Can you still log onto their website prior to flying, download the QR code boarding pass image to your phone, and use that to check in without the need for any app?

If the QR code is what the gate monkey needs, then the QR code is what the gate monkey gets.

Forget 2026. The big three look like they’re still struggling to sell last year models off the lot. As every new car lot can attest.

Not sure what the big three conceded to sell in North America, but it ain’t cars at $50K+.

Gotta love it when they try and use innocent terms like "headwind".

As if it's some kind of natural organic event in Capitalism causing this and not a couple of greedy dicks pissing in the wind at each other.

1 in 8 humans on this planet (including third worlds), are PC gamers with rigs equal to at least a PS4 in performance?

I'm just gonna stand waaay back here and let you pull that evidence out of your ass. Guessing you're still counting Billy Mitchell in there too.

Uh, who you talking "we" there, Kemosabe?

I seem to recall us training those robots in the Model T-101 factory to do a slightly different mission at Skynet Automotive. We will be lucky if we maintain control of those nuclear weapons.

Who knew James Cameron could be as prophetic in 1984 as George Orwell was writing 1984..

You mean how many hardcore gaming PCs sold by comparison?

Trying to lump "PC sales" into this comparison, is beyond disingenuous. The one running an embedded POS video card and 16MB of RAM playing browser games on a lap-tablet is more the cultural norm.

Tell me what the culture looks like when you compare shotguns to shotguns.

Unless those "future advancements" include mining shitcoin at a quantum rate, yes. Yes they can.

Greed can always find a reason.

(Narrator) Across town, an AI precog quiety shits 3 gallons of coolant all over a data center floor, trying to figure out what comes after fuck-he-guessed-it.

Not saying this or the rest of your statement is inherently wrong. Just saying the last ones who tried to make that whole "cannot melt down" claim, own a Chernobyl-sized exclusion zone today. Which they also tried to initially cover up and deny. Not that (cough, every) government is guilty of doing that from time to time.

Consumer-level? "Mostly harmless" went out the window when they made way for the intergalactic superhighway. You're gonna have to do better than that for the bank or the homeowners insurance to sign off. Since the teenage fucknut living there is gonna get bored one day, and want to build a shooting range in front of ol' Nukey in the backyard. Society has been building better idiots for years now.

You mean if we like get into a pissing match with Martians over who actually invented the wheel?

Maaan, if they don’t play what they damn well should be playin’ for that point in the sky. Space elevator music for the ages.

https://youtu.be/Vppbdf-qtGU

(Homo Assistanti) ”Here is the latest salary estimates for your new blockbuster film.”

(Homo Directorus) ”Wait, that narcissistic little shit demanded HOW MUCH again?!?”

(Assistanti) ”Well, you did institute a meatsacks-only polic..”

(Directorus) ”..thats about to get replaced by a very large LLM script.”

Ah, the hilarious fucking irony of Hollywood Greed attacking Hollywood Greed. Where’s my popcorn salt.

Hey uh, speaking of parking..I wasn't paying attention when that corporate email went "ding" while I was shoving my dong. Didn't pull out in time 'cause email distracted me. Can I haz child support now?

(I think I'm going to file a class-action lawsuit. Against class-action lawsuits. Gonna put my money on who wins by losing the most leastest.)

The world only "conforms" to that luxury when it has the financial independence to do so.

If full-sized trucks with every type of plastic time-bomb crap shoved under the hood keep pricing themselves well above $50K, they will likely see how a Recession conforms to their delusions by letting the 2026 models rot away. If they can make room next to all the unsold 2025 models.

And that's just the problem with new car sales. I'll bet I know what's just might become the mostest repo'ed vehicle type in the US soon..

..those that actually USE a truck vs. the consunarcissist who buys the most popular truck, you’d find the reality to your counterpoint.

The amount of mud Generation TruckYuppie has dared get on their shoes, can fit in a 5-gallon bucket. The amount of times the bed hauls more than air and a fashionable color-matched hat, can be counted on one hand annually.

The chasm between truck want and need in America, is wider than any full-sized justification. If you find more evidence, I’ll believe otherwise.