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Boeing rule (europe.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.world
 

And their planes made with scrap parts are still flying around.

Edit: A lot of new .world users showing up with ChatGPT responses about how this was a conspiracy, reminds me of an article i read this week.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/657978/reddit-ai-experiment-banned

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[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Logical@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like suicide to me. I feel like Boeing is still largely at fault for bringing him to that point though.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would hope that if I publicly proclaimed, "I have no intent to commit suicide," before my suicide then people would..

..at a minimum, state, "Brother that guy proclaimed he had no intent to commit suicide," every time it was brought up.

..then ideally that additional scrutiny would be applied at a law enforcement level and the case would be handled with extra scrutiny.

So lacking the ideal, I'm here to remind you that just before his suicide he proclaimed, "I'm not going to commit suicide."

I'm extremely puzzled how this isn't brought up every time, people need to remember.

[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

I mean, fuck Boeing and the death still seems suspicious. But to claim that there was no police investigation is just lying. Suspect a cover-up or frame or whatever if you want, but seems like there was a pretty thorough investigation: https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/05/18/police-release-investigation-report-boeing-whistleblower-death/

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

An unpopular opinion, but I'm not buying a conspiracy either. The guy wanted to hurt Boeing, had just finished testifying and saw the writing on the wall that Boeing was going to walk, and decided to kill himself as a last stab at bringing attention to it. Worked like a charm too.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It’s only unpopular because every time someone dies that’s even tangentially associated with some corporate fuckery the internet instantly calls it an assassination. It’s absolutely stupid, but the hive mind seems to be geared to desperately want everything to be a conspiracy. No better than the conservatives making vaccines a conspiracy.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Equating whistleblowers being killed to vaccine conspiracies shows how well people have been brainwashed into state obedience. Any narrative goes.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

This is not an unpopular opinion, the people here are just unhinged. It’s the other side of the same qanon coin.

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This is honestly a subject I get annoyed about. The US has ‘whistleblower’ protections but it’s really not there. This isn’t a black-op opp, it’s a failure of protections/proper compensations for blowing the whistle. Imagine you’ve spent your whole life dedicated to one field of engineering. You’ve now sacrificed it to blow the whistle. It’s not fair, nor is it just, but that’s what happens.

Boeing has done so much wrong that it honestly feels negligent to focus on a perceived assassination. And it directs attention away from how whistleblowers could be protected

[–] Bunnylux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (14 children)

So what now we like conspiracy theories when they suit us?

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago (12 children)

There was a police investigation.

They just didn't investigate Boeing about it because the police investigation determined they weren't involved.

If you truly believe there should be investigations, you have to accept when the results of the investigations don't match your expectations. That's why we have investigations.

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