United seems to like to hang onto extremely old airplanes even as the number of these disruptions mount. We can argue how statistically they're safer etc but these events are extremely unsettling and disruptive for passengers and frankly it's lucky no one's been killed yet. One of these planes dropped a wheel on a parked car at SFO last year.
It's not hard to notice there are other major airlines that generally maintain newer widebody fleets.
I too have nostalgia for a time when prices were reasonable, politicians didn't philander and children respected their elders.
And yet here we are :-)
For what it's worth, despite it being /en vogue/ to rag on Google, the Chrome team has some of the most talented and dedicated folks focused on building a vibrant and interesting web for most people in the world.
Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine?
The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform.
The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that gives you the best web compat especially at the outset when you don’t have enough users of your app to be able to make big changes to the platform. Even Chrome didn’t start from scratch - it used WebKit!
The Chromium community has built an excellent open platform that everyone can use. We are fortunate to be able to use it.
That triggered a flash of feeling extremely old realizing we broke ground on this codebase 20 years ago this year!