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#12Moving their HQ from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia (next to Washington DC) to prioritize lobbying and access sounds like it helped! https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096961418/boeing-moving-head...
> Boeing is a major defense contractor, and the move will put executives close to Pentagon leaders.
According to the book Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison the entire decline of Boeing started when they moved their HQ from Seattle to Chicago and deprioritized engineering, quality and safety.
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It is a little funny to make this comment under an article about a contraversial decision made by a government agency. Believe it or not, government agencies tend to have some overlap with politics.
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The hostility to opinions of out groups is a problem. It requires work to fight that tendency.
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#16Iffy by the headline, but the every-other-week model doesn't sound absolutely the worst. I don't have a great read on if it's a bad idea or not though.
So, Kelly Ortberg currently leading Boeing. Had family members who worked with him directly. He’s a very solid guy, good choice on Boeing’s part. Don’t know if they’re cutting corners to protect jobs and suckle the Trump admin, but that doesn’t seem characteristic of Kelly. My completely anecdotal take.
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When you have an openly, brazenly corrupt president who ignores the law, every government decision is suspicious.
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#18The cynical part in me wants to say: "Because it worked so well the last time!"
Did Boeing implement internal and process changes to justify this? That's an actual question, if they did this step would make sense.
I want to trust Boeing to do the right thing when it comes to safety. As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice.
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It's a federally regulated industry; it's inherently political.
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It is a little funny to make this comment under an article about a contraversial decision made by a government agency. Believe it or not, government agencies tend to have some overlap with politics.
People are really reaching. Bad governance didn't spring into existence the moment Trump stepped into the oval office. It's really very silly and doesn't lend itself to productive discourse. You end up oversimplifying problems for one thing or expanding them to such an immense size by linking it to every other political issue it basically negates the usefulness of any direct discussion on the topic. We may as well just make daily threads about things and people we hate, with people contributing new insights as to how terrible they are in a self supporting loop while any useful comments and threads fall through the cracks.