Maybe you're not understanding what we're saying. There have been numerous comments remarking on flights that were delayed or canceled due to corporate decisions, which reduce to excess savings on (or insufficient investment in) maintenance and staffing. This has nothing to do with "better perks"!

Every dollar of profit is a dollar that could have been spent on maintenance and staffing, or god forbid, proactive investment in better systems and infrastructure. No one is saying that airlines should become non-profits. But I have a feeling three or four or five BILLION dollars in profits is too much.

This is like a statistics 101 question. Google says that Casio has sold over 100M F-91W's since 1989. Let's round down to an average of 2.5M a year, or 25M over the 10 peak years of the global war on terror (GWOT).

You named two terrorists who wore them. Let's say that's an understatement by 200X. Some quick math shows that the percent of terrorists who wore F-91W's is 400/25000000 = 0.0016% positive rate, or conversely a 99.9984% false positive rate. Not good!

Now I never actually took a statistics class, so maybe I got this question wrong. But it's obvious that using the possession of an F-91W as a sign of being a terrorist is a mistake.

I wouldn't be surprised that an airline lost money in one of the worst travel years of all time (due to Covid).

Cursory searching shows United made more than $3,000,000,000 in 2024. So even if 2025 was an unusually good year for them, it wasn't a complete anomaly. Just goes to show that when flights get delayed due to insufficient available crew or maintenance issues, it's a savings that's passed on to investors and the c-suite at the expense of consumers.

It's weird to see people simp for the airline industry. A cursory google search shows that United Airlines, to take one example, made $4,300,000,000 in profits before taxes last year. This is money that could easily be spent on things like better maintenance, more pilots and crew, and other expenditures that would make flights less apt to be delayed or canceled. Instead it goes to shareholders and executives.

https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-1...

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Their goal isn't to provide high quality care. Their goal is to increase profits. It's not hard to imagine how improved quality would lead them to spend more money. (faster diagnoses of serious illnesses and recommending expensive care)

Sentient life in hospitable environments is as unavoidable in the Star Wars universe as it is absent in ours.

It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.

I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.

This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.

I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hey-hannah/id6751516377

https://github.com/DecentralizedDan/hey-hannah

One of the problems with nuclear is that, for practical and security reasons, you are dependent on an authoritarian regime to run the plant -- a plant that will be inherently not-transparent for the same reasons.

That means you have to trust the authorities in question to tell you the truth about risks like accidental discharges of radioactive waste. In the case of Ireland, which has a long history of being disenfranchised, the trust is understandably broken.

This makes building a new nuclear plant and having it run in your country by the same powers that screwed you over before with the same technology a non-starter.

It seems you didn't read the Sellafield article. If you want to be intellectually honest, I'd suggest starting there. (or at least with the "Incidents" section)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents

Not sure if you're referring to Syria or Iran, but the article explictly states that the solar in Syria is coming from China:

"Syria’s high level of solar panels reflects the combination of a broken-down grid during its long civil war, and the sudden rush of cheap China-made panels and batteries."

This is a trope that's more than a few years out of date. Silicon Valley is run by Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and many other executives who are completely devoted to the current administration; even Tim Cook bent the knee and donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration.

And what does "far left" mean in this context? Is it the abolition of private property and the creation of a communist utopia? Or are we talking about basic equal rights and a slightly more progressive tax system?

Without a bit more clarity, comments like yours come off as being uninformed at best, ignorant at worst.

I'm curious what you mean by this. It seems like gamers have never been more vocal and there have never been more avenues (social media, short form video platforms, etc.) for them to voice their opinions than we have now.

How exactly do you know that developers have never been more disconnected from their audience? And how would that be relevant to declining AAA game quality when it's the responsibility of management and leadership to ensure the quality of the final product?

That's an ironic biography name second only to the one about Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football coach later convicted of child sexual abuse: "Touched".

Isn't this exactly why we need to know how many deaths there are -- so we can judge the level of risk we face?

Wait until you see what management does to workers, like fail to pay them on time, give them inhumane working conditions, or fire them arbitrarily.

Sarcasm aside, I've never understood this genre of comment. One second-hand bad experience and you seem opposed to unions for life? Unions are the only way workers can have anything like even footing with management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RosieTheRiveter.jpg

You are making the same error. Other Republicans (if not Trump) indeed criticized government-funded research into the screwworm lifecycle. Denying that the party of the president has been opposed to both science and regulation on principle -- including with this particular crisis -- makes you look naive at best, dishonest at worst.

https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/04/members-of-congress-...