Certainly not the cause of those numerous refinery explosions in the US because the oil companies are not performing simple preventative maintenance or upgrades. Good thing Industrial safety watchdogs can only make "recommendations" and have zero control over implementing safety standards or anything like that.
Absolutely, it was entirely preventable and was known and warned about multiple times, the scumbag owner threw a hissy fit and said fine I won't fix it and I'll just drain the lake which would be ecologically devastating instead of just doing the fucking maintenance work on a dam. So the state forced him to keep the levels at the right level, but didn't force him to fix it either. Gotta keep those stonks high. The state is now forced to intervene (when they should have already) because without those two dams shoring up the local economy it would pretty much devastate the area even more than just not fixing them. This is the common theme to capitalism, neglect everything and pull maximum profit possible, and cross your fingers and hope there isn't a disaster. Then when the disaster hits, hope the total profit gained outweighs the damages. Capitalism in a nutshell. Or if you know the damages are going to be severe, just make the State government, like California set a 4 Million dollar max penalty so something like the Camp fire which killed nearly 100 people and caused billions in damage, and the Utility pleads Guilty for manslaughter doesn't owe shit.
My favorite bit about that whole debacle is everything started from the cost-cutting premise of "we will not have to retrain any pilots, removing that cost inherent in adopting any new airframe." But then the software that made the new plane handle like the old plane (despite having different aerodynamics) was shit. Imagine a world where the flight attendant gets up before the flight and announces cheerfully: "In the event of certain emergencies, the pilot may no longer be qualified to operate the aircraft."
No capitalist contractor would ever cut corners!
Certainly not the cause of those numerous refinery explosions in the US because the oil companies are not performing simple preventative maintenance or upgrades. Good thing Industrial safety watchdogs can only make "recommendations" and have zero control over implementing safety standards or anything like that.
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Absolutely, it was entirely preventable and was known and warned about multiple times, the scumbag owner threw a hissy fit and said fine I won't fix it and I'll just drain the lake which would be ecologically devastating instead of just doing the fucking maintenance work on a dam. So the state forced him to keep the levels at the right level, but didn't force him to fix it either. Gotta keep those stonks high. The state is now forced to intervene (when they should have already) because without those two dams shoring up the local economy it would pretty much devastate the area even more than just not fixing them. This is the common theme to capitalism, neglect everything and pull maximum profit possible, and cross your fingers and hope there isn't a disaster. Then when the disaster hits, hope the total profit gained outweighs the damages. Capitalism in a nutshell. Or if you know the damages are going to be severe, just make the State government, like California set a 4 Million dollar max penalty so something like the Camp fire which killed nearly 100 people and caused billions in damage, and the Utility pleads Guilty for manslaughter doesn't owe shit.
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It was only when I tried to reply to to you in the same style with Tacoma Narrows that I realized how much work you put into this comment
Clearly you UnderestiMated the effort it took
lMAO
im not good at this :/
Yeah, Boeing is a Chinese company, didn’t you know?
rofl, had forgotten about the 737 max, what an amazing piece of engineering
My favorite bit about that whole debacle is everything started from the cost-cutting premise of "we will not have to retrain any pilots, removing that cost inherent in adopting any new airframe." But then the software that made the new plane handle like the old plane (despite having different aerodynamics) was shit. Imagine a world where the flight attendant gets up before the flight and announces cheerfully: "In the event of certain emergencies, the pilot may no longer be qualified to operate the aircraft."