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> I think politically, everyone would want airlines to have working IT-systems and they would probably want to pay $100 (rationally, closer to $1000) amortized over 50 years to pay for that, but apparently humanity is just too stupid to make it work.

Not stupid, just corrupt :)

If we did this, the money would get misappropriated or stolen - most likely completely legally through overpaid consulting fees.

So clearly we should pay someone to prevent that from happening.

Wait a minute...

> they would probably want to pay $100 (rationally, closer to $1000) amortized over 50 years to pay for that

Which would just flow into the pockets of ClownStrike or some big consultancy and nothing would actually change.

Just by forcing to compensate passengers accordingly they would start to care more.

What is the lost productivity for having so many people waiting on airports?

But that is consumer protection regulation and it is not going to happen in America in a few years

> someone should invent an anti-lead; something to put in the water supply to add 30 IQ points, but that would probably be punishable by death

Why do you think we add iodine to salt?

Mind control?
No, that's what the fluorine in the water is for
Fluoride, the ion, not fluorine the highly reactive atomic gas.
Gaseous fluorine is diatomic.

You can't really add a bunch of fluorine ions to water because they'd all be negatively charged. We say we're adding "fluoride", but really we're adding ionic compounds that include fluoride.

This seems analogous to the difference between chlorinated water (toxic) and salt water (not at all toxic). It's always interesting to me that adding chlorine to water makes it poisonous, and adding sodium causes it to explode, but adding sodium chloride does... nothing in particular.

Makes it ready for your pasta!

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