Ryanair CEO says airline found parts missing from Boeing planes - “The CEO of Ryanair, one of the largest low-cost carriers in the world, said the airline has been voicing its concerns over the quality of Boeing aircrafts for the past 18 months… Michael O'Leary said that issues started arising in 2022 and 2023. "We were finding little things like spanners under the floorboards, in some cases, seat handles missing, things like that," O'Leary told CNN. ("Spanner" is another word for wrench.) "This shows a lack of attention to detail, quality issues in Boeing," the CEO added… The CEO of Boeing, David Calhoun, announced on Monday that he will be resigning at the end of year. The management shakeup also includes the head of the company’s commercial airplanes section, Stan Deal, who will retire and be replaced by chief operating officer Stephanie Pope, effective immediately.”
So much for the claim that it’s a maintenance issue, or that the media is making a mountain out of a molehill because this sort of thing happens all the time and it’s normally not reported
Boeing Releases First-Ever Diversity Report, Moves To Bolster Inclusion Efforts
From 2021. The timing lines up
Mario Nawfal on X - "🚨 BREAKING: UNITED AIRLINES BOEING 737 LOSES PANEL MID-FLIGHT Flight 433 had just taken off from San Francisco and was forced to divert to an Oregon airport. Thankfully, the plane landed safely, and no injuries have been reported at this time. Why does this keep happening?"
molson 🧠⚙️ on X - "I’m done with Boeing. On my flight here the compartment behind me wouldn’t close. On the flight back my seat was broken. When I raised this the flight attendant was like “well if we bring this up we won’t be able to take off”. Then we had a maintenance issue. “There’s some rare red light on” I overheard most of the maintenance conversation. The plan was to solve it like an old person fixed a computer problem. Unplug it and plug it back in! They did this 3x and then “they got enough voltage into it for the light to turn off.” We’re very late at this point. The fucking front wheel on this plane does not sound right. Anyways, we take off. Flight does not feel right. We go up and then down. Nothing too drastic. Then the flight attendant gets on the phone for a long conversation. Hmm. Then eventually pilot comes on all serious “automation is broken, we can’t get altitude. We have to go back the airport we took off from. Don’t be alarmed by the emergency vehicles. This is normal for when the plane lands ‘heavy’” We circle for a while and possibly dump some fuel into the ocean. Thankfully we landed safely but what a shit show. The seat and the luggage compartment seem like small issues but if they’re not doing maintenance and quality control on this stuff they’re missing big important stuff too. This was a post merger Boeing. 737-800. Tired of this."
Lord Bebo on X - "🇺🇸🚨‼️ Boeing investigated by Al Jazeera! An Al Jazeera reporter armed himself with a hidden camera and visited a Boeing plant in South Carolina. I visited the department where “B-787 dreamliners” are assembled. The journalist asked the employees whether they were ready to fly on the planes they were assembling themselves? Of the 15 respondents, 10 said they were not ready. In the same material, plant workers said that management turns a blind eye to 90% of production problems. Many employees are addicted to drugs and no one cares. In general, have a nice flight"
From 2014
Boeing Whistleblower Before Death: "If Anything Happens, It's Not Suicide" - "As Boeing continues to be in the news for its repeatedly malfunctioning planes, the fallout from one ex-employee's death continues — and new reports complicate the coroner's initial suicide ruling. In an interview with Charleston, South Carolina's ABC4 News, a friend of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, whose body was found dead in a car parked in a hotel lot amid his testimony against his former employer last weekend, said that he warned her that something might happen to him. "I said, 'Aren't you scared?'" the woman, who gave only her first name Jennifer, told the local broadcaster. "And he said, 'No, I ain't scared, but if anything happens to me, it's not suicide.'"... that cryptic warning has come back to haunt her since Barnett's death, which a coroner in Charleston says was self-inflicted. "I know that he did not commit suicide," Jennifer told ABC4. "There's no way. He loved life too much. He loved his family too much. He loved his brothers too much to put them through what they're going through right now." She's not alone in that sentiment either, it seems. In a statement to Futurism, Barnett's attorneys said that they also "didn't see any indication" that the whistleblower may have been planning to take his own life, and that he'd seemed in "good spirits" as his deposition was coming to a close. Not everyone close to the longtime Boeing quality control manager agrees with that sentiment, however."
Mrgunsngear on X - "A United Airlines Boeing 777 traveling from Sydney to San Francisco had to return to the airport after suffering a landing gear hydraulic leak during takeoff yesterday. Seems to be an almost daily occurrence these days..."
United chief asks Boeing to halt production of 737 Max 10 - "the carrier switches to a smaller variant of the narrowbody plane and places orders with rival Airbus"
kleinman.bsky.social on X - "The fact that Boeing's quality declined because finance guys took over for engineers and now the finance guys are saying it's because of DEI really tells you everything."
Ironic. It's the "finance guys" who brought in DEI. But this is the usual left wing gaslighting
Meme - "Pope John Paul II placing an order for 4 boys (circa 2003) *Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell*"
Teacher Certification Makes Public School Education Worse, Not Better - "America has excellent higher education. Yet primary and secondary school students have long performed poorly on tests compared with students from many industrialized countries. The conventional response to this deficiency is more money, but it is not supported by evidence. Funding per student has been rising sharply for decades, resulting in lower class size, but such expenditures seem not to have succeeded. The key to successful education is to attract good teachers. We can try to do so by raising teachers’ salaries (as commonly advocated). But this strategy also seems to fail, partly because higher incomes go to both good teachers and bad, giving bad teachers as much incentive as good ones to become and remain teachers. If not larger salaries, how about more rigorous screening? Every state requires that teachers be certified. Why not, then, just set higher certification standards for teachers so that we get better ones? This too sounds plainly right: just as we require doctors and lawyers to undergo specialized training and to pass examinations to qualify to practice, shouldn’t we make teachers do the same? No. On the contrary. For two reasons. First, more stringent certification standards do little to keep out bad teachers. Second, such standards deter excellent prospects from entering teaching. How can this be? Despite much research, nobody can say what skills, qualities, or training good teachers need. Candidates may be tested for their mastery of the materials, but not for their ability to help students learn, much less to inspire students, build relationships with them, or illuminate issues in rich ways. This is why education schools are stuggling how to teach teaching, and school districts do not know how to test teachers. It is no surprise, then, that researchers find little difference between teachers with or without a certificate. Allowing genuine alternatives to certification thus does not hurt the quality of learning (and even can improve it, some studies suggest). It also makes it easier to find more minority teachers, a goal many school districts still need to achieve. Licensing does not keep the unsuited out of teaching, but it deters the well-suited from becoming teachers... Licensing (or worse, raising “standards”) requires months or years of additional study, increasing the costs of becoming a teacher. People who have attractive alternative careers are driven out. Requiring teachers to be licensed backfires not only by reducing the average competence of the pool. It also creates teacher shortages, especially in chronically understaffed subjects like science and math, in poor communities, and in schools with high proportions of minority students. Budgets are not to blame (they have not been cut). Licensing barriers are the culprits... Unlike teachers, doctors and lawyers must master a body of learning and a set of skills that we know to be necessary and are not hard to test for. Doctors and lawyers are also hired by people not competent to judge their performance. No such protection against bad teachers is needed because they are hired not by individuals but by experienced administrators. By far, the most effective way to improve teacher quality is to require administrators to selectively retain, after the first few years of experience, only the more effective teachers. The biggest barrier to improving teacher quality is therefore union contracts that block such selective retentions and, with lock step pay, eliminate success-based compensation. Truth be told, incumbents like licensing because it reduces competition from entrants, keeps incomes high, and raises the status. Why else require florists, manicurists, or auctioneers to get licenses to cut flowers, nails, or deals. Do you really need 300 hours of supervised training to shampoo hair safely (in Tennessee)? Or seven years of training to be an interior designer (in DC)? These rules come from licensing boards commonly dominated by the guild and serve the guild's interests... much education is already managed without licensing. American higher education (we observed) is world class in ways that American primary and secondary education are not. Yet university faculty members are not certified to teach. Instead, any college that develops a reputation for a weak faculty will struggle to attract students and the tuition they pay. In addition, in most states, private schools need not and do not confine themselves to certified teachers. This gives them an advantage that should not be limited to schools only the wealthy can afford. For many years, Americans have been admonished to pay more to get educations comparable to those many other countries provide. Americans have paid more but have not gotten that education. Abolishing certification requirements is not only virtually costless, but it would eliminate the onerous costs certification exacts. And it offers the best hope of bringing more capable people into the teaching that all agree is so vital."
All this doesn't stop teachers from going on about how special they are, or the left from demanding even more money
Teacher Certification Raises Salaries but not Quality - "In Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence From State Certification Requirements (NBER Working Paper No. 9545), co-authors Joshua Angrist and Jonathan Guryan estimate the effect of state teacher testing requirements on teacher wages and teacher quality. Preparation for teacher certification tests is costly. If private sector jobs with similar wages but less costly entry requirements are readily available, then the best applicants may choose those over public school teaching, lowering the average quality of the new teacher pool. Using data from the Schools and Staffing Survey, the authors find that state-mandated testing for teachers increases their wages by 3 to 5 percent but has no observable effect on their quality, as measured by the average SAT score of an individual teacher's undergraduate institution. Consistent with their finding of no quality benefit from testing teachers, the authors point out that "while occupational licensing requirements are widespread and apparently increasing, most skilled workers in the private sector are still not subject to formal licensing or testing.""
Why educational theory is flawed - "educational theory, “has little or no value for effective classroom teaching.”... educational theory is often loudly, ideologically, charismatically wrong. It sets the tone and manufactures the tropes through which educators express all kinds of misconceptions. It launches ships made of salt while the brass band plays and someone films it all for a TED talk... The problem with educational theory is partly due to what the term, ‘theory’, means when used in this way. In science, a ‘theory’ is the end-product of the scientific method. It has been rigorously tested against experiments or sets of observation... Educational theories, on the other hand, are often little more than what some eminent educationalist reckons. Sometimes they are supported by experimental evidence. However, it is often weak in nature and lacking in replication. Piaget’s stage theories have now been disproved even though he conducted plenty of experiments. The stages that he identified are likely to have been the product of the particular educational experience of the Swiss subjects that he studied (who included his own children). Other educationalists are actively hostile to use of the scientific method. They talk of this as ‘positivism’ and apply special pleading. We are told that education is so terribly complex that scientific approaches break down. If it really is that complicated then it is hard to see how partial, unreplicated, uncontrolled, narrative accounts with a few numbers scattered around from time-to-time will have a better shot at uncovering the truth than scientific experiments. And yet the beast of educational theory lives. Take Paolo Freire’s banking model. This is often trotted-out to explain why explicit instruction is such a bad thing. Yet explicit instruction is one of the educational practices for which there is strong empirical evidence. When you look at the case that Freire builds, it is clear that it is political; it is what Freire reckons about education based upon his revolutionary political beliefs and his experiences of teaching illiterate adults. It should be clearly seen as offering us little to apply in our K-12 classrooms. Or there is the case of John Dewey. Almost a religious figure in the field of US education, his intentions and legacy are often fought-over. And yet his influence is at the heart of the ‘expanding horizons’ model of social studies education which has been turning students off the subject for nearly a hundred years. Despite being comprehensively critiqued in 1980, expanding horizons is the model for a brand new social studies curriculum in Australia... if you want something of practical value in the classroom, modern applied psychology seems the better bet."
Our study found new teachers perform just as well in the classroom as their more experienced colleagues - "We analysed data from two major studies over the past decade and found it did not matter if teachers had less than one year of teaching experience or had spent 25 years in the classroom – they delivered the same quality of teaching."
From Australia
Why Microsoft, Google and Apple want you to get rid of your passwords - "Passwords are a very serious and expensive security risk. A report by Verizon looked at 2,013 confirmed data breaches and found that 29% of those breaches involved the use of stolen credentials. Another study by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security found that the average cost of a single data breach in the U.S. was more than $8 million. Even when passwords are not stolen, companies can lose a lot of money trying to reset them. “Our research has shown that the average fully loaded cost of a help desk call to reset a password is anywhere between $40 or $50 per call,” says Merritt Maxim, vice president and research director at Forrester. “Generally speaking, a typical employee contacts a help desk somewhere between 6 and 10 times a year on password related issues”"
Clearly we need to make passwords even more complex and hard to remember, so people can waste more time and money resetting them
Meme - "Me: Just trying to save 15% by switching to Geico *Wolverine praying in church*
Single horny milfs in my area: *Rogue at door*
Meme - *TV transmission image*
border castellations for aspect ratio and centering check. circle for linearity check. low frequency check. burst gate check. B-Y=0 270 (R-Y). G-Y=0 326. < reflection check. G-Y=0 326. R-Y=0 180 (B-Y). sync sep and clamp check. 75% contrast 250kHz square wave b/w ref for color bar.
75% contrast color bars: yellow. cyan. green. magenta. red. blue
90 / 270 phase inv (R-Y). 230ms. 2 scanline/frame grid for convergence and linearity check. black ref for color bar. 0 / 180 phase inv (B-Y).
subcarrier lock check: 0.8 MHz. 1.8 MHz. 2.8 MHz. 3.8 MHz. 4.8 MHz.
grayscale: 0%. 20%. 40%. 60%. 80%. 100%
B-Y=0 90 (R-Y). G-Y=0 146. < reflection check. G-Y=0 146. R-Y=0 (B-Y).
ylc timing check: yellow. red. yellow
230ms. 2 scanline/frame grid w. gray background for convergence and linearity check"
Meme - "my sister ate the leftovers I was saving so i taped this to her bathroom window. have a nice shower sweetie *outline of man*"
Meme - Tisha: "ITS OFFICIAL!!! I am no longer late for anal!!!
Old licence plate: L84 ANL
New licence plate: E50 HW"
Meme - "How can I measure my girlfriend's finger discretely?
I want to by my girlfriend a ring and propose to her, she doesn't wear rings and her hands are small, I am worried that the ring won't fit. How can I know her ring size without her noticing?"
"Ask her (respectfully) to finger your anus, then you can try different objects of similar circumference until one feels about the same, then you can take that to the jeweler and they will measure it (wash it first)."
"And after he buy the ring, he could hide it in his ass and ask her girlfriend to finger his ass again and surprise!!!, you're engaged."
In Indonesia, a Rising Tide of Religious Intolerance (2022) - "Indonesian authorities charged six employees of the nightlife chain Holywings for blasphemy after the chain announced an online promotion offering free alcoholic drinks for men named Muhammad and women named Maria... This is not the first time that Indonesia has used blasphemy laws to put people behind bars. Although the country promotes itself as a bastion of tolerance in the Muslim world, religious minorities remain on edge and vigilant in an attempt to avoid the sorts of conflicts that befell the employees of Holywings. In the current climate, any wrongdoings – intentional or otherwise, by Muslims or non-Muslims – can be interpreted as acts aimed at disturbing religious harmony. At times, these actions have also been used as a pretext for political Islamists to promote divisive regulations. Though religious freedom is protected by Indonesia’s constitution, members of religious minorities and atheists have been increasingly subjected to discrimination. Some have had their houses set afire, their marriages unacknowledged by the state, and their teachings prohibited... Two laws currently allow the possibility of discrimination against non-Muslims, non-Sunni Muslims, and other minority religions: the Blasphemy Law of 1965 and the Religious Harmony Regulation of 2006. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who served from 2004 to 2014, strengthened the Blasphemy Law and created the Religious Harmony Regulation. Harsono explained that these two laws branch out into many oppressive regulations, which give the majority veto power over minorities. In the Blasphemy Law, only six religions – Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism – are explicitly mentioned and protected, leading to the misinterpretation by many that Indonesia only recognizes six religions... The state allows the existence of religions outside the six as long as they do not violate any regulations or laws. Indonesia has 245 native religions with more than 400,000 followers. However, adherents of religions beyond the six protected faiths remain the country’s most socially vulnerable minority groups. Every Indonesian must declare a religion on a mandatory national identity card at age 17; most are expected to choose a religion from the six. Although under a 2006 law it is possible not to do so; only a few are aware of this law. Dewi Kanti Setianingsih, a Jakarta resident and follower of the Sunda Wiwitan religion – a traditional religion not protected by the Blasphemy Law – is one of the few Indonesians who choose not to state their religion on their ID card... Individuals who do not declare a religion are at risk of being labeled “godless” by some clerics and officials, and are vulnerable to blasphemy prosecutions, which can often be brought on flimsy pretenses. “Blasphemy [could be] whatever,” Harsono said. “You protest about a loud mosque, it is blasphemy; you talk about the Quran for political purposes, that’s blasphemy.” Moreover, if individuals select one of the six, regardless of their own religious beliefs, they can be accused of falsifying their identity, according to HRW. In 2012, a self-declared atheist, a Shiite cleric, and a spiritualist were all jailed for blasphemy after listing Islam as their religion. A biological descendant of the founder of Sunda Wiwitan, Setianingsih was frequently labeled “godless” when in grade school because she did not belong to a mainstream religion. Once, when she lost her driver’s license, the police could not process a letter of explanation of the loss report because the system required Setianingsih to state her religion, which was not listed. When she tried to open a bank account, the system only allowed the six options listed in the Blasphemy Law, so the staff chose a random one from the list – one that was not her own. “Systematically, [I was] forced to choose a religion,” she said. Since 1964, the Coordinating Board for Monitoring Mystical Beliefs in Society in West Java has refused to recognize Sunda Wiwitan wedding ceremonies. As a result, Sunda Wiwitan marriages are not included on the country’s mandatory national family cards. It’s a similar issue for the Baha’i community. The Baha’i religion, which was established in Baghdad in 1863, was banned outright by Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, in 1962. In 2001, President Abdurrahman Wahid revoked the ban... the police sided with Islamist militants against two Baha’i followers and pressured them to convert to Islam or be expelled from their village... The current Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration has seen the use of the Blasphemy Law as a political weapon – most notably, in the case against then-Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known commonly by his nickname Ahok... Another prominent case involved Alexander Aan of West Sumatra, a former atheist who was convicted in 2012 of blasphemy. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined 100 million rupiah ($7,000) after posting the phrase “God does not exist” on Facebook. Religion plays such a vital role in the social life of Indonesians that state schools require students to study the religion they have declared. Harsono said theoretically state schools should have six religion classes. But most schools do not have the budget to hire teachers for all six religions... Christianity is the largest minority religion in Indonesia. Therefore, Christians experience firsthand the harms of oppressive regulations. For instance, under the Religious Harmony Regulation, houses of worship need to be licensed, signed, supported, and approved by at least 150 local residents and local officials. Consequently, more than 2,000 churches have closed since the regulation was enacted. Christians have also experienced violence. In November 2020, a Christian-majority village in Sulawesi was attacked by the East Indonesia Mujahideen, an affiliate of the Islamic State... suicide bombers attacked a Catholic church in Makassar... Islamic minority sects face similar issues. In 2008, the Indonesian government signed a decree that disallowed the Ahmadiyya, a minority Islamic sect, from spreading its teachings. The decree was made under the Blasphemy Law. Violators of the decree face a five-year prison term... In 2018, a request to abolish the Blasphemy Law was rejected by the Indonesian Constitutional Court."
Someone was claiming that non-Muslims were not oppressed in Malaysia and Indonesia. The cope for Indonesia used to be that it was only in Aceh (because apparently Aceh isn't part of Indonesia). I wonder what the new one is
Religious Freedom In Malaysia Under Microscope (2019) - "Malaysia may not be a state that comes to mind when one thinks of restrictions on religious freedom or of religious persecution. Yet, as the report clearly identifies, there are several challenges pertaining to the right to freedom of religion or belief in the country that need to be addressed... Religious intolerance has been a pressing concern in Malaysia for some time now. The issue was raised by the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, following a visit to the country in September 2017. However, the situation in Malaysia goes far beyond “religious intolerance.” Indeed, the report makes it clear that many religious minorities face discrimination and persecution... Despite the fact that conversion to Sunni Islam is allowed, the opposite is a criminal offence... despite assurances of the right to freedom of religion or belief in the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, Article 11(4) of the document has the effect of limiting proselytism. The same can be achieved with Article 5 which restricts acts that are contrary to “public order, public health or morality.” Indeed, in one of the landmark cases on proselytism, Minister for Home Affairs and Another v Jamaluddin bin Othman, a man was accused of being prejudicial to the security of Malaysia for “allegedly distributing information on Christianity to Malays and converting six Malays to Christianity.”"
A pickle fried chicken recipe, plus the science behind it - "Chicken’s greatest power is its ability to retain flavor, which is why you should regularly prep your poultry in a savory brine. One such brine being embraced by everyone from Bon Appétit to KFC: pickle juice. Yes, pickles have seen their share of dubious hype (see: pickle pops and pickle-juice slushies). But pickle-fried chicken has far more nuance. It takes advantage of brining for its culinary properties, while stealing the aromatics of coriander, peppercorn, dill, and fennel. The chicken’s crispy, flaky exterior complements fall-apart meat that holds a salty-sweet delicate flavor. It’s perfect for a hot-summer-night meal, or to make waves at your next barbecue. (It might might even aid in digestion.)"