After death of Joshua Dean & John Barnett, their lawyers are concerned about the possibility that around 10 more Boeing whistleblowers may suffer the same fate.
  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
    52016·
    6 months ago

    EDIT: I should’ve read the article, but I’m taking the L and leaving this up with a strikethrough. The phrasing “after” in the headline definitely creates the wrong impression here. As for what this says about people, I guess we’ll have to see if the other ten whistleblowers still testify.

    And if you think it’s too much to assume Boeing killed these two people, that’s the wrong question. It matters more whether as a fellow whistleblower it’s reasonable to worry about whether Boeing killed them, and I think it is.

    Also Boeing definitely killed the first guy at least. “If I die, it’s not suicide.” - man who “committed suicide”. WTAF.

    If you ever hear anyone talking about how humans suck and we’re all terrible and will definitely destroy ourselves, just think about the fact that killing whistleblowers was quickly followed by more whistleblowers. Not just lone heros, but ten fucking people said, “hey, fuck you, are you really gonna kill me too?” knowing that the answer could well be “yes”.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      909·
      6 months ago

      Funny, just yesterday probably I was arguing with someone in another thread that was saying the people here don’t actually think Boeing had these whistleblowers killed, it was just making “implications and jokes.”

      And here, very clearly, with a massive number of upvotes we have someone claiming that Boeing had them killed and that resulted in brave souls coming out afterward. lol

      However, this also exposes another huge complaint I have with your typical lemmy-er (lemming? lemmite? what do you call a user of lemmy?): Almost no one reads the fucking article.

      This isn’t about new whistleblowers coming out, but their lawyer claiming he is afraid that current whistle blowers will be “scared away.”

      But, of course, what I’ve learned on reddit and even more so on lemmy is that the facts don’t matter, only the narrative.

      • natarey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        6 months ago

        Almost no one reads the fucking article.

        You are describing the human species. Through its entire history.

        • fxt_ryknow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          6 months ago

          Agreed. Although I will say… While people not reading the articles was extremely common on reddit… Sadly, I feel like Lemmy is even worse about it.

          • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            When I first started on reddit many years ago, while it was clear some people didn’t read the article, usually the top comment in the thread usually showed that they read the article, unless it was some kind joke. Over time it definitely got worse.

            I was hoping when jumping to Lemmy that I would be able to recapture some of that magic.

            Lemmy has a lot of good things going for it, but what I got in that regard is the top comment, with 100% upvotes, clearly not having read the article and spewing some unsubstantiated conspiratorial claims. It’s like being in r/conspiracy sometimes.

        • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          Yeah if you think we don’t do our due deligence, you should go to more right leaning social media, it’s all sound bites and knee jerk reactions.

      • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Yes, varying people have different opinions on subjects. It is easy to think a comment with upvotes is the way the hivemind goes, but the hivemind has multiple factions.

        I, personally, have no opinion on the matter. The dude was septic and had a stroke. While it seems unlikely that was murder, I guess it is possible if you have infinite resources to make it look natural. But that is one HELL of a coincidence to have two whistle-blowers die . … like. … pretty fucking insane. Watch these next ten all die and no one important bats an eye.

    • Rookwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      493·
      6 months ago

      Yes but our current society vests power in the corporation doing the killing. It’s a problem as old as civilization, but one we still haven’t solved. The problem is that these institutions and the technology they wield has never been greater.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        313·
        6 months ago

        We need an impartial lawnmower. Something external to the species that comes in and cuts the biggest ones in half. And it needs to be incorruptible and powerful enough to do this.

        Damn, I think I just invented god again.

        • FrostyCaveman@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Yep… Times will change and eventually the faceless bureaucracy world we have now will morph into something more like Roman imperial military dictatorship or European absolutist monarchies. I only hope we can organically build social mitigations to the centralising power of information technology before that happens. Because as bad as it is now it would be much worse then

    • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      I mean If it was an organized thing then I’m not sure it’s so dumb

      They can kill two people but if ten more people die it would look really bad on there part and would become undeniable

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I was talking to someone the other day who was really bent out of shape over an extremely unpleasant customer. The kind of interaction that sticks with you for years.

      I told my perspective on people. We tend to remember remarkable things - stuff that really stands out from the normal. The news media does the same thing. Normal, everyday stuff isn’t “newsworthy.”

      So when an asshole customer stands out that much, it’s because it’s such a rare experience. People are mostly good, so the goodness doesn’t stand out.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, bad customers can ruin your day, but I remember doing customer service that one good customer with a nice smile can make your day good again. That’s why I always make an effort to be as nice as possible.

    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Counterpoint. There was one whistleblower killed, there are lots of people on this case like Boeing staff, government employees, the police, senators, the president, who haven’t done shit. Now there are two murders. Any of the people who SHOULD be doing something about it doing anything? No. Now there are 12 brave people against the thousands of shit people.

    • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      314·
      6 months ago

      Anyone saying humans suck and are terrible is likely a terrible person themselves. Decent people tend to see the better aspect of humanity.

      • Sanguine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        This is a leap. You can be a good person and also see that people as a whole can be both wonderful and absolutely terrible. This is a story about a mega corp murdering two whistleblowers, so far. In this case, the people involved in making this a headline suck and are terrible.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          752·
          6 months ago

          Tbf the evidence for the second person is not strong - that stuff does legit happen.

          But the first guy? Damn! That’s enough right there.

          • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
            192·
            6 months ago

            Well isn’t there a ruling in aircraft design and safety, that you calculate the probability of a certain failure and judge by its reoccurence if it was just random, or more than likely systematic?

            I think i read this in context to the two MAX planes crashing in the exact same way. The first one was ruled as maybe just being some very very freak thing to happen, but it happening twice made it entirely implausible to be without systematic cause.

            And well now it is happening twice in a few years with Boeing that weird things happen twice in a row with little time in between in relation to critical security flaws.

            • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
              111·
              6 months ago

              Well isn’t there a ruling in aircraft design and safety, that you calculate the probability of a certain failure and judge by its reoccurence if it was just random, or more than likely systematic?

              It sounds like neither of us know the answer to that, so I choose not to comment on that matter.

              I think i read this in context to the two MAX planes crashing in the exact same way.

              But how does that apply? One guy was a “suicide”, the other was bacteria - you just said it yourself, the metric only works if they crash “in the exact same way”, therefore by your own words, this seems to not apply?

              There is a natural human bias to want to “know” things. Sometimes we even make shit up out of desperation to fill that void, but the more honest way (but HARD to do, emotionally, as in it seriously goes against the grain of our pattern-finding brain’s natural instinctual algorithms) is to simply say “I do not know the answer here”. Please don’t misunderstand me as saying that it is likely that the second guy was not killed - that would be 100% tangential to what I am trying to convey!

              Rather, I am saying that the first guy looks to have been Epstein-ed, but we don’t know enough yet about the second guy. Could you imagine someone sent to kill him, and having a whole plan in place so that he wouldn’t even make it home but rather be taken care of in the car on the way there, but then he dies in his hospital bed first -> do you still get paid!?:-P Asking the important questions here!!:-D

              But again, what happened to the first guy is already enough to know that some shady shit is going on. And yeah, that should make us think twice about the second guy… but having done so, I think that we just don’t know enough there to make a firm determination like we could for the first guy, without additional evidence. Which does not absolve Boeing one iota for being so shitty for the last few years.

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                6 months ago

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              • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                I agree, that we cannot rule either death to be an assassination by itself. But their distinct occurrence in this context, e.g. that they prevent whistleblowers from testifying warrants an in depth investigation into both of them. In particular given the circumstances it is sketchy if Police or other officials are eager to close the case and rule it as non assassinations, without actually analyzing what was going on.

                • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  I don’t know the relevant laws there - but I am certain that an autopsy would have been done? Beyond that, what more could be done? If that means a more expensive autopsy, then yeah they should do that - even Boeing might agree on that point, to help absolve them, even if they did somehow give the bacteria to the guy, but like if they were confident that it could not be traced to them in that manner.

                  Speaking of, even if they were guilty in this second case, that’s a very different thing than someone being able to prove it. “Innocent until proven guilty” is a foundational bedrock principle in the USA, and we cannot simply throw that away without losing something precious.

                  And with them being military contractors, they probably have classified status to where local police can’t just go subpoenaing their records willy nilly. I could be wrong though. Then again, if they are used to dealing with the likes of e.g. literal Russian spies, then surely they would be smart enough to not leave a paper trail on something like this to begin with?

                  But the first guy should already be enough to start an investigation. The second guy… I dunno what that one means, maybe yes but also might not be.

            • Zink@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              I don’t know if that’s a rule of thumb or not, but it certainly makes sense.

              First, the world of reliability runs on data and math. Lots of statistics, of course.

              And second, aircraft are over-engineered for safety margins on top of safety margins. The test data might say you need a part that’s X thickness of aluminum in order to be 99% sure to never fail in the field. So let’s just make it 3X thickness to be safe!

              So from that standpoint, back to back failures should pretty much always draw a bunch of attention in this industry.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            53·
            6 months ago

            I did do the math on it and the second guy only had a 1 in 3630 chance of dying of natural causes in that time window.

            • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
              22·
              6 months ago

              We do ourselves no favors by sounding like conspiracy nutjobs who are uninterested in facts. When they go low, we should retain the high road, imho.

              Edit: this… basically means tangentially what I had intended to say, so it is better off to be deleted, though I will leave it as strikethrough for the historical record (I really hate all those “deleted” messages, and don’t want to contribute one of my own too!).

              • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                6 months ago

                Yeah yeah I suck, get in line and take a number. Now, will attacking me bring those two murdered men back to life?

                • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  I apologize for my wording - I agree with you that I was out of line. There was some point I was trying to make, about the need to be cautious with our wording, but somehow I ended up doing the exact thing I was trying to warn about, didn’t I? Fwiw I don’t actually think that you suck at all - I was just really, Really, REALLY bad at expressing myself there.:-) Thank you for not returning the favor in like manner.

        • rsuri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          There’s 2 kinds of evidence.

          • Circumstantial evidence - relies on an inference to connect it to the conclusion (e.g. guy saying before hand he won’t kill himself).
          • Direct evidence - no additional inference/evidence is needed (e.g. video of a guy going up to the car and shooting him).

          The guy saying he won’t kill himself requires inferring that he’s being truthful when he said it and that he didn’t change his mind. It’s not non-evidence, it does point to suicide being less likely. But it’s far from conclusive. If there’s no sign of entering the vehicle or that a struggle occurred, then I’d argue that far outweighs his prior statement.

          They just happened to work at the same company and die right before they could testify on the same thing.

          That’s also a common misunderstanding, at least regarding the first (I’m not as familiar with the second). I’m a bit unclear on the details of the deposition - which side wanted it and was asking the questions, etc. (detailed here) but whatever the case, it was Boeing that demanded he come back for one more day. So if Boeing wanted him to not testify that day, they’d just send him home as originally planned. The only reason they’d do it then was to silence him generally…but doing it in a way that draws so much suspicion to them seems like an implausibly bad decision. Then again, it is Boeing. (Note that this is also circumstantial evidence, and requires assuming that Boeing isn’t so dumb as to kill a witness in the middle of their own deposition, which may not be warranted).

          Edit: corrected my own misunderstanding of deposition

          • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            Its also inferring his friend is being truthful when he said that’s what the guy said.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            34·
            6 months ago

            there’s no sign of entering the vehicle

            Hey.

            Yeah?

            See this gun?

            I do.

            Kill yourself with it or I will kill everyone in your family. Here is a list of their names and addresses.

            What if I kill you instead?

            Guys who sent me will send someone else.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          63·
          6 months ago

          That guy also had a history of mental issues and anxiety. He was away from home experiencing high stress environments, like a court room, and he was looking at another court appearance that day.

          It doesn’t take a genius to see that maybe, just maybe, this is a coincidence instead of murder. He had already given the bulk of his testimony, so I really don’t see the motive here.

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
          919·
          6 months ago

          Yes. What you are listing are coincidences.

          Also understand that it is pretty rare for a whistleblower to have any future in the industry they are blowing the whistle on. That is throwing away years of schooling and often decades of experience. People tend to not do that if they aren’t already ill and not expecting a long life.

          As for “if I die, it is not suicide”: Gonna get real dark for a moment. A lot of people are just looking for a way to make their life, or death, matter. Someone realizing they don’t want to put themselves and their family through a very long trial might very well use that as an excuse to take the easy way out.

          All that said: Obviously these need to be investigated. But there is a big difference between investigating a suspicious death and immediately jumping to conspiracy.

            • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
              61·
              6 months ago

              And suicide rates go up drastically when people are overly stressed and think they have no future. Sort of like… having contributed to incredibly dangerous air travel and burning bridges with an entire industry.

              Similarly, like I said, a lot of whistleblowers are ill to begin with. Because, again, it is throwing away your future in an industry. It is a lot easier to consider that when your future on this planet is measured in years or even months.

              A LOT of documentaries/youtubes/whatever love to point out “the big evil company is ruining this man’s life when he is just trying to get his chemotherapy so that he can have a few more months with his family”. Which is indeed horrible (and why any good lawyer gets the testimony on record ASAP because people ARE pushed to suicide). But also kind of ignores that said company didn’t give them cancer… Unless we are having a repeat of the COVID conspiracy theories too.

              • parpol@programming.devEnglish
                21·
                6 months ago

                You don’t compare the stats to the population in its entirety

                You do for disease and suicide as it can happen to literally anyone.

                If working for a specific company or being a whistleblower affects those statistics, the company should be held responsible anyway.

          • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
            52·
            6 months ago

            How is your take also not a conspiracy theory? You just pinned it on the little guy instead of a megacorp

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5411·
        6 months ago

        There is plenty of evidence of foul play you smartass. They willingly risked lives over many years and are still currently flying many planes with defective unsafe parts. Going from that to assasination is not a big leap.

        Multiple of the whistleblowers and their colleagues have also independently said that their workplace was directly and deliberately sabotaged in order to continue using defective parts.

        Yes the last one doesnt really look like a typical assasination but it doesnt matter in the slightest if it was or not.

        • woop_woop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          198·
          6 months ago

          Well…the first dude did say something about Boeing killing whistleblowers and the bravery of others to step up in defiance of that.

          So that whole line of thinking is conspiracy theory stuff with no real proof and it is being parroted here. Granted, usually the assassination stuff is usually tongue in cheek, but the top comment seems a bit crazy.

          • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            23·
            6 months ago

            I agree that calling it “killing whistleblowers” is a bit too early, but for the point that the top comment was making, it doesnt actually matter. Because his point was about the bravery of the other whistleblowers coming out and for that it doesnt matter if they actually got killed or not.

            The 10 other whistleblowers are brave because there is a good chance that at least one of the whistleblowers was killed. They are still brave even if it turns out that the dead ones died of natural causes or suicide.

            • woop_woop@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              If the “bravery” and admiration comes against the idea of assassination, then it completely matters. Idk why you’re hand waving the nonsense here

              • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                If the whistleblowers truly believe that the previous ones were assassinated, then they are brave for speaking out. They might be stupid, foolish, whatever, but they would be even more stupid if they didnt consider the possiblity of it being true.

                Intent is what matters here not what is actually the case. This is obvious when it comes to law. For example if a judge decides that you truly believed that your life was in danger in a situation and that you had to act in self defense, you can usually not be sentenced for murder, even if it turns out that your life wasnt in danger after all.

                Really this is a grammatical framing problem, but i think its totally fair to call these people “brave” either way, because even if their lives arent in danger, then at least their livelihood is.

                • woop_woop@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  1: I wholeheartedly believe being a whistleblower is a courageous and brave act. Full stop.

                  2: drawing conclusions as to why these people decided to speak up when they did without hearing it from them is nonsense.

                  3: assuming and repeating a John Gresham novel from news articles between corporations and their whistleblowers is not only buying into a conspiracy theory, but is also parroting it.

                  4: partaking in these conspiratorial shenanigans helps no one and isn’t something to be waved away as harmless - otherwise, what’s the difference here and qanon?

      • Rooskie91@discuss.onlineEnglish
        142·
        6 months ago

        Even if the dude that “killed himself” did do it to himself, he did so because he was harassed by a company for doing his job. Even in the non conspiracy version of the story, the corporation still acted in bad faith and should be held liable for it’s actions. Why is this the hill you want to die on?

        • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          6 months ago

          OK, but that’s a pretty big difference from hiring a hitman to explicitly murder him.

          Yes, it is different.

          No one is saying Boeing execs shouldn’t be prosecuted.

      • Hegar@kbin.social
        105·
        6 months ago

        It’s very naive to think that a weapons dealer who also kills it’s commercial airline passengers for profit isn’t also killing whistleblowers.

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
          22·
          6 months ago

          Three-day old account, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had another one that was banned.

            • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Yeah Kbin really jumped the shark. I gave up on it as well. Maybe one day Ernst will do literally everything that he said he would but… today is not that day, nor was yesterday, and I’m done waiting. In the meantime I’m wondering if I should block the entire instance due to all the spam that the complete lack of moderation (in some communities) is sending out to the entire Fediverse. Seriously, I am surprised it hasn’t been hit by waves of CP as many other instances have, in an attempt to swat it by getting the FBI involved. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your new instance better!:-) Weird conversations such as is happening on this post aside, the Fediverse is kind of a neat place!

              Also, you might check the list of which instances Kbin blocks by default, and choose to block them here (Settings -> Blocks, scroll way down to instances). e.g. lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net are some really common ones that people often block. Ofc you feel free to do you, and decide first what you want to see in your feed!:-) I just mention that bc after leaving the safe and protected Kbin.social I game close to leaving Lemmy too, until I blocked those two instances and it improved my experience on the Fediverse 95%.

                • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  Yeah… linking was hard for me to figure out.

                  For a user, you hit the @ sign then start typing, then you may have to wait a bit and it will make a list of every user that matches that partial string that you typed, and you have to select it from the list for it to convert into the actual link - e.g. @bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

                  For communities, I’m only recently learning this myself, it’s the ! sign and then the same process - e.g. !technology@lemmy.world.

                  You can hit the view source - icon to the right of up & down votes, left of reply - to see how it translates into, but that’s a LOT to try to remember, while the above is a lot easier process. The web browser UI isn’t really intuitive though - e.g. there are no buttons for either of those, and a bunch of other stuff doesn’t work all that well either when you click it, plus beware of clicking the formatting help button b/c it won’t open a new tab or anything - even though you can ONLY access it from within an EXISTING reply, nonetheless by default it will obliterate all of the text that you have typed so far and navigate to another page. None of the other options do that… but despite how there is basically zero distinction wrt its icon color or placement that might hint at that fact, that one behaves fundamentally differently from all the rest of them. So, if you are struggling, note that it may not be your fault: Lemmy is still in its infancy, and a lot of this isn’t as “polished” as it may one day become.

                  I still love it 100-fold better than Kbin’s interface. I did not think that I would, but I do.

                  Tbh, I feel less bad for Ernst the more time that goes by. At first I thought he was a GREAT dude, to take upon himself that whole concept of entirely re-envisioning the whole Lemmy code, and I definitely get that he was handed a bunch of lemons by life, but he also was the only one who decided what to do with them. e.g. he could have allowed a couple of other admins onto the kbin.social instance, even if he retained full & total control of the code side of things. I would not dream of trying to tell him what to do but… I also have the same rights, and since I no longer trust his word, him having broken it far too many times, I don’t think I will ever go back, even if everything that he hoped to do with Kbin ends up being done. He’s made his choices, and I do not respect them, though meanwhile everyone will move on regardless - which I do agree is really sad, especially after such an auspicious beginning, and along with everything I am saying I really truly do wish him the best, but… I am no longer willing to hold my breath anxiously awaiting that to happen anytime soon.

            • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              6 months ago

              But this whole thread is about assuming the worst based on half info, why would they stop when you’re saying something they don’t like?

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    1643·
    6 months ago

    One death is coincidental, two is suspicious, any more and it’s gonna become plainly obvious, and now there’s 10. That’s just delicious. They can’t silence them all.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4312·
        6 months ago

        So in other words, very plausible deniability.

        https://allthatsinteresting.com/heart-attack-gun

        We had that tech in 1968. I’m pretty sure it would be a matter of a phone call and some change from the couch cushions for Boeing to create the recent outcome.

        Does this mean they did it? No.

        Does it warrant the reaction folks are having about it? Absolutely yes. (Edit - In light of their current troubles and the fate of the prior whistleblower.)

          • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            6 months ago

            From the article:

            All that would be left behind was a tiny red dot where the dart entered the body, undetectable to those who didn’t know to look for it.

          • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            They may have ironed that out, this article is talking about tech that is more than half a century old. We got from first aeroplane to man on the moon in less than that.

          • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
            12·
            6 months ago

            Does this mean they did it? No.

            Does it warrant the reaction folks are having about it? Absolutely yes. (Edit - In light of their current troubles and the fate of the prior whistleblower.)

            I stand by that statement, and don’t feel like trying again to connect the dots on the relevancy of my example for you. Whatever you are arguing about is - not the same.

      • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        And it is suspected that thousand of elderly people are murdered every year, but it is ruled as a natural death, because the demographic is prone to natural deaths and nobody bothers to check further.

        At the very least demanding a throughout investigation in both cases is absolutely reasonable.

    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      The first wasn’t coincidental. He said “hey they might murder me” then he died right before testifying.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Well, iirc he didn’t show for his deposition, or the day after, or the day after that, at which point the lawyers sent people to find him and found he “committed suicide”.

        This is after he said “I am absolutely not going to commit suicide over this. If I die and people say it was suicide, I was killed.”

    • unreasonabro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      6 months ago

      Even one death under these circumstances is not a coincidence, and that ought to be coded into law. You’d better fucking well hope the person who blows a whistle on you is healthy - that’s the world we should move towards. Not that that couldn’t also be abused, but the pendulum is way too fucking far this way.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Can’t or won’t?

      Seriously, though, I wouldn’t be surprised, if a bunch of suicides or “retractions” are happening soon.

      How about 2 million if you shut up? No? How about we publish this dirt on you? Would be a shame, if some nameless robber orphans your children.

    • PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Any serious issue should have a paper trail of some sort. Emails, meetings, part rejections, that sort of thing. There are processes in place to allow anonymous reporting of some of these things.

    • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      But you wont argue that 10 dead whistblowers can still be a tremendous coincidence, right?

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
    1561·
    6 months ago

    Gotta love my fellow millennials - battered old souls that only the offer of getting murdered gets us properly motivated.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      305·
      6 months ago

      You could just say ‘assassin’. “Hitperson” makes it sound like some HR-designated position, awkwardly titled in some neutral, milquetoast way as not to offend anyone.

      • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        “Hitperson” makes it sound like some HR-designated position, awkwardly titled in some neutral, milquetoast way as not to offend anyone.

        That was intentional, I’m happy someone noticed.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Like the title of a Wes Anderson short, lol

          It’s just a single shot of Bill Murray driving a car on a highway. He’s filmed from the passenger seat, and he’s telling a story of his dad, who worked as an engineer designing jet engines. And he’s all proud and going on and on.

          And as he keeps talking, and as he keeps driving, you keep seeing shots of highway signs showing that you’re driving through rural Maryland on your way to Washington DC. You keep driving and he keeps telling a story about his father and how proud he was and eventually comes out that he worked for Boeing.

          And you keep driving and he keeps telling a story and eventually you pull up in front of the building in Washington DC, and he gets out and the camera keeps pointing at the driver seat, but he walks out of frame and he walks into the building and you can hear some screaming in a couple gunshots and then cut to the credits.

  • sparr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1142·
    6 months ago

    Article author seems to have completely fabricated the “10 more”. There are no quotes from anyone even hinting at more whistleblowers existing, let alone ten more.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    956·
    6 months ago

    Wow, ten more suicidal people that really want to off themselves and also suddenly all started talking about Boeing, all at the same time. They’ll also all off themselves in the coming weeks.

    What are the chances of that happening?

      • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 months ago

        I would want the motherfucking Navy to take me around South America, the passenger train system in the US is sadly so sparse it makes it too easy for someone to find someone else based on odds. And Amtrak doesn’t have anti air weapons

            • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Hope it carries Lockheed s planes nstead of… Boing

              (Typo intentional, get off grammar Nazis)

              • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Navy and Air Force still have plenty of Boeings that were made properly. They’re talking about fitting the B-52 with warp engines rather than ever retire the thing

                • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  6 months ago

                  B52 with warp nacelles in an aircraft carrier? Hhhhm let me check something in midjourney and I’ll be back soon

        • Holzkohlen@feddit.deEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          You think they will make a boing machine just drop in on the train? I mean at the rate those planes are failing, I would not be surprised if that happens by chance even. Damn, this was their plan from the start, wasn’t it?

    • thescoutisaspy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      6 months ago

      It’s okay, they are all going to commit suicide by jumping off together. The plane will have no issues.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.oneEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        The hole in the fuselage that caused them to be sucked out was actually made by one of them in a suicide/homicide. Very tragic. Somebody invest in mental health please!

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      Oh the plane will be fine. Being a whistleblower is very stressful though. I would not be at all surprised if many if not all of them find it just too hard to go on and end up committing suicide by shooting themselves twice in the back of the head before jumping off a building.

      • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Jumping off a building is the Russian way.

        American way is walking into a school in the middle of a shooting.

        Australian way is going to the mall to bet on the ponies and running into a stabber. (I’m really sorry this is too soon, but next week nobody would understand the joke)

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Investigators work for a company named Boeing.

      As ofc do their assassins.

      Same department and job title actually. Spawn kill basically.

      • Buttons@programming.devEnglish
        312·
        6 months ago

        Criticizing the Israel government is okay (until our government outlaws it at least). Suggesting the people of Israel are some special kind of corrupt is not okay. Our corruption is our own.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        29·
        6 months ago

        Why would you lead with that and then not even use it in your comment?

      • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        233·
        6 months ago

        Explain in detail how you associate Israel in a debate of the unrelated context of correlating American corruption to corporate greed.

        Is this just some underhanded antisemite sort of bullshit invoking Israel but really trying to associate Jews with corporate greed? Cuz thats what is seems to infer.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          I mean, suggesting that a lot of bigger US companies are infested with Israeli intelligence and suggesting that Israel is interested in corruption levels in the US not being reduced is not antisemitic. It seems sane actually.

          But I haven’t seen the original comment before it was deleted.

      • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        181·
        6 months ago

        Mate, I hate the genocide and shit, but shut the fuck up with this. The two are unrelated.

  • Hector_McG@programming.devEnglish
    46·
    6 months ago

    “the sudden announcement of Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun’s resignation by the end of 2024 was interpreted as a response to the company’s persistent safety issues.”

    I hope Boeing has serious bonus claw-backs in their contracts, because this idiot’s “cost-savings” have actually cost Boeing a fortune, and destroyed their reputation. The entire board should go.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      People assume that Boeing is behind this. I’m more inclined to believe that it’s a major shareholder

      • Droechai@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        6 months ago

        If it’s a major owner of a company I would still say it’s the company.