Chris-

Russia’s performance in the war wildly undercuts any notion that they could pull off a feat like this. I don’t doubt that they want a weapon like that and are taking efforts to build it, but I’m skeptical it is anything more than a speculative threat at this point. This just strikes me as political saber rattling trying to capitalize on recent (but probably not dire) intelligence. 

15 hours ago, SoberChef said:

 

I mean JFC this woman is nigh perfection!

 

I'd let Dakota Johnson do depraved things to me.

I never thought I'd plan on seeing another MCU film on release night, but I am absolutely seeing it the night it comes out, that absolutely ruled. I love the fact it makes fun of the MCU!

On 2/7/2024 at 3:09 PM, CitizenVectron said:

 

Ugh, that's horrible. What are severance laws in your state? I know here the legal required minimum is 1 week per year of service, but if you go to court then you typically get 1 month per year of service—so if you can get a lawyer to draft a demand letter, companies will often just offer closer to that to avoid court costs.

On 2/7/2024 at 3:11 PM, Chris- said:

 

LOL

Turns out that, in addition to getting her PTO paid out with her final paycheck, they offered six weeks of severance (which honestly isn't bad considering we expected nothing). They also won't contest her unemployment claim. So that was a positive development!

I was born with spina bifida so I have a decently extensive list of daily impact, the most prominent being neuropathy in my feet. Chronic pain, not fun!

@Bacon binge it this weekend and report back on Monday. 

While I'm not entirely enthused with Biden's age and the potential for emerging or future cognitive decline, I am extremely skeptical of the Special Counsel's commentary without access to the full transcript. It's common knowledge he has dealt with stuttering his whole life, and those snippets could easily be taken out of context.

50 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

States keep federal candidates off the ballot all the time, e.g. for not getting enough signatures.

 

The line of argument they're going with basically says nobody can disqualify a presidential candidate from the ballot.

Failing to meet a signature requirement is objective (for the most part), this is much more open to interpretation. Ruling in Colorado’s favor would give every Republican state the opportunity to keep Democratic presidential candidates off the ballot with near-impunity from a federal standpoint. 

Probably the right call, but yet another example of how fundamentally broken the Constitution is in the modern age!

1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said:

What are severance laws in your state?

LOL

Just now, CitizenVectron said:

 

Wait what?!

Yep, found out Monday morning she's being let go due to lack of work (because who would ever expect a multi-billion dollar international law firm to adequately plan its own book of business!) She's getting paid through the 19th (she's going to push for more severance), but other than that she has one petition to file then its get out and good luck.

My wife is losing her job lmao

The list of included channels is extremely compelling, but there are two issues:

1. Unless I'm mistaken all of them are available on YouTube TV, so that is the price ceiling - and I have to think this service will cost $40-50/mo given the volume of content, competitive landscape, and revenue cannibalization (since a lot of subscribers will be new cable cutters, so the loss of carriage fee eats into margin).

2. No USA, so unless NBC decides to start putting USA-broadcast matches on Peacock, you'd lose out on most of the major PL matches. That alone would keep me with YouTube TV, especially if the service costs as much as I think it will.

Bold accusation given John Ratzenberger's continued casting.

10 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Apologies for the delayed response to this!

 

It was just a matter that the current battlefield stalemate situation coupled with the very real possibility that no further US military aid would be forthcoming along with the general sense that there  really is no foreseeable path to a Ukrainian victory was contributing to my overall sense of general despondency about the future so I decided that it was probably best for me to quietly cease those daily postings.

Well thank you for doing it as long as you did!

@Commissar SFLUFAN are you no longer posting IAW updates? No big deal if you aren’t, but I found them quite informative, so I figured I’d ask?

6 hours ago, Nokra said:

See this is why I don't feel prepared to get in to investing. The market thinks this is a bad idea, but my intuition would be that this buffoon having less power in the company would be a great thing. 

It's down to anticipate his shares hitting the market, not because of any impact the decision will have on Tesla's operations. 

Finished White Noise by Don DeLillo today. Pretty good! I can always enjoy a good postmodern take on capitalism, and the skewering of academia (and the type of men it cultivates) was entertaining. The existentialism/Dylar stuff didn’t land for me quite as much, though the way it ended was pretty funny given how it was set up. 

5 minutes ago, Bacon said:

So, you know how a turkey baster works?

I think I'll stick to having sex with women instead.

3 hours ago, Bacon said:

if you can squeeze the bucket to create suction like a uterus onahole that is a positive

Excuse me?

Therapy and self-reflection are great exercises in humility; re-starting therapy after my recent ankle injury has tapped into and unlocked many, many other things that I haven't truly processed through to the depth or specificity that they require. Congratulation on all the progress you've made and will continue to make.

On 1/15/2024 at 4:31 PM, Link200 said:

IMO what I find funny is that an easy fix is to automate the system to make such a failure less likely. Anti-ice is not automated at all on the 737 like it is in other aircraft. Even though the 737-MAX is "new" they do everything they can to standardize the aircraft with past versions. Walking into a brand new 737 is eerily similar to walking into one from the 1960s.

 

Feel free to take a look at the differences. There is a lot of carry over. Time has allowed for some changes to the flight deck but they do everything they can to keep the flight deck the same.

 

Boeing 737-100/200 "Original" Cockpit Poster - Printed

COCKPITREVOLUTION.ECWID.COM

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This cockpit poster is of the Boeing 737-100/200 "Original" aircraft. Available as both printed and digital download versions.

 

Boeing 737-7/8/9/10 MAX Cockpit Poster - Printed

COCKPITREVOLUTION.ECWID.COM

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This cockpit poster is of the Boeing 737-7/8/9/10 MAX aircraft. Available as both printed and digital download versions.

 

What is sad is that the 757/767 in many ways are more modern than a 737-Max.

So like, how much of this could theoretically be streamlined? Obviously airplanes are complex engineering systems, but computers and industrial design is pretty advanced in this day and age...If we threw all notions of safety or security out the window (including to the public writ large), could it be simplified to the point that literally anyone could fly it? 

In a sense they were sprinkled like magic dust over the face of the planet, so that’s pretty cool.