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re: How does Toyota keep doing it?

Posted by RedRifle on 12/12/24 at 4:03 pm to
I don’t see anyone complaining about the Lincoln navigator school bus with its V6.

How does Toyota keep doing it?

Posted by RedRifle on 12/12/24 at 3:21 pm
How does a Japanese car company understand the American car buyer so well. Every single car they make is amazing. And especially their trucks and SUVs look so good.






Make Kitchens Great Again

Posted by RedRifle on 11/7/24 at 8:59 am



Back when GE actually made great appliances.
Ignoring the politics of it being European etc.

What’s the scientific rationale?

The metric system is just so much more intuitive. And once you start using it, you never wanna go back. Currently on a global project that is using the metric system, and I can’t believe we never adopted it here.

Parallel Universes

Posted by RedRifle on 6/26/24 at 8:41 pm
Watching the show “Fringe” which is about parallel universes (RIP Lance Reddick). I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of a parallel universe. Do you believe they exist?
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I can explain Boeing quickly. It attained a market dominant position in the USA following the merger with McDonnell Douglas. This made it lazy. It then got new management, which emphasized financial chicanery over top flight engineering, symbolized in its move of its corporate HQ from Seattle to Chicago. The financial geniuses then worked to break the union, shift production away from its trained Seattle work force to places like South Carolina, and outsource production of most plane components abroad - the American work force was left to assemble all these disparate parts rather than produce them here. Software was also outsourced. The end result was lower quality of aircraft, delays in development and production, and even fatalities from crashes. But rest assured the management in Chicago did very well.

Meanwhile, by focusing on MBAs and JDs rather than engineers, top management fell victim to all the pathologies coming out of top schools. This is where the DEI nonsense comes from, which would have been much harder to impose if management were more focused on building good planes than stock buybacks. So the outsourcing, cost cutting, diminishing the original work force - all this is now working in tandem with the sort of diversity/DEI dysfunction visible all over corporate America. It’s a feedback loop that could be fatal to Boeing, and has already been fatal to someone airline passengers.

This is basically it. It’s not an elaborate conspiracy. It’s a tale of greed and dysfunction that you can see all over America.

re: First class in 1988

Posted by RedRifle on 2/19/24 at 9:33 pm to
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I fly international 5-6 times per year on business. Average $17-18k per round trip. I've already made delta diamond for 2025. I'm spoiled as frick and don't know if I'll ever be able to go back to genpop for an international flight.


Delta One is very generic but I’ll always fly up front from Atlanta to [insert European city here]

re: First class in 1988

Posted by RedRifle on 2/19/24 at 9:30 pm to
On Air France first class from Paris to NYC

First class in 1988

Posted by RedRifle on 2/19/24 at 6:55 pm


With the advances in technology, we all thought things would get better. They have gotten worse.

re: Giving up alcohol in general

Posted by RedRifle on 2/15/24 at 4:20 pm to
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Good God Man!!!! Unless you are a falling down drunk, whatever are you thinking?


Never considered myself a drunk. But, having a drink a night, every night means it’s a habit.

Giving up alcohol in general

Posted by RedRifle on 2/14/24 at 9:31 pm
Has anyone just given it up cold turkey? Did you notice a big difference in your health? Life? Relationships? Did you go back?
Protesting a globalist shadow organization that will govern all aspects of trade and life as we know it.

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drive cross country now and love it.


John madden is that you?
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Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Sunday it will have to do more work on about 50 undelivered 737 MAX airplanes, potentially delaying some near-term deliveries, after its supplier Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N) discovered two mis-drilled holes on some fuselages. Boeing confirmed the findings in response to a Reuters query after industry sources said an "edge margin", or spacing problem, had been found in holes drilled on a window frame on some jets.

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"This past Thursday, a supplier notified us of a non-conformance in some 737 fuselages. I want to thank an employee at the supplier who flagged to his manager that two holes may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements," Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said in a letter to staff referring to Spirit, which is the sole 737 fuselage supplier.

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"While this potential condition is not an immediate flight safety issue and all 737s can continue operating safely, we currently believe we will have to perform rework on about 50 undelivered airplanes," Deal said in the letter, first reported by Reuters. Spirit spokesperson Joe Buccino told Reuters that as part of its 360-degree quality management program, a member of its team identified an issue that did not conform to engineering standards.

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find it amazing a man like Costner would be cheated on Dang


All it takes is a guy who gives more attention and you’re done

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“Kevin had strong suspicions that something was going on between Christine and Josh,” an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Their close [bond] was a real elephant in the room.” Multiple outlets reported earlier this month that Baumgartner, 49, has moved on with Connor following her divorce from Costner, 69. Connor, a financier, was the former couple’s neighbor before their split last year. Baumgartner was spotted with Connor last summer before she finalized her divorce from Costner, but the insider tells Us that Baumgartner insists the pair’s relationship only turned romantic “relatively recently.”
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Costner questioned whether Baumgartner was faithful after she requested documents relating to his finances. “Respondent has no responsive documents for ‘extramarital romantic relationships’ in which he engaged because he engaged in none,” read court documents obtained by Us in August 2023. Costner’s attorneys also noted that the actor “does not know for a fact if [Christine] engaged in any ‘extramarital romantic relationships’ before separation and, if so, whether she spent any of his money or charged any expenses in furtherance of her affair(s) on credit cards he paid.”

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That same month, Baumgartner testified in court that she and Connor were just friends after they were photographed on a trip in Hawaii. She confirmed in the same testimony that Connor had loaned her $20,000, half of which she gave to her mother, per TMZ. She noted at the time that she returned the other $10,000 to Connor.

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Are you in the c-suite now? If not take the c-suite title because once you are in the club it opens another world of connections.


Nope. Work for a company that creates specialized software from enterprise software of one of the largest tech companies in the world.