Patrick
Chris PetrilliCapitalism distilled.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@petrillic "We had to kill that guy to adjust the fine balance between profit and safety."
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
gehsteiger@petrillic Exactly the headline I want to read about an airline.
No wonder you can now exclude certain Boeing models from flight platforms
No wonder you can now exclude certain Boeing models from flight platforms
Matt Palmer@petrillic @jwz Boeing executives turning a giant knob marked "parts fall off" and looking back at regulators and the stock market like a contestant on The Price is Right
Andrew Feeney
Grandpa Don
Σειληνός (Seilēnós)@andrewfeeney @petrillic Although, tbh, I've never had a door blow out of my Subaru after leaving the house. 😄
@Seilenos @petrillic My Toyota Corolla has never dropped out of the sky without warning and ploughed into the ground at hundreds of miles an hour due to a software “feature”.
Linza@petrillic the most NYT headline possible
njsg@petrillic "Tricky balance"? A "window plug" falls and causes decompression mid-flight, and the NYT talks about *balance*?
Even if this was written before it became known that Boeing delivered the plane without the bolts, this is a serious matter, and Boeing is also the maker of MCAS. I'd say talking about a "balance" here is insane.
zemsgram@petrillic The sad thing is that the only surprising thing here is the headline - both stating the dichotomy and the implication safety matters at all. We all know where this scale is going to land.
Joe Cotellese
PG&E Delenda Est@petrillic @jwz The delicate balance between drinking water and not dying
Tushar Chauhan@petrillic Starting from the newrag it appeared in ...
LiquidParasyte@petrillic the Paper of Record, reliably laundering awfulness.
TobiWanKenobi
Deborah Rose ❌👑@petrillic It’s not that tricky to put safety first.
Kris@petrillic How is this about capitalism most of all?
Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺@petrillic Well, the more planes that go down, the more new planes they can sell.
Amanda Hugankiss@petrillic Tricky balance between not killing people and making rich people less miserable.
Aethelstan@petrillic we must find a way to nationalize it.
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Balance between safety and dollars ruined when safety fell off in mid-flight
Security Thoughts of Cats@petrillic as long as the deaths aren’t too expensive to sweep under the rug, things will continue on as normal. Personally I’m seriously considering not flying Boeing for the foreseeable future.
Nicole Parsons"The profits of the shareholders matter more to Boeing than customer safety.
Republicans really hope the public understands that letting 300 to 400 people die several times a year is simply an economic tradeoff necessary for shareholder satisfaction.
Like the tech companies, we fear "activist" hedge fund managers like Chris Hohn who may order the board to resign, agitate for mass layoffs, manipulate stock prices, or other self-harming conduct."
Jef Poskanzer@petrillic Boeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Bad Publicity For Risking Hundreds Of Lives vs. Assassinating One Whistleblower
zombywoof@petrillic
Boeing is not a representation of capitalism
In all groups you have good eggs and rotten eggs
Boeing right now is quite rotten
Boeing is not a representation of capitalism
In all groups you have good eggs and rotten eggs
Boeing right now is quite rotten
Jim Vernon@petrillic This is not tricky. At all. Wow NYT.
roofuskit@petrillic "how many people can we endanger before it costs us too much?"
Dan@roofuskit @petrillic this is literally the formula, plus we only consider the coming quarterly profit report
Von Xylofon@petrillic NYT is part of the problem.
Doctor LURK@petrillic there's not enough face in the universe for the facepalm this headline deserves.
GLC"Show" - assumes facts not in evidence.
Nice of them.
And once more, my perennial favorite:
kira :3@petrillic ah yes, the "plane crashes or the line goes down" era
Sid 🇵🇸@petrillic I dunno maybe you just don't get to make planes anymore
PCWhat I find hysterical is that planes are still a much safer form of transportation than most other forms.
@PChoate @petrillic it's okay, Boeing are boldly lowering that bar
Syphist 
@petrillic capitalism truly is something else.
Olympia Indivisible@petrillic Before the '97 mcdonnell douglas merger with boeing, boeing was a good place to work and was run by engineers. After, it was run by bean counters and I have heard that inspector signatures were being forged. They pushed "shareholder value" down the line.
Nini@Olyindivisible @petrillic A story told across many companies across many industries, it's why we're in this place now.
adamrice@petrillic A classic min/max problem.
GKW Geek@petrillic tricky imbalance more like
Ian Langham@petrillic its funny that a truly conservative (dictionary definition, not political) attitude would have made slightly less money without sacrificing safety. Money motivated them to f@%k themselves, and every one else...
Jon@petrillic also New York times distilled.
PeachMcD@petrillic
the actual fine line is btw profit & regulatory compliance
Which is where buying #Congress comes in
#CitizensUnited
Benito Mussolini's definition of #Fascism is the melding of #Corporation & State
the actual fine line is btw profit & regulatory compliance
Which is where buying #Congress comes in
#CitizensUnited
Benito Mussolini's definition of #Fascism is the melding of #Corporation & State
Right now, billionaires can just buy themselves a fascist government.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/leonard-leo-supreme-court-billionaires-america-right-1234989877/
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/14/trump-tiktok-billionaire-donors-00146892
Billionaire wealth is destructive
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/billionaire-wealth-the-biggest-winners-and-losers-in-2023/
It's absolutely bizarre how certain Republicans are just now cluing into the fact that billionaires are funding an anti-democracy movement.
https://deadline.com/2024/03/don-lemon-elon-musk-interview-1235861399/
Republicans certainly bought into the idea of making money off dying Americans...
https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/
Billionaires are funding covid disinformation & doing it anyway despite knowing the consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/billionaire-doomsday-bunkers-end-times
Republican public policy is available to the highest bidder.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/03/18/billionaire-jeff-yass-may-be-the-donor-behind-trumps-tiktok-flipflop-heres-what-to-know/
CassandraVert
Bruce Heerssen 
@petrillic
Has the NYT started actually taking its cues from pitchbot, because it sure sounds like it.
Has the NYT started actually taking its cues from pitchbot, because it sure sounds like it.
Samhain Night@petrillic If anyone wants to know how Boeing went from an extremely reliable airplane manufacturer to the dumpster fire that it is, I suggest they watch the episode of John Oliver’s This Week Tonight about it.
The merger with morally absent McDonald Douglas was only part of it.
Melancholic Mediocrity 
@petrillic I mean.. just recently this was perfectly illustrated with Tesla and Angela Chao.
@petrillic And furthermore, there should not be ANY balance between safety and performance. Like.. wtaf
Mitch Clendening@petrillic @harold Ya, I’d hate to fall on the financial performance part of that equation.
Alien AnomalyIf you think safety is expensive wait until you see how much an accident costs!
@AlienAnomaly @petrillic not nearly enough, apparently
Fardels BearAnd it's not an Onion headline.
Mohab@petrillic "tricky"
More people dying, or a golf course in their backyard? Real tricky… how could anyone blame them… where are they supposed to golf
Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦@petrillic There is no “tricky balance.”
Safety. Should. Be. First.
~~~
NSPE Code of Ethics
Fundamental Canons
Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall:
1. Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.
~~~
End of story
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@petrillic It's to kill people as long go the ones who are still alive don't get pissed to much, to make shareholders happy. There's a "balance" between profit and safety…
And yet some morons think it's "common sense to accept capitalism, because it's the best option we have" 🤦♂️