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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by abecedarius on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:43PM (#43032456)
Yes, it was. One thing there seems to be more of is bundling of politics, like "Y is bad" as rejoinder to "X is good" with no necessary link between them.

I think I asked what deposit they would need. It had never been an issue before.

Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:26PM (#43032660)
My point isn’t political. But when people wax poetically about how great the US use to be, it definitely wasn’t great even in the 70s for a percentage of people living in the south
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by abecedarius on Thursday February 13, 2025 @08:25AM (#43035556)
I agree that Y is bad, actually.