GeneticBlueprint

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

The lack of interlining agreements and thin schedules is why I avoid Frontier and Spirit. This is an issue Southwest too but their schedules are at least more robust,.

They offered me a similar flight... three days later. So I'm either supposed to go spend money on a hotel or sleep in the airport for three days. But I did need to be back home so those weren't options anyways.

Just now, Firewithin said:

how did you spend 1800 for spirit?  cant you fly with them and pay them in bags of peanuts? 

I didn't spend it with Spirit. I had to spend it with another airline to get me home on time when they fucked me out of a flight and refused to reimburse me even though they were at fault and won't own up to it.

I had a horrible experience with Spirit over the summer and am out $1800 because of their incompetence. I won't be flying with them ever again.

29 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I think they annoying ones are those that are used by the professional landscapers.

 

Using a landscaper was much more common when I was in Michigan than here -- everyone in my neighbourhood used them there, no one does here.  (Probably because of the bigger properties, and the fact it was so cheap there, and so expensive here.)

I guess that makes sense. If it's those loud gas ones and they're constantly going I could see that getting annoying. But everybody in my neighborhood uses the electric ones that I can tell.

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Trump v Biden:  I vote for Biden 

Haley v Biden: I vote for Haley (or a compelling 3rd party candidate)

Even if you're conservative you shouldn't vote for anybody who ever worked for Trump or had anything positive to say about him.

I honestly can't remember the last time I heard a leaf blower and got annoyed by it.

I use my leaf blower all the time. Grass clippings. Garage debris. Leaves. I’ll uncaringly annoy everybody for a few minutes if it will spare me 90 min of labor. Shrug.gif

I mean I’d be hesitant to say it’s over for Haley or DeSantis after just Iowa. Hard to know how all the court cases against Trump are going to shake out. If he ends up with any consequences (lol) and can’t run you want to be one of those two. And they’re basically tied right now. It’s not like DeSantis is beating her by an amount that makes a statement (yet). 

14 hours ago, TUFKAK said:

@GeneticBlueprint

 

i land at 3pm on the 26th. Im sure I can delay the drive to beaver a bit btw if you wanna grab food/a drink.

 

Weather permitting of course.

I have a family thing that day ☹️ How long are you staying in Utah? Just the weekend?

Yeah. Christie was the only one offering some potential maybe if you squint semblance of a meaningful alternate to Trump. Everyone else is just trying to show how cool they are if you already like Trump. The party voters have a clear preference. Haley and DeSantis are secretly hoping he goes to jail while simultaneously auditioning for VP while that one other ratfucker VC douche is all but screaming “pick me for VP” and that’s just the reality. Trump still dominates the party and his cult will see the at he dies until he keels over dead.

Then when he’s dead there will be a conspiracy about how he’s secretly alive and really controlling everything in the party. His specter will dominate the party even after he’s dead. 

1 minute ago, marioandsonic said:

Forgive my ignorance, but what is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization. How you structure your webpage and the words you decide to use help it appear higher in searches.

Amazon has been a shit show for ages in terms of terrible product pages and results full of knock-offs. Doesn't surprise me that they're taking the laziest possible approach in regards to titles either.

4 hours ago, CayceG said:

Statement from President Joe Biden on Coalition Strikes in Houthi-Controlled Areas in Yemen | The White House

WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV

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Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces—together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation...

 

 

We really said late deliveries are one of the reasons we're doing this. 

Probably one of the most common reasons in history to go to war though

Sick of Star Trek writers’ obsession with going back in time.

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

Though I just listened to the hot mic, and he apparently thinks Haley's going to get smoked and "isn't up to this" so maybe not.

I would agree with that assessment. She completely fumbles softballs like “what was the cause of the civil war?” She’s not going to weather a barrage of Trump’s awfulness and his cult. 

Adding commercials and laying off people? Really cool. 

50 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

 

When we say things like "best" and "prefer", those words are doing a lot of heavy lifting.  This is more like pick your poison to avoid Trump as the candidate, the worst poison.

Yeah I mean I think that was implied :P 

17 minutes ago, ort said:

It's kind of crazy how Nikki Haley is both terrible and also the best of the current lot by far. (I like Christie's hard line anti-trump stance, but I think he's a weasel and I do not trust him)

Yeah this is kind of where I stand. It's weird to see how principled the Bridge-gate guy is on the Trump issue. But Bridgegate itself makes me kind of prefer Haley.

Would it count for 2023? Because that would uhhh really help me out. Haha.

^{I know it wouldn't.}

22 minutes ago, TheLeon said:

So when it comes to sailing the high seas, it’s just a matter of connecting to the right people? I guess that’s easier than dealing with questionable torrent sites and all the other garbage I dealt with back in the day. 

Yeah if you have the right friend you can access a plethora of content. I just run my own server and rip from my blu rays/dvds and share with my family. I built a little server out of a donated old PC that just sits always on in my office. Can stream my shit anywhere. It's nice.

Not sure if they offer the lifetime pass anymore, but I bought it way back in the day.

11 hours ago, Jason said:

No face lock? No password? Don't know if I should believe this or not :P

I saw Mario and that new Ninja Turtles movie with my kids. I liked both of them.

The movies, too.

On 1/4/2024 at 4:01 PM, Greatoneshere said:

Yes. Plex is the best streaming service. 

No, America isn’t full blown fascist. But it, and especially the Republican Party, checks a lot of the boxes on Umberto Eco’s “You might be a fascist if…” list.