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OK now see, if I saw that I’d think it was a parody. With the alpha male, right there in the name still.

GOTTEM!

But seriously, it’s like chicken wings, without the bones. I’d not seen them until I went to the USA years and years ago. Now I see them over here in the UK too. Couldn’t say when they arrived here for sure though.

If you have to tell everyone, you’re not it. Having said that, it must be a parody account. Tell me it is.

Well, you might be able to do it. But you might not want to be holding it in YOUR hand when you turn it on. :P

The problem is, this assumes that even if the kind of AI creators that are scraping relentlessly (and there’s a fair few that do) took this data source directly, that they’d then put an exception in their scrapers to avoid wikipedia’s site. I doubt they would bother.

Not really, an almost infinite number of non-shakespeare monkeys came before him and also didn’t happen to write the entire works of shakespeare.

There are quite a few April Fool RFCs, but this one is definitely one of my favourites. This one and RFC 1149 (A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers).

In the year twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five.

Although this year might feel like it has 25 months actually.

The thing is, every Boeing plane that has any problem is going to make it to the news right now. So it’s very hard to see what is relevant and what is just “one of those things”. So, this will make them look worse than they really are.

Having said that, they have problems. My opinion is that cost-cutting has created all their recent actual problems (MCAS, missing bolts, loose bolts etc) and I’d argue that unless the actual location(s) responsible for these problems is identified, the safest thing to do would be to recall ALL aircraft recently (last 3 years AT LEAST) serviced, repaired or had their configuration changed at a Boeing owned or subcontracted location should be reviewed for substandard work.

My reasoning here is that if we have loose/missing bolts on the 737 Max 8/9 and -900ER. It won’t stop there, it is going to almost certainly be an institutionalised problem of quality control slippage that could affect any aircraft maintenance, repair, or adjustment operation.

But, I’m not an aviation expert, so my opinion is worth very little.