But there’s no guarantee that paying for a better airline is going to mean, in cases like this, you’re gonna get either another flight to your destination or a refund in a reasonable enough time to find alternative methods of transportation, especially if you don’t live near a major airport or a hub. Further, assuming…

The issue is that the US is an incredibly large country, and many destinations are either too distant to feasible drive, or have little to no rail connections, necessitating flights, particularly cheap flights.

A lot of these destinations are also expensive relative to the cost of the flight. So, if a person really…

I live in Tampa and have plenty of friends who work for airlines (but furloughed and back in the air), so I know. However, we’re talking at cross purposes here.

Spirit is always going to nickle and dime you, but with various baggage fees from a lot of the majors, the price is going to add up, and many people don’t take…

Not to defend flying Spirit, but for most people who are going on vacation, if they choose flying, they’ll be spending the least amount of time on the plane than any of the other things you’ve listed (spending time in/at the hotel, riding in a vehicle if they choose to not fly, eating). So, if you’re looking at a…

It can’t happen, for a few reasons.

Setting up an entirely new federal government, or even a basic governmental system, is incredibly complicated in a variety of respects. Merely leaving calls into question things such as: military (what do we do about bases, troops, and materiel), taxes (what do we do with money…

I mean, it’s a few things.

None of the 75 cars are going to people where the Singer is going to be either their daily driver on their only vehicle. Yes, they appreciate the craftmanship and the driving dynamics, and they might carve the PCH or take them on the Autobahn, but the likelihood that any of these vehicles are…

The issue that Democrats (of which I’m one) face is the salient reality of politics: power.

All of the values and being on the “right side of history” mean absolutely nothing if we’re out of power. The people we claim to want to help and support, in many cases, couldn’t give less of a fuck about being on the right side…

True, but proportions are visually relative to the viewing angle. We’ve all viewed cars that look great from a rear 3/4 view, but if you see them in profile, the looks drop precipitously.

As other people have said, the 2-series has odd proportions not just because of the long hood, but because of the rather short and…

If they’re going for a front-mid-engine layout for the sake of weight distribution, you could end up with a significantly longer front end in order to have more space to put the V12 behind the front axle, and avoiding having a cramped interior. 

Notice that the V12s (and even V10s) in things like a Aston Martin or a…

Thankfully I can put my politicial science degree to use a little bit here.

The interesting thing in the Senate, is the the dual-role that Senators have in both representing their state, and also doing what’s best for the country as a whole. Really, it’s an issue with our federalist structure, but with Senators having…

She could’ve just said, “We think it would be needlessly costly and legal tenuous for us, as a municipality, to mandate vaccines for people entering private businesses. Private businesses can require them if they like (just as they can require you to wear appropriate clothing or provide ID), but as a city, we will…

Test kit =/= dev kit

I’m guessing their math is the same that has put Kylie and Kanye into billionaire status.

Thing is, none of their most valuable assets are publicly traded, so it’s very difficult to really assess the true value. That’s why it’s rather misleading when the value of the assets are tied to either a brand (like Trump), or…

It’s all an excuse.

These same people will walk into Wal-Mart and fill a buggy with a bunch of non-FDA approved supplements, then get absolutely plastered on the weekends (not judging that, because I do too), and then to round it off, have awful diets and don’t exercise.

Yet now they want FDA approval because the…

The big 4 tobacco companies survived the lawsuits and settlements of the 90s, and their products killed 1/2 million people per year. Sexual harrassment and bad employment practices doesn’t come close to literally killing people, and Activision-Blizzard is a similar sized company than most of them were, even adjusted…

Outside of Chinese companies, Activision-Blizzard is the largest and most profitable game developer/distributor in the world. Their market cap was higher than Nintendo’s (before all this shit went down), and they don’t even make hardware.

They will be fine. Their finances are incredibly strong, and many of these…

The issue is that people misuse gaslighting, or at least use it in a colloquial manner.

In the movie, as you correctly point out, he was actually doing the thing his wife claimed to be happening (the lights being raised and lowered), but claimed that it was all in her imagination. He was doing that specifically to…

Having many friends in the industry, here’s another thing that goes unsaid, but also contributes to staffing shortages:

Delta is the only MAJOR airline that pays flight attendants during training. You have to look at some of the smaller airlines to see any paid training. Even vaunted Southwest, whom I love, doesn’t pay…

You’re right. I was using Disney as a catch-all even though Marvel hadn’t been bought by then.

The bad PR doesn’t help, but I think this is less about the direct money and more about maintaining the legal status quo where, accounting-wise, they can count streaming revenues as “home video” revenues, and thus keep 80%…

Butlet isn’t going to get a dime.

Points on the net profits are called Monkey points because the accounting systems can work out net losses for even the most financially successful movies.

Further, there’s the legal issue of who owns the distribution rights to Olympus. The company that did was sold by Millennium Media…