But to answer your question, no – we are not passing on these added costs to the customer by modifying destination charges...These are a short-term solution to get vehicles to customers faster.

It’s been a slowly growing discussion that picked up steam during lockdowns when people realized just how much more efficient they can be when working on their own time. The shift to get employees back in the office seems to have really pushed the 4-day work week to the side. The way remote work & lockdowns felt like…

That was a bad comparison. Looks like they are up to 2 derailments per million miles, a 17% increase over the last 10 years. My second point still stands that the income created dwarfs the costs/fines for any of the rail companies to care though. 

The close button on a freight elevator is good planning. That's the kind of elevator that could require a lot of awkward loads or in/out and you don't want all your stuff leaving you. 

Depends on the intersection and varies pretty wildly. I do not work with them directly, but do design other underground utilities and frequently have to partner with the stoplight people. Can usually tell how functional they are based on the conduits and cabinets present. Some are fake (kinda like the door close…

Derailed trains aren’t tremendously more common than crashing planes, just big news when they do. There are millions of miles of functional tracks making lots of money on a regular basis. The damages and fines are dwarfed by the income of keeping the trains moving by any means necessary. 

HAHAHAHA. Until the payout is measured in billions, this is barely a rounding error in their $26 billion revenue/$6 billion net.

It’s almost like they choose to ignore the entire human history of paid labor that says ownership will always sacrifice public interest in order to make more money personally.

The music streaming services are definitely one of the things that I know are bad for artists but great for me and honestly chose to accept that. I occasionally choose Pandora while working to find new artists and then because Apple music is free with my phone plan, I can download the stuff I like for listening…

I recently got a few months free and initially thought I might actually start paying for it. After the first month though, I realized they keep replaying many of the same songs just as bad as regular radio does. I had to take a long emergency trip with a few full days of driving and some songs got repeated 4 times a…

Football is the ratings king of America because almost every game matters, there’s a team for every metro (either college or pro), and it has huge participation at the youth level via players & fans. Sport viewership is largely determined by some combination of regional fan base and people who participated in it.…

No. 

Just think of all the useful skills they’ll develop during that indentured servitude.

Wouldn’t that require every one of those parking operators to be compatible with the new system?

I’m almost curious how things will work out in prison for him. I assume he’s too dark for the prison nazis to accept him while he also gets rejected by any minority group because of his proud boys leadership. It may take until that second month of getting traded like currency.

I’ve seen it a few times now, but I still also question whether any season can honestly be considered abnormal for celebrity divorce. Famous people splitting seems more like the norm. 

The good news is that the Atlantic current would eventually get him his corpse close-ish

Did Marlett knock the kid unconscious? All we know is that he spanked the boy, and then he hit his head hard enough to lose consciousness. Could have been a coincidence.

To be fair to PGP, I’d feel that way about literally any police organization in the country on something like this. So it is more of a comment about how American police are able to get away with abusing their authority as whole.

1st gear - has anything changed about the design of airbags in the last 10ish years? It seems like a bunch of cars from the 90s on start lasting much longer than previous generations, but basically all of the airbags from 1990-20?? still need to be replaced. Should we just assume that needs replaced on basically…