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Mercedes Streeter
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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

Possibly concerns that the damage was to the doors and that retracting the gear might cause even more problems. No interest in flying at the very low speed limit with gear-extended. Read more

Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft can’t catch a break right now after a door plug blew out the side of one of the planes mid-flight early last year. Since then, the plane was caught up in a government probe into safety concerns at Boeing and another bird strike meant that a 737 Max couldn’t pressurize back in November. Read more

Further complicating matters, the Coast Guard says it’s been dealing with exceptionally low water levels Read more

She still managed to get here before you commented. Read more

So was he stuck circling for a couple of hours? Or is he one of those people who show up 10 minutes before and throw a fit when they won’t hold the gate for him?
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Guy climbs into a driverless car to get to the airport, and can’t find an actual person to complain to, wondering where is the human connection to this. Read more

Ok. Hands up. How many of you here walk 20+ minutes daily? Or how about when was the last time you walked anywhere, at all, for a solid 20 minutes?

Not defending the guy, but from a bunch of keyboard nerds like us, I am sure we’d also choose to drive as opposed to walking 20 minutes.
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He also said he wasn’t sure if the customer service agent was real or AI, which he found concerning. “Where’s the empathy? Read more

It does not charge wealthier people more than poorer people. That makes it by definition a regressive tax. It shifts financial burden for a societal problem to people with less resources. Read more

I like that we can argue over what type of asshole this obvious asshole is. Read more

It’s a half assed solution to an actual problem. Richie Rich here should be overjoyed that the streets are being cleared of the riff raff but he is a miser of Dickensian stature.
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It’s stupid, it will be mismanaged and only cause inconvenience for rich, not so rich and poor people regressively. It will never meaningfully fund anything, will be fraught with management issues and waste and will be ultimately abandoned. Read more

“The plane went around and performed a belly landing. It was executed perfectly...” Read more

Still no decent explanations on so many aspects of this: Read more

Agreed. I prefer landing in glass half full fields. Read more