I believe those are two separate things. The 4 years being for how long this contract will stand. And the wage increase being immediate change to the pay grade tiers.

But we’ll have to see when details are out. I’m only guessing based off other union contracts I’ve had experience with.

Tons of them on r/space. They and the people who have become Boeing experts since February.

No because it just landed perfectly fine as even NASA mission leads figured would be the case.

In very small numbers. Car recycling/scrapping is a huge industry in developed nations. One that the big manufacturers support for a couple reasons. Main one being to maintain artificial price flooring. If used cars are expensive and harder to come by, people give in and buy new. The manufacturers knew this. But it didn’t occur for them to actively engage in such practices until Cash for Clunkers happened in the US.

Also, low income countries already get their cars from manufacturers people in western nations have never heard of. China, India, and even Iran export new cars to these nations. Options that would be easier to obtain and maintain than something like a 20 year old GM SUV never sold directly in that market.

The author’s guess at potential future concerns doesn’t seem reflective of reality around car ownership economics. Plus China is already getting new EVs to some of these markets at artificially low costs.

There are plenty of people on Lemmy right now today who would still say you are.

Hey you should really try a different talking point. It didn’t work yesterday either.

Russia is the personification of crabs in a bucket.

The kleptocracy trying to get Trump elected (which means Palestine gets wiped out) is the less dangerous threat?

Yeah I’m good. Have fun reposting this same broken logic talking point I’ve seen multiple .ml accounts spewing today.

Seriously? Your response to this is a whataboutism. And the topic is regarding Russian disinformation campaigns. Was the irony intended?

Not really. EC path is still a toss up right now.

Ah another company admitting to only starting their program to avoid lawsuits. It’s not too surprising because many companies didn’t really commit to whatever program they claimed to start.

So is Ukraine. The real difference is how long the supply agreements have been open.

Russia easily should have. Ukraine was home to a significant portion of USSR equipment production. Including things like aircraft carriers that Russia can now barely even keep running.

Oh such great accomplishments like using his money to hire actually talented engineers then take all the credit same as Edison.

2 suits and 2 seats are coming up on Crew 9 in about a month.

State of journalism these days unfortunately. I’ve learned more about all this by simply reading and listening to the NASA briefs myself. Which you’d think the guy who writes all the Ars articles about space stuff would also do being their job and all.

I don’t know why anyone would think that of Boeing. They did fuck all for space until acquiring McDonnell Douglas and parts of Rockwell in like 1997. Then they spun most of that off into ULA with Lockheed precisely because they didn’t know what to do with it. Lockheed people have even run ULA for it’s entire existence.

The part of Boeing behind Starliner isn’t all that old. It’s certainly younger and seemingly less talented than ULA.

Nope. It’s been around a long long time. Gets updated to match current geopolitical risks.

And that Palantir is an MIC contractor. They would have this outlook because it would keep them busy. The reality of such a scenario is far more unrealistic.

Setup to a joke about roasting pigs I’m not finding the words for.