There are a lot of them. You could write an entire article on the Cylons. Or Ultron.
There are a lot of them. You could write an entire article on the Cylons. Or Ultron.
I'm surprised he didn't manage to work the Romulans in there too.
...understand, and would love to know the answer to, is why the one-way won't price on the "W" fare. Is it a conscious business decision on the part of UA not to offer that fare on a BOS-LHR purchase (or a wider suppression on some types of connections), or is it just a design flaw or a glitch?
Oh, I know you've been around a long time, I enjoy your writing. But you'd raised the question of why consumers think airlines are ripping them off, and I'm just saying to anyone else reading this why, to me at least, it isn't malicious, it's just how their pricing works. The one part I don't...
...this before, I have to admit, but the underlying "why" is the same "why" that leads to flights from a spoke to a hub costing more than a trip between two spokes that connect at the same hub - the pricing is based on the market between the two cities, not the underlying flights.
...airlines' services for that, including non-stops on AA, BA, DL, and B6, so the price is set to compete in that market. It's counter-intuitive, but in a way it's just a more complex version of buying bread and meat vs. buying a sandwich that's already made. I've never seen an example like...
...two flights isn't really being taken into account. UA is pricing the first trip based on the market to go from BOS to EWR at that time on that day, and then again for EWR to LHR. On the one-way, the price is for service between BOS and LHR, and the price is set to compete against other...
It kinda, sorta makes sense if you look it as booking services, not specific flights. In the "multi-city" itinerary, you're technically buying two separate services, transportation from BOS to EWR, and then transportation from EWR to LHR. The fact that there are only four hours between the...
...bills start piling up Canadians are going to start screaming about the money too.
...grow when local committees try to get more money out of local governments that are already having to cope with spending money on events that most Americans just don't care about. And I suspect that while right now just wanting to look welcoming when the US isn't is helping in Canada, once the...
This is shaping up to be an unmitigated financial disaster, especially when - thanks to a combination of visa requirements and Trump's additional insanity - the number of fans showing up without tickets is going to be far lower than at other recent World Cups. The political turmoil will only...
...(SNAP or WIC restrictions that presuppose the poor are simply too dense to manage their own lives). It can detract attention away from looking at broader programs to reduce (or even dream of eliminating) poverty.
In a way, though, talking about various "insecurities" (food, energy, housing, etc.) just masks the fact that all of these insecurities have the same root source: poverty. Looking at individual aspects of poverty leads to bias in proposing solutions. This can be good (school lunches) or bad...
Neoliberalism has its many faults, but neoliberalism didn't cause a worldwide fascist uprising. You can't even blame Fox and Murdoch outside the anglosphere. It is quite clearly an internet and social media phenomenon, and we need to deal with it accordingly.
From a strictly legal perspective, the comic doesn't specifically say how old the girl is, she could be a young college student. From a real-world perspective, it is, of course, very gross.
Very pretty, but at first I only noticed the first sentence and expected to see a corgi in the picture, so I have to admit I'm a little disappointed. Anything called "corgarff" should involve corgis.
At first I just saw the exterior and thought nothing could be scarier than C$900k for a house described as "great for someone looking for a project." Good location, though, near downtown and raccoon-friendly. Then I clicked and discovered just how horrifically wrong I was. So very, very wrong.
-babble in the statement, this boils down to another "shrink to get rid of the bad routes" plan, with the likelihood of a round of "squeeze the employees" in there too, at least at first glance. (Admittedly, that's all we have right now.)
And they're supposedly going to accomplish this with the same leadership that led this to being the fastest "Chapter 22" I can think of off the top of my head. In the 8-K it lists $6.3 million in retention payments to the four main executives. If you photon torpedo your way through the consultant-
I understand that, but my point is that the LA takeover was literally an (illegal, stupid, etc.) police action that would, presumably, eventually end, while the DC and proposed Boston actions are meant to be permanent. That's a major expansion of day-to-day Federal control over people's lives.
More from Catoggio in that article (paywalled) thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...
Trump and MAGA were the last stake in the heart of that iteration of the GOP. From Nick Catoggio, writing on The Dispatch:
...already controlled by Amtrak, which is part of the federal govt. (Yes, it's technically a corporation, not a Federal agency, but that's a distinction without much difference.) Boston South Station is owned by the State of Massachusetts, so this would be a new and illegal escalation entirely.
This proposal, like the Union Station takeover in DC, isn't the same thing - LA wasn't a transfer of control of the station itself, as the Trumpers are apparently talking about here. The DC takeover was (relatively) pretty much legal because of DC's unique legal status and that the station was...
Especially amazing considering the frequent loss of production due to feline action.
Of fuckin' *course* Taylor Lorenz would spin a story about Democrats actually doing the kind of broad spectrum messaging (remember "we need a Fox News/Joe Rogan/etc. for mainstream Dems"?) that people keep demanding Dems do. But of course it's shadowy and secretive and baaaaaad ooooo.
No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
I like it. The only thing that should taste like pumpkin spice is a pumpkin pie.
I'm absolutely certain Trump cleared the newest tariffs on India with Putin before imposing them. There won't be any real impact to Russia, India has always made this clear.
Yeah, I was greeted at Sam's Club yesterday by an entire wall of pumpkin spice flavored (and a few scented) crap yesterday. So wrong. Especially since it's still full-on summer here. Florida does not have "early autumn." Florida doesn't have autumn at all, really, but especially not "early".
No better demonstration of this administration’s priorities.
Okay, this is weird - Breeze already serves Lancaster, but they're trying to claim EAS now? And why does LNS have EAS at all when Harrisburg (MDT) is only 40 minutes away, with service to Big 3 hubs, Allegiant, and Frontier? The idea that every small airport in the US has to have EAS is absurd.
Ah, just saw your last post. The looks aren't deceiving.
How are the seats? They don't look particularly comfortable, but I know looks can be deceiving.
How are they possibly going to expect aid organizations to demand proof of citizenship in an emergency? Oh, wait, the Stephen Miller Method:
That is epically beautiful.
Okay, I know the country is falling apart, and I shouldn't laugh at this, and this is not - repeat, not - Walmart's fault, they just got stuck with them, but I still love this: www.reddit.com/r/crappymusi...
I know...I find myself saying this every day yet it doesn't work...
Why does this story make me think of Wrath of Khan?
Hope the tests lead to a diagnosis! Take care!
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Someone must have told Trump he can't completely stack the deck on the Amtrak board. He hasn't even selected a new CEO or filled the vacant board seat. Again, orange toddler just wants to do stuff so he can scream about being in charge.
...those NeverTrump conservatives the same way P.J. O'Rourke (one of those conservatives) put it when he endorsed Hillary Clinton: "...wrong about virtually everything, but wrong within normal parameters."
You're describing the current Republican party, and you're right. He's talking about the NeverTrump wing of conservativism, who disagree with liberals on wide range of policies but share the belief that we need democracy and the Constitution to make those decisions. Think of it as working with...
It took a couple of years, but eventually Joe Walsh saw the wisdom in giving up on the GOP that you called for here.
I think it's time for me repost and pin this: My advice to both liberals and conservatives in 2022 about how to build a coalition, including the sage advice of "get over it" www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
every cuomo statement is like "new yorkers must writhe under the crushing weight of a brutal and unfair world and LIKE IT so vote for me"
True, sorry - it was Derek Guy's post, that you were responding to, that just said "mail". His post was misleading, but probably dashed off quickly.
New at The Watch: radleybalko.substack.com/p/a-warning-...
Until (unless) we reach a point of creating true non-living sentience, even thinking about this is a gigantic waste of time. Much like LLMs themselves.
I really like that artwork! We need more of this aviation art these days.
theonion.com/former-japan...
With the orange greasy overlay of the Trump Administration being involved. It's a nice break from the daily stories of the Spirit Airlines Death Spiral, I guess.
...737-10 certified soon. And while the Lords of Kobol know Korean Air could use some fleet rationalization, even with some retirements this is still a huge order, and I'm not sure KAL has a growth plan that will use all of these airplanes. It'll be interesting to follow, to say the least.
The timing and audience for this LOI (anytime Howard Lutnick is involved in anything, I tend to think it's politics, not business) make me suspect that actual conversion to orders is going to take a while, and that deliveries will go well beyond 2030, even presuming Boeing manages to get the...
...Trump-loathing heart would love to read this as part of action against his tariffs (throw the words "solidarity" and "resistance" in as desired)...unfortunately, it's much less.
As BBC reports, a lot of the problem is that companies like the Royal Mail don't have systems in place on their end to comply. I suspect they've presumed Trump would TACO on this latest burst of stupidity, but he hasn't. Royal Mail expects to have a fix in place within two days. So while my...
A few clarifications: it's not all "mail" as Derek Guy's post suggests, letters and other correspondence are unaffected. Here's a good summary from the BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Especially if AOC decides to run and those people fixate on her as the Second Coming of Bernie.
...funigble (if given in cash, not tied to purchases from the US as most US aid actually is), and Israel is a relatively wealthy country. But it's really easy to take the fair question "why do we give non-defense aid to a rich country?" and twist it into anti-semitism, exactly what they're doing.
It's another example of what I call the "shit oyster", taking a minor fact and building lies around it. In this case: the US gives Israel lots of money, Israel has money to spend on healthcare, therefore we must be paying for it. Somewhere in there there is a tiny bit of truth: money is...
wrote this back in may!
Two crime family heads meet.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
My post was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, Bernie cosplays at being a socialist. He may be a New Deal Democrat, but that's about as far as it goes.
Trump isn't the leader, not really. He's the figurehead, the symbol. I'm convinced most of this is coming from his handlers, particularly Miller. Especially the overt racism. Now could Miller and the other string-pullers keep the GOP in Congress in line? That's the question.
Well, Sanders describes himself as a a "democratic socialist", and aren't socialists supposed to support public ownership of the means of production?
...instead of some extraterrestrial researcher looking at humans from orbit. On others...well, I don't understand how you talk about some policy proposals regarding the mentally ill without using the term "involuntary confinement".
It is impossible to underestimate the ability of the left in this country to get into fights with itself. That said, on some of these I understand what "Third Way" is on about. Don't talk about "food insecurity", talk about poor people and food prices going up - talk like a caring human being...
what would meatloaf not do for love
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
I will bet you a million quatloos someone at least considered this. I also never knew there was a such thing as a Ph.D. in graphic design, and I'm now not entirely sure if the question should be how or why such a thing exists.
I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
Yeah, it's way too early to be talking about this. And Newsom may be the man of the moment, but can you really see him unifying the party? I can't.
christ he’s like if charlie brown’s teacher never shut the hell up
Great, so furniture will be more expensive and take forever to get delivered. Just what we needed.
The ACTUAL "most iconic trophy in the world of sport"...
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
...fascism or the sheer unbridled pettiness of it all.
So the bottom line here is that this raid isn't about national security or even Trump, it's about a woefully unqualified FBI director having his fee-fees hurt and now, having managed fail his way into a position of power, use that power to try to hurt his enemy. I don't know what's worse, the...
It went from advocacy groups to more general use in the NHS in England, where it set off the expected political kerfluffle. I believe that since this article it's largely been stopped. This, though, was by bureaucrats, not elected officials. www.yahoo.com/news/nhs-cal...
Nick Clegg has never been able to grasp the differences between the UK and "Europe" (or, in other words, the EU), so why would we look to him for analysis on the EU vs the US?
Presuming this is a real product and not a spoof, if I owned a house and had the money I would buy this washing machine in a heartbeat. Of course, I'm the kind of guy who buys the right charging pad so I can charge my cell phone honorably, so it tracks...
I will be in Washington in a couple of weeks and can't wait - I am sick unto death of Tampa's weather. I am looking foward to actually being able to be outdoors for more than a few minutes at a time.
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
...a lot of carriers these days?
Interesting, with Southwest already on all five routes, United on two (DEN and SFO, both hubs), and Frontier on DEN. Does DL see an opportunity to increase visibility and market share in the face of possible weakness from Elliottflot? Or is it just more of the Austin-mania we seem to see from...
Cuomo never intended to accept the primary results - he had that stupid "Fight and Deliver" line set up before the primary. He's a pathetic joke who can't accept that his political life is over.
I’m a little concerned by all this lust for life I mean where is the wrath envy and sloth for life let’s keep things balanced people
I don't actually want Newsom as the Democratic candidate for president, but this is expert-level trolling.
Didn't DeSantis already try that?
It looks like the offer is good for any member of those four airlines' FF programs, not just their members with status. The press release says "consumers with any level of loyalty program membership..." As long as you can antitipate flying them even once in the next 16 mos, this is a good offer!
The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”
"The fear of being cut down by a tactical assault sandwich haunts my every moment..."
But did you have to deploy the sandwich?
The Sandwich Crimes Unit doesn't cut corners—"unless the sandwich in question is a round-type sandwich." @petridishes.bsky.social on how sandwich crime is caught:
