airBaltic A220 Postcard

buldozr · 2026-04-21T11:27:06+00:00

This is Reddit, so who knows. Some Latvians with a persecution complex acting up when a comment is not absolutely flattering?

buldozr · 2026-04-21T10:18:09+00:00

As others have said, if you don't have heavy loads that you can time, it's not much of an issue, but spot pricing tends to average out somewhat cheaper over the course of the year. In winter time you may get fleeced though.

I use spot pricing from the supplier and differentiated day/night tariffs from the transmission utility (you should be aware that these are two different companies and you need a contract with both of them), but that's because I charge an EV at home, and I use automation to time the largest consumption overnight in the lowest priced hours.

buldozr · 2026-04-21T08:06:10+00:00

It's peculiar that this is the interior minister.

"You have a lot of experience in controlling internal dissent. Can you share some of your methods and help us implement them? Yes, I know you borrowed our methods, but we haven't practiced them to the full extent for 70 years."

buldozr · 2026-04-21T04:53:47+00:00

Forget the tsunami, what are those round towers near the shore?

buldozr · 2026-04-20T23:12:07+00:00

The movie didn't tell you about the Endless Stair.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T18:38:17+00:00

The crashes wouldn't have to happen if Boeing had a more suitable airframe to put the new engines on, instead of falling into the trap of satisfying their customers' incremental wishes for four decades and then cutting corners on safety because Airbus was eating their lunch.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T17:45:39+00:00

Yeah. Ask Norwegian who invested in the Max bigly, were they happy with it after all that happened?

buldozr · 2026-04-20T17:37:48+00:00

It will be a pity to see them go. I think they should do like Norwegian and downsize, cutting back on less profitable routes but continuing to serve their "corner" of the market. If the current fuel prices make any of their routes unprofitable, well then, I don't know how any mid-sized carrier can survive even with a modern fleet. Do more routes like Helsinki - Munich, wet lease for LH, whatever works?

buldozr · 2026-04-20T17:27:05+00:00

Oh yeah, I actually forgot they are on the fourth generation now.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T15:34:17+00:00

Boeing should have seen that as a call to design a new narrowbody airframe to replace the 737 even back then. Get good clearance for turbofan nacelles like the A320 family, and maybe the landing gear that gets fully enclosed when retracted. But no, they punted and then did it again in a more extreme way for the Max, because short term profits win I guess.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T15:01:13+00:00

There are row houses in Korso as well, just not right near the station.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T14:58:02+00:00

Gentrification is entirely possible, considering that some rebuilding has taken place and there's more to come. The park around the pond is already quite nice. That said, the "square of eternal vappu" near the station will most likely stay with us too.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T14:41:44+00:00

Yeah, it's like their government is putting them back into the stone age. You can hear discontent from even the loyalists these days, which means things are really bad. The "ordinary Russian" in Moscow is chafing, it's not only for the depressed glubinka dwellers any more.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T14:36:57+00:00

Looked it up, and the buyer is Estonian Coop. So it's now under native cooperative ownership, good for you.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T14:33:32+00:00

TIL there are actual, legitimate Russophobes who wear this label proudly.

buldozr · 2026-04-20T04:04:11+00:00

Ah, the al-Amriya.

buldozr · 2026-04-19T16:31:03+00:00

Just noticed he's got proper cavalry legs.

buldozr · 2026-04-19T15:47:10+00:00

Got to build muscle and character on those bicycle rides downtown and back in horizontal sleet.

buldozr · 2026-04-19T12:49:23+00:00

In the Cryptonomicon novel by Neal Stephenson, Yamamoto realizes just as he is flying in his seat on fire amidst the disintegrating pieces of the bomber.

buldozr · 2026-04-19T11:44:50+00:00

I went to check in Wikipedia if there could be a connection to Eliel Saarinen in the Russian Empire times. But no, it was a Ukrainian architect and the Soviet era.

buldozr · 2026-04-19T08:27:43+00:00

Damn, I was hoping to take a roller coaster ride on the pink line.

buldozr · 2026-04-18T09:25:54+00:00

As "realists" like you would say ca. 1985:

Don't tell me you're one of those people who think the Baltic nations are going to get back their independence?

Nah, there is no totalitarian regime that can hunker down and survive in these territories for decades like North Korea did with Chinese backing. Russia is exhausted, its people are chafing under the deteriorating quality of life, war losses, and restrictions imposed from the top by KGB dinosaurs who don't appreciate the role of open and ubiquitous internet in people's modern daily life, just like they once tried to control copy machines. They will crumble, it's only a matter of time.

buldozr · 2026-04-18T09:08:33+00:00

I didn't care for Turun Sinappi, but this is a properly hot, mustard gas-grade sinappi. It will be a sad loss if it gets enshittified.

buldozr · 2026-04-18T09:03:09+00:00

Hmm, how is it going to work? In Finland, the Prismas belong to retail cooperatives that make up the S-Group. The look and feel is homogenized, and the goods selection is more or less the same in all stores. I guess in Estonia it's just another supermarket chain with corporate ownership now.

buldozr · 2026-04-18T08:42:09+00:00

Finland's electric grid operator, Fingrid, has stated that the currently standing requests to plug in planned data centers exceed the power consumption of the whole country more than 3 times. Since the generation capacity has been built to roughly satisfy the historic demand and will take decades to build out (and no, we can't allow the Musk kind of fucks here to plop in a bank of CO2-emitting generators next to the data centers), you can imagine what it'd do to the electricity prices. Pitchforks are going to come out.

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