[-] [email protected] 114 points 3 months ago

So the MBAs decided to outsource the work to some shithole where unions don't exist to bust the WA union, and when the whole thing blew up in their face, they are shipping back the "completed" plane to the union shop to get it fixed up.

Bravo.

If anyone is interested, Al Jazeera was reporting on this whole charade way before the accidents and the whistleblowers started to happen.

[-] [email protected] 211 points 3 months ago

At least the priorities are in the right place. Abortion rights have not been acted on for a century, climate change is hard, Ukraine can't be helped, but the fundamental right for everyone to use their private jet anonymously has been protected.

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[-] [email protected] 116 points 4 months ago

Good. The thing is that network "fast lanes" work by slowing down all other lanes.

[-] [email protected] 113 points 4 months ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but you don't "detonate" flares, they don't explode, they just burn with a bright flame. Yes, certainly, dropping, popping, ejecting them near other aircraft, especially with an intention to harass is unprofessional and dangerous, but the headline is still sensationalist.

To be clear, I'm not tone policing, the verbiage just gives the wrong impression on how flares work.

[-] [email protected] 133 points 4 months ago

Is this the same AfD that got involved in several Russian spy scandals? It's an interesting coincidence their agenda and Russian interests always seem to line up.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/18203182

On Tuesday, after weeks of attacking Orbán online and in public, Magyar released a tape of his ex-wife Varga apparently incriminating members of Orbán’s inner circle in a corruption scandal.

Magyar claims the two-minute recording, taped last year, proves that Orbán’s powerful Cabinet chief Antal Rogán tampered with documents related to a sprawling corruption dispute involving Pál Völner, a former state secretary in the justice ministry when Varga was minister. Völner resigned in 2021 after prosecutors accused him of taking bribes.

The sensational release of the tape — which Magyar presented to the prosecutor’s office in Budapest before a sea of cameras Tuesday — is the latest twist in a drama that has transfixed Hungary and provided a rare moment of dissent against Orbán’s iron grip on the country’s political system.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/11647001

The EU froze funding for Hungary over undemocratic behaviour, but EU lawmakers say the European Commission released funds anyway, despite no changes in Hungary. The decision will be investigated by the EU's highest court

Archived version: https://archive.ph/qliKO

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[-] [email protected] 174 points 7 months ago

It's bold to assume those exist. Maybe there's a reason the coworker left

[-] [email protected] 239 points 7 months ago

Top comment by Chris (@[email protected]) Liked by 7 people

I think all these changes that the EU is doing really only benefit large development firms like Spotify and Epic at the expense of the smaller developers. EU is adding additional regulations and requirements from Apple which smaller developers and indie developers will now have to comply with which will act as barriers to entry for some. That’s bad for competition…which I think was ultimately the goal for Epic and Spotify.

I love this braindead take regurgitated again and again and again. The DMA specifically does not apply to anyone smaller than a big monopolistic company. Apple barely made the cut themselves. The whole regulation is about forcing six companies - the Act only applies to them at all - to open up their walled gardens because they are strangling their respective markets and killing innovation, consumer choice and competition.

[-] [email protected] 123 points 8 months ago

This is the result of corporate America not holding its executives personally accountable for gross negligence, and the unregulated monopolistic nature of a bunch of markets. It is well known in the industry that the whole fiasco regarding the 737 Max is caused by the acquisition of McDonnell-Douglas, and its shitty management that integrated with Boeing.

Who was held responsible for those 300 people dying? Who would have been for these guys? Who will be for the next accident?

[-] [email protected] 118 points 8 months ago

Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000

This is so predatory in itself.

[-] [email protected] 146 points 9 months ago

I hope messing with critical public infrastructure carries criminal not civil penalties, with people going to jail.

[-] [email protected] 121 points 11 months ago

I love that "innovation" with big US companies always means acquiring another company. Not like EA is a big innovator either.

It always reminds me of this.

[-] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago

This is some "quality" reporting. Nowhere does the EU says to remove "graphic violent images", it's only asking for transparency in what gets removed and the removal of disinformation and calls to violence.

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I mean the instance says all are welcome, and I welcome you guys from over there in Michigan, I'm just wondering what led to the creation of this community about this town in the US on a Dutch instance.

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Thank fuck. Now kill Chat Control.

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Unironically, tariffs would help here IMO to bring Ukrainian exports to the price levels set by EU wages.

I'd even tie it directly to wages and lift it if the Ukrainian exporter can prove they pay as much as a Polish company.

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