The “battle” of Verdun lasted 10 months; it was less of a battle in the usual sense of a single let’s-fight-and-loser-runs-away event, and more like an open-air industrial blender made of shrapnel and bullets into which a continuous stream of mostly innocent people were ordered to walk over a long, long period of time.
The Somme was similar, but worse because it was bigger. All war is hell, but World War 1 was much, much worse.
Yeah. Normally there’s a swiss cheese model where multiple failures had to line up together to make a problem. MCAS was the only non-flight-crew-related problem I’ve ever heard of where it was just one thing. One thing failed, the plane flew itself inexorably into the ground, everyone’s dead, the end.
And, engineers involved tried to raise the alarm that it was a problem.
The whole history of the decision-making that led to the MCAS system made it clear to anyone who’s ever worked in an engineering organization that more failures were coming. The engineers saying “This is a problem, don’t do it this way” and the management saying “STFU, I’m in charge, do as I say” never, ever leads anywhere good.
Some people didn’t read up on what happened to Ernst Röhm
(From memory, so there might be tiny mistakes in the language:)
“If we could climb the highest steeple
and then look down on all the people,
and shoot the ones not wholly good,
as we, like noble shooters, should,
Why then there’d be an only worry:
Who’d be left to bury
Us?”
-Walt Kelly
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” -FDR
Also:
Che wants to see California legislators change their approach towards entrepreneurship.
“Make that path easier. Make it less expensive, make it more simple, streamline it. Instead of putting roadblocks in front of it, open it up. Guide people,” Che said.
Do we think this guy got a bunch of free money from the government during COVID?
Oh look, he did. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it was a good program and good to make use of it. But, his whole attitude during the article of complaining about how difficult it’s going to be to figure out how to use it in such a way where he won’t have to pay it back really smacks of “I have never worked in a dishroom or behind a register even a single day of my life.”
Be grateful. You fuck. Just like you should be grateful that our economic system gives you a little squad of people to run your business day-to-day for you and you get to keep the profits, instead of complaining that all of a sudden you won’t be able to have them do it exactly the way you want them to, whether or not it can economically produce a living wage for them. With lunch for the fancy people and all. You fuck.
I don’t think she cares what the actual policy is. The point is, she gets to make noise about the right’s well-trodden favorite topic. What’s actually going on is of no concern.
TL;DR: “Doe 537” or whatever has been identified as some person you’ve never heard of, and it’s unclear whether that means they were guilty of anything. Also Bill Clinton is in there, although it’s also not clear if he was guilty. The only actual indication of wrongdoing by anyone in this fairly long article is here, which I will include with some level of sadness but without comment:
Alan Dershowitz has sought to get numerous filings unsealed, arguing they would disprove Giuffre’s misconduct accusations against him as well (the two settled a large number of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits against each other and their lawyers in 2022, with Giuffre stating she “may have made a mistake” saying Epstein trafficked her to Dershowitz).
I nominate “stating she ‘may have made a mistake’” as this year’s six Hemingway words that by themselves communicate the whole goddamned story from beginning to end.
I listened to a good part of Blueprint for Armageddon, and I had to stop. It’s so, so sad. It’s too real.