Moe Tkacik ran this out more than 4 years ago. While Mr. Trump was president.

The reason why this is happening has nothing to do with DEI or the like.

Unions usually call for more employees and more hours for workers to do quality control. Not sure how advocating for employee rights is a bad thing for safety when Boeings main goal is to make planes as fast as possible.

Shareholder profits at its finest.

Greed isn’t a sin in America.

What is happening is, well, it is capitalism. Run everything as cheap as you can, as hard as you can, until it breaks, and hope you’ve moved on from your position with the profits before the breaking happens to someone else. It is a mindset that has been applied to machines, to people, and to the very infrastructural…

My guess: in the strive for StOnKs MuSt Go Up everything is getting thinned out - maintenance crews, support crews, staff, (ATC to an extent but that’s more manufactured government dysfunction)...etc. Everything that makes the system work smoothly has been slowly chipped away to make more money and we’re really…

Transportation site

I know what you mean, the idea that if there’s a small problem, everything should be stopped and fixed, because if not, then who’s to say something that’s a big problem would be fixed?

When we are relying to passengers to spot deficiencies in the aircraft, we’ve already lost.

Ford and other OEM’s have laid out the foundation of EV manufacturing, getting the right product is another story, but they’re miles ahead of any startup/indie EV hopefuls.

Our firm has done business with a number of companies that source from China and they will all tell you that you better either have your own plant, or a full-time quality control team on site if using third party. Whatever specs and formulations you agree to go out the window as soon as the door closes behind you if…

To me, the big question today isn’t getting a car to 250k miles. Any car can get to that miles or more given enough cubic dollars.

I have a QX80.  It doesn’t get 15 mpg.  More like 13.

No lie, I traded in my 2005 Prius with 170k miles on it because it was going to need around $3k of work, including replacing the rear brakes for the first time. Front brakes went at 150k miles. If I didn’t want a new toy, I would still be driving that thing. Cost of ownership for 11 years was practically zero.

Anything Stellantis makes.

My 2011 F-150 just turned over 292,000 miles so I think I’d stay on that train.

Yeah, that was a day-one item

I didn’t realize that Biden reentered the US into the Paris Agreement immediately after taking office. 

Is it good or bad to know that conservatives on other countries not just the US are wacky conspiracy nut jobs?