Suicidal people lie about being suicidal. And yes, they do reach out to friends and family.
It's also important to note here, John Barnett was not giving any sort of testimony that could harm Boeing. That's not what the trial was over,
No, the trial, or rather the appeal, was over Boeing's retaliation against John Barnett for his past whistleblowing. Whistleblowing that resulted in Boeing receiving a fine.
That particular case was done and over. John Barnett had nothing more to add.
John Barnett sued Boeing for the wrongful termination, and other retaliation including Blackballing him (talking to other Aerospace companies to make sure they wouldn't hire him), John lost the court case to Boeing's high priced lawyers.
John then appealed, and gave testimony in court in front of the appeals judge.
I don't know if you've ever been at a low point like that. Where you think you've hit rock bottom, and you hinge your hopes on just one thing going right, only for it to go horribly wrong.
I've been to that false rock bottom, and found the depths hidden below it.
Boeing didn't need to hire some contract killer to pull the trigger.
John Barnett was fighting his wrongful termination for seven years. That's how Boeing got John to pull the trigger. They drove him to suicide, didn't need to go any further.
That's what you conspiracy nuts miss. Boeing ruined a man's life, and that's the part that you're ignoring. Or maybe you heard someone rightfully say that Boeing killed a man, and you thought it was meant literally.
No.
What disincentivizes future whistleblowing is the prospect of never being able to work in your field ever again, because your boss, or rather his boss, talked to his counterpart at the other aerospace companies, so now no one will hire you.
You then drown in debt, and die penniless on the street, years or decades later. Depending on your luck.
Simply killing someone is messy. You might get caught. Ruining a man's life to the point where he kills himself? That's disturbingly easy.
Again, the lawsuit was not over John Barnett's whistleblowing. That case had concluded a few years earlier, with Boeing being found in violation of some safety standards. They got a fine and John Barnett got fired. Except Boeing didn't "Fire" him, they forced him to retire.
So John Barnett sues Boeing for wrongful termination, and loses. Boeing has some very expensive lawyers.
John appeals the loss, and that's what this court case was about. He was giving testimony about how Boeing retaliated against him. And he obviously thought that he was going to lose again.
Suicidal people lie about being suicidal.
That's like the first thing you learn Suicide Awareness.
I need to step in here with a major correction, John Barnett was not Whistleblowing. That's not what the court case was about at all.
No, the court case was for the wrongful termination, which was a result of his whistleblowing.
This is an important distinction, because the whistleblowing was done. John Barnett had nothing more to offer authorities, because he had already turned over all the evidence he collected. That particular case was a done deal years ago.
John Barnett then sued Boeing over his wrongful termination, and some apparent black balling. (i.e. retaliatory rumormongering to prevent John from working in aerospace).
John lost the lawsuit. He then appealed that decision, and it wasn't going well.
This is the situation that led to his suicide. Boeing 100% drove a man to kill himself. But no, they didn't fucking hire some guy to go kill John Barnett, that would be fucking stupid.
They didn't use to.
The problem is the studios have gotten lazy and risk adverse.
The reason why Endgame was so huge was because the studio took some risks and did the work to set everything up for that payoff.
There were movies in the first few phases that fell flat, like Thor 2, but even that movie pushed the plotlines forward.
Post Endgame, marvel hasn't really had a unified plan. They've also become so risk adverse that if any given movie underperforms, it kills the entire plotline.
Which leads to movies that don't have meaningful character growth, so who cares about those characters? Or those movies?
Pure coke, or Adderall. Ketemine seems to also be popular with this administration.
Luckily, they're all in a plate. Take the plate take them all. Bar the door on the way out.
Pooping at work? That's about the only reason to not have time to proofread.
Boss makes a dollar, I don't see a dime, that's why I poop on company time.
Back in the 90s, there was this guy who donated his body to science.
The scientists froze him, and then shaved off something like a millimeter at a time before polishing the ice and taking a high quality picture.
They started at the head, and slowly worked down the body. Keeping everything frozen the entire time.
Anyway what?
A lot of the "nonsensical" comes from translation issues.
You're not a Hebrew farmer living in the middle east 2000 years ago, and the parable has been translated from ancient Hebrew to Greek, then to Latin, then finally into English.
The same goes for buddhist parables
I've read that some of these parables originally had clever word play.
While true, the intent behind Hanlon's has been expressed for millennia. The Principal of Charity (which was only named in the 1950s)
Basically, never assume the worst about someone.
The problem here is when there is actual malice. But that's when Occam's razor comes in.
Snidely Whiplash only needs to find a bridge, preferably one over a large ravine.
Then he just has to tie the hostage to the center of the bridge. Then when the hero makes a daring rescue Snidely can blow up the bridge.
I'm waiting for that inevitable margin call. Followed by Twitter being repossessed. At that point it will probably be sold off for parts.
Some conservatives get those.
Mass shooters don't tend to get that treatment.
It's the bridge too far scenario. If this little shit head had joined the police department and then shot a bunch of people, the right would cheer, because that's how things work in their mind.
But becoming a rouge element and shooting random people... No that's just murder.
I'm sure there's a better way to phrase it, but I'm at the tail.end of a nasty cold and can't think straight.
I don't see the radical feminism in any of her writings.
I see enforcement of the Status Quo.
Fuck, Harry's main goal in life is to be a cop.
Her entire message is as follows, there's nothing wrong with the system, just the wrong people are in charge.
Also, if you remember the culture of the mid to late 90s, it's exactly the sort of shit that Rowling is in love with. A sort of romanticized version of the 90s, just like most conservatives want a romanticized version of the 1950s.
Rowling doesn't believe that trans people are people.
She mostly seems to believe in the Status Quo. Specifically the Status Quo of the mid to late 90s.
She seems to view any deviation from the status quo as evil, even attempts to make the world a better place, because she doesn't want the world to be better, she wants it to remain the same.
She's just as much an enemy of progress as the average conservative.
The "refuses to elaborate" is simple, Mathew 25 31-46.
It quite clearly says that you are to welcome the immigrant, feed the poor, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners.
Failure to do any of that is a straight shot to hell, no matter how much you claim to love god, you actually have to do the work, or it's off to hell.
Fun fact, Mathew 25 is the only place in the bible that references sending ordinary people to hell. All that fire and brimstone, it's actually in that one passage. Nowhere else does hell show up for normal people, just fallen angles and shit.
New dishes are invented all the time.
But the reason who these two are so ubiquitous is simple.
General Tso's chicken was featured on 60 minutes. The guy being interviewed showed how to make the dish with each ingredient. After that, it quickly showed up on every Chinese restaurant menu.
Orange chicken was specifically designed for American tastes by Panda Garden, which then spawned imitators.
ICE arrested a guy the other day, at his citizenship hearing. They don't care.
Another one from the other day, ICE also arrested a guy for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, they were after someone specific, and just grabbed a guy because he was brown skinned.