“’unknown cargo detection and evidence collection system’ designed to prevent vehicle owners from becoming a “blind mule” for drug traffickers.”

Ford helping everyone find free drugs! That’s how I’m taking this.

NO WE AREN’T.  YOU TAKE THAT BACK.

Kinda racist, though, eh..?

Odds are good it won’t be, but even if it is, they’ll have fixed it by then. Or just take lots of Sudafed beforehand to make sure you’ve got really good and open airways ahead of time! :-D

I would’ve gone with “Planes aren’t air tight like a Riley Reid gangbang” but to each their own.

A 737 climbs at roughly 1800 ft/min on a normal departure. That can be fast enough when unpressurized to rupture eardrums. Hell, most people’s ears pop even with the cabin pressurized. 

It’s real bad that I saw “January 2019" and thought “oh, this thing was brand spankin’ new.” When in fact it's probably got millions of miles on it.

darthspartan (awesome userid) conveniently gave us the flightradar24 track, which includes the tail number: N916DU. Plugging that into the website airfleets.net gives us the history of the aircraft. This is a Boeing 737-932ER, serial number 64884 LN:7379.  It was delivered January 30, 2019, so it’s about five and a…

“Raising a cop’s grump” is hilarious. Cops wouldn’t survive an hour in retail. Imagine if they were held to the same - or perhaps even a higher - standard.

My first two cars (an 89 and a 5spd 91) were 3rd gen maximas. TERRIFIC cars. 90s Nissan was peak Nissan. They were just as good as honda and toyota at the time with more personality.

Pilot was busy listening to Vance tell him how good the couches on the plane are.

Maybe its because I am in a bad mood today. Maybe its because I am now a middle aged male. I am not at company number 9 in my career. I spent well over two decades in the tech industry and now work at an older established financial firm. If I could retire today I would. None of the companies I worked for really care…

Ya, the last wave was with the stupid RTO demands because the companies had expensive leases and had pressure from local governments because local businesses were suffering. So they pressured employees to come back into office and watched their morale HR KPIs plummet. Now they’re trying to increase this metric so they…

Tech companies have been trying to downsize since lockdowns ended. I don’t feel like looking for the article, by my hypothesis about tech company RTF mandates ended up being confirmed recently: CEOs did it to downsize without explicit layoffs. I firmly believe GM is doing the same thing now. Give weird requirements…

FIRST GEAR: Ah yes, loyalty pledges. This is something that’s coming into vogue across industries. If people are deemed not sufficiently excited or enthusiastic, they’re viewed as low performers or disloyal and removed from the business. I’ve heard of this happening in tech companies already.

So Toyota parts cost more than other brands.  But then you talk about how labour is most of the cost in replacing a part anyways.  So if you have to pay labour 5x as often to replace a part that wears out 5x as much, don’t you end up saving money anyways by replacing the expensive part infrequently?

Probably not enough surveys to be statistically reliable.

I enjoyed your post very much. But it’s anecdotes. I look at data through work and it shows much lower fleet wide major component failure rates over time with Toyota and Lexus. Cars don’t get to you until something breaks. Some companies do a far better job than others of keeping their cars out of your shop to…

It is so cool that we’ve got the linguist pedants in the comments section to quibble with the title / focus of this story.