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I do not expect it
to win an Academy Award
but by far
the best performance
of the last year
was the one put on
by all of the people
acting like the pandemic is over.

Everyone: a phone with good battery lifetime, replaceable battery, feels solid, doesn't crack screen... Secure, good biometrics...Maybe doesn't spy on me...

Highest tech consumer electronics brands: thinnest, lightest, folding, esoteric confusing naming scheme, landfill economy baby!

I wish people would learn not to expect the incendiary rhetoric from diplomats or legal analysts that they get from political pundits. Both cultures have subtle signals they send to their counterparts without having to jump up and down, but still have serious implications. Israel is beginning to be isolated at the diplomatic level, and the court will deliver the last word on Friday.

Some of us old Seattleites feel nostalgic for pre-financialized #Boeing.

Regarding the 737 du jour:

"The Boeing QA writes another record in CMES (again, the correct venue) stating (with pictures) that Spirit has not actually reworked the discrepant rivets, they *just painted over the defects*. In Boeing production speak, this is a “process failure”. For an A&P mechanic at an airline, this would be called “federal crime”."

And more missing bolts.

#QualityAssurance

leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unpl

This was picked up by Dominic Gates so the entire thread will end up viewed by NTSB and FAA.

Turbulence ahead for McBoeing.

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Personal favorites:

Best in Snow
Flake Superior
Make Snowbegone
Minnesnowta N’ice
Oh, For Sleet's Sake

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I've gotten in the habit of using the word "hinky" a lot, which is all fine and good except that my iPhone really wants to autocorrect it to either "hunky" or "kinky," both of which have a tendency to make my texts WAY more spicy than intended.

More than 26,000 rape-related pregnancies estimated after Texas outlawed

"Holy shit. An estimated 26,313 Texas women have become pregnant from rape since the Texas abortion ban was passed.

In Texas there are no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother." houstonchronicle.com/news/hous

IDF threatens journalist

via @buell003@twitter.com: twitter.com/buell003/status/17

@DrLoupis Journalist Hassom Shabat, one of the few journalists covering the Israeli massacres in Gaza, reveals that he received a call from the Israeli forces, @IDF, DEMANDING that he deletes the content he published and to stop covering news about the #Israeli #GENOCIDE in #Gaza!
…

Dom Bédos de Celles, born OTD in 1709 near Béziers, along the Canal du Midi in southern #France, was a Benedictine monk best known for being a master pipe organ builder cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc #travel #history

BREAKING: Does pineapple belong on pizza? New legislation in the UK might force the issue, as prime minister says the practice "must stop"

television levels are 47% and falling

(47%) ■■■■□□□□□□

Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug lemmy.ml/post/11001325

GOP judges are despicable: 5th Circuit grants qualified immunity to cops who, as Judge Willett points out, weren't acting in a dangerous situation in which split-second decisions had to be made but instead "spent several months plotting" to arrest a journalist they didn't like. -Lawrence Hurley. #Injustice #GOPSabotage #QualifiedImmunity ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/

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