# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2133
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/2133 "2021-05-26T18:22:43Z")
A bit like Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes late in the pure con-artist stage of their corporate “evolution”, during that part of the game you want the dumb investors swallowing the sizzle, not the industry-smart ones measuring the steak. See here for more if interested: > [@Privileged sociopath Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, delaying her trial? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privileged-sociopath-elizabeth-holmes-is-pregnant-delaying-her-trial-wtf/937808): > > [Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, likely delaying her fraud trial.](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/12/tech/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-pregnancy/index.html) I’m putting this in the Pit because I really don’t know what to make of this, and if you want to excoriate me on feminist grounds of some sort, my mind is open and I’ll listen and possibly change my thoughts. But my first thought is, fuck her. (I know, someone already did, apparently.) If dad is in the picture, the baby can be his responsibility and she can damn well go through her trial and be treated exactly as a… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499)._