Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

Outrage as teen with disability stopped from boarding IndiGo flight at Ranchi airport source : https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/outrage-as-child-with-disability-stopped-from-boarding-indigo-flight-at-ranchi-airport-8473661.html Glad to see other passenger stand up for...

Re: Don't :Look up and the realness of it.

The film has many themes in addition to climate change and willing mass deception. How tech entrepreneurs are convinced of their own infallibility, and that their solutions will always work until they don't. How election cycles dominate the thinking of elected officials. How the powerful ensure the...

Re: Don't :Look up and the realness of it.

just not with a commit, commit to what exactly? I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, but Dutchy certainly meant comet , not "commit." I had no clue what he was talking about since I haven’t seen the film, or even heard about it until now. Same here. It was nominated for the Osca...

Re: Don't :Look up and the realness of it.

Happened for real in the UK a couple of weeks ago, whatever your view on the activist and her point it was bad interviewing and journalism, from a man who noted he's been a journalist for 50 years. Indeed but not in a positive sense. He is often compared usually for his faux pas to the comic creati...

Don't :Look up and the realness of it.

I saw this yesterday - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/ and the only thing I can say is I can very well see it happening exactly the way it has been shared. And the part about 'modern culture' or the part about literally don't look up and could happen in the U.S., the UK, and even India with t...

Re: Unite the Right / Jan 6 - Legal Impacts - A thread

Same argument applies to Sen Warren, AOC and Bernie. Fringe voters give you fringe candidates. Not the same at all - the ones you mention support a far left agenda. I think this is a perfect illustration of how screwed up US politics have become, and how words have lost their meaning. None of the s...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

I just finished a few days back John Grisham's 'The Street Lawyer' which addresses the same problem. And that book was written in the 90s and according to the book, that started from 1970s and seems the needle hasn't moved at all to date

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

India has over 1.3 billion people, and as they are rapidly developing/urbanizing, more and more people will be in the air. Although 300 might seem like a lot compared to other airlines in India, considering the amount of people and future growth that will occur, the 1000ish total commercial airplan...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

So for the near future, basically any Indian domestic travel will have to connect though BOM/DEL unless Indigo? That's sad to see then, also explains why COK only has only 1-2 destinations from SpiceJet, Go First, Vistara, Air India, AirAsia India, etc. Not really. Its just that 6E has more flights...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

Air India Employees quarters given to Adani and they are moving to Bombay HC to protest the same - https://hr.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/air-india-employees-to-move-bombay-hc-over-eviction/90913483 These are the same people or almost 90% of them who voted for the BJP in the center. W...

Re: Will Smith assaults Chris Rock at the Oscars

I think one good thing from this attack will be attention given to the medical condition of Alopecia. It affects 3 million a year in the USA alone. It is autoimmune disorder It can be treated but it may be difficult. Losing hair from this medical condition can be embarrassing and cause psychologica...

Re: Florida bans 54 math textbooks because of "indoctrination"

Here's a meme that is math related... With a little bit of climate change and gender studies for good measure. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51142598812_34b43c2972_n.jpg I’m not picking up on this one really. Can you break down where the humor is? same here, it's beyond my understanding :(

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

In India, the RW made a copy of Twitter, called it Khoo or something similar. They had copied everything modifying a bit here and there so it may look 'different'. I was expecting some centrists to migrate over to the new service. But that idea failed miserably and most of them who had left Twitter ...

Re: 2022 IPCC Climate Change Report

Not my personal unsubstantiated opinion, just before COP26 Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies admitted the modelling was getting it wrong. But getting back to Galileo and scientific consensus, Galileo was forced to recant and confess to an error against the then A...

Re: 2022 IPCC Climate Change Report

frmrCapCadet wrote:

Humans are not sufficiently evolved to deal with plagues, let alone global warming.

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

That is the reason VW and Toyota want to stop Tesla. Every manufacturer wants to slow every competitor the best they can, that's called business I did see you kept silent on all the other stuff, the culture bit at Ford, and the issues therein. The last CEO didn't even mention the warranty issues an...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

Btw Ford just recalled 737,000 vehicles in the last two days in the U.S. over a part that could develop an oil leak and a software error that could hinder braking. All sorts of finger-pointing happening in Ford. Oh no, a vehicle recall! Man, never heard that happening before. https://driveteslacana...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

This video is specifically for you. And I would what he suggests, go back to you car ane breathe those beautiful fumes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNxQr0QCHI Yawn. And for the Toyota fanboys, any idea why is the new EV called BYD corolla instead of Toyota Corolla. Perhaps that was in the agr...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

Btw Ford just recalled 737,000 vehicles in the last two days in the U.S. over a part that could develop an oil leak and a software error that could hinder braking. All sorts of finger-pointing happening in Ford. https://www.klkntv.com/recall-alert-ford-vehicles-and-carbon-monoxide-alarms/ You won't...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

Btw Ford just recalled 737,000 vehicles in the last two days in the U.S. over a part that could develop an oil leak and a software error that could hinder braking. All sorts of finger-pointing happening in Ford. https://www.klkntv.com/recall-alert-ford-vehicles-and-carbon-monoxide-alarms/ You won't ...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

For some, it will always be 'not there' till it's screaming in their face As far as the UK is concerned, it has the right-wing govt. pro-coal lobby and whatnot and yet still EV's are capturing the market and this is happening month after month. As I mentioned previously, I left my comments on this ...

Re: Wind energy company kills 150 eagles in US, pleads guilty

Cats and buildings are actually more harmful to them than anything else. Cats don't kill eagles. There is a big difference between a pigeon (kill all you want) and an eagle. Not only in size but also in habitat. Eagles in India had been hunted close to extinction even before I was born. Even during...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

And that is the point. If people were more aware of how the dangers are. I don't really think people are that aware and would still do the stupid decision to go for an ice car if you have got an alternative of an EV car around the same price point. And Governments have a constitutional role in impr...

Re: Wind energy company kills 150 eagles in US, pleads guilty

Cats and buildings are actually more harmful to them than anything else. Cats don't kill eagles. There is a big difference between a pigeon (kill all you want) and an eagle. Not only in size but also in habitat. Eagles in India had been hunted close to extinction even before I was born. Even during...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

And that is the point. If people were more aware of how the dangers are. I don't really think people are that aware and would still do the stupid decision to go for an ice car if you have got an alternative of an EV car around the same price point. And Governments have a constitutional role in impr...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

Perhaps your corner of the globe, not here, not in my corner. They still don't. And by they, I mean the general public ar large. Which is why I explained this to you before in another thread when you brought it up then. And that is the point. If people were more aware of how the dangers are. I don'...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

Possible, but before I came to know EVs I didn't know that using diesel cars can lead to cancer. If I have a family, then choosing EVs also makes more sense for my own health. There the auto industry did a good job of cover-up, even today hardly 1-2% of people know about https://www.cancer.org/canc...

Re: Wind energy company kills 150 eagles in US, pleads guilty

Cats and buildings are actually more harmful to them than anything else. I have seen pigeons killed mercilessly by a cat that roams in the building where I live. I have seen at least 4 pigeons killed by it. At times they even eat their are own newborn, have seen them do it if they don't have enough ...

Re: Why is Hungary still in NATO and the European Union

Why is Hungary still in NATO and the European Union? The Hungarian people, after reelecting Victor Orban don't seem to share western values. Why do they even want to be in NATO and the European Union? You can say the same about Turkey and NATO, and Poland and the EU. They are doing what they think ...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

What are you talking about? VW is a business, their objective is to make money, and right now thats what they are doing quite well with ICE vehicles, as we shift into the future and into EVs, VW is getting ready to keep making money as more and more jurisdictions create mandates to ZEVs. As of righ...

Re: Truth and reconciliation committee?

In many countries, national governments have established truth and reconciliation committees or other organizations with similar names, with the goal of finding out the history of different groups of people being suppressed in the past, and to have national recognition, understanding of the history...

Re: bankruptcies in the auto market

Protectionism will play a big role. I can't see France or Germany or the EU giving up on building cars, for example. Same for the US and Japan. See this bit I have agreed. I mean I even shared what VW is currently at but he's unwilling to see it. Of course, Germany will bail them out, it has to. It...