https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00976-y
Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/07/business/southwest-boeing-737-800-engine/index.html
Planned obsolescence or entropy?
Or just craptastic airplanes?
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A whistleblower claims that Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is flawed. The FAA is investigating
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/business/boeing-787-whistleblower/index.html
Federal authorities say they’re investigating Boeing after a whistleblower repeatedly raised concerns with two widebody jet models, and claimed the company retaliated against him.
He has reason to be concerned for his safety.
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Boeing’s quarterly plane deliveries fall to lowest levels in nearly three years
Which means even more pressure to push crap out the door. Travelers beware.
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When one finally does fall out of the sky, I wonder if the feds will FINALLY take action to force Boeing into getting its shit together.
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Depends on how many Americans will be on board
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Yep. If there’s an opportunity to blame “untrained foreign pilots” that will happen first.
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Hidden down in the article:
A source also said that just 2.4 kilometres of The Line’s total 170 kilometres will be completed by 2030, and a document seen by Bloomberg revealed that at least one of The Line’s contractors has begun dismissing some of the workers it employs on the site.
Less than 2%? But they are still pretending that 30% of their occupancy estimate will live in 1.4% of the original planned space?
Game over, man. Game over!
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Just read about this. And surprise! It’s brought to you by techbros and enlightened creatures such as Peter Thiel.
More coverage here: ‘It’s a joke’: Enhanced Games swimmer should face life ban, says aquatics chief | Swimming | The Guardian
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The Forming webcomic (by Jesse Moynihan) just published its last page. It’s been running since 2009.
Forming is difficult to summarize, but it combines elements of weird mythology, supernatural beings engaging in cosmic battles, esoteric philosophy, ancient aliens, etc. At least one volume was released as a graphic novel.
Moynihan has created other works with similar style, such as this Tarot deck (major arcana only, so far):
I don’t know what this is a follow-up to, just assuming there was once a thread about comix.
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