“Military grade” means about as much as “all-natural ingredients”.

Supposedly, the Cybertruck is made of “space-grade stainless steel”, with the intended implication being it is the same steel used on Starship.

Oh my lord. I am going to have to try and find a video of them playing sometime to hear what they sound like. :-)

Oakly doakly, you guys.....

It’s possible to have compassion for everybody in this situation, IMHO. It’s a flipping miracle the man in the back of the squad car is still alive (and possibly a testimony to the lousy marksmanship of the two officers). With someone like this officer on the force, we’re all one case of mistaken identity away from…

Believe it or not, it actually is possible to have sympathy with mass shooters too. And with that crazy lady who tried to shoot up that megachurch the other day, and in the process of being taken out, got her son critically hurt too. It’s a damn shame; these people needed help and didn’t get it. Instead, they found…

Oh, 100% he absolutely would have known.

Agreed; it’s misleading to call it just “carrier”, especially “WWII carrier”. She was a smallish lake freighter, one of many to perish under the unforgiving swells of Lake Superior. She also predated not just WWII but WWI as well — she went into service in 1913, so you can’t even describe her as a “WWII cargo carrier…

Well, considering that mummies were historically sold in Europe to be pulverized and turned into pigment (“mummy brown” was not even remotely a euphemism) while their wrappings got repurposed as to-go food containers (seriously) it . . . could actually be worse, and has been.

“Because standardized parts mean you save while money the mfr (and their approved suppliers) loses money.”

Is there a competition among these people for who can say the most offensive thing? I mean, really . . . he thinks pregnant one year olds are a) possible, b) likely enough to be mentioned, and c) ought to bear their rapist’s child? I really can’t decide which part of that is worst.

Let’s take a step back.  We’re sidetracking a conversation here. I never intended to imply, as you’ve taken it, that a technician (not “assembler”) was randomly taking bolts for some strange random purpose. You have read far more nefarious purpose than intended, while wholly sidetracking from the point I was making:

I would be concerned if all he did was say “it’s our full responsibility” and then refused to give any more detail. Drilling on down to the root cause is important. That said, I do think there is a culture problem at Boeing that goes well beyond this specific failure. We’ve heard far too many individual issues — tools…

Well, you said yourself “likely”. Without the bolts being tracked, there’s no way to know for sure, which is kind of my point; if it’s not documented, we’re left with circumstantial evidence at best.

Well, these AIs have consumed a lot of pop culture as part of their education, as clearly evidenced by ChatGPT barfing out a chunk of A New Hope’s opening crawl, so it’s more likely they’re just reflecting the fact that we make a lot of movies and books involving nukes.

I hope so. But then again . . . Boeing is essentially run like McDonnell Douglas now. And let’s all take a moment to remember how their most successful widebody trijet started out: the glorious DC-10. It really was a fantastic aircraft, but there was this one problem: the aft cargo door had an issue where it could be…

*chef’s kiss*

*barfs*

That’d be a good start.  Outsourcing isn’t a great idea.  It makes accountants happy, but it doesn’t motivate good product.

It’s bad for both of them, really. But what you’re saying reminds me a bit of the very expensive mishap that delayed the launch of what would become NOAA-19 (but was at the time referred to as NOAA-N`). The launch was significantly delayed by a mishap that occurred during testing. It was on a turnover cart when a…