Homercles

I actually smell opportunity for a trip sometime in the spring. Bet there’s going to be some cheap fares available.

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’

Their scheduling software sounds like a macro’d Excel sheet

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

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.

Well GTFO of Arkansas

Yes another cranky old white guy who bemoans that other’s experiences and related viewpoints don’t match his own. Shocking.

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.

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.

Oh his tires will find it just fine

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.

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.

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.

His first wife had great tits. That’s always occupied the priority 1 slot in my brain when I think about RGIII.

Not gonna quote the long cat post of stories it came from, but I’m going to add “you gotta get your dick into it, point your dick at him” into my vernacular in Leach’s honor

I’m sure I’m in the minority here or will get accused of being a woke snowflake…but Chappelle has really nosedived in my humble opinion. I remember going to COTA for some comedy tour where he was to close it out, and after all the drama about folks needing to put their phones away I was underwhelmed as it wasn’t anything worth recording anyways. Dave seemed to come back very different…bulked/roided up, angry and no longer rooting for the underdog in his comedy. He’s full on fuck you mode. I’ve thought it’s telling that he openly chain smokes all the time during shows, interviews, etc. A millionaire brought a billionaire on stage, and in response to fans booing, called them poor.

disregard, Surly did a weird thing and posted my multi quote in the wrong thread

Seems he’s out, per TMZ via my google news feed. Covid lead to pneumonia and the vent, which seems fitting given his past viewpoints on the subject. His body has got to be beat to hell across the board.

Ahh memories of getting a literal corner piece of a brick…like tearing apart frosted wheats, seeds popping out everywhere, finding bits of rope stuck inside, puffs of dust coming up to greet you.

Uh oh, new poster and may be overly knowledgeable about obscure regulations…TxTint? Did TxTow have a brother?

Post dumb shit. Get called out for it. Defend dumb shit. Get negged. ‘You mad bro’ Like clockwork