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That's a fine looking beast.

Doing our best to let them back in it with the cheap giveaways.

Because we don’t have Kamala to win the ball and McGinn to move it forward

I decided to go see Love Lies Bleeding after watching the trailer and seeing that it had 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's also gotten some good buzz, apparently. I fail to see why. The storyline definitely had potential and the overall feel is compelling. It could have been a really good movie, but there was some eye-roll inducing stuff and by the end my wife and I were almost laughing. Plus, there wasn't a single sympathetic character in the film. Oh...and the lesbian sex wasn't even hot

I think in the rush to get on the stage they mistakenly grabbed each others' hats. Guys with big heads look like they're wearing kids' hats and the drummer would take flight in a wind if he had a chin strap.

Unless Yes and Pink Floyd had faded into the background in the UK by '71 and '73, respectively, which I seriously doubt, I don't think you can put them in that group.

Nice at first, but a little sweet for my liking after the first few sips, and I was having it as dessert.

Is the guy a school dropout or something? He spends 2 minutes speculating about the meaning of a 10-word sign whose meaning couldn’t be any clearer. He can’t really be as stupid as he appears, surely.

He wouldn’t need to deny it. Most evangelicals have long ago rationalized Trump’s behavior as long as he says the right things, appoints the right judges and supports andy pro-Christian nationalist legislation introduced by MAGA congressional reps. He would have to convert to Islam and trash Christianity to lose them

How long before they “confess” to having been sent by Ukraine?

When does it drop?

D cups are best for milk

Here in California we measure speed in furlongs per fortnight.

Not a repair, but assembly. the Alaska planes didn't need the additional exit door so fitting the plug is the standard assembly process for those planes. I agree it's a process failure, but I think the article @Xann linked argues pretty well that the process failure arose in a culture that emphasizes cranking out planes quickly for higher profit. I'm pretty sure I read after that article ran that inspections of some of the grounded planes had found bolts missing entirely. Like you said, the process shouldn't allow that kind of human error (if that's what it was) go unnoticed and uncorrected.

Cutting corners was probably a poor choice of phrase, as it implies intent. There was a huge push from the top to dramatically increase production rates, and people under pressure to work a lot faster will inadvertently miss things. The crashes were an engineering and documentation/training issue, but that’s not what people on here were citing when debating quotas for engineers. One problem stems from business decisions and the other from the cozy relationship with the FAA. Boeing has more than a little tweaking to do, I think.

All the Reparations bills? Do you have a secret stash of them that none of the rest of us have seen? I've seen a number of people propose reparations but am not aware of any actually going through a legistlature. And there hasn't even been any serious proposal at the national level by an actual legislator. This is just a further example of the false equivalency you're drawing between the extreme right and "the extreme left" and implying that any non-Republican is part of the extreme left. The extreme right IS the Republican party given that Trump has even put his daugher-in-law in charge of the RNC. The extreme left you talk about is a very small faction of the Democratic party. Are you suggesting that King's quote proves he'd be opposed to reparations? If so, I think you are way off the mark. King's quote came at a time when he was dreaming about his kids not being lynched, being able to sit on the bus or at a lunch counter and not being relegated to substandard schools and medical facilities. He was dreaming of something he had hope he could make a reality some day. Reparations was so far beyond the initial steps he was working toward that the thought probably never entered his mind and he sure as hell wasn't stupid enough to waste his time pushing for it while he still had to stand at the back of the bus. And, for the record, I don't consider talk of reparations to be extreme. A group that makes up a significant portion of the US population continues to find itself in a much worse economic situation because of discrimination and injustices it suffered at the hands of the government despite this treatment being clearly in violation of the words of the constitution. The racial group that controlled the levers of power (and still does, largely) is in a much better economic situation as a result of this mistreatment. Is it so extreme to consider trying to offset the gap a tiny bit? I know the argument that follows is "but I had nothing to do with that" or "my ancestors weren't racists or slave owners, etc.", but we have all benefitted from what was denied to blacks in this country, so we did have something to do with that.

Everyone here seems to be ignoring the fact that Boeing's door problem is not an engineering issue. It's a manufacturing QC issue which, as has been pointed out, stems from cutting corners because of putting profits and share prices before quality.

Only if they base it on the valuations he used to get loans. If they base it on his declared valuations for tax purposes it's an entirely different story.

Digne has had space on the left, but we don’t have SJM to play the quick, no-look diagonal ball over the top to set him free.

Need to make some changes, but first need a different bench to choose from. The only players I think could improve anything are Diaby and Digne.

And proximity is no excuse, because the ball was dinked onto his arm, not blasted into it. I bet if the ref had given it VAR would not have overturned it, but refs often don’t make the call because they figure VAR will correct them if they make a mistake.