Yes, because the dishonest part is the how often those labels are thrown around with no real basis.

Yes, in a good-faith discussion between two parties, not taking them seriously is a quick way to lose ground with lots of smart people and further fringing the people already outside of the normal "accepted" thoughts.

Reforming policing and law enforcement is not a stupid idea, but the “Defund the police” messaging shuts down thoughtful conversation and alienates allies.

Do you have any sources to back up this claim or are you just issuing edicts?

He wouldn’t be the first academic in history to get the facts right and the delivery wrong.

Eric Weinstein talks about the DISC - Distributed Idea Suppression Complex.

I had a friend get tenure at a university, and her stories added fuel to the fire in my mind that the DISC is very real, and everywhere.

One man’s DISC is another’s memetic immune system.

Communicating new ideas is hard, and the burden is carried exclusively by the originator of the idea.

Mazda is ditching touchscreens, and I doubt they’ll be the last (if they survive 2020).

Safety controls aren’t something that should be subject to “move fast and break things.”

I'm not saying the cost savings are necessarily worth it. I strongly dislike the move to touchscreen interfaces in situations where they don't make sense. I think cost savings might be a reason many car companies have chosen (IMO) a clearly worse interface, especially if you look at it from the perspective of an executive trying to decrease costs.

Sadly they kind of forgot about that in electric Mazda MX-30, which proudly adds a touchscreen for climate controls -_-

I don’t know how anyone who has ridden in a car and used a capacitive touchscreen could come to the conclusion that the two should be combined in one product. Especially for controlling safety features.

Because we elect garbage politicians who engage in wholesale bribery and are more interested in maintaining power than doing the job they were elected to do. We're getting exactly what we deserve, and honestly, I think that's too much.

We all know that. It was always true.

The point of real democracy (versus what I call model/book democracy) is to extract useful value from fallible individuals while preventing them to do too much harm (like seizing too much power).

The better questions are then:

* Is it getting worse?

* Are politicians more preoccupied with their interests than in the past?

* Is it because it is easier now to manufacture misinformation?

* Is it because people vote for parties and not for individual politicians?

* Is having less focus on individual character an inevitable result of polarization of society?

* Would more truthful and unbiased news coverage help?

* Would more education on the principles of civic life help people make better voting decisions?

* Is technology causing general disease of attention deficit and focus problem on the scale of entire society causing it to make worse decisions overall?

They didn’t try to fix the DC-10’s design problem (outward-opening doors causing explosive decompression) with a software fix. Also, the aircraft never regained the trust of the flying public, relegating it to freighter duty. That doesn’t seem like a desirable outcome for Boeing or the MAX’s buyers.

For sure, the horses have already left the barn as far as reputation is concerned. But even freighter duty is infinitely better than what they currently -- over-sized paperweights.

Although I'm sure low-cost carriers or developing nations will gladly fly them at the right price.

It may have been turn out different if the pandemic had not happened.

The way international market is today, 737 MAX is probably making money more now on the tarmac for the airlines than their other aircraft. Boeing is going to be forced to pay the airlines for this grounding pandemic or not.

Global travel is also going to be weak next few years, even if vaccine becomes available next few months , the economy will take a lot longer to recover and it will be a while for the current capacity even without MAX to be used, not to mention all the new orders being delivered.

Of course it will depend on each airline, their financial health, leasing agreement and demand, and of course Boeing settlement terms etc

Boeing owns enough of the US legislature through bribery or in-district employment to never, ever, ever have to worry about bankruptcy or any other adverse market impact.

Will they be allowed to teeter on the edge of insolvency? Sure. Fall over? Not when taxpayer money is free and infinite.

It may not be straightforward bankruptcy.

A new buyer could take them private as part of bankruptcy to reduce the liabilities because of current company, while retaining the employees keeping government happy, or they could be broken up into different companies, defence division could split / bought by another defence contractor perhaps, there are many options in these conditions which does not immediately impact politician concerns.

What would you imagine the percentage is at companies whose primary business is producing airplanes?

I think he means we simply never heard about the employees that said the same thing about other planes because they didn't crash. These were highlighted after the fact.