EU subsidies probably.

And then it was bought by a Russian oligarch.

Not just ignorance and stupidity, there's also a fair amount of greed involved.

On that note, I urge anyone trying to get pregnant to get tested for clotting disorders, even if you have to pay out of pocket, and especially if you are over 35. Something like 20% of people have clotting disorders, and most don’t know it until something bad happens. Don’t wait for that.

31 tanks or something like that, while hundreds sit idle in the desert.

Congrats!

There's a whole outlet mall right next to the Vancouver airport, it's very convenient for exactly this sort of thing.

Operators seem to be taking this seriously, take a look at flight BWA401 from Curaçao to Trinidad going all the way north to stay out of Venezuela's controlled space

US military planes will be flying around and if they crash into you, well you can't say you weren't warned. Also an implication that someone might be shooting at some point.

It's true of all right wing parties in Europe. Even the Ukrainian ones before 2014.

It really isn't, especially with buses where you don't need expensive infrastructure.

I suppose they could keep claiming it's just around the corner like self driving Ubers.

Switzerland is trying it anyway but it's not a proven technology yet.

If you started building supertall office skyscrapers around Caltrain stations I think there would suddenly be a lot more urgency behind reactivating the Dumbarton rail line.

American liberals and Russian liberals, not so different after all.

This reminds me of that Douglas Adams bit where there's a calculator that also has a built in I Ching, and if the result of any math operation is greater than 4 it just prints "a suffusion of yellow" as the answer instead.