This issue is a bit more complex because we keep them running 24 7 and we literally hate funding transit, so you have this unholy union of the very worst deferred maintenance situation clashing with one of the heaviest used systems out there.

It's honestly impressive it runs at all and if you watch a cab view ride of the lines, we keep the actual tunnels and trackage very clean and tip top.

WalMart is a poor example because they always kinda sorta wanted to be a relentless logistics company that just happened to sell consumer goods.

Their loss, Queens being the greatest and all.

This is literally how company towns worked 120 years ago in the US. I'm surprised they don't pay them scrip.

My father and uncle would get us all down there every year when we were kids.

It'll always have a special place in my heart.

This city still custom fabricates replacement parts for installed equipment who's original fabricators haven't existed for the better part of a century.

If the USA had an actual social contract and wasn't just a loosely associated group of assholes that happen to sit under the same legal system, we'd have modernized our marquee transit system in our Alpha World City ages ago.

Alas, we have shit culture so we get shit results.

Yeah it's basically "Pay no attention to the fash unless it's hurting my avarice and then, only pay attention to an extent that it doesn't inconvenience me (and not cost me any money.)"

I like it, but you should have gotten your hands on the style guide for signage that the city uses so that it's so passable it'll stay up for years without them taking it down.

Wouldn't you? Why not? Put yourself in the position of being an established hotelier. You've gone through the capital costs to be above board in running an enterprise. You're insured and indemnified against loss, you've taken the proper code steps for things like safety and food handling standards. You've developed relationships with suppliers and clients...et cetera et cetera.

You've done all this and then a matchmaking app that's specifically there to get around all of that built up structure comes along. Now, the neat thing is, in the end, it's not really affecting your bottom line. This has been borne out, it's not a theoretical. Hotels are not suffering because of AirBnB.

Wouldn't you twist the knife just to make a point?

I would. Alls fair in love and commerce, eh?

They literally also have entire brands from Hotel chains dedicated to making your family vacation enjoyable.

AirBNB is not a substitute for actual hotels unless you're some kind of rare edge case, like getting a summer share where lots of people are attending or the odd off "I need to haul like 15 people to a destination" type shit.

Hotels know this, too and they're not losing out on much money by not specifically catering to these much rarer odd sized groups.

The Youtube creator Modern MBA did a great video detailing why the industry doesn't consider AirBNB a threat and doesn't have to.

Shit, that's right. I totally forgot to do the conversion.

All right! It's a party!

Planned obsolescence is *somewhat...*and I stress somewhat a canard at this point outside of very specific product types.

The MTTF on pretty much all modern computing equipment (and the boards inside of them) is much longer than the horsepower in any given device can keep up with increasing software demands or the consumables that may be attached to using them, like toner cartridge types for printers, for example.

Preventing repair easily by hard coding preventative measures into specific components...or burying components in assemblies to keep them from being serviced easily very much is a problem. Thing is, with both of those, the failure time is often governed by typical component failure, not necessarily the company setting a specific time they want you to go out and have to buy something.

This is literally a mob construction trades racket from the 1970's.

Literally. I mean there's more technical sophistication but this was the concrete racket back then, to a tee.

Agreed. Absolutely nobody from Orange County or Lakewater should post in this thread.

Dixon was a real cop. Detective in the Bx who died from COVID early in 2020.

It really is genuinely good for subject generation that one can then take and do in their own medium as a study and practice. I really like it for this.

I'm not gonna lie, it was kinda neat for that.

Just a giant industrial pit.

Actually lets go with insurance fraud, because that's probably what this is.

Armoring up a castle that could withstand artillery of the time period would require the mass production of iron plate. The problem with this, beyond the obvious, would be there's no way to roll it effectively until the first legitimate rolling mills that could work iron came about in the 1600s...and even then it only really took off in the 1700s when James Watt came up with the steam engine.

Short answer : Fabricating iron plate at scale was unobtainable until later.

I knew it was OS/2 before even opening it. I'm proud, honestly.