Get this generationalist BS out of here. It isn't supported by the facts. Airline safety has improved with each generation. There were many more plane crashes in the 1970s-1980s when boomers were in their prime. Five times as many!
Heh, I remember back then when they said "Airplane crashes come in threes", while I don't think that's exactly true, the number of large fatal crashes was much higher.
At the risk of doing what I'm about to ask you not to do: please don't comment just to talk about moderation decisions. It's boring and doesn't add to the discussion. If you want to flag or downvote, simply do it and move on.
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To counterpoint: in the height of summer tourist season 2023, I spent a week in Switzerland taking trains and booked several supersaver tickets in advance with 15-30 minute connections. I was told stories of the efficiency of Swiss trains, and that I could book 5-10 min connections with no problems, but chose to be safe and do 15-30 mins. Well, I missed 3 of these connections due to delays on the incoming train. I had to queue at the ticket booth to get it endorsed for the next train.
What your link shows is that train punctuality in 2022 was 92.5 %. That is shocking bad. Back in 2018 at least 10 countries were doing better than Switzerland.
Once more a variation on how to lie with statistics... It does not matter if the overall statistics show a somewhat high value, mostly driven by predicable and frequent travels between Cantons in the mountains, where there is maybe just one track. What matters is the experience of the majority of commuters on urban centers. From [1] in 2022, the year of most recent statistics.
"The punctuality values in the last three months on some major intercity routes are below the threshold:
Zurich HB - Bern: 73.5 percent of on-time arrivals and departures
But you are doing the same thing. Switzerland has a high standard of 3min is late. What actually important if you make your connections. In Switerland you make your connection like 98ish% of the time.
This article picks out some of the worst lines over a very short time period. You can do that in most networks. Some German ICE lines have 23% on time.
I ride some of those city to city pairs and those numbers don't line up with my experiance over the last couple years.
I'm not sure how Statista got their info, but most other countries define "late" as being more than 5 minutes behind schedule. In Switzeland that limit is lower with only 3 minutes not counting as late.
Can’t tell from that link but historically the Swiss punctuality standard is three minutes where other countries use five or more, Japan being the notable exception.
If your train is not too late, the connection will wait for you. If it can't wait, they will tell you about the alternative.
My experience in Germany is that the connection does not wait, and you just end up having to find your way yourself. It's a bit weird when not used to it, and it seems to mean that you can basically take whatever train you want that you believe goes towards your goal.
> you can basically take whatever train you want that you believe goes towards your goal.
That's a big difference between Germany and Switzerland. Full fare tickets let you take any route, but reasonably priced tickets are specific to a schedule of trains. If there is a delay causing a misconnect, you have to queue at the ticket window to get it endorsed for a later specific train. And my ticket inspectors on the train seriously inspected the endorsement each time.
The Swiss don't use those super saver tickets, or at least I don't think so: they either have GA or Halbtax to start with, and apps like Fairtiq mean that they get the best price for the route(s) they take automatically, as calculated by the end of each day (this makes it possible to get switched to a daily ticket on the fly if you travel so much that it would cost you less in the end).
I know it's unfair towards tourists, but Switzerland is a very expensive country - if you need a "super-saver" ticket you'd probably be better off visiting any of the neighbouring countries anyway.
If the incoming train was first going through Italy or Germany the punctuality statistics are much much worse. I regularly book 5-8 minute overlaps and I don't remember the last time I missed a connection, but this is Zürich into the mountains mostly.
Because Boeing is 'too big to fail', proven in the last 737 Max case with MCAS. If there were no leadership prosecuted for that travesty and tragedy, none will ever be for this one. Proper accountability would cripple both the civilian and military sides of the US aerospace sector, which is dominated by Boeing.
So Southwest is all-in on not just Boeing, but 737s. That's their entire fleet. It makes a lot of things simpler. Could they boycott and switch to Airbus? Possibly, but at massive cost and logistics nightmares. Given their logistics failures elsewhere, they'd be fools to try to exit Boeing over this.
Southwest is not just all-in with 737s, they have an excellent safety record flying 737s.
It’s an interesting question. Something seems clearly rotten at Boeing related to their recently designed 737 variants. Does the rot extend to older variants of the airframe? It has historically been considered very capable and reliable… the U.S. military still uses it to fly VIPs around the world.
It's a deep cultural rot that has apparently taken over in the 2010s, not a physical rot with older variants. There is no more of the classic Boeing engineering culture.
Read these emails and chats from Boeing employees in charge of safety and compliance, who brag to each other about pulling a "Jedi mind trick" on the regulators and how they deserve to get paid more for all the money they're saving the company.
Don't think of it like a transparent camera. Think of the window as a giant external periscope lens, connected to the rest of the camera with such thin fiber optics that you can't notice.
Sure, but how do you build fiber optics like that? Especially so each "pixel" has to shoot out hundreds (?) of separate fibers to cover every possible angle to achieve the holographic effect?
For just a 1MP display, we're talking like hundreds of millions of fibers? That fit in some thin transparent layer? How?
I also am a bit over my head here but I’d guess the major innovation is around manufacturing glass in a way that optic channels are a natural part of the glass’ characteristics as it’s developed. We’re probably talking fiber optics at a molecular level.
I'll give your non-contribution to this discussion a quote in turn:
"Libertarians are like house cats: completely dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate, but nevertheless fiercely confident of their own independence."
For all the valid criticism of the Wikipedia Foundation, their combined salaries of all "officers, directors,
trustees, and key employees" (aka board and C suite) was $4.2 million in 2021
This is because Jimmy Wales is still around and even though he dont control wikimedia directly he is actually a public figure with massive recognition and authority. And certainly have more following and trust than majority of FAANG CEOs.
Unfortunately Mozilla never had benevolent dictator to begin with and now there is not a single person who can call the bullshit loud enough.
For all the valid criticism of the Wikipedia Foundation, their combined salaries of all "officers, directors,
trustees, and key employees" (aka board and C suite) was $4.2 million in 2021
Stop with this strawman argument. They're not saying criminals should just be released immediately and forgotten about until they commit their next crime. If you sincerely believe that this is the position of criminal justice reform advocates, you have been misled.
They're talking about criminals being housed in something other than a tiny cage with other criminals 23/7, who are all treated like they are irredeemable criminals who should never be allowed to re-enter society, even though most of them don't have life sentences. Turns out if you do that, the micro-society that results among prisoners is a warped society where criminality is rampant and normal. The strategies you learn to live in the prison society will cause you to become more of a criminal once you are released into the larger society, not less of one. In other words, prisons as they are currently run in the US are effectively a crime training program.
In what world is that logical? In what world would we not ask ourselves, "Is this really working? Should we at least try something else?"
A prison cell by another name is still a prison cell. Unless we go back to executing murderers the day of their conviction, we will always need prison cells.
