When CDs were introduced they were touted as essentially eternal and damage proof. Id take M discs xlaim with a pinch of salt

All things considered, stability and six full seats? Look up Fiat Multipla.

I once saw an asshole who managed to park a compact car on 4 Spaces, one being a handicapped spot. I took a picture, but cant find it.

If the product needs to be imported, like vegetables from Mexico, The country of origin should slap a matching tax. The tremendous price increase would probably get the message across to the morons who support tariffs. I this particular case, if combined with deportations, would essentially cause havoc, because of the inability of the US agricultural sector to employ local workers for the wages they pay

But do they run Doom?

I saw it when it came out, in a theater. When the movie ended you could not hear anyone, nobody moved and when we exited, the silence was eerie. I was exhausted. The movie is intense+

Passive aggressive. FTFY

One of the main problems of the Dems is playing nice, and expecting rules to be followed.

It’s time to fight using their weapons.

Well, he was going to turn him gay, no?

The Raspi 5 has introduced fuckery like a non standard USB C. I own several Pi’s, all the way to a 1, but the last one is a4. Now I look to other options.

Minor Wisdom… heh heh heh

A320s are less noisy, and have better pressurization and humidity control than 737s. Look it up.

First, your username doesn’t add up. Second, you are going to drive the distance of a 6 hour flight? yeah, comfortable.

thre are a some airlines in Europe which are all Airbus, like Easyjet, Iberia, etc. When looking for flights I always try to fly these type of airlines. Prices some times may be 10-20 € more. Worth it for me. Also, the A320 is more comfortable than the 737.

Can you link to sources for this?

Also, it makes sense to retire a plane when it’s 20-30 years old, essentially because it becomes extremely inefficient. That said There are nearly 200 A300s flying. They were introduced in 1974.

I have a friend who is the chief engineer for a charter airline that has a 4 plane fleet, A320, First gen. From the 80s or early 90s.

Your claim doesn’t seem to hold up.

I have read the links. It seems that it’s not as nice as they paint it. However, it seems normal that in an organization that size, things will not be perfect, or even near, but it does seem that they are better than most. They are the chain that pays their employees the highest salaries, for example. If you have 105.000 employees, it’s a given that some will have problems at some point. About the DANA thing: I’m going to guess that store managers had much more to do than the company. It seems that on the whole they are better than most other chains in that respect. Some of the links you post go against your arguments, and some are from media which is not local, as you mention, but based in Argentina, and which has had court rulings against them for publishing fake news. BTW, stores in many regions in Spain open several Sundays during the year, and in Madrid, all Sundays, except Mercadona.

Spains Mercadonas CEO. They follow a very respected model where the consumer is the first priority, then the employees. Works great and they still make a shitton of money. Things like closing sundays because employees should have a life, etc. Employee rotation is super low.

Apparently they make more money from memberships than from sales margins, which are capped.

My exwife of 18 years dumped me when I went into a period of depression, fueled by the death of my father and a business failure. As soon as I ceased to be the rock, I became value less.

I had been there for her for two serious bouts of depression.

I have heard of similar things from friends. Men are not allowed to show weakness. Remember men were not supposed to cry until recently.

One thing about the Chinese push: The quality is not there. A friend has a BYD. I had a chance to take a really good look at it. Things like primer showing in certain areas. The manufacture appears rushed. She also had the infotainment controls fail, and the dealer is dragging their feet to repair under warranty.

China can make quality stuff, but it appears that in this case they are pushing price at all costs. Maybe they will improve quality as time goes on, but right now I wouldn’t buy. There are some decent options in Europe. Renault is doing a decent job. The R5 electric range is not great, but Ibelieve they start at under 25000 Euro.

Maybe western and Japanese finally will get their act together, out of sheer terror, and pose a real challenge to the Chinese.

A major problem is that Western and Japanese makers are decades or even over a century old, and work in an incremental, not disruptive fashion. Changing that mentality is hard.

The fact that there aren’t riots in the US demanding universal care simply baffles me.