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Homercles

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  1. I don’t think they have a choice, it’s a fuel saving practice.
  2. Oh yeah. It was an inside joke (I’m an osu guy, had to borrow a Texas shirt for the ISU game where y’all opened with a wishbone play) and ended up going to the one person who wouldn’t get it. He cheated on his wife multiple times and was awful to his daughters, kinda Tate-ish. And the daughter in question is a lesbian so nothing like that there.
  3. I think I commented on it in the Musk thread, but it sure seems like there’s a sizable chunk of a generation of young men in bad shape right now: Their economic prospects are poor due to a variety of factors (some self inflicted) and thus they still live at home. They are inundated with images of exceptional levels of success, globally, without any understanding of the talent, work and luck it took to achieve that (or awareness of how crafted their images are). Unlimited access to porn, and their immature understanding of ‘normal’ sex being further corrupted by seeing women that seem to want to get roughly handled and/or 10” dicks jammed in every orifice. Preponderance of online communities that collate and distill interests into self-affirming echo chambers without having to expose yourself to varied discourse…and poor parenting that fails to broaden their viewpoints. Con artists that cater to these folks with red pill or pickup artists bullshit, confirming their view that ‘Chad’s’ get the girls. Mix all these together and they’re isolated, angry at the world with poor dating prospects, no motivation for self improvement, misguided beliefs about how ‘the world works’ and what mature women want in a relationship…or even what mature, adult goals should be. I don’t have any answers and just try to set a good example for my own kids. Was surprised to learn recently that a friends teenage daughter kept a stupid photo of me around (me wearing a Longhorn shirt drunk as hell) that her dad got in a white elephant, I asked her mom why she thinks that is, and she answered that her daughter thinks I’m great because of how I treat my wife and kids…they’re finalizing a divorce because he’s a cheating, misogynistic asshole…so setting a good example for those in your orbit is about all you can do.
  4. JFC…I’m one of the people who made a snarky statement in the vein of ‘not this again’. I’m making a mistake here by engaging but fuck it, you’re not my dad: 1) No one is silencing the questioning 2) There is no new concrete evidence on the exact source of the virus 3) Any concrete evidence of the viral origins is almost certainly buried forever (or at least years and years) in/by China 4) Fauci had nothing to do with it and all this gain-of-function chat is rehashed shit…it’s not Project Blue from The Stand 5) It’s certainly important to identify and learn from the origins of Covid, but that’s not what’s happening here …with nothing new to talk about it devolves into conspiracy central, shit flinging and people talking like they have a clue about labs thousands of miles away. No posts have been deleted, mods haven’t locked this, people are allowed to bitch about it being a taint-magnet thread just like you’re free to talk like you’re being repressed.
  5. I’m sure we will solve it here, this time
  6. Jesus I am totally fine checking a bag, but I don’t remember the last time I had a connection so risk is always low for shit getting lost. I don’t have to drag it around the airport or worry about it at the bar or taking up space at the gate. By the time I wait for everyone head of me to struggle with their shit and kill grandma dropping their bags from the bins, take a piss and walk to claim it’s rarely a long wait. Doesn’t need to be Sit Or Stand To Wipe wars To each their own. Everyone carrying on is partly why deplaning takes forever. No I don’t fly up front often anymore.
  7. Yeah but sometimes it’s an evil bitch…like when a few of us are experimenting with different fares/pricing/routes, and the system senses a rising demand = prices start changing. In reality it’s just a couple people game planning.
  8. I actually smell opportunity for a trip sometime in the spring. Bet there’s going to be some cheap fares available.
  9. This. One of my core roles is managing the outside spend budget for two orgs…mine (data engineering) and shitsville (process engineering). My team has carefully curated talent in dev and deploy for hybrid cloud organized federally…we manage the core ETL/Services and govern the federated workspaces. We spend our money on core licenses and one partner that is brought in hourly as staff aug for specialized tools or pipeline optimization…they build in our ecosystem using the same tools available to all. Shitsville pays ‘E2E’ vendors a flat quarterly rate to outsource processes and what they call data science…most of what they produce runs in legacy VMs using R with hard-coded credentials in plain text that crashes every time a corp-mandated password change rolls out. Working with that team is like The Front Fell Off since a wave hit it at sea and where the mess is ‘not in the environment’
  10. Their scheduling software sounds like a macro’d Excel sheet
  11. I’ll never understand the sheer motivation of some of those folks…not quite the village crazies like TTom or even TexanAbroad (Rocko?) managing to get banned from a noodz thread he was contributing to…but those that just keep coming back like Immortal or Animal x Tobacco. While Elon isn’t necessarily publicly propping up a specific political party, he’s very loudly embracing the anger/fear/hate bent of one…and it just sucks. TTom struck me as someone deep in substance abuse, and you could argue my rants are even more pointless as they’re done sober, knowing it’s just pissing into the wind. Oh well, still no place like Surly
  12. Hey I earned a neg from Globalwarming2478, whose first post was a ‘take it to the CR’ with -26 rep. Pissing off a sock makes me feel big time around here. And yeah I’m tired of old, mostly white, all cranky bastards telling me that I can’t buy booze on Sunday or weed at all, what my wife and daughter can’t do with their body, limiting how people can vote, shipping unsuspecting immigrants to a frozen Washington, ensuring our state is saturated with guns, courting rich lunatics like Elon, fucking up the power grid and generally trying to enforce their worldview on the rest of us while parroting ‘freedom of speech’. So fuck your neg in the globally-warmed goat ass. This guy has gone the way of Ted Nugent / Randy Quaid / etc but with a much larger audience of apparently angry, diehard, motivated fanbois who lately have a shit track record for actually instigating real world violence. Connecting those folks to yet more ‘anti woke’ fodder from grumpy old wrinkled asshats pisses me off.
  13. Yes another cranky old white guy who bemoans that other’s experiences and related viewpoints don’t match his own. Shocking.
  14. They run a pretty lean operation with quick turns and high utilization already, were probably stretched pretty thin like the other airlines due to high demand + lack of captains, and no hub/spoke model can cause massive cascading failures along the entire route the bird was scheduled for that day. I actually prefer them when flying with my family due to free bags, no change fees outside of fare differences, FAs that aren’t trolls, and wide availability of direct from AUS…not to mention the best FF program out there…but am not shocked they were so exposed to this weather event. Just damn glad we rarely travel over Christmas. Fuck that noise.
  15. Yes. Cover for the lift fan…well the first one is, second canopy was the pilot noping out after almost making the full 8 seconds.
  16. Oh his tires will find it just fine
  17. Well good luck getting ADS-B banned. It’s essentially a requirement for safe, modern traffic control and conflict resolution. It’s broadcast continually by most aircraft and a network of receivers are patched together to put on a website. It’s not rocket surgery. Those birds do a lot of repositioning flights and many are chartered out to help with fixed costs, so he may not be onboard. However we’ve seen wackos try to kidnap a governor so anything is possible. Personally I’d be more afraid of stalkers than kidnap/murder. But I’m not a billionaire with a very public persona yet skin thinner than an overripe peach.
  18. Well in my neighborhood they’re 90% Indian dudes, I am sure they’re not pieces of shit…but I wouldn’t really know either, because if grandma/grandpa live with them then they won’t even wave back at me let alone chat. The rest talk my ear off and are cool as shit. I asked my best friend (Indian dude) about that once and he said “if the grandparents are living there then it’s a whole different world inside” which makes sense, having spent a few months there working and half my career managing predominantly-Indian vendors, caste is no joke. The moms all drive gray Odysseys at 15mph, so I guess a Tesla is the Indian tech dude status symbol. For me they remind me of early Android phones, where everyone had a task manager app to kill rogue processes…works great 95% of the time but that 5% leads to weird issues. I’m not really in the mood to treat my car like my work PC, with odd IT-ware installs and regular updates/reboots. Plus a giant iPad as the only interface and unpredictable fit/finish is why I bought a gently used G80 Sport and will get a Mach E or other electric car next go around. To each their own, just not for me right now. And they all look the same…I had a Prelude when Celicas were the rage, a CTS-V instead of a 335i and the Genesis over the GS/E-class/5-series/A6 because I hate to see myself coming/going.
  19. I’m actually enjoying how he’s managing to piss off such a diverse group of fanatics who typically prove completely allergic to reasonable discourse: Reddit stock/stonk/etc brrrrrrt-ers, crypto bros, Tesla diehards, Elon worshippers, ‘muh free speech’ types who maliciously misinterpret the law, leopards-ate-my-face wingnuts, and billionaire-defenders. Schadenfreude yes, but it’s also nice to see someone with near-infinite resources utterly fail at bending the world to his whim.
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