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Is it possible Freeze stays with Thorne because he's awful, and he can tell portal QBs they're the missing piece?

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I mean, what is the price of a starter home today? 400k? So I would need a salary of about $110k to afford it. That is just one income. How much is a new vehicle today?

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A starter home, or starter house, is a short-term, small dwelling that first-time home buyers usually purchase because of its affordability. The typical starter home is currently valued at $170,289 nationwide as of January 2023. A starter home typically has one to two bedrooms with one bathroom and roughly 750-1,250 square feet of space. The home usually serves the basic needs of the homeowner. They are great for first-time homeowners who aren't ready to commit to a residence long-term. Homeowners usually only live in a starter home for three to seven years or at least long enough to see a return on the investment.

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He absolutely should have lost his job but the slippery slope that is locking people up who fail to put their lives on the line for strangers scares me. Today it's a random Texas police chief for innocent kids. But tomorrow its your son or daughter cop for a drugged out thug. We can't go down this road.

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The most critical and controversial provision in the treaty was: "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies." The other members of the Central Powers signed treaties containing similar articles. This article, Article 231, became known as the War Guilt clause. The treaty required Germany to disarm, make ample territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries which had formed the Entente powers. In 1921 the total cost of these reparations was assessed at 132 billion gold marks (then $31.4 billion or £6.6 billion, roughly equivalent to US$442 billion or UK£284 billion in 2024).

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One factor in Boeing’s apparent reluctance to heed such warnings may be attributed to the seeming transformation of the company’s engineering and safety culture over time to a finance orientation beginning with Boeing’s merger with McDonnell–Douglas in 1997 (Tkacik 2019; Useem 2019). Critical changes after the merger included replacing many in Boeing’s top management, historically engineers, with business executives from McDonnell–Douglas and moving the corporate headquarters to Chicago, while leaving the engineering staff in Seattle (Useem 2019). According to Tkacik (2019), the new management even went so far as “maligning and marginalizing engineers as a class”.

Financial drivers thus began to place an inordinate amount of strain on Boeing employees, including engineers. During the development of the 737 MAX, significant production pressure to keep pace with the Airbus 320neo was ever-present. For example, Boeing management allegedly rejected any design changes that would prolong certification or require additional pilot training for the MAX (Gelles et al. 2019). As Adam Dickson, a former Boeing engineer, explained in a television documentary (BBC Panorama 2019): “There was a lot of interest and pressure on the certification and analysis engineers in particular, to look at any changes to the Max as minor changes”.

Production pressures were exacerbated by the “cozy relationship” between Boeing and the FAA (Kitroeff et al. 2019a; see also Gelles and Kaplan 2019; Hall and Goelz 2019). Beginning in 2005, the FAA increased its reliance on manufacturers to certify their own planes. Self-certification became standard practice throughout the U.S. airline industry. By 2018, Boeing was certifying 96% of its own work (Kitroeff et al. 2019a).

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