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1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:
Looking for some flight advice and this seems like the catch-all thread for this stuff.
Flying home from Sardinia in a couple of weeks. Flight booked on Aeroitalia from Olbia (OLB) to Rome (FCO) with a 3h55m layover at FCO before catching my next flight on AA from FCO to DFW (nonstop). Aeroitalia now emails me to say their flight schedule changed and will be 2.5 hours later, so my layover in Rome is now only 1h25m.
In my mind, that is not enough time to comfortably make the connection. We are not checking bags and there is no customs, but I would be switching airlines and the second flight is international, so that makes me nervous. Also, there is always the possibility of the Aeroitalia flight getting delayed on the day of travel, which wouldn't be a huge concern with a 3h55m layover, but could easily screw me on a 1h25m layover.
I contacted Aeroitalia and they don't give a shit. I asked for a refund so I could book a different flight and they said no. My ticket was nonrefundable and apparently EU regulations allow flight schedule changes of up to 3 hours before they are required to offer a refund, so they are within that limit.
I'm thinking my best bet is to eat the cost of the Aeroitalia flights (was about $400) and book new flights on a different airline. It kind of irritates me on principle, but I don't think I'll win that argument unless they happen to issue another delay that puts them over the 3 hour limit. I'm also thinking that 1h25m window is too narrow for comfort, but I've been burned on delayed flights quite a bit lately, so I'm probably a tad paranoid at this point.
What say the surly travel pros?
I am fairly certain there is passport control leaving FCO. Since you are on domestic into FCO, you will definitely be changing terminals, and it is a walk over to INTL. That is not enough time.
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I’ve been taking creatine off and on for over a decade, and my enzymes and liver health are nominal, according to lab work.
If anything, I wish I had dry scooped the powder instead of mixing with water; imagine the gains! Mike B probably thinks I’m a beta.
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Thank you for taking a photo and posting online while shit was going down on your boat.
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10 minutes ago, Blotto said:
Flying is such a fucking beating these days. Based on recent experience, Delta has been better than the others I've flown, but how the fuck do they defend this shit? Rolling a plane out in Vegas where the outside termp is 114, and then just let it bake out there for 2-3 hours. Who is the brainiac that figured that was the sensible playcall? I'm convinced at least 50% of airline employees are mentally handicapped, like a giant make-a-wish industry. If I'm on an exit row, I'm giving serious thought to letting it rip.
Seems reasonable to open the exit door and nope out of there.
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Don't worry I'll be joining y'all back in the heat soon enough. Unless work fires me which might be alright.
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Nothing about this story ever got better.
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13 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:
She has more free time for me now.
For us? (is that weird?)
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I did airport sushi in Sydney once. I had the shits halfway over the Pacific. Never again.
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As others have said - this was the simplest and cheapest setup - Tesla Mobile Charger and NEMA 14-50.
I got an electrician to install it for $250.
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1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:
It’s cute that you fly commercial and think you are not part of the “unwashed” because you have a credit card.
Even us GA folks have to get dirty and fly commercial. The lounge is a godsend with kids. Only takes one open chair and I can slowly take over the whole section with my gaggle of hellions.
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I never thought Twitter would help me end my Twitter habit but I won’t be replacing it with threads.
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25 minutes ago, txduck87 said:
I spent less than I made and invested the difference in index funds for 30 years and retired at 56.
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26 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:Want to read about a decompression accident? And blood boiling instantly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident
The normal procedure would have been:
- Close the diving bell door, which would have been open to the trunk.
- Slightly increase the pressure in the diving bell to seal the bell door tightly.
- Close the chamber 1 door, which was also open to the trunk.
- Slowly depressurize the trunk until it reached a pressure of 1 atm.
- Open the clamp to separate the diving bell from the chamber system.
The first two steps had been completed when Crammond mistakenly opened the clamp that was keeping the trunk sealed before Hellevik (diver 4) had closed the door to the chamber. This resulted in the chamber being instantly decompressed from 9 atmospheres to the ambient external pressure of 1 atm. Air rushed out of the chamber system with tremendous force, jamming the interior trunk door and pushing the bell away, striking the two tenders. All four divers were killed; one of the tenders, Crammond, was killed, while Saunders was severely injured.
Medical investigations were carried out on the remains of the four divers. The most notable finding was the presence of large amounts of fat in large arteries and veins and in the cardiac chambers, as well as intravascular fat in organs, especially the liver.[3]: 97, 101 This fat was unlikely to be embolic, but must have precipitated from the blood in situ.[3]: 101 The autopsy suggested that rapid bubble formation in the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble.[3]: 101 The blood of the three divers who were found intact inside the chambers likely boiled instantly, stopping their circulation.[3]: 101 The fourth diver died instantly from gross dismemberment when the blast forced his body out through the partially blocked doorway.[3]: 95, 100–101
Coward, Lucas, and Bergersen were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression and died in the positions indicated by the diagram. Investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the crescent-shaped opening measuring 60 centimetres (24 in) long created by the jammed interior trunk door. With the escaping air and pressure, it included bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which resulted in fragmentation of his body, followed by expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen, except the trachea and a section of small intestine, and of the thoracic spine. These were projected some distance, one section being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.[
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3 hours ago, MillerEP said:
Maybe the APU caught on fire. Or the captain is retiring in Russia.
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80 is the new 70.
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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
At least it's not literally a blast furnace. Yet.
Did the A/C break? That is what I thought my house would do this past week after not having power for 50 hours.
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47 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
I tried to get the wife to go to Colorado this morning. Even told her she could fly up there and I’d get pick her up in the car after driving up there with the kids. We could come back after July 4th. She asked me why and I said because the heat index is 129 on Wednesday and we should escape this insufferable state right now during what I hope will be the worst of it. She looked at me blankly like she couldn’t comprehend someone wanting to leave to escape the heat and said that’s what splashtown is for. She ain’t worried about no blast furnace.
Silliness. There is almost nothing better in the world than this after leaving Houston in June/July.
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Well this would be crafty and shitty.
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2 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:
127 heat index in corpus is insane
with that humidity?
Considering heat index is calculated using Relative Humidity to get a heat index of 127 it’s kind of given that the humidity is piss.
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13 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
2) Good, EV charging should be occurring overnight. Less stress on the grid.
Yup. Tesla app pushes you toward charging during off-peak times. I tell the app I want my car ready to go at 5:30 AM, and the vehicle starts charging around 3 AM.
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Yup. Fuck this.
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2023 Tropical Storm and Hurricane thread
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Tropical Storm Watch for San Diego or whale’s vagina.