I was a school kid then and it was most horrid to stand outside in the cold dark waiting for a school bus, it was a terrible winter in the upper midwest

the wrong half will get over it in a jiffy

I'd say that's true, at least the store nearest to where I live. That specific store replaced a well known chain supermarket when Amazon cut a deal with the developer [rick caruso] to push out the big chain and take over the space. Even so, it took over 2 years to remodel the former grocery store into a Fresh store, and in the past 5-6 years I've never seen the parking lot more than half filled, as opposed to the past market where it was overflowing almost every day of the week. Truly the Fresh store generated little interest and probably no loyalty. I suppose I'll go walk inside to at least see it once before the lights turn off for good this weekend coming.

I never trust anyone to pick produce or meat|seafood for me, I've seen those instacart weenies at the local markets and they rush around the store just grabbing stuff without regard for quality, only speed to fill the basket and meet their quotas.

I once had an '87 B2200 and it was the greatest small pickup, 5-spd std transmission and no power steering, but it never got stuck in snow or mud. Sadly, it succumbed to rampant iron oxidation from road salts and humidity after only a decade.

Precisely.

I've not willingly bought a GM automobile in over 40 years, and not likely to ever buy another GM product during my remaining days. Many other vendors continue to provide Carplay |Android Auto compatibility and they will get more business.

the real problem in the recent 2-3 generations of programmers is they aren't really "programmers", they are code kids who learned one computer programming language, having almost no background education in engineering and mathematics disciplines, so they have little diligence to learn a fairly simple language like COBOL.

You the customer are now the tester. The advent of phone apps, thank you so much apple,has led to several generations of developers who care nothing of computer science or software engineering discipline, they alpha & beta test on the consumer by blithely updating apps whenever they have a *fix* to release. No structured QA validation nor release notes, just throw it on the wall and see what sticks.

It's tragic that the prior management regime spent too much effort on the MAX expansion of 737 and started so late on the 757 replacement NMA project, it was 2015 when the concept was first explored, but MAX fiasco and WuhanCoronaVirus era torpedoed the program. I'd certainly hope the company didn't lose the bits of work done a decade ago, but it'll take a lot to spin up the program again, have to get the best aerospace design engineers moved over, and hire a lot of staff engineers to implement the design.

it's a solution looking for money

several firms have been trying to build and market giant airships for this purpose over the past 2 decades, producing lots of slick videos, but none have entered service at all

Harold Camping is their spirit animal

dingy harry reid raised obstacles to bringing Yucca Mountain nuclear storage repository online after earmarking tens of billions $$$ to Nevada companies to build it. Yucca Mountain could still be brought into operation, it takes some political will to get it done.

I'm of the end of the boomers and in grade school in the 60s tantalized by atomic power and the space race. Can recall predictions that nuclear power would be so efficient and inexpensive that electricity would be essentially free in the near future. Then came Three Mile Island which coincided with that propaganda movie China Syndrome, and finally Chernobyl a decade later, fueling the wacko enviro-anti-nuke cabal to create a regulatory system to kill nuclear power.