United Airlines has found loose bolts and other parts on 737 Max 9 plug doors as it inspects its fleet of Boeing jets following the Friday rapid depressurization aboard an Alaska Airlines jet of the same make, according to three people familiar with the findings.
everything made by the ussr was supposedly shoddy and inferior and falling apart but they were simultaneously the great and scary red menance to the west
Meanwhile fridges and hairdryers and practically anything made in the USSR can still function to this day as long as it was taken care of, but the same product from the west craps out after 5-10 years no matter how well it is taken care of.
People still buy vacuum tubes made in the ussr for guitar amps. First time I ever saw a russian datasheet was a Soviet VFD. Wild that components made in a country that doesn't exist anymore lasted long enough to still be sold.
Yet another one for the "imagine the reporting if this happened in China" pile
I remember when the condo collapsed in surfside a few years back, they went out of their way to compare it to "shoddy chinese construction."
The fact that it happened in amerikkka and not china doesn't even stop them from doing yellow peril narrative
the west did this with the soviet union too
everything made by the ussr was supposedly shoddy and inferior and falling apart but they were simultaneously the great and scary red menance to the west
Meanwhile fridges and hairdryers and practically anything made in the USSR can still function to this day as long as it was taken care of, but the same product from the west craps out after 5-10 years no matter how well it is taken care of.
People still buy vacuum tubes made in the ussr for guitar amps. First time I ever saw a russian datasheet was a Soviet VFD. Wild that components made in a country that doesn't exist anymore lasted long enough to still be sold.