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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Well, you don’t understand the legal system at all.

    You cannot submit new evidence in appeal, and again, the appeal was of the lawsuit for the Wrongful Termination. The whistleblowing was a separate item handled 7 years ago.

    John Barnett had not worked for Boeing for 7 years, that’s why that’s the only part of this timeline that mattered. He turned over the evidence that he had, and literally could not collect more, because he was forced into retirement.

    There’s a chance he might have been called on for testimony by someone investigating the current and ongoing issues, but he had already submitted extensive sworn testimony on the subject, so there would be little need.

    But that wrongful termination lawsuit, that was personal to him, and he was losing the final appeal. Hell, the reporting at the time of his death even said that he “retired” rather than being forced out of the company. That alone should tell you something.

    But no, you want to spin an outlandish conspiracy theory based on a complete misunderstanding of the law and this man’s life, all to say that Boeing, an admittedly evil company, is evil in a more personal way instead of the nebulous greed based evil that infects every corporation. The truth is, the company and its executives don’t fucking care.

    They’re shielded from liability and have gotten their payouts, they ruin lives, and their greed has resulted in deaths as planes fall from the sky, but they admit no wrong doing and pay a small fine out of the employee pension fund. That’s the true conspiracy. Not some made up contract killing of a man who was no threat at all, because all of his evidence was submitted to authorities 7 years ago.


  • Yes, it was a suicide, because his testimony wasn’t part of anything related to whistleblowing, he was appealing a loss of the wrongful termination lawsuit against Boeing.

    The idiots who never bothered to learn more than the man’s name think “big company killed whistleblower” are showing just how little they understand things.

    To recap, all the evidence from his whistleblowing was submitted to authorities 7 years ago. He had no bombshells to drop, no story that hadn’t been told, just a lawsuit over how Boeing retaliated against him for Whistleblowing 7 years ago, forcing him to “retire”.

    A few days before he killed himself, he was on the stand in front of the appeals judges, and from all accounts, they did not seem like they were going to overturn his loss. He was then called back for another round of testimony, but was already dead by then.

    Can you imagine a 7-year legal battle over being fired for having integrity? The stress this man must have felt?

    Boeing killed John Barnett, but they didn’t pull the trigger, he did. Don’t cheapen that with lies about some sort of conspiracy. Just know that Boeing is one of dozens of companies who have worked for decades to weaken labor protections.






  • The image says any cheese…

    This is false.

    There are two main categories of cheese, Acid and Rennet.

    If the cheese is made with Rennet, it will melt, and sodium citrate will make it smooth and creamy.

    If the cheese is made with acid, then it will never melt. It will burn first. Think Feta or similar.

    The exception is very long aged cheeses. They don’t melt all that well, even though they’re made with Rennet.

    Every Rennet cheese is aged, if only a few weeks, acid cheeses will spoil if aged.


  • Well, a part of it is that the people of Gaza are not allowed to leave.

    There are only a handful of crossings out of Gaza and Israel controls all but one. The Egyptian crossing leads out into a desolate desert with no services.

    Want to hop on a boat and flee that way? Israel will torpedo you. Want to walk up to the wall to see the boundary of your prison? Israel will machine gun you down, no questions asked, no warnings given.

    A large portion of the population of Gaza started out as refugees, forced out of their homes and off of their land so that Zionist settlers could have it.



  • I think I met you guys in 2004 or 2005 at Anime Weekend Atlanta… I’m pretty sure I still have a sticker or card or something that you were handing out.

    It was shoved in a storage trunk that I was digging into last year, and like any good cleaning day, I put it back where I found it and put the trunk back into the closet.



  • The thing is, the LLM doesn’t actually know anything, and lies about it.

    So you go to How Stuff Works now, and you get bullshit lies instead of real information, you’ll also get nonsense that looks like language at first glance, but is gibberish pretending to be an article. Because sometimes the language model changes topics midway through and doesn’t correct, because it can’t correct. It doesn’t actually know what it’s saying.

    See, these language models are pre-trained, that the P in chatGPT. They just regurgitate the training data, but put together in ways that sort of look like more of the same training data.

    There are some hard coded filters and responses, but other than that, nope, just a spew of garbage out from the random garbage in.

    And yet, all sorts of people think this shit is ready to take over writing duties for everyone, saving money and winning court cases.