It hasn’t really fallen, it’s just saying the quiet part out loud for once.

And Americans were by-the-by fine when secretive government agencies were putting proven innocent people and political opponents in Guantanamo Bay alongside terrorists, as long as they weren’t Americans.

The US has been running a concentration camp since 2001. People are just miffed that they’re the ones being put in there this time.

Yup. Those collapsibles were stowed on the roof, with pulleys on the funnel guy wire to allow them to be lifted off. Either the crew didn’t know this or they couldn’t find the correct tackle for the operation.

The biggest issue seems to be that the passengers weren’t convinced the ship was actually going down, and were reluctant to sail the Atlantic on the tiny boats.

It had more lifeboats than were required. The Board of Trade regulations simply hadn’t kept up with the rapid expansion in the size of vessels in the previous decades.

Not that it would have mattered, as they didn’t have enough time to properly launch all the boats they did have.

With dentistry straight from the uncanny valley and inside voices that rival foghorns?

I think the world as a whole is done with being nice about Americans. Patience thoroughly depleted. Frustration to the fore. Could almost have pretended The West Wing wasn’t just a Hollywood cokehead’s fantasy, but not any more.

Nope. Because Iraq isn’t on the North Atlantic. Did OP ever look at a map?

Pretending not to be American when travelling abroad.

So a track record of treachery and treason?

You need 4 lines. North East, South West, Wastelands.

Phrenology back in fashion?

From the outside, America is grimly entertaining right now.

They also do advertising for Greenpeace. Awkward.

EVs have a greater rate of motion sickness reports than ICE cars, now add another couple of axes of motion.

They were only loosely based on the books. Sometimes just the title. And they ran out of books 30 years ago.

This is the chill out. Assuming Amazon keeps the factory largely intact, there are specialist second units for the fights, cars, skis, underwater and aerial. All the main director has to do is the talky bits.

Get you to the Mach Loop.

Aviation by an order of magnitude. Batteries are nowhere near the energy density of kerosene, so there’s a lot more weight, that doesn’t diminish during flight. Charging in tight turnaround times.

Pure safety - if a plane needs to make an emergency landing it can purge the fuel tanks. It can’t drop a massive solid battery. Fuel fires in flight can be killed off by stopping kerosene flow to the engine. It would be the fuel source itself which is on fire with a battery, and again no way to get that away from the cabin. Developing a fully fire-resistant battery would be essential.

Psychological factors - a roaring engine feels safer. A whisper quiet plane will be very disconcerting for most passengers initially.

They did another one a while back that was your usual American “fellate the troops” poster, but they used a photo of a Russian plane as the background.