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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

a lot of .world users say this was a conspiracy

Well. It is a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory, even! I have a very compelling theory that Boeing conspired to kill that guy.

Just because it's a conspiracy (we allege that people conspired to do something bad) theory (we don't have absolute, provable-before-a-judge-and-jury hard evidence) doesn't mean that it's false. Also daily reminder that the CIA purposefully adopted the term "conspiracy theory" to convince the public to dismiss allegations that they secretly did something bad by associating them with Bigfoot and aliens. At the same time as they were secretly drugging random members of the public with LSD and watching them freak out and fall out of windows.

[–] randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Well I certainly won't be purchasing any Boeing products in the near future.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 54 points 6 days ago

About a week before OOP's post the openAi whistleblower also died mysteriously https://apnews.com/article/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-death-283e70b31d34ebb71b62e73aafb56a7d

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

I'd be more likely to believe that Boeing tried to kill him if he didn't die

That's one

But what about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi

And we still deal with the Saudis like it never happened

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

who I do remember is Brock Turner, yes that guy.. the rapist Brock Turner. who now goes by the name of Allen Turner. that guy

[–] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

You mean the pathetic rapist Brock Turner, who now goes by Allen Turner (also a pathetic rapist)?

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 26 points 6 days ago (3 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.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The military industrial company a person was whistleblowing against wasn't investigated in the mysterious death of that person.

Yeah that's called not doing a proper investigation.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no, they didn't fucking hire some guy to go kill John Barnett, that would be fucking stupid.

The possibity will certainly frighten future whistle-blowers.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Law enforcement would never lie.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

If you won't accept the results of an investigation, then why call for one in the first place. You can do one or the other, but both is dumb. Don't move the goalposts, just admit that you think X happened and you are now rejecting any evidence you disagree with.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If you truly believe there should be investigations, you have to accept when the results of the investigations

That doesn't logically follow. It's like insisting OJ wasn't guilty of murder, because the criminal case didn't stick. But he was guilty of "wrongful death" because the civil suit did stick. What kind of conclusion do we draw when the police fumble the bag and private investigators continue to turn up incriminating evidence?

And even then, you can both have an investigation (even one that turns up culprits) and still have a cover-up.

There's even a term for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."[

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

It's a very plausible conspiracy theory. I think it warrants way more investigation than it got.

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Logical@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days 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 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yeah that’s what they said!

doesn’t look like anything to me

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A lot of new .world users showing up with ChatGPT responses about how this was a conspiracy

Reminds me of the Epstein thing. It could be AI. But people do love their conspiracy theories, too.

[–] m0stlyharmless@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Unless there’s actual evidence that it’s AI, I think this is an absolutely absurd assumption to make.

[–] madgepickles@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

sounds like America

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