Next they’re gonna say it solves the Traveling Salesman Problem like never before.

I was putting sugar in my ice tea one time and someone filled the sugar jar with salt. I don’t know if it was on purpose or accident, but that one sip was completely jarring and nasty.

I should call her….

I mean that may fall under “successful” from their POV

So what has Boeing been successful with in the past few years:

• Starliner failure
• 737-MAX8 issues (MCAS and door plug)
• 777X still can’t get certified due to multiple issues
• 737-MAX7/10 still aren’t certified
• 787 battery fire issues

One of the key themes of cyberpunk is dystopia. They got that part right.

I was curious how long they were going to drag their feet on this. It partially felt like they were waiting to see which way the political winds were blowing.

Now the question for all armchair pundits: what will this mean? Most likely the first thing will be stopping all future tariffs, which is good, but I have a feeling everything collected is going to become a sunk cost.

That…. triggered something in me, and not in a good way. Holy shit that was a bit too spot on.

Really? Because all I see on my FB feed and people I talk to is exactly that “he’s just trying to deflect from the Epstein files… why won’t he release those instead?”

Edit: you used a double negative and confused my reading comprehension

I say a lot of things here that I don’t want tied to my name. However, if confronted with them I would not deny a single thing I’ve said.

Taking that approach I’m fine with where my message goes and I’ve learned from day 1 on the internet (back in the 90s), that anything you say is permanently out there with your knowledge or not.

Ouch. Seriously, what was he thinking with that cover. Or the artist for that matter. Should have shopped it out to at least one friend and asked “based on the cover, what do you think this is about?”

I mean the name literally has “The Staff” in it!

Could it be that Moderna threatened to pull all R&D and associated money from the US? …. Nah….

(Seriously though, they did threaten and it would have had a large economic impact. Pulling money is just an effective of a bribe as paying money)

I don’t even think everyone has the option of not getting a variable pricing…

That’s where you’re wrong. The wholesale pricing is very much optional with a few providers, some don’t even offer it. It is not something you’re forced in to, nor is it the norm. It’s basically a plan you have to go looking for an choose.

Man, someone seriously pissed in your Cheerios. I’m not defending them at all. My point since the beginning has always been that if you are trying to get away with gambling on the system. At some point you will lose. That is 100% on you. Doesn’t matter if it’s betting, ARMs, variable rate electricity, whatever.

Agreed. Which is why I think anyone trying to use them is either greedy or woefully uneducated. It’s why I mentioned ARMs in my original post. People are gambling and think they’ll be able to game the system for the life of the loan and then something goes sideways. Same thing with electric.

I think it’s the opposite. Last i saw they threatened to pull all R&D for the US, which would have been a major financial hit here, so the Government is caving due to financial pressure… aka one of the few things that still elicits a reaction around here.

No, it’s called making an informed choice. Down in South Texas that variable rating wasn’t even an option because our energy provider doesn’t do that. So what happened? Absolutely nothing. The provider ate most of it.

Where that happened is in Dallas, where there are at least 4 separate utility providers that you can shop around for. And of those 4 they have different plans including fixed rate plans. I.e. plans where your bill wouldn’t have shot through the roof.

So it very much was a customer issue, and didn’t happen to everyone. No one was forced to chose those plans.

Frankly that’s the customers fault. It’s like taking out an ARM based mortgage. You’re gambling that the rates will stay low and then bitch if they spike. The people that were affected opted in to a variable rate plan to take advantage of lower commercial prices, then started bitching when it spiked. Coupled with automatic withdrawal meant they thought “it would never happen to me!”

In most first person game I’ll use the controller for movement and general aiming. If there’s a situation where I need precise aiming, such as a sniper rifle or multiple fast shots, I’ll have my controller in my left hand and mouse in my right.

If they say they deny it, then air it on the next show.