• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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        In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

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        I’m reminded of that one time the entire Polish government was killed in a plane crash in Smolensk.

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          that incident had multiple layers of stupid.

          1. they put president + half of govt + couple of generals in one plane for some reason
          2. it was in preparation of a rather standard conservative dog and pony show, that is visit of president to Katyń. they would be kinda late if they used alternative airport, and looks are everything, so Smolensk airport it is
          3. weather was shitty and pilot initially refused to land there as there was no suitable infrastructure, but was pressured by commander of air force in person
          4. you might think that, why did he do that, it’s pilot that has authority in plane things, not passengers? well something similar happened two years before in Georgia (the plan was to land in Ganja, Azerbaijan, then go to Tbilisi in APCs, but prez wanted to land directly in Tbilisi, then with war ongoing), pilot did not yield, and was later under investigation for not following official order. general command got involved and they even wanted to give authority to co-pilot, that wanted to cooperate, but he couldn’t do that back then for some reason. that co-pilot was later pilot in Smolensk

          for about decade later conservatives played victim with this incident and accused liberals of causing it as a part of their campaign strategy. are they competent enough to repeat that?

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      Well, the BEST that could happen would be for it to crash into the side of a mountain while both of them are on it. Bonus points if Vance, Johnson, and Stephen Miller are on it too.

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    An underpaid Boeing engineer has a chance to accidentally do one of the funniest, most earth saving oopsies of all time.

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    If Musk can fly a rocket, Trump reportedly told associates, per the NYT, he can probably fly an airplane.

    You guys are all such a joke.

    Sucks millions or billions will die when you blame the plane crash on Canada or Denmark or Ukraine.

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      “Didn’t you people learn from the Holocaust that I either don’t exist or am evil if I do?”

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          If he has the power to stop the suffering, being indifferent to it is evil. If not, sure.

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              Only if I’m doing so intentionally. I don’t have the power to know where every insect is and keep them from harm accordingly.

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              Maybe, but did you just compare millions of human beings’ suffering to a handful of insects?

              Besides, why are you comparing individuals’ indifference to God’s (potential) indifference? I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.

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      Holy shit so many desperate prayers in one thread

      I think they can be convinced to pause their game of Jenga or Connect Four for a few minutes of structural integrity or engine failure

      The Big ManBig Entity has Big Priorities, you know?

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      9 months ago

      With the recent history in aviation, I’m going to be praying like mad. Please tell me they’re still Boeing products?

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    Boeing, Musk, and a rushed time frame? I’ve rarely seen a better recipe for disaster. Maybe we are lucky and Trump and his cronies just fall from the sky even on the first flight.

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    If Musk can fly a rocket, Trump reportedly told associates, per the NYT, he can probably fly an airplane.

    He’s never been on one of his rockets. He’s too chickenshit. Fuck Bezos, but at least he had the balls to go up on a Blue Origin rocket. If you think Musk is ever going to Mars, you’re wrong.

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      he knows his rockets are shoddy at best, why would he. has he ever driven his own teslas?

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    trump killing himself by using Musk to skirt safety precautions so he can feel special riding around in a shiny new ego tube might be enough to get me wondering if god exists.

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    “Trump dies in fatal Boeing crash, after rushing its production” is a headline id love to see

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      “Trump dies in fatal Boeing crash, after rushing its production” is a headline id love to see

      After rushing it’s production and firing all the FAA safety inspectors.

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      Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough we can will our reality back on track and make this happen. Somewhere around 2016 someone at CERN started a new experiment and ever since we’ve been in the wrong universe, through concerted efforts of enough of Earth’s latent psychics maybe we can push this world back towards the correct timeline.

      Or maybe make things worse.

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          In a span of ten years, I lost two parents, a sibling, another sibling was committed and never recovered, nearly lost my partner of 20 years and she ended up in a coma for a month, as a result I lost our shared business, lost my car as a result, then two pets died, then lost my house. Set to all this was Donald Fucking Trump being elected twice, a rampaging virulent epidemic that half the people didn’t believe was real, and nazis coming back and genocides becoming fashionable again, and violent anti-science groups forming across the world.

          It’s reeaaallly hard to not think that there’s something deeply wrong with the world. Particularly after growing up in the 80’s and 90’s when our biggest cultural upset was Ellen coming out on TV guide.

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      Would be even better if they got boeing to help too. Would be just the best plane ever, such a great plane. Other people would look at it (as it explodes in a fireball in the sky) and say wow what a beautiful thing

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      We know you can make it happen God, we’ve seen you do it with that skit-of-skits billionaire sub thing God. We know you just need them to all willingly line up God. Well they’re lining up, God! They’re willingly lining up! It’s your time to shine God!

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    Trump is completely right on this issue. Despite the fact his plane is produced by a company plagued with consistent quality control issues I believe this should be rushed into service as quickly as possible. In fact, I agree that the anyone including temp workers should be allowed in to get this thing in the air today.