Homercles

They’re announcing a joint venture with MyPillow

No the complete collapse of an airline’s operations across the country doesn’t happen every year

Yep same here. iPhone so safari. Just cleared everything out and logged in again, will see if that kills it.

I learned early on, when my first kid turned 3, that negotiating with someone that can’t be trusted is a sure fire way to enable a never-ending river of further demands.

Why does that surprise you? These clowns have tried, and often succeeded, just doing whatever they want. The fact that it is his own party that finally stops the thin skinned bully is both amazingly beautiful and sadly pathetic at the same time.

“Government is an inefficient swamp and cannot be trusted”… …breaks government via infighting simply electing their Speaker

Santos trying to vote

So is a singularity formed when a leopard eats its own face, or is the face instantly converted to pure energy?

Yeah after I posted that and came back to this thread, realized I came across a bit preachy there…wasn’t aimed at you. The ‘last chance for input’ comment def strikes a chord with me. Sucks to be proactive and take care of something, only to get grief that it wasn’t done the way they envisioned. Social media in general seems to give people massively skewed views on how their life should go.

Spoiler that shit, Admiral

It took me too long to recognize the concept of mental load, and drove my wife nuts a bit in the process when we had our first. She’s always been The Planner and I’ve filled the role of The Do-er better than most husbands I’m around…but once I found a few niches where I could consistently be more proactive (adding stuff to curbside, initiating conversations ahead of time on upcoming holidays/dr apt/etc, getting the dinner recipe in the morning instead of waiting for her to send it, etc) then it helped a lot. Im sure you already knew that, and sounds like you solved that problem, just figured I’d finally join this thread with a worthless addition. Having kids certainly exposes any opportunities you have in your relationship. Good buddy of mine will do anything you ask of him without complaint…but you have to ask. Of course it’s way better than this one guy I ran across at a friends thanksgiving party…this all-gut bastard sat on the couch while ladies prepped food, he ate three plates, then laid out immediately afterwards taking up the whole couch while my wife and I tackled dishes. His wife is hot too and I remember wondering what she was thinking seeing that.

Ugh well that’s terrifying. Wonder if the baggage contractor metrics incentivize getting bags off super-fast, #2 was still running awaiting the GPU hookup (jet bridge not in position yet?), and poor bastard got too close due to being in a hurry.

With multiple ‘shadow operatives’…

I don’t think they have a choice, it’s a fuel saving practice.

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.

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.

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.

I’m sure we will solve it here, this time

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.

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.