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I always thought that Fox was a cool name for a dude ever since I watched the X-Files. If I had to change my first name, that’s what I’d pick.

I’ll never ever understand why they do not simply let the passengers deboard the aircraft, nor why consumers put up with this kind of shoddy treatment. The terminal is right there. Let the people wait out whatever bad weather or maintenance issue the airline is having in the comfort of the terminal.

To demand anything less is simply a failure in logistics. The customer should never have to sit on a plane for any longer than an hour without it taking off once boarding is complete and the doors are sealed.

I always told myself I’d be the guy to do this if I ever found myself in a similar situation. To be honest, I’m not sure I could go for nearly 5 hours without the plane taxiing. 3 hours would probably be my limit before I decided it would be preferable to spend my time in a jail cell rather than an airplane.

Last time I checked, Hunter Biden isn’t the President, so why would we care what he thinks?

We should really not be normalizing calling money paid in advance to not have your food arrive late/cold a “tip”. It’s extortion.

Tipping culture in America is fucked beyond belief. Pay everybody a fair wage and let’s get rid of tipping so nobody ever has to deal with this bullshit again.

I want people to know that life was the greatest fucking thing to ever happen to me. I loved it all, even the parts that sucked, just because I got to take it all in. The highs of joy, the lows of sadness, the good, the bad. People will say “Too bad he never got to live a full life,” but I say FUCK that! This was fucking incredible! This IS a full life because it’s the one I got, and just the chance to experience this universe is so unbelievably goddamn beautiful

I don’t have anything to add to the discussion, but that particular line resonated with me. When I was in college, one of my professors said something pretty profound that I think is relevant to this. I can’t remember if he was quoting someone of if this was original, but I’m paraphrasing it here:

“Everyone who has ever lived was alive during the greatest time to be alive.”

So I think you are absolutely right. Life is a blessing and you got to be here for the best life had to offer, and that’s awesome. We are all but motes of dust, and the span of a full life versus a life cut short is inconsequential in the grand scheme. I’m sure you’ll leave something behind that will be worthwhile and will help carry your memory forward in time.

It will open Firefox or whatever your default browser is if you delete chrome or freeze it.

I’ve tried this solution and it doesn’t work. Chrome is running within the Google News app. Even if you modify Chrome on your phone to have adblockers, the version of the browser that Google News opens is unmodified.

Click where? If this is from an in-app web browser, like Google News for instance, there’s no way to link it back to Firefox AFAIK.

Let me guess, another “training exercise”?

Oh yes, more money to fix the perpetual, nebulously defined “border problem”.

Sometimes compromise is not the solution. This is one of those times. I’m tired of Republican fearmongers getting rich off my tax dollars by funneling it into the border security slush fund.

Trump is a Zionist too. He officially recognized Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel. Anybody who thinks they will fix the Israel problem by not voting for Biden is sorely mistaken.

I just happen to be a part of a particular discord server that is essentially a fan development group for a long-closed MMORPG. There’s been a fan project to revive it ongoing for many years now (original source code is lost at this point) and there is a playable version of the client, but it’s little more than a glorified chat room with some clothing/animations for your avatar.

Someone just happened to ask about game/chat encryption in the discord server and the response was that there was a form of encryption for chat messages, but more importantly, it was an obscure game that nobody would think to monitor for traffic in the first place.

That got me thinking… there have already been things like the Minecraft Uncensored Library where you can download a map that has banned literature stored on it that would normally be flagged by surveillance states, but since it’s all contained within a file that runs on a game program, it’s impossible to track. The game itself is a form of obfuscation.

Theoretically, one could log on to a game service that has one foot in the grave (or set up a private server, if the service is no longer running) and you would have plausible cover from anyone who would be spying on your traffic (they’d just see you as logged into a game, sending packets back and forth) with the added benefit of encrypted private messages that you find in just about every modern multiplayer game.

I think your idea is good too, but I don’t know enough about linguistics to be able to say how difficult this would be, but I imagine anyone determined enough could figure it out. The last time I remember hearing about a “language” being built from scratch was the Phyrexian language from Magic: The Gathering, which is getting more fleshed out over time as hints and clues about the syntax and phonics are revealed via known/confirmed English translations.

Eggs are indeed tricky on the stainless. I have found that ceramic or a well-seasoned cast iron pan is a lot better for eggs if you aren’t good at hitting that exact temperature that they need to be at to cook and release on their own with just a minimal amount of oil/butter. My parents have a single teflon pan that is just for eggs, but they cook eggs so frequently that they need to replace it all the time because it starts to peel and flake in no time flat.

My stainless steel cookware set has worked better and lasted longer than every non-stick pan I have ever owned.

It’s not really ownership, per se. It’s really more like planting a flag to say “I was here”. They’re leaving their scent behind to let other outsider dogs know that they are around the area, like a calling card. Sometimes the pheromones in the urine can let other dogs know if they are in estrus, so it has a useful social/mating component to it.

Hi Dad. It’s me, you.

That’s basically the rational take here. Israel was attacked and is defending itself, but going far and beyond self defense using the extermination of terrorists as an excuse to commit genocide. Palestinian civilians are caught up in the crossfire and are innocent of any wrongdoing, but the Palestinian government knowingly harbors Hamas within their borders and refuses to cooperate with Israel at every opportunity to create a two state system. Finally, there’s Hamas, who are bad guys full stop with no redeeming qualities.

So, Obama’s take is pretty solid. Nobody has their hands clean in all of this and everybody sucks, but there are still ways to stop the bloodshed, but those solutions are complicated. Especially when nobody really wants to come to the negotiation table right now. Israeli citizens right now remind me of American citizens in the wake of 9/11 - bloodthirsty and hungry for vengeance at any cost. So long as they remain furious, Netanyahu has a clear political motivation to continue the attacks.

We’re living in the good timeline where they haven’t fucked up KotOR yet. Let’s be thankful for that for a moment.

I mean, the philosophy behind correcthorsebatterystaple is good. I used that method for master passwords to password managers and it really does work well to help you remember a long complex password that can’t be guessed easily.

But some people might have been missing the point of that xkcd using correcthorsebatterystaple itself.

Looking over my original post, perhaps my phrasing wasn’t clear. Yes, this is one way to decrease costs, but it comes at the expense of comfort. Airline companies are no stranger to this process, and have been rolling out new methods of packing as many passengers onto a plane as physically possible since the very first commercial airplanes took flight.

Awkward and regressive ideas like this, where the airlines are contemplating stacking people in uncomfortable looking double-decker seating to save precious inches of space are only coming out now because no significant strides have been made in making air travel less expensive to operate as a whole. It is always going to be easier to shave off a few inches of legroom and pack in another row of seating in the next generation of jet airliner than it is to invent a new type of jet fuel that is cheaper and burns cleaner without sacrificing performance, or developing a new more efficient fuselage that can fly just as far as a conventional plane while carrying less fuel, etc.

It would be nice to see air travel improve for a change, rather than continue to get worse and worse over time out of necessity.