Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

Indeed. We don’t know the conditions of the test. Maybe it was running the engines through a simulated flight. Or they were testing the engine in different failure modes to see if it shuts itself down or takes care of the problem correctly. Or they were doing a deliberate test to failure where a RUD is the expected result.

About all this is doing is making me update my lists in UBO more often.

And what were the Ewoks & Rebels feasting on at the end of ROTJ?

These days, the only people still using this debunked wolf talk are douchebros, chuds, & incels.

Leopards ate tankies’ faces!

Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)

Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.

Well I got better…

Pixel Buds are the same way. IIRC from a teardown vid, those earbuds (and I’m guessing most of their competitors’ too) are designed to be quasi-disposable in this way. They’re glued together, the only way to open them up destroys them, warranty support consists of replacing defective earbuds.

This business model does create an e-waste issue… More lithium ion batteries ending up in landfills, more gold extracted from components by kids in developing nations burning them and breathing the carcinogens…

LOL - sink dish soap in the dishwasher!

I have made that error once… Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!

TikTok’s parent corporation is strongly tied to the Chinese gov’t and the CCP. So yes, they do, though of course they deny it…

I was thinking the same thing!

Strikebreaking for the Glorious Worker’s Revolution! That’s how it’s supposed to work, right?

Yep. Another problem with allowing content to be spoon-fed to us by The Algorithm.

Yep. All for their Glorious Marxist/Maoist Revolution! Yep. That’s sure creating a worker’s paradise…

Indeed! I think a lot of people here are getting wise to that.

No.

I think we understand the other side just fine. They’re a combination of malignant narcissists and complete idiots.

Exactly. The cancer may wear a swastika or a hammer-and-sickle. Either way, it’s authoritarian cancer.

Yep, they get bored when they don’t have people to bully after the rest of the planet tells them to fuck off.