Regardless of how bad or good the 737 MAX was conceived, none of that matters because of regulatory capture of the FAA by way of millions of dollars of bribes paid to hundreds in Congress. Ever since the 737 NG, as the 2010 Al Jazeera report shows, Boeing has been installing substandard structural components and covering it up. No one should ever fly on an 737 NG or MAX aircraft because the regulatory environment was too weak, and so these aircraft are systematically-subpar. Defective structural parts and lax standards cannot be fixed with software upgrade. They're irreparably unsafe. Refusing to fly on them is the main logical act a passenger can undertake, and join Flyers' Rights http://flyersrights.org/
Clickbait, contrived nonsense. If housing is taken care of, the real minimum-viable wage for San Francisco is $35k/year. Anything beyond that is either exorbitant discretional living beyond one's means and/or overpaying. Housing is insane in most of SF with rooms approaching $6k/month, which would necessitate an income of around $200k/year. There's no need to live in SF, and it maybe untenable and illogical to do so without commensurate income for the majority of people. Live elsewhere and save money, don't just bid into a bidding war because everyone else is.
Whale blubber and mammal livers are high in vitamin c and considering primates lost the function of the GULO (L-gulonolactone oxidase) gene, one could surmise from megafauna extinctions that hunting was essential to most nomadic hominids.
Also, GULO is one of many interesting genes to contemplate resurrecting.
If the sentiment you express in Western social media is political and outside of the manufactured consent, you are very likely to be put on one of the many American watchlists with millions of other people and systematically-harassed at US borders. This sucks but is the way Western, corporate, imperialist, inverted totalitarianism works.
There's no technical panacea to this undesirable behavior. Sanctions against party elites would be a start by preventing them from banking or traveling freely.
I think the bigger chilling effects (ie deplatforming of controversial figures) have been consequences of:
1. Depending on advertiser-model corporations for public commons during the analog to digital transition that should be nonprofit, independent and speech tolerant.
2. Fascist culture of safe spaces and coddled individuals enabled by academic faculties and admin who haven't lead by example and explained what civil debate entails: civilized disagreement and honest debate, not banning people and only inviting those we already agree with.
2b. A loss of decency, academic and civic rigor perpetuated by extended infantilism.
3. Cyberdisinhibitionism - combined with the previous, manufactured outrage/drama, out-of-line behavior, quips, ephemeral nonsense and anonymous popularity become the primary motivations for online discussion, rather than extending the physical world.
China is far, far worse with the sex ratio being incredibly imbalanced due to the past one child policy. There's a number of documentaries about the craziness and competitiveness of dating in China. People not having sex, not having families (if they so desire) and not making enough money to be comfortable anywhere is a national emergency.
American men of any sort can just go to Brazil, Mexico, Ukraine or the Czech Republic... where an endless supply of objectively-attractive women are willing to hookup with foreigners for very little or no relative cost. (Prague 10's for 60€/hour.) Rent a huge villa for cheap for a few weeks in Central and South America, the girls beat down your door like they're meeting a celebrity... they will bring their girlfriends if you ask them for a good old hellraising.
LDOW (older women) from the US visit Jamaica, Haiti, Costa Rica and parts of Africa for sex tourism, formally or informally, because of the abundance of fit men.
I think frustrated dudes need a shift in attitude, a more open-mind and make an effort for their own sake. A more pleasing personality, better social adroitness and improved awareness goes a long ways to many things in life.
Hedges mentioned that when capitalism is in doubt, the panacea "answer" that often turns into a wedge-issue is whether to replace the previous socioeconomic order with more fascism or more socialism. Anomie and angst get channeled into convulsions leading towards yet another civil war along these lines; dividing-and-conquering on the similar issues and concerns as almost a century prior. Paraphrasing what someone once said: history is doomed to repeat itself about every 90 years. I feel like we're repeating the late 1920's, to a degree, with growing nationalism and hate directed at minorities.. which inevitably leads to World War if not civil war.
This doesn't go far enough. As reported by Al Jazeera in 2010, critical structural elements of the 737 NG that were supposed to be CNC'ed were handmade and grossly out-of-spec, leading to at least three deaths when 737 NG's broke apart in several sections on runway overruns, while in the past airframes held together intact in such events, protecting passengers. Boeing then covered up and scuttled its own investigation panel after management didn't like its conclusions.
tl;dr: 737 NG and MAX aircraft are fundamentally unsafe because of systemic lapses in regulatory oversight. These aircraft cannot be made safe economically due to Boeing's regulatory capture of the FAA, so it's best to never fly on them.
In my mind, Boeing as a passenger transport company is, or should be, finished. How they acted regarding the 737 NG and MAX are criminally-unforgivable.
People don't seem to get: the world isn't anywhere close to this lie of meritocracy they've been sold. There's a small fraction of society with the right pedigree who don't have to work hard and have everything handed to them because of who their parents are. This fraction is the predominant constituent of Ivy League universities, whereas merit students who worked hard are a tiny minority.
Regardless of acquisition price point, this is almost always what happens when employees take these third-rate shares.
The solution is employees need to insist on the exact same class of shares as founders. Furthermore, more startup workplaces need to closer to co-ops than these pseudo-meritocratic corporations out to exploit labor with impunity. Maybe it wouldn't have helped in this instance, but that's not the point... the point is being treated fairly regardless of exit outcome.
That processor is really old 6th gen and underpowered. I got a faster and newer quad core 8550U in a Lenovo T480 with 9 hours of battery life in dual batteries. Plus, I have a 1 TiB Samsung 970 Pro. Sure, they do better on firmware tracing and privacy, but if it's not a competitive and good value, it's risking not being a survivable business model. The PC business is competitive and runs on slim margins, so if they shirk or shrug at keeping up, their business is going to die.
Dude ran a drug trafficking platform and allegedly took out six (6) assassination contracts, therefore the dude is a dangerous criminal. Trying to portray him as some "innocent civilian" is patently dishonest. He should rot in prison for life for what he's done.
Corollary to Dunning-Kruger perhaps: the productive view themselves as inadequate, leading to a number of insecurities, while the boorish liabilities view themselves as masterful, omnipotent polyglots.
It makes sense that even with two pilots trying to manually spin the trim wheels from a full nose down configuration would be nearly impossible due to aerodynamic loading. IIRC relatively unloaded manual trim wheel movement is difficult even with both pilots extending the trim wheel folding handles and spinning them with maximum effort. I would like to know if commercial simulators accurately simulate manual trim wheel difficulty under high aerodynamic loading such as full nose down trim and high speed.
I think the electric trim cutout switches should be repurposed as "automation trim cutout switches" so that pilots can continue to use the yoke trim switches under high aerodynamic forces where manual trim reversion isn't possible and electric power is still available... and pilots could still revert to trim wheels during electric power loss conditions. You wouldn't disable the brake booster in a car because cruise control went haywire.
It's analogous to police "searching" a homeless person by throwing, tearing up and destroying all of their property without even reasonable suspicion... they do it and get away with murdering people time-after-time because they can under a thinly-duplicitous cover of qualified immunity (at least in the US).
Although police at the borders don't have to have any reasonable suspicion for searches, racial profiling, secret watch lists and targeted intimidation are a likely consequent of an unfettered military-industrial complex that long since ceased to do more than security theater and carry water for the corporate elites. So it should come with zero surprise that such an empire's law enforcement acts with impunity however it pleases and only ensures to "serve and protect" the rich elites' and their property, effectively creating a socioeconomic apartheid of gated communities and post-apocalyptic anarchist favelas, both in terms of geography and public discrimination, that tears a society apart into a failed, third-world, backwards country.