Be honest: Where are people saying that? I have never heard a politician, planner, or stakeholder argue we shouldn’t expand a highway or fund a transit system because Musk is digging a big hole in the ground and I work in transportation.

I’d argue he had no training, education, or anything else on how to build a rocket

California will never get their high speed boondoggle of the ground due to NIMBYs.

You lost me when you said high speed rail is technologically sound in the US.

I look at that Musk is semi-seriously trolling the country, while encouraging people to think of the possibilities.

Not only that, but Musk’s efforts here are actually fucking up public support for real, non-fictional, technologically sound public transportation and infrastructure projects (“Why should we support high speed rail? Cancel all of it - let’s just wait for the hyperloop instead! Elon says it’s going to cost 1/10 the…

Rising tuition costs (particularly at state/public schools) are happening, in large part, because states are cutting higher education funding.

athletics as they are usually supposed to be somewhat self sufficient. Supposed to be.

Well, Duke, a private university, has always has quite high tuition relative to its public counterparts.

I’d criticize TV shows and movies for that too, if they had comment sections in which to do it.

Wikipedia (which is amazingly well-maintained for airline info) confirms that yes: they retired A340s in 2007, replacing them with 777s. Looks like the 767s are soon headed out the door too.

I was born and raised for a while (until about age 6) on a farm with unflouridated well water. I took chewable flouride tablets as a child before we moved to town and had flouridated tap water.

Yeah im aware of the 738, but i have just never heard of the quad seven. still more to learn

Abbreviation for a 777-700. In the airline industry quad-7 isn’t an unsusal thing to say. Also a 738 means a 737-800 in the same light. Doesn’t make it consistent, but that’s just how it goes.

Um, no. That’s a Getty image up above. They paid for it.

Because they don’t care about accuracy except when it comes to cars. Airplanes are all the same, amirite?

Jalopnik / Gizmodo / Gawker and most other media orgs don’t give two shits about accuracy when it comes to identifying aircraft or using accurate photos. Back when both the Malaysian Airlines 777 disasters happened, they relentlessly used a stock photo of a Malaysian 737, over and over again, despite many people…

As usual, a website that usually cares very much about accurate identification of cars doesn’t give two shits about using a wildly incorrect stock photo. Did you guys just type “air canada plane” into Google images and pick the first thing that came up?

Yes, it is already done at a lot of domestic and international airports, but wasn’t being done at the airports targeted by the ban.