• exanime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    well your first mistake was thinking Boeing was a respectable corporation (that ship sailed in 1997 when they dropped the “engineering first” priority in lieu of “business first”)…

    your second mistake is thinking any corporation is respectable ;-)

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      9 months ago

      Their third mistake is thinking any corporation will be held accountable

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        9 months ago

        Oh, you got caught doing some shitty business thing and now you’re not making as much money. Here is a government bailout to make it up.

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          9 months ago

          Or they got caught doing a shitty business thing fucking people over and get fined a fraction of what it made them.

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      9 months ago

      lol you’re right.

      In other news, if you search for flights on kayak and exclude Boeing planes, holy crap the tickets are insanely expensive.

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        9 months ago

        next stops: buy Kayak and shut it down; Make it illegal for similar searches to be performed; make it illegal to disclose who makes the aircraft.

        Unless citizens make it clear that they won’t stand for bullshit, they will get bullshit.

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        Scary thing nobodies talking about is: if these Boeing-built bad parts are able to slip past inspectors, which we had (naievely?) assumed were given full access top-notch, and neutral, might the standards of other planes build-quality have also dropped?

        How safe are the other company’s planes?