Pointed out that other types of violations allow the guilty party’s wealth to be taken into account, but this charge doesn’t. Also pointed out that ignoring this sentence and doing future violations are mush more likely to lead to jail time.

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Despite Trump’s whining about everything being unfair to him, and the public saying this is a slap on the wrist, the judge is taking the legally appropriate and legally required steps.

disguy_ovahea ,

Correct. Merchan is smart to stay by the book in order to prevent providing cause for Trump’s defense to claim mistrial. The prosecution recommended the maximum fine, which was honored. Merchan then set the grounds for possible jail time for future infractions.

azimir ,

Isn’t there already another gag violation hearing on the docket for violations done while awaiting the first gag violation hearing and/or when we were awaiting the decision from the first violation hearing?

Furbag ,

Yes. It’s unclear if the remaining 4 infractions that will be heard on Thursday will be grouped with these first 10 or if they will be ruled on separately. My bet is that since these happened before he issued his warning to Trump about future infractions resulting in incarceration, they will also carry the maximum $1000 penalty if found to have been violated. But from today on Trump is officially on notice that any violation of the gag order will be a grounds for imprisonment.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Yes and no.

The amount is insignificant in the monetary sense, but shows the court can actually enforce a gag order. Hopefully further violations result in far more significant contempt punishments such as throwing his ass in jail, but it is a start.

plz1 ,

It’s not enforcement if he can pay it with pocket change, it’s just a slight annoyance. Enforcement would be taking his means of breaking the gag order away (his access to social media).

tburkhol ,

Has he paid? He hasn’t paid E Jean Carroll, and that was months ago. Hasn’t even posted bond for his fraud verdict.

eestileib ,

I’m pretty sure both of the bonds have been posted for the Carroll appeals.

HWK_290 ,

Wasn’t the appeal denied? Doesn’t he have to pay now?

BananaTrifleViolin , in Netanyahu labels US student protests ‘antisemitic’ and calls for them to end

The word “antisemitic” is rapidly losing its meaning and impact as it is used as a dog whistle by right wing Israeli politicians to attack anyone who doesn’t agree with them.

This is very much the “boy who cried wolf” and it causes harm to all Jewish people in all countries.

A_Random_Idiot ,

its not rapid. its been losing meaning for a long time.

Started right around the time Israeli interest groups tried to use it to shut down any criticism/unfavorable comments towards Israel decades and decades ago.

Its another classic right wing case of “Accuse the other of what we’re doing before they can use it against us.”

AutistoMephisto , (edited )
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world avatar

It’s like watching a child of abuse grow up to become an abuser. Whatever happened to “Never Again”? I guess what they meant was “Never again to us”? Hitler would be proud of what Israel has become under Netanyahu. He would sing Bibi’s praise and shake his hand and call him friend.

FlyingSquid , in Judge in Trump case orders media not to report where potential jurors work
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Took him fucking long enough.

Fredselfish ,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

Bet the media ignore this, at least the ones in favor of Trump.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

What do they have to lose? Trump’s own gag order isn’t being enforced.

Just wait until their names get hacked off the NY justice system computers.

xhieron ,
@xhieron@lemmy.world avatar

Long is the list of jailed and dead ordinary people who wrongly assumed that by association with the privileged class they would enjoy the same immunities.

Trump may die a free man despite his crimes, but journalists are working people.

A lot of us have noticed that Trump gets away with things that normal people would not, and that’s not an accident. Trump can run his mouth about everyone forever, and he may never be held to account–and there are a lot of sometimes complicated reasons for that–but the same privilege absolutely does not apply to courtroom field reporters.

If I were covering this trial, I’d violate the court’s instructions at my own peril.

That certainly does not mean that some folks won’t be pressured to violate the order to save their livelihoods, but I would expect no less than swift and heavy consequences for people who anger the court and whose names aren’t Trump.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Considering these conservative news organizations thought they could get away with slandering voting machine companies that had a lot more money than they do, I don’t know that they’re smart enough to not report on it.

Serinus ,

They’ll be removed from the courtroom at the very least.

APassenger ,

He did it on Thursday.

Now… That was still too late, but then when he set rules, they weren’t based on hypotheticals.

givesomefucks , in ‘I cannot afford to live’: Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market

Tldr:

  1. Author doesn’t understand “the economy” is just about corporate profits
  2. Wages are (slightly) up, but not enough to afford food and housing.
  3. Author looks at mean instead of median retirement savings and say everything is great.

If you’re wondering why she has such bad takes, she’s a self described “crypto reporter” who was trying to convince us inflation was a good thing a while ago.

www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/…/index.html

She’s completely detached from reality

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Her name is Allison Morrow if anyone is curious but doesn’t want to give her clicks

RainfallSonata , in Mother’s Custody In Danger After Officer Shot 11-Year-Old Son

I assumed she was losing custody as a result of the difficulties of caring for his medical needs as a single parent. But no, it’s because they say she failed to protect her kids from her abuser. Yet when she called for help, what happened? It’s the experience of most abused women that there is no help. And worse, that the systems designed to help do more harm. That’s certainly the case here.

Toneswirly ,

Plus putting the kid in foster care is liable to expose him to more abuse and neglect. We are in hell, truly.

ShepherdPie ,

Much like the 17 year old kid in CA who recently locked himself in a bathroom of a foster home and threatened to stab himself so the police busted down the door and shot him to death.

I seriously wonder what the hell goes through these people’s minds as they purposely make situations worse in the name of ‘protection.’

cosmicrookie , in 'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.'
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

Its no wonder Amazon wanted to build there. Poor people make for cheap labour. It might even have been a good deal for Mississippi if they had forced Amazon to allow unions there for getting a free pass!

homesweethomeMrL , in "Hitler level stuff": Kanye West faces new lawsuit alleging antisemitism and abuse at Donda Academy

“And Gay people are controlled by Bill Gates so that they don’t have children for population control.”

He ain’t right.

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

That boy ain't right, I tell ya hwat.

Flamangoman ,

Dangit Kanye!

metaStatic ,
protist ,

Kanye is prone to severe mania with psychosis at best, but more likely schizoaffective disorder. His thoughts are not based in reality

ABCDE ,

Biology is not strong with this one.

frickineh ,

No it’s true. Bill Gates gave me $50, or put a chip in my COVID vaccine, or something and told me not to have kids and I was like, “oh, yeah cool.” Don’t pay any attention to the many, many gay and lesbian couples who have children, and the many straight couples that don’t. Me and Kanye know the real truth.

Seriously though, I wish that man would stay on his meds. I feel bad for his kids. They deserve a dad who’s stable and not super into Hitler.

captainlezbian ,

He’s still trying to get his money back from my gf. She agreed to prefer women then went and had 4 kids

frickineh ,

God damn it. There goes that incredibly sensible plan to reduce the population by getting a very small minority not to have babies. Sorry, Bill!

BestBouclettes ,

He’s bipolar and that’s definitely more sad than anything. Homie needs help and support…

Mirshe ,

Nah, sorry. I’m going with my favorite podcaster’s take on this: mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility. Kanye is bipolar, and unmedicated, both of these things are true. However, that doesn’t mean we should simply ignore or excuse his comments as “well he’s still in a manic state.” He knows what he’s saying, he’s backed it up and doubled down when confronted on it.

BestBouclettes ,

Yes obviously, I’m not condoning what he did and said. He’s very obviously mentally ill, I’m just pointing out that it’s sad and he needs professional help.

affiliate ,

who’s the podcaster in question? i’ve been looking for a new podcaster to listen to

Mirshe ,

Marcus Parks of Last Podcast on The Left and No Dogs in Space.

skulblaka ,
@skulblaka@startrek.website avatar

And Marcus definitely knows a few things about mental health. He’s been around that block once or twice.

Treczoks , in Trump bond lowered to $175 million as he appeals civil fraud judgment in New York

What a disappointment. And people wonder why US citizens keep losing trust in the state.

nonailsleft ,

They need to start voting for a better government en masse

Treczoks ,

Indeed. And STAT!

girlfreddy , in Don't trust Trump's 'impossible' appeal bond claims, attorney general tells judges
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

Out of the whole shitstorm surrounding orange man rn, this is the one I pin my hopes on to bring him to his knees first. 🤞

protist ,

It really has the possibility to not only hobble his campaign and his ego, but to also mentally unbalance him even further since he’s built his entire personality around being rich. He’s almost certainly in a situation where he will end up having to declare bankruptcy

teft ,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Declare bankruptcy again*

FlowVoid ,

This is different.

Trump’s companies have declared corporate bankruptcy, which gave them time to restructure.

But corporate bankruptcy won’t work this time, because Trump is personally on the hook. So he would have to declare personal bankruptcy.

And that’s a whole different process, where creditors get in line to take your belongings. Alex Jones and Rudy Giuliani are going through it, and Trump definitely does not want to.

Jaysyn ,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

The sooner the amphetamines give him that stroke, the better it is for the nation.

DogPeePoo ,

Fingers crossed 🤞

Bassman1805 , (edited )

Eh, I think it’s far better for the nation for him to lose than to die before that happens.

modifier ,

Truth and well said.

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

I don't drink, but I'll pop champagne on that day.

TheaoneAndOnly27 ,

I would break my 4 years of sobriety to celebrate that.

Spaghetti_Hitchens ,

Congratulations on your sobriety

TheaoneAndOnly27 ,

Thank you, and to be completely honest I wouldn't throw away my sobriety on Trump. I am enjoying life sober to much to go back.

Maeve ,

I can't even believe I'm about to say this, but oh well: it would be the more merciful option to the whole planet, including himself. Yes, himself, because behind every bully, narcissist, sociopath, megalomaniac, is a miserable, bigot, supremacist, is a very miserable, frightened little inner child that relives the hell they have built to insulated them from the hell they experienced, and project on the world as punishment for allowing that to happen. That is irrespective of privilege, which the inner child may not have the ability to recognize. Until we, as a world collective do the hard, dirty, bitter work to address conditions that breed despair, irrespective of class, race, gender, or privilege to address that, the cycle will repeat itself. I don't have all the answers, maybe not any. But it's going to take healing ourselves individually, as family units, as communities, nations, and finally, global citizens. We are humans and we will have setbacks and failures. But I think it's possible.

Dkarma ,

It has the potential to bankrupt the rnc once he gets lara to give him all that rnc cash

RozhkiNozhki ,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

And even this won’t save him because rnc doesn’t have that kind of money.

Zerlyna ,
@Zerlyna@lemmy.world avatar

But let’s go ahead and let them spend all they have to be safe. :D

RozhkiNozhki ,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

Every little helps!

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

Bankruptcies come in 7s

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

The only way to really hurt rich fucks is to fuck with their money.

This is painful to trump in ways that normies like us simply can’t understand.

Olhonestjim ,

So nice of him to set a legal precedent for us to get the rest of these rich assholes.

whereisk ,

All I can picture is him on the podium telling his followers how smart declaring bankruptcy is. Then seeing a huge wave of Donnie’s dumbest fille for bankruptcies across the nation.

bitchkat ,

Hasn’t he already done that? Its not like this would be his first bankruptcy.

bitchkat ,

He’s very experienced in declaring bankruptcy.

Honytawk ,

Yeah, he did so … with a casino.

Arguably the easiest business to turn a profit, since it prays on peoples vices.

Endorkend ,
@Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

Would be hilarious if they confiscated and evicted him from Mar-a-Lago.

stoly ,

This is the only one he cares about. His identity is about to disintegrate.

solidgrue , in Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who raised alarm over plane quality, is found dead
@solidgrue@lemmy.world avatar

This us an update that reads like a whitewash. He was both looking forward to his day in court, but had PTSD and declining mental health such that he kills himself on the cusp of his day in court.

Pardon my skepticism, but I smell paint

catloaf ,

Whitewash is lime, not paint.

solidgrue ,
@solidgrue@lemmy.world avatar

Fair, but “that’s a thin paint job” doesn’t have the same gravitas

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

He literally said, “If something happens, it wasn’t suicide.”.

stoy , in Hotel Keycards And Dawn Dish Soap Used In 737 Max Production As Boeing Fails 33 FAA Safety Checks

The hotel keycard was used to check seals of doors, the dishsoap was used to lubricate the door seals to make them fit better.

The documentation about the steps were vauge and badly documented, neither of which I want in the documentation for building aircraft.

NatakuNox ,
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

But tell me if the CEO and shareholders are still getting their bonuses and stock buy backs?!

stoy ,

Well obviously!

NatakuNox ,
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

Thank God, for a second there I thought the top 1% were going to be held accountable for their actions.

Aceticon ,

No, no, no, no, no, no - the Law is still only for the little people not for important people.

Worry not, everything is still as it’s meant to be.

Mac ,

Tbh, I don’t see a problem with using Dawn dish soap and hotel key cards.

When another company has already made a product that perfectly suits your needs it’s absolutely reasonable to utilize that product.

NatakuNox ,
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

Are you joking? Please say you are joking… Because adding TBH is confusing.

If you aren’t joking, dish soap should only be used to clean dishes, and key cards should only be used to open doors through the card slot.

elbarto777 ,

I think OP is joking.

If he isn’t… yikes!

themeatbridge ,

There’s nothing wrong with using soapy water to spotcheck airtight seals.

Using soap as a lubricant is a bad idea in general.

For the key cards, yeah they should be using feeler gauges of specific, certified thickness.

Fosheze ,

Soap is bad if you need to keep something lubricated but it works pretty well is you just need to lube something up a bit for installation because you can just hose it off afterwords. As far as the keycards go, that depends on the tolerance. If that tolerance is generous enough then an actual feeler gauge is overkill. A pack of keycards is dirt cheap and are all going to be about the same thickness. When one gets busted or worn then you can just grab a new one from the pack. Verses having a production guy break a feeler gauge and start guestamating because they don’t want to tell the boss they broke the third one this week.

Mac ,

Sorry for the confusion.
When I say “TBH” I mean “to be honest”.

Revonult ,

I don’t support Boeing, but I feel like this aritcle is sensationalizing a possibly mundane aspect of the manufacturing. Like none of us know the specifications for assembly. The tolorance for those specific gaps could be generous and a key card turned out to be an acceptable gauge. Automotive industry uses a variety of Go/No-Go gauges that are 3D printed which are far outside the accuracy of Feeler guages, because in some cases you dont need the precision. If the gap needs to be 2mm +/- .5mm and a key card is 2mm +/- 0.4mm or whatever then its fine.

Overall, what I am saying is that the issues with Boeing is systemic across all aspects, but one shouldn’t be so quick to jump on details that make a eye grabbing article title.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I get where you’re coming from but as someone who’s worked in the industry where everything is super over regulated, something like this is a huge deal. Not only would they be required to use a feeler gauge. That gauge would need to be tested and calibrated every (where I worked) 2 weeks. The DIY’er in me thinks it’s ridiculous to “calibrate” a piece of metal, but in the industry and others like it, that’s what they’re required to do.

When government auditors come in and see something like this people get fired. They also search deeper because if you’re already doing something that blatant there’s going to be more to be found.

Fosheze ,

Once again this is a question of tolerance. It could be a place you only care about minimum clearance. If the spec is for a gap of at least 15 mil then a pack of 30 mil key cards makes for a bunch of cheap easily replacable go/nogo gauges with enough leway that even a worn one won’t put you under spec.

I’m most familiar with IPC standards for electronics but even in the most critical class 3 applications there are plenty of spots where the standards are effectively gauged by eyeball let alone with even a makeshift tool because those specific specs aren’t that critical for the application.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m also Class 3 certified and where I come from inspection will absolutely measure clearances if it’s not obviously within spec. And even then there are many that still do just to cover their own ass. God help them if QA steps in and gets a different measurement.

I have no doubt different facilities run differently. Just look at Boeing. But don’t assume they’re all run like a circus just because you worked somewhere that doesn’t do things by the book.

Fosheze ,

I’m not saying we played fast and loose with the spec. I’m saying that there are plenty of places where the actual spec doesn’t use numbers and it is a judgement call for example minimum lead protrusion.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b2f72065-60e8-4c70-a676-a49859ca7a4b.jpeg

There are also plenty of places where a number is given but it is not possible to measure such as barrel fill on through hole components. In those situations an inspectors best bet is to eyeball it and if it’s even questionable to rework and correct the process so it isn’t. You don’t eyeball it when it’s close, but you also don’t need to measure, for example, lead protrusion on every lead when they all apear to be definitely under 1.5mm.

Revonult ,

I agree there will be way more serious violations. The point I was really trying to make was that the FAA may have listed 100+ other more serious things that are not as catchy or mean little to people outside the industry. However, the media chose to report on this because its relatable to the average person and make it seems more significant than it really is.

“Failure to establish a validation system to ensure all components are present and installed” (4 door bolts) just doesnt have the same ring, dispite being significantly more serious, then Boeing using soap and keycards.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Fair point

stoy ,

The issue is that if they are doing this, it means that the workers doesn’t have the proper tools for the job.

The keycard should be replaces with a go/nogo custom card, and the soap should either be specified by brand in the manual or swapped to a certified lubecricant, that has been tested to work fully with the gasket and not cause deteriation or on any way affect the quallity of the seal.

Fosheze ,

I can’t know for certain what is specifically going on there but I do work in contract manufacturing for high end scientific equipment and critical medical electronics so I do know a fair bit about the processes used. For me the dishsoap and keycards on their own don’t raise any alarms. It sounds like the main issue is poorly written incomplete manufacturing instructions, which is a big enough issue on it’s own and is an absolute monster to try and fix once your production workers have gotten used to working like that.

the soap should either be specified by brand in the manual or swapped to a certified lubecricant, that has been tested to work fully with the gasket and not cause deteriation or on any way affect the quallity of the seal.

  1. The seals used are most likely silicone (it’s what we use on environmental chamber doors). If so there are very few chemicals that will harm them let alone dishsoap. We actually use 409 (a bathroom cleaner) spray to lubricate our seals where I work.
  2. The dishsoap is almost certainly something they order and stock with their own internal shop supply number. The instructions most likely reference that number but that number would be meaningless to anyone else so the news article just said dawn dishsoap. It’s not going to be any random dishsoap because that’s not how industrial supply works. It would be more expensive for them to go pick up random dishsoap than to just keep ordering the same part number (that specific dawn dishsoap) in bulk from their industrial supplier.

The keycard should be replaces with a go/nogo custom card

Why in the world would you make custom tooling when there is a readily available off the shelf solution? You can just buy packs of keycards for dirt cheap and they are going to be a known thickness because they need to be to keep working in the same keycard slots. That thickness should be documented somewhere but it isn’t going to be in the manufacturing instructions because the production people don’t need it; they just need to know that the go/nogo gauge (the keycard) should fit. The more extraneous information you include on manufacturing instructions the greater the chance you have of someone missing or misreading something. If someone needs that extraneous info or something on the production floor isn’t right that’s when you bring in the engineer or process support staff who will have access to that info and the authority to make decisions based on it. If your production staff are making critical decisions on their own then something is very wrong with your manufacturing instructions (which sounds like the real problem here).

stoy ,

If it is written into the documentation, then I expect it to be fine as the company would be liable.

stoy ,

If the dishsoap is standardized in the documentation I don’t see any issue with it.

The hotel keycard, less so, since it is used to meassure how tight a fit is it will inevitably get worn, so the card needs to be durable with a predictable wear pattern, I have had hotel keycards made put of all kinds of plastic, paper even wood, they all have drasticly different thickness, wear patterns and durability.

If the documentation is too generic it looses it’s meaning.

Zitronensaft ,

All of the big hotel chains use the same plastic key cards that are credit card sized, they are durable and can be reused many times but also cheap enough to not fret over them if a customer forgets to return it before leaving. As a former aircraft maintainer myself, I don’t personally think it would be an issue if Boeing or its contractor ordered a bunch of standard hotel card blanks for seal testing, but if they were meant to use that as their test device it should be documented , there should be a part number for that card and authorized suppliers, and there should be a specific procedure to follow when using them. The article mentions the lack of documentation, so this was probably an unauthorized improvisation on the fly. I doubt these were being used to measure a specific tolerance, this case was probably something stupid like “the cabin pressurization check failed after we replaced the door, let’s poke a card along the seal to find where the gap is and squeeze extra sealant in that spot.” My specialty was avionics though, so I will admit I don’t really know much about the pressurization checks and seals, I was always at the plane for some other work whenever I encountered them.

stoy ,

I fully agree with you, the keycard itself isn’t the main issue, the lack of documentation and standardization is.

I read the article as if it said that the workers at the floor had a bunch of random keycards they used for fit testing.

If it was standardized on specific keycard blanks I would have zero issued with it.

wanderingmagus ,

Submariner here. After several incidents in which submarines imploded, burned, or otherwise caused death and/or endangered thermonuclear weapons systems, our current procedures specify every single item used down to specific serial numbers, with specific authorized substitutes. If the authorized substitute cannot be found, the procedure is simply not done, and if necessary for ensuring the actual safety and conduct of the submarine’s primary mission, the entire multi-million-dollar mission is cut short and the ship surfaces to either receive the requisite supplies or goes back to port. Specific serial numbers for lubricants, specific stress-tested seawater-proof pressure-resistant alloys for bolts, specific serial numbers and part numbers for fuses, specific torque wrenches, even specific serial numbers for indicator lights. Every single maintenance step of certain procedures are read out loud at least three times and re-confirmed and acknowledged by both the worker and supervisor before being conducted, including the opening and closing of maintenance panel doors.

n3m37h ,

Sounds tedious and like it costs too much, fuck it let’s not do that - some asshat at Boeing

Paragone ,

I’d suspect neoprene not silicone, for door-seals of aircraft.

the Dawn I’ve no problem with.

The checking-fit with hotel-keycards I have one HELL of a problem with.

It’s an aircraft: tolerances should be specified, and should be made to fit those tolerances.

It’s umpteen tens-of-degrees below freezing outside, when you’re at cruising-altitude, so you’ve got a pressure-vessel ( the fuselage of the aircraft ), AND you’ve got a termperature-differential, AND you’ve got metal-fatigue ( or composite-aging/accumulating-cracks-in-its-reinforcement-fibers ), and tolerances are supposed to be engineered, not “oh, it seems to fit” bullshit.

Anyone who cares about such things, please read some in-depth stuff on aviation crashes.

There are youtube channels devoted to going through things, and I found out about a jetliner losing its tail because of 3 bolts that were the wrong steel, on one of those channels, but the written stuff packs more knowledge per hour of study…

Jan Roskam, aircraft-designer, has one book on it, old, but important, subtitle is “The Devil Is In The Details”.

The Lessons From The Sky series has info on near-accidents, and you’ll note they are more human-centered than the sometimes technical-as-hell items in Roskam’s book…

When one discovers that a jetliner can kill everyone aboard, when it’s being used for short island hops ( Hawaii ), and that means it’s getting many more pressurization/depressurization cycles than the engineers intended, or that salt-spray in the air can corrode an airframe enough to cause catastrophic failure, or that a single failed cotter-pin can remove the controls from a homebuilt while in-flight ( another source )…

“The Devil Is In The Details” is the most-true subtitle I’ve ever seen in any book.

  1. Prevent problems.
  2. Catch All Lapses.
  3. Discover problems you didn’t know to be proactively preventing.
  4. Prevent any discovered problem from ever EVER getting roots/legs to harm anyone else.

seems saner to me, than the jackassery that Boeing has been doing, since McDonnell Douglass did a reverse-takeover from the inside, after their merger.

Bottom-line “leads” the company, my ass: it’s sunk Boeing.

Mac ,

That’s a big conclusion you’re jumping to.

At my old job we used PAM cooking spray and credit cards. It was written into the documentation, btw.
(This was a global company, btw, not a ma and pa shop).

stoy , (edited )

If it was written into the documentation, then I’d expect it to be fine as the company would be liable.

Ghostalmedia , in Man finds out migraines caused by brain tapeworms; undercooked bacon may be culprit
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t understand these flaccid bacon people. Crispy bacon is clearly superior.

suodrazah ,

I like to cook it in the oven for extra crispiness. Also, candied bacon is amazing.

littlebluespark ,
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Try rendering bits & ends with balsamic vinegar; slowly and never letting it scorch, and you’ll have yourself some of the best gawdamn candy there is. 🤘🏽

AA5B ,

Hate to be an idiot, but do you have a recipe? Specific steps? Never having bought burnt end, much less cooked them and don’t know what rendering means or what proportions

littlebluespark , (edited )
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Not an idiot, and that’s totally fine to ask, certainly! Rendering is to draw fat from a mass of meat over low heat. Also, “bits & ends” are simply off-cuts or odd shaped pieces leftover from the slicing of bacon for sale, and should be available for a discounted price —whereas “burnt ends” are a finished bbq product and not an ingredient, per se.

The prep for this is pretty simple really, and once you do it yourself, it should make more sense as to how it all works.

Begin with a sauce pot or large skillet that you have a lid for (you’ll want to partially cover it during cooking to minimize spatter) over Medium to Medium-High heat and a decent handful of bacon bits & ends (=/< 2 lbs). Partially cover with said lid to keep the mess to a minimum, but don’t fully cover it or you’ll change the cooking process to problematic. (internal heat capture, moisture retention, etc.) Stir the pieces during this step to make sure all are cooking evenly.

As the fat begins to pool and the bacon solids are warmed through, gently pour off and reserve the oil before returning the solids and pot/pan to the heat. You can use a metal sieve for this step, to filter the oil quickly and cleanly, but don’t press/squeeze the bacon to force out more oil if so.

At the minimum, the solids need to come back up to a similar temp as before the pour-off, though I like to take them a bit further for some crispy edges. While this is working (mostly covered, to keep the grease specks from flying all over your stovetop), measure out a volume of balsamic vinegar that will be able to just coat the solids and then some. IIRC, this should be about a third (<½) of the current volume of solids in the pot/pan.

Once the bacon solids are at your preferred warmth/crispiness, stir in the balsamic. (Pouring it into the center will help minimize spatter, but there will be an initial steam cloud, so watch out when you’re stirring it all together — steam burns are no joke.) After each piece is saturated, reduce the heat to a Low/Medium-Low and return the lid to partially cover, stirring occasionally.

The process is finished when the balsamic is reduced to a thick glaze and the bacon pieces are coated without being sticky/stringy. You can either lay them out on a Silpat baking sheet or parchment paper to cool, or add them straight away to a tossed salad of arugula, fresh diced tomatoes, and parmesan with a citrusy dressing paired with chicken or fish, for example. It freezes well, and can be used later in all sorts of ways, including a quick treat while thinking about what you want to cook that day. 🤗

Oh, and the oil you reserved in the beginning can be added to your cooking as you see fit. Cutting it into oil amounts for flavor or simply in place of butter, at times. Coupled with roasted garlic and cracked pepper on crusty bread, it makes a hearty split pea soup really sing! ✨

Have fun!

AA5B ,

Thanks for plenty of detail! Ill have to give it a try

Lauchs ,

Not flaccid, I want crispy edges but goddamn, bacon you can sit and chew for awhile is amazing. Burnt/“crispy” bacon just crumbles and, in my possibly tapeworm adled brain, deprives you of sweet bacony goodness.

bitwaba ,

Exactly. Crispy edges for that maillard flavor, but still chewy means the fat coats your mouth and leaves that long lasting savory bacon flavor even after a sip of coffee.

Crispy might as well be eating a bottle of bacon bits. It’s just disappointing dry dust with a flavor that disappears almost immediately.

treefrog ,

My mouth started watering at fat coats your mouth lol

SomeGuy69 ,
@SomeGuy69@lemmy.world avatar

Mett Brötchen 🤤 as a German I disagree.

Edgecrusher35 ,

Crispy bacon on sandwiches and floppy bacon for breakfast. This is the way.

hollyberries , in Netflix Poised to Raise Prices in 2024 as It Continues to Gain Share of TV Viewing: Analysts

I’m expecting to hike my rate of piracy in 2024 as I continue to take a bigger bite out of overall corporate profits.

eskimofry ,

take a bigger bite out of overall corporate profits.

Don’t co-adopt Corporate gaslighting. They can call it “opportunity cost”, “expected return” or other bullshit. But it’s all castles in the air dreamed up by profiteers.

It’s never their money to begin with. It only becomes so because they want everyone to believe that making a copy of software deprives others from using it like physical goods.

The truth is that if somebody was going to pirate software, then they were never going to buy it in the first place and it’s greedy and mentally ill to think otherwise.

hollyberries ,

Sorry to say, you’ve mistakenly made one hell of a generalisation on that last sentence. Other than that one stinky turd, the rest is spot-on.

The truth is that if somebody was going to pirate software, then they were never going to buy it in the first place and it’s greedy and mentally ill to think otherwise…

I’ve been on the piracy scene since 2001 and was a moderator for one of the largest dreamcast piracy forums once upon a time. The core members of that forum are still together on Discord and we all buy things wherever possible. Gabe Newell is correct in that piracy is a service problem.

Steam cut my games piracy down to zero for the longest time (501 games, 414 DLC) because it was more convenient and had frequent sales. Other companies that decided to pull away from Steam and conspire with publishers regarding timed exclusives on a platform that doesn’t want me as a customer (Epic). As a result, anything that is an Epic exclusive is pirated indiscriminately and seeded for several weeks. I don’t even play any of them. Download, seed for a week, delete, rinse and repeat on the next exclusive. The same goes for anything with Denuvo DRM.

GOG has DRM free games, there’s a site where they are all available for download, and I’ve discovered quite a few gems that way. Those gems got purchased on Steam because GOG also doesn’t want me as a customer, even though I had decent library and bought several games at launch on there. I’m refusing to use a third party launcher to install games from there because once again, its a service problem.

Netflix cut my video piracy to zero between 2011 and 2020. When I moved across the world, I brought only my clothes, laptop, and storage drives. Everything I wanted to watch was available on Netflix or YouTube. Once Netflix started losing shows like Futurama, Parks & Rec, and even Sons of Anarchy, I went straight back to piracy and haven’t looked back. Netflix only continued to get my money because my partner insisted on doing things legally. By the time she had enough in October 2023, we were paying for Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Ziggo, YouTube, Curiosity Stream, and HBO. At the moment, only Curiosity remains.

Adding up the 3 “services” we consume content from the most (not including the ones we watch one show here and there on) added up to €497 per year. My piracy costs €472 per year not including electricity, which is used anyway since the server also hosts a boat load of microservices like NextCloud which replaces yet another subscription storage. It’s costing me €72 to rent a seedbox, and €400 at the upper-end for a large NAS drive one time per year.

It’s a service problem and I don’t think those who refuse to contribute to the broken service problem are mentally ill. The “managers” in charge are.

Aussiemandeus ,
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I only ever pirated music, i was to young and not knowledgeable enough to pirate movies, so i just got viruses from limewire.

Thats why i dont pirate now, i dontknow how.

Netflix is making more keen on learning everyday.

WhatAmLemmy ,

I know … people … who’ve been casually torrenting for 25 years and haven’t had a virus since the 90’s. They don’t do games or other “cracks” as they’re the easiest way to get a virus because you have to run an executable. You don’t run that risk with media files. The important thing is setting your OS to always show the file extension so you don’t click on any that are executable. As long as you click the .mp4 / .mkv you’ll be fine.

All you have to do is set up a vpn that allows P2P traffic and enable a killswitch, set up qbittorrent, go to one of the current reputable resources, mentioned all over the place, and click the magnet link. Better yet go the arr route and it’s mostly hands off after it’s set up.

Aussiemandeus ,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Awesome, I’m going to take a look at it all. Allegedly

Clent ,

It’s become far easier than it was in the past. The piracy community is very friendly and will gladly help those who seek their guidance.

eskimofry ,

What I was trying to say was that; regardless of any explanation for why piracy happens, it is not the same as stealing physical goods. Corporate executives and MPAA types are mentally sick (they can’t see past money) and go to the extent of gaslighting consumers into accepting their definitions because if they control the narrative then they can do anything and spin it as normal or only solution.

It’s a service problem and I don’t think those who refuse to contribute to the broken service problem are mentally ill. The “managers” in charge are.

I am not blaming normal people. I am calling industry and rich oligarhs mentally ill. Because is it not sick to want to do what they are doing?

I am merely peeved by how normalized “piracy is theft” has become, when in today’s world corporates plunder the earth, commit wage theft, suppress collective bargaining, and don’t want to pay taxes. It’s so normalized that even piracy advocates have incorporated it into their vocabulary.

hollyberries ,

It seems that I misunderstood your original comment. You’re right in that piracy isnt the same as stealing physical goods.

My original comment was a jab at the corpos and using their terminology to highlight how utterly absurd their line of thinking is. I should have worded it better and used “imaginary profits” instead.

My mistake!

Whitebrow ,

Just FYI but you can download all your GoG games through the webpage as standalone installers, only thing you’re gonna be missing out on without the GoG galaxy software is the automatic updates/cloud saves (which have been broken anyway with the latest migration they’ve been up to for the last several weeks)

hollyberries ,

I am aware of that. I could also just use Lutris since I use it to install the games themselves anyway. My point is, if the company that wants my money goes out of their way to not produce a Linux build of their launcher in the age of Electron, I’m going to get it elsewhere and launch it as a non-Steam game. Its the same number of steps. Still a service problem.

Shadywack ,
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I dunno, I’m fine with adopting it, among other language like getting their necks under a guillotine if they don’t like it. If I voice that I want their “corporate profits” to collapse, that’s rather alarming to them when people state that their goal is to deprive them of wealth in whatever terms they’ll understand.

I agree with you, all castles in the air dreamed up. That’s really well said.

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