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I concur, it was faster than a 777. Everything is made with characteristics that fit its purpose.

Looking back at the problem, you say just build more. A 777 carries about 100 tons. The total for shipping crude oil averages around 2.5 billion tons. The world’s existing capacity for shipping oil is around 670 million, a rough number since there are various sizes of tankers. The 2000 777s (if that would even work) would replace one ship, not all those ships (thousands of them). You just don’t understand the scale.

Go ahead and email them, let them know they need to make the planes faster. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your consulting advice. Contact Airbus too, they have the same issue.

Yeah, they’re 2500 orders behind.

Boeing hasn’t built that many yet since it first became available.

Liquid is heavy. Just comparing freight weight capacity, a 777 can carry around 100 tons, while a large freight ship carries 200,000 tons. That’s a container ship, not an oil freighter, but you see the difference. We move things that can’t take weeks to ship on a plane and pay more for it, while boat shipping is cheap if you can wait for it. And for oil there (usually) is a long queue of ships coming and going, so it doesn’t matter about the time.

Never mind the coffee. I’m not a coffee drinker. But their hot chocolate sucks too. If you’re a cafe type store can can’t get hot chocolate right…

I guarantee that election issues will pop up regardless of ID laws in a state. Because that isn’t the problem, and never was. It is just another way to target certain demographics that tend to vote a certain way. A form of disenfranchisement.

Source - it happens constantly, in every recent election. If you haven’t heard about all the efforts to stop some people from voting, then you must not live in a state where it’s a regular thing.

Specifically individual voter fraud, which voter ID claims to be fighting. Now, voter fraud in the masses via ballot manipulation, voter disenfranchising, gerrymandering, minimizing poll locations and times, etc. THAT is a thing, but has nothing to do with people having IDs, and all to do with people in power making sure they stay there.

And guess which ones support both voter ID and all of those tactics. Yeah, we all know. It’s the only way they stay in power. They can’t win by just their positions on policy. Never could. If they could win fairly, they never would have pursued gaming the system.

1 thousand seconds is 16 minutes, 40 seconds. 1 million seconds is 11.5 days. 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years. 1 trillion seconds is 31,700 years.

Musk is projected to be the first trillionaire sometime this year. That’s the separation. And more than half of the 1% in the US are “just” six figure jobs, not millionaires, if you are talking income and not total assets.

0.1% doesn’t flow off the tongue as well though.

I had a saved post from Reddit once about someone who broke down the differences between incomes based on their experience with connections they had in their work, and somewhere in the high hundreds of millions wealth becomes not about money, but about power and influence. Things like bills and budgets aren’t a thing. Whereas the multimillionaire may have their houses, cars, boats, whatever, but they’re still having to make sure they can afford the lifestyle. And some don’t, and are probably in debt but don’t show it.

Bulletin Board System. Imagine if you had to connect to each Lemmy instance individually to read the collected posts. That’s sort of what BBSes were. A person’s computer hosting a forum of posts, that you’d connect through their phone number. The new use of that term with mesh is I think the same idea, individual connections and not a broad one like the internet is.

Then the price for fuel use would drop, but the cost for running large vehicles would increase dramatically to make up for the difference. Which will be passed on to consumers. Possible kill transit in some areas that already get questioned on cost. I’m more for spreading the cost over everyone using the road than giving more excuse for price increases on everything.

A long password made of different parts that you can remember in your head is far more secure than any manager that can get hacked.

Taxes go to schools, libraries, fire and police, lots of things you might never use. I think gas taxes usually go towards road maintenance (or they should).

Not directed at you, OP, but there seems to be a lot of anti-tax stuff lately that I’ve seen posted, and not one of them brought up how much taxes go to support a military operation. They always seem to lean towards pointing out how much of their money goes to social programs that they don’t use or want. They ought to compare the price of a school vs. a missile.

And someone who did something important.

What you do with your life isn’t tied to either of those.

Our pediatrician from years ago left the group practice he was in to do his own thing, partially so he could get away from the numbers game and have longer appointment slots so time could be taken to address any concerns that come up. Actually talk to the patient. Great doctor. He first impressed us when he brought us in the room, then talked to our son first.

He ended up retiring after a lot of years simply because he couldn’t afford to do it the “right” way any longer.

Tulsa and Wilmington are two examples of reactions to black people starting to build themselves up, as per the American Dream.

And as an NC grade school student, do you think Wilmington was mentioned at all in any history class? But we learned all the governor names…

SImple solution is to just go into the turn slow. This gives a hint to the car behind you that you might be doing something beyond a left turn, and reaction time for any traffic that you may have to yield for (whether or not they legally have the right-of-way). Once you start turning more it ought to be obvious.

Of course lots of accidents are from obvious situations that could have been avoided, but not doing a legal U-turn isn’t going to fix stupid people.

Gen-X quietly in the corner, remembering how they watched TV a lot too, but also mostly got kicked out of the house to play outside and “don’t come back in until dark”.

Edit to emphasize this wasn’t necessarily a choice we made for ourselves. Boomers (and the Silent Gen before them) wanted their peace from the kids, so we were on our own. Good and bad points to that kind of character building.

Narrator: The fire detector in fact did not work.

There’s more than one kind of backup in life, check them all.