Fixing airplanes flying them.

I am a pilot and this is utter nonsense. I can say for SURE I care very much if a plane crashes while I am in it, flying it, or under it. If you look at 121 carriers in the First World, no safer transportation system exists and you would need a very long time to collect 100 crashes to analyze.

Those ADs frequently specify something like "within the next 100 hours, within the next 6 months, etc.", it has to be fairly bad to just ground the planes where they sit.

Usually. The common place for cracks is in or around the fittings that attach it to the airplane. Replacing an entire spar is quite an operation, it might be cheaper to make a new wing. The much more common repair is reinforcements around the area that cracks, not an entirely new spar. This is for aluminum airplanes, a wing made of fiberglass (carbon, epoxy, etc. etc.) may not be repairable like that. I recently delivered an airplane that could have this issue, we had to get the paperwork to prove inspections and repairs had been done before leaving.

You can't fly a drone there either without permits per flight you might not be able to get.

I actually have done this and sharks feel like 100 grit sandpaper and totally different than slimy fish. * not all sharks react well to being touched, so YMMV on the outcome if you go try this.

Think 1840 to 1920. We went from comms being at the speed of a sailing ship or a steam train to the speed of light over wires and then the speed of light over radio - aka wireless. We went from primitive steam trains to a continent-wide rail network, private automobiles, steam ships, and aircraft. Kerosene was once THE reason to drill an oil well and gasoline was toxic dangerous waste, that changed to electric light and gasoline being in demand for cars, tractors, and airplanes. By the late 1800s e-commerce was already reshaping the economy, anyone near a railroad could send a telegram to Sears and have just about anything show up on a freight train soon enough. We are in another area of rapid shifting from one thing to the next, and like all previous rapid changers there will be losers, and this time there might be a lot more than last time.

Anyone who is a fan of James Lee Burke realizes the last few books are either an AI or some human assistant that acts like one is shuffling around previous works with a bit of find and replace. James Lee Patterson probably has not even read half of his books, let alone had a hand in writing them.

My son could do this, he looks up stuff on AI so much I can watch him write something and KNOW AI had nothing to do with it and it still reads like fresh off of ChatGTP.

I had a Camry Hybrid loaner and loved it. It drove quite well and got 50 MPG going to work except the day I tried to use as much gas as possible and it still got 41. I thought I would hate it because I usually loathe CVTs, but with the electric motor filling in to get the car moving it was actually fun to drive.

I had a new loaner car that kept telling me to pull over because it couldn't read the worn lane markings right and thought I was running off the road. At least I could ignore it, I guess soon enough it will just quit, lock the doors, and call the cops.

They are just in time for Americans to suddenly realize gas is expensive.

I remember that! It was something like if you were poor, you got a big bag of free money every month and were in big trouble if you did not spend it before next month.

First week: You all are using the brake pads up! What is wrong with you! The planes have reverse, use it! Second week: Why are we filing out dings in the props every day? Are you idiots using reverse and blowing up crap in front of the plane? Third week: go to 1st week

I used to buy it for seasickness and while it did help some of my crew when needed, even the patches from the pharmacy could have undesired side effects at their carefully calibrated dose. NFW would I be eating Jimson Weed to solve motion sickness.