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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been forced to resign amidst the continuing fallout from the deadly 737 MAX project. Boeing halted production on the MAX last week, and it will remain on hold until the FAA re-approves the line's airworthiness.

Muilenburg has been replaced by board chairman David Calhoun for the time being.

Separately over the weekend was the first unmanned operational test of the CST-100, Boeing's new Starliner space capsule, intended to ferry passengers and supplies to the ISS (and eventually beyond). The Starliner launched successfully, but a computer glitch during an orbital insertion burn put it in an orbit different from the intended one, and made a docking attempt with the ISS impossible. Despite not being able to test the docking procedures, Starliner went on to finish its first flight with a landing at White Sands, New Mexico. Starliner is the first American space capsule to touch down on land, in the manner of the Russian Soyuz; all previous capsules from Gemini to SpaceX have splashed down in the ocean.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I'm so glad I don't fly anymore. With luck, I'll finish out my life without stepping foot on another plane. And yes, I know it's safer than driving, but I'm also looking forward to doing a lot less of that in the near future.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Most of you foreigners likely never heard of, but you fellow queers and libtards might want to have a moment's reflection on:

Controversial Vancouver activist, Jamie Lee Hamilton, dies at 64

Jamie Lee Hamilton, a controversial Vancouver activist, has died. A Facebook post says Hamilton died early Monday morning while in hospice. She was 64.

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Jamie Lee Hamilton - Wikipedia

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

EmpressOfCommunism

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I'm so glad I don't fly anymore. With luck, I'll finish out my life without stepping foot on another plane. And yes, I know it's safer than driving, but I'm also looking forward to doing a lot less of that in the near future.

Aww come on. Flying is fun, as long as you're child-size so you can actually fit in the seats.

Also as long as it's not winter.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

This was the first time they used the Atlas to initialize the capsule's data, and it was off by 11 hours. I can't believe they never tested that before.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

People Believe What Resonates With Their Beliefs: An Interesting Experiment - The Volokh Conspiracy

Over at CoOp, Dave Hoffman points to a new paper, “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction, by the folks at Yale’s Cultural Cognition Project — Dan Kahan, Dave, my colleague Don Braman, Danieli Evans, and Jeffrey Rachlinski. The paper reports the results of...

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Same video of an rawkus demonstration, participants told it's either anti-abortion or anti-military recruitment. Unsurprising results.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Christianist nationalists are a problem not just in the US, people may be interested to read

The Guardian view on the rise of Christian-nativist populists: a troubling sign of things to come | Editorial

Editorial: Over the holiday period the Guardian’s leader column examines the challenges of the future by fathoming out the present. Today we look at the struggle for the soul of Christianity

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Are the Queen's messages always so uninspiring and bland? Is that the point?

 

[Ashiri]

Are the Queen's messages always so uninspiring and bland? Is that the point?

The point is to get a point across without being pointlessly political. Unfortunately, many for whom the message is intended will fail to get the point.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The point is to get a point across without being pointlessly political. Unfortunately, many for whom the message is intended will fail to get the point.

Maybe the Commonwealth should get a reality show head of state?

 

[Kalel]

N Carolina couple call 911 on vacuum thought to be intruder - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — ‘Twas the night of Christmas at a North Carolina house, no creature should have been stirring, not even a mouse.But<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/n-carolina-couple-call-911-on-vacuum-thought-to-be-intruder/">Read More</a>

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I'm posting it all cause I think it was brilliant.

Twas the night of Christmas at a North Carolina house, no creature should have been stirring, not even a mouse.

But a Forsyth County couple awoke with a fright, as something was moving about their house in the night.

They dashed to their closet and hid in fear, dialing 911 with a sensitive ear.

Responding sheriff’s deputies searched the home, and found a robot vacuum alone. The source of the scare had quickly been sorted, WGHP-TV reported. The robot had seemingly started and gotten stuck, its beeping and banging made the audible muck.

Homeowner Thomas Milam said the vacuum named Harry was new. They’d had it for days, maybe just two.

He said it’s not better to be sorry than safe, and he’d call 911 again, even if making a mistake

 

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The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd - PressThink

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

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‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press.

Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.

Three years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

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