$2mil house, figure $1.5 mil is financed, gets you 12.5 years at $10k/month - not including interest.  So it might not be that far off. .

They’re probably still operating on fuel contracts from last year. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if they took a bunch of that bailout money to secure ultra cheap contracts for the future. I doubt they’s pass those savings onto the passengers though.

Lufthansa has figured out a way to stuff cargo into passenger compartments and if it’s safe enough for ze Germans, it’s more than safe enough for the rest of us.

I am suprised the ICU bed capacity is that low for the entire state when it has Mayo associated hospitals and U of M to begin with. 

The problem is that both of those have 3 weeks of the absolute highest patient load where the hospital capacity is exceeded. A big chunk of the people who would die would die in that gap.

While I agree that we’re in for some bad times ahead, probably the worst two months of our country’s history are coming, I disagree we will be the worst off in the world. As we sit here, Brazil and Mexico’s people and government are literally pretending like nothing is happening. I saw a video of Mexico today where…

The testing won’t improve. Despite all that is known people still can’t get tested. Either tests aren’t available in some areas, or the CDC guidelines say they aren’t eligible to be tested.

If we were to tomorrow start following the South Korean model of test-and-quarantine, rinse-and-repeat, we’re looking at resuming something resembling post-COVID-19 economy by Summer.

Interestingly, our governor just announced the stay at home order until April 10th at minimum. He went through the straight math of the pandemic and essentially said, “Most of us are going to get COVID-19 no matter what we do.”

My hope is that we quickly scale up testing and get needed protection supplies to healthcare workers. Then we can figure out who has it and needs to be treated/quarantined, who had it and recovered, and who is still uninfected. Then we treat each group differently. (Assuming that you can’t get reinfected.) At least…

Thanks for pointing out that the original article used the term ventilator. I was a bit confused by some of the comments talking about this as a ventilator. You’re absolutely right, all of these sites need to include a note when they correct something like this.

I remember as a kid flushing a toilet on an Amtrak train and seeing the tracks flashing by through the hole, this was probably in the 80's.

Conversely, I have never heard one say “deplane”.

“Challenge accepted motherfuckers.” - Spirit Airlines

To be honest, in a state of total war you'd just poop over the side right into the sea. These are peacetime problems.

Thank you for your bugfix <salutes>

Now that you fixed that, can you put a queue system into the toilets so that when you press the flush button the toilet sends a message to the server and will process the poop when the server responds to that message?

It’s impossible to switch back to using steam. The entire ship is designed to use EMALS. There’s EMALS equipment and cabling all over the ship, and none of the equipment it would need to use steam catapults. Switching back to steam would require a complete retrofit. President Trump demanded that they switch back to…

Overall, the Ford’s estimated lifetime operations and sustainment costs have grown to $123 billion from $77.3 billion

They’re all existing or announced models. The presentation slide is the only thing that’s relevant.