Comment on Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight

• llama@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wasn’t everybody saying the opposite like 3 months ago?

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The regulation on passenger rail is MUCH stronger then on freight.

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s freight rail. Freight rail is a full blown late-stage capitalist hellscape. Aging infrastructure that hasn’t seen maintenance since the New Deal, companies that refuse to update equipment because paying out lawsuits when it breaks is cheaper, overworked employees who aren’t even allowed to call out sick, etc…

    Compared to that, passenger rail is a fucking pipedream.

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    • llama@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But doesn’t Amtrak share the same rails with freight? Sure maybe the trains themselves are better maintained but if the rails themselves are in bad shape the train won’t get far.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well I guess it’s not mechanic failures of the train that derails them.

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• LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Perhaps, but you don’t have as far to fall.

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ergo, less time to contemplate your last moments. I like it.

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