Need to get Steph on an infrastructure focused Trap Draw
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Upsetting news but they’re still offering two free checked bags so I’ll stay for now. But if that goes:
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Co-sign on a quarterly What’s Burnin on TikTok with THG.
I will never install that app, and I miss the old Reply All segment Yes Yes No where PJ and Alex G would explain some super weird internet thing to Alex B. This is definitely the Trap Draw version of that.
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Did this happen yet or is there still time?
Recording at Noon today.
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Hell, as long as they keep the 2 free checked bags, this actually makes me want to fly with them more.
I’m tired AF of dealing with jackasses that save seats for their entire family, abuse the preboarding policy and flat out are assholes about “lining up” based on their group and number.
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As someone whose youngest kid is about to age out of the pre boarding stage, you make excellent points.
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To be clear, it’s not families that are abusing the preboarding, it’s the 37 people in wheelchairs that get cured by Jetway Jesus during the flight and can magically walk again when we reach the destination.
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lol WHAT. Is that a thing people do now?
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It’s all just because some hedge fund is pushing them to bring in more profit
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Only $367 million in profits? Sounds like time for lay offs.
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Wild that people will read that paragraph and not think “hmm this seems pretty fucked up, right?”
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Haven’t flown to Vegas, Phoenix or Florida in a while I take it.
It’s gotten way worse recently, but when I lived in PHX and didn’t really know anyone I would fly to Vegas for the weekend quite often, and there would be 15-20 pushed down the jetway in PHX, and rarely a WC request when we landed in Vegas.
TLDR: There are a lot of shitty people out there
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Hollywood is looking to capitalize on Gen Alpha brain rot by turning the odd Skibidi Toilet videos into a feature film.
My kid is 2, so we haven’t dealt with this, but we visited a friend who has a 9 year old and he kept singing the Skibidi Toilet song.
I watched one of the videos and it was confusing and a little disturbing.
This should be monitored.
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not good!
WSJ: U.S. Intercepts Russian and Chinese Bombers on First Joint Mission Off Alaska
Flights reflect growing military and security cooperation between Moscow and Beijing
Russian and Chinese warplanes were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by U.S. and Canadian fighters Wednesday, marking the first time strategic bombers from the two U.S. adversaries have operated together near North America, a U.S. official said.
Two Russian TU-95 Bear and two Chinese H-6 bombers flew into the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, a buffer zone in international airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said. The flights, which came as close as 200 miles off the Alaskan coast, were the most recent sign of growing military and security cooperation between Moscow and Beijing.
“It’s the first time that we’ve seen these two countries fly together like that [but] they didn’t enter our airspace,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters at a press conference Thursday.
The Russian and Chinese bombers all took off from a Russian air base, a development first reported by Air & Space Forces Magazine and confirmed by a second U.S. official.
Norad, a joint U.S. and Canadian command that protects against air threats to North America, said the Russian and Chinese planes didn’t enter U.S. or Canadian airspace and weren’t seen as a military threat.
The U.S. closely monitored and intercepted the aircraft, Austin said.
The Russian and Chinese planes were intercepted by U.S. F-16s and F-35s as well as Canadian CF-18s. “Norad will continue to monitor competitor activity near North America and meet presence with presence,” the command said.
The Pentagon chief said he is concerned about the evolving relationship between the two countries because Beijing is “providing support to Russia’s illegal and unnecessary war in Ukraine.”
U.S. officials have described the relationship as largely transactional, but said they have no evidence that the two countries are planning military systems that can operate together or that they share defense aims. “We will see how this relationship develops,” Austin said.
In August last year, a combined Russian and Chinese naval force patrolled near the coast of Alaska in what experts said was the largest such flotilla to approach American shores.
Eleven Russian and Chinese ships steamed close to the Aleutian Islands. The ships, which were shadowed by U.S. destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft, never entered U.S. territorial waters.
China has also bolstered Russia’s military industry by providing it with microelectronics, machine tools and other dual-use components, which have helped Moscow to produce more weapons for its invasion of Ukraine.
In 2023, some 90% of Russia’s microelectronics imports, critical for the production of missiles, tanks, and aircraft, were sent from China, according to U.S. officials.
China has also provided satellite imagery that Moscow has used for military operations. China has denied supplying weapons to Russia and says it strictly controls the trade of dual-use goods.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, at its summit meeting in Washington earlier this month, called on Beijing “to cease all material and political support to Russia’s war effort.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its aerospace forces and the Chinese air force had conducted a joint air patrol mission.
“An air group of the Tu-95MS strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Hong-6K strategic bombers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force conducted a joint air patrol over the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea and the northern part of the Pacific Ocean,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
It added that the joint flight had lasted over five hours and that the bombers were escorted by Russian jet fighters. After completing the flight, the planes returned to their home airfields.
“The activity was carried out as part of the 2024 military cooperation plan and was not directed against third countries,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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It’s funny, I’ve only ever flown on a commercial flight a few times in my life, but you managed to pick maybe the three least appealing places for me to spend my leisure time. Felt like you read my mind
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Wait till he hears about the war he is supporting.
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