Gentle reminder: changing her stance on the Gaza genocide was the “damned if you do” side of the trap that she didn’t go for.

Gentle idea: maybe think a few moves ahead. Even the conservatives were.

decade

Cries in SeaMonkey

“How can we increase suffering for people we’ve hated and controlled and starved for 90 years?” – almost no one

One of the things conservatives are doing is to limit the number of polling stations per X square miles. This is done in the name of fairness and spending, but it disproportionately impacts urban voters more than rural, and thus impacts areas of more progressive voters.

I’d guess this is a larger population center of Oklahoma.

It’s that like “Y’ever been ta tha SEA, Billy?”

ITT: American HR vs the world.

This is true.

Look, the moment you know you need a new job, you’re done at the current shop. So get looking.

I see that in the bad spots, though – people are looking but not landing a new post, so they cope by doing the minimums, peacing out on the dot and getting their sleep. They no longer care about the success of the company, and while that’s admirable, it’s a social issue to abandon the tribe and it can eat on people.

I’m so happy when they land a new post, happier still if I do before I just … stop going. And that’s what I do: I lose interest in going if I can’t find a new post within the year I usually allow (I’m picky).

This last move I told my boss he had a year. It was like 13 months.

I had a miserably toxic job, and, yeah, I know that pit of despair and what it does to our decisions. I opened the search to the world, but came up with a domestic job about 3000mi away.

I grabbed the go-bag and all but bugged the fuck out, quitting on a Thursday, boarding a plane on a Friday and starting my new job on the Monday. She sold the house, got the movers (fuck moving) and shepherded all our worldlies to the new place. She’s not military but she faked it really well.

This is why I have two jobs. The second one fills with work until every 5 years it seems I abandon the day job and bulk up on the second job to make ends meet and burn its queue down.

It’s not intentional but it works out that way.

No. I haven’t doubled my salary, but I’m on the wrong side of 40 where I’m happy to be employed in this toxically ageist field.

My wife has done super well and sometimes beats my day job pay cheque, so we finally have that buffer too. And she doesn’t quit her jobs as she’s a super team player and instead gets promoted to fix problems. (Kinda got a crush on her for being so awesome)

Let’s be fair.

They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that’s on them.

They didn’t sign up to get irradiated by some shady shit that the FCC is all “no. Fuck off” about when asked about safety concerns.

So let’s render unto Caesar on this one. The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong) are huge dinks for knowingly subjecting their people to rads way in excess of what’s cool – worse if you look at the TSA people and realize they aren’t pasty-whites and then it’s mean to minorities.

And Logan intl are dinks, just like whatever union the TSA people are in, for not supporting and protecting the staff. That lawsuit is gonna be like Erin Brockovich II .

And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will. The people who can’t dead-sea-effect out of there are gonna be absolutely unemployable elsewhere. And that fills me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about the mental capacity and happiness of TSA agents and their international emulants.

1. Make the gangways longer
2. Make them hell on rolly bags
3. Deny the use of carts on the gangway
4. Make sure every piece of luggage must stay with the passenger
5. Fuck it. Put stairs (and a key-op elevator for wheelchairs) at the very end

There - I just solved the carry-on issue. If you can bundle all your shit into one bag and carry or drag it 700feet and up a flight of stairs, then, you sir can carry it on.

… IF it fits in the sizing thingy they only put AT the hatchway and enforce harshly. If it don’t fit, you must go back and check it. They do that ONCE and noone will be hogging the overheads again.

Oh. The lounge.

I don’t care which airline it is; the lounge is so great. I don’t need some cakes and cookies, but a place to sit in peace is amazing.

We’ve had mixed results with Lufthansa. It was absolutely stellar but they’ve had their share of avoidable sadness.

We like icelandair now because of (normally) the overnight stop near keflavik and they’re usually really pleasant people.

You know what’s objectively worst than united, as per polls and feedback?

Every Canadian airline.

We used to have a good one, but they just got bought out by scumbags. It wasn’t the one with our country in the name. Now they both suck worse than the other. You don’t think that’s possible, logically, but you’ll find out it’s true.

I will ALWAYS get the grope if I avoid the cancer box.

I have a deep-seated fear of the cancer box. I was okay with it - I get x-rays a bit for ongoing Achilles issues - until I learned that when Boston TSA asked the FAA what the risks are of standing nearby it for hours at a time, the response was

No.  We're not telling. STFU & GBtW. 

That’s when I decided I’d like to avoid it.

What I’ve learned:

• sometimes they’re bored and don’t wanna do it so they’ll wave you through an arch and you’re out.
• don’t call it a cancer box to an obvious type-a failed-cop TSA agent or you’ll have a discussion you’ll want to get out of quickly
• sometimes they want to be dinks. If you have any shame - not me, ex-army - it may not be comfy to show a dad-bod to the other passengers. Take the hazing.
• usually they roll their eyes and call the noob over and it’s a perfunctory process.

So there.

I saw this episode of Geraldo.

Receipts?

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Yeah, honestly, kinda fuck off a bit.

Can’t smoke on the balcony,

Legally you cannot smoke here within 100ft of a door or window that ventilates another’s workspace or living space as it represents carcinogenic pollution you’re willfully emitting despite knowing the risks.

In allowing it, the landlord would be subject to a number of complaints, some of them like human rights violations carrying no upper limit to the compensation – they could actually be sued for millions in the right extreme circumstances.