Breton R. Long 🚀

@mattlantz We get this in the New Orleans area quite frequently

Never seen this before! I’m guessing the warmth of the rising sun heating up water-logged fences from yesterday’s rain and a cooler morning temp leads to…steaming fences!? 🤔🤷‍♂️ #dfwwx #txwx

@StatisticUrban Exactly, read the comments and you’ll realize why we don’t have these things. Same people who would love to cut down all trees because they “might” fall on a house and just pave everything “because it’s easier”.

Why don’t more buildings and infrastructure incorporate live plants and trees? It looks so good, everyone loves it, and it's probably psychologically beneficial. Maybe a lot of work, I guess? But you can automate the watering, and cleaning leaves isn't hard.

@alex_fasulo lol this is complete bullshit

The land under these panels will never be farmed again. Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites. Why? The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them. In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides. The fertile farmland is gone forever.

@AviationStl @mitchisright Yes - unfortunately it won’t be long and there won’t be much variation in aircraft overall for the avgeek.

@bretonrlong @mitchisright Agree. Would be a fun plane to have for a bit before it likely gets swapped again for a 787

Frankfurt – St. Louis eff 01JAN27 A340-300 replaces A330-300, 3 weekly 😍

@AviationStl @mitchisright Be a nice change to see before the 340s are gone.

@mitchisright Indifferent from a route perspective. Except it’s less business and more economy seats. They are retiring the A330s this year and need to different plane on it. I’m guessing it will end up being a 787 before long. But one has 4 engines so it’s more fun to see than the A330

@broodloper @PhuckYourVax lol no they certainly do not and especially don’t “explode” like this. Now do over 175,000 gas powered vehicles catch fire annually in the US - Yes.

@PhuckYourVax "Don't explode" WTF dude? EV battery packs explode all the time

Car exploded by the bull statue in nyc.. no other info has been provided.. but could this be a terrorist attack 🤔 because cars just dont explode

@BigImpactHumans Does the sun rise in the east and set in the west?

Do you think it’s inconsiderate for someone to eat a can of tuna on a flight?

Yes switching everything to electric. Will never own a gas stove again

@collin_ruth89 Switching everything to electric. Will never own a gas stove again.

Do people actually buy electric stoves? Gas is 10x better. Someone explain this to me.

@marcelluswiley @MilMileBattery Same with any vehicle “accelerater”

What do you call the gas pedal in an electric car? 😳 In our Tesla and the kids just asked me… Yo, I’m stuck?!? 🤯🤣

@UrbanCourtyard @tryhard_cj @ArtemisConsort Dallas is complete hell on Earth. Traffic spaghetti bowl after traffic spaghetti bowl. Why anyone would want to live in Dallas is beyond me,

@tryhard_cj @ArtemisConsort Dense, walkable, amenity-rich, green neighborhoods that work for households across life cycle look like this.

Progressive urbanists are tragicomic because they’re eternally bumping into problems they are ideologically barred from understanding. “Why won’t people ride the trains? Why do they choose suburbs? It’s a mystery, let’s commission a study.”

@wholemars In Tulsa a decent amount it looks like.

my most common flight routes

@clawrence @MattZeitlin Because of this assumption that plants growing must mean natural.

@MattZeitlin I don't get this. Farmland is man made. It's not the natural state of the land. It involves chemicals, pesticides, industrial processes, contamination of water, genetic modification of food, tons of diesel fuel. Since when did farmlands become some precious environmental thing?

Solar siting issue in a nutshell: people don’t want to cut down trees, they don’t want to put them on farms…

@AviationStl When was the switch to A343 supposed to occur again?

@bretonrlong so far no

Loads for April @flystl (customs) Lufthansa Frankfurt 89.4% British London 88.3% Air Canada Toronto 85% Mexico/Caribbean I can't break out due to multiple carriers. Broken out numbers will be released in three months.

@AviationStl @flystl And it doesn’t look like they are set to pause in Feb ‘27 either.

@bretonrlong @flystl June this year. Next year is currently scheduled for end of March to move to 5x

@Fire_of_Liberty @AutismCapital And that’s a great initial test. It’s a great way to weed out those only interested in your wallet. If someone says no to a coffee date consider yourself lucky 🍀

@AutismCapital Anyone saying "just don't spend that, go out for coffee instead" don't understand that women are demanding dinner dates. If it's not offered they don't go.

This is untenable. The reality is that a kid who is faced with a $250 charge every date, who has to go on multiple dates, who is dealing with a fickle dating pool, will just give up. They will opt out of dating. Evidenced by significant dating, marriage, and birth rate decline.

@Boenau Exactly, insanity. Those same vehicles sit parked in lots 95% of the day (also being charged to park).

American car dependency is so normalized that families don't even consider a scenario in which they save $100k or more over 10 years by going from 3 cars to 2.

@Beganovic2026 Not yet, market needs to mature first.

I think we’re ready for another international flight.

@wholemars Stay away from Ladies, Liquor and Leverage

what did he mean by this