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I'm a big fan of "prepare yourself if you want something on a flight." Want your baby in a window seat? Secure a window seat in advance. Wanna sleep on your 7am flight? Secure a window seat and close the window, or bring one of those eye masks. Don't get mad a window-down guy. Don't like FA/pilot announcements waking you up? Bring noise-cancelling headphones. And so on. I'm not mad at jdhorn. I'd ask that he close the window, but it's like asking the person in front of you not to recline or window-lady to give up the seat to the baby. I'd prefer they do the cool thing but it's their space, their prerogative.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
choripan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
This is one of the most incredible subtle troll jobs I've ever seen. -
If this allows me to make a "Sabbatical to Venezuela to find myself" thread, I just might -- might! -- be on board.
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IIRC, you're a Midwesterner (Ohio). I'm originally from Detroit. We grew up on this shit. I still can't pass the old Mariners' Church in downtown Detroit without telling whoever I'm with about the Edmund Fitzgerald's connection to the church or that we have the only water post office/floating ZIP code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Westcott_II. #boatnerd
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For real, though, across the internet, so many articles are full of ads that take up full pages, including ridiculous sponsored content which tout photos like these.... Unfortunately, I have yet to see such greatness here at surly.
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He beat the wrap.
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choripan changed their profile photo
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@atomheartbevo, just a quick thanks to you and others generally for so many good updates, and also specifically for copying the text into the message board here so we don't have to click through to Twitter.
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I don't see the big deal. When's the last time anyone used a rubber?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
choripan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Put in the big hole and gouge on it (truck driver check in)
choripan replied to drifter379's topic in Daily Texan
Me, over here absolutely STEAMING at the lack of ZF/WABCO parts. Did you go with what was standard position in a lot of cases, or do more pickin' and choosin'? (Joking, obvi. Early congrats on the new truck) -
Added a 5-piece to my order on a whim on Wednesday. They are not very good. Nor were they warmed all the way through. Needed more time in the microwave.
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Steam systems are common in the States, too, at least in cities in which I've lived. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system and https://detroitthermal.com/.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
choripan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Not to derail too much, but it was ahead of it's time as a CUV, even if it was ugly AF. If you squint, you see the silhouette of every third car on the road nowadays. Back on topic, though, between the tax credit ending and the shell games between Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI, I am hopeful the Musk charade can end in the next year or two. -
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/europe/poland-scramble-jets-russian-drone-reports-intl-hnk-ml Uh, are we about to have a bunch of modern hussars fucking Russia up?
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Job hunting - A different kind of happy ending
choripan replied to Macanudo's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
@Bodhi, love to see it, seriously! I'll reach out if I'm in Denver for recommendations, if for nothing else, since I've never been. [Postscript on mine, since I never followed up. I ended up getting an offer in early October last year and starting November 11th and am thriving in my not-quite-new role. Through applying AI as you and I described, I made a ton of progress but it ended up being old-fashioned networking. I contacted an old classmate of mine, who put me in touch with a well-connected friend of his, who put me in touch with the General Counsel of where I work now. They'd been looking to fill the role for almost a year but were being picky, as was I with my interviews, and it worked out. I should have also added that my ex-wife and I had a tacit understanding that we were getting divorced after I went back to work and we could walk away alimony/child support free on both sides, so the pressure was there, too.]
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