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• laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why not NASA? I hope you aren’t implying that private industry should be held to a lower safety standard than government

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  • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not necessarily, but also government spends an inordinate amount of money on extra processes and moves much slower, which could naturally lead to fewer accidents because they’re just doing less, and also the government outsources quite a lot of labor which could include the more accident-prone aspects

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