Some websites flag and prevent posts using words like dead or killed or suicide despite the context. Unalive is as way to get around the algorithms. This is exactly it. And so you have this continuing war of escalation where it becomes Unal!ve, and then all sorts of nonsense as they try to stay ahe...
Jump to postWas in my 4th week of my new role with my company at one of our plants down south. Really doesn't feel like it was that long ago.
Jump to postltbewr wrote:Some websites flag and prevent posts using words like dead or killed or suicide despite the context. Unalive is as way to get around the algorithms.
Relatedly, if you're a sports fan, June 17th, 1994 is one of the best ESPN 30-for-30 documentaries. No narration; just clips of the happenings in the sports world that day.
Jump to postThis one is even scarier: some driving skills involved all round! Incredible that no vehicles collided. Seems to be in Sweden: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=280229745132143&external_log_id=6c4596ef-e979-4356-b799-03a759be40e3&q=car%20chase The sound overlay and it being s...
Jump to postHad my old office still been open and I'd deigned to go in on a Friday for some ridiculous reason, I would've been in Whitehouse Station. Either way, felt this one here in my apartment in eastern PA. Didn't feel as bad as the one in 2011 that had an epicenter in Virginia. Was on a conference call wi...
Jump to postGiven everything I've heard about traffic and congestion, I eagerly anticipate having to explain to the powers that be at my company why so many deliveries were late that day... largely because UPS and FedEx keep telling us they don't really expect any issues.
Jump to postMeanwhile, the cargo companies are passing the buck to their customers... MSC, the largest ocean carrier in the world, has notified clients it will terminate their container contracts once cargo is delivered to a diversion port, leaving shippers responsible for moving goods or potentially face dela...
Jump to postAnd did Afghanistan have enough troop to beat back both Russia and the US? That argument is tiring and is not supported by history. At a minimum Ukraine only need enough troop to hold out until Putin dies. At most they only need enough troop to isolate Crimea. bt Kind of in false equivalency territ...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Gilcrist was no shrinking violet. He did another great book which would be better titled “Wild Ejections I Witnessed”.
One word: Budgets. Contrary to popular belief, budgets and the horse trading that goes with them drives procurement. Not war plans, not threats, budgets which have 4-star and politicians priorities.your $10 billion money saving idea will likely embarrass someone or go to the wrong contractor. All t...
Jump to postGood press conference by Chair Homendy. How long before the manufacturer of the ship in question lobbies someone to try and get her fired? :scratchchin: I don't routinely follow the NTSB, but I have recently because there was a big Norfolk Southern derailment near where I live, and now this inciden...
Jump to postUnbelievable! First, Zelensky is a Nazi. Now, he is harbouring Islamic terrorists. Taking bets that they're going accuse him of being a Scientologist next... :stirthepot: Speaking as a Jew, I really wish we had space lasers. I'd just want to borrow the controls for a few minutes. For...reasons. I t...
Jump to postThis incident also raises the question of why tugs were not involved in navigating or at least on standby, as the ship was leafing the harbor and under the bridge.Of course no one wants to pay for a service where the risk was minute. Not the least bit abnormal for the tugs to not be alongside out t...
Jump to postDocLightning wrote:No, it's preparedness.
So several people answered a bridge is needed. Meanwhile there is the problem of disrupting access to the port. So will rebuilding the bridge be prioritized even if that means traffic is disrupted for the port, or will they have to work around each other ? Work around each other. Clearing the chann...
Jump to postSlightly pedantic but noticed from the thread title: This was an allision, not a collision. Collision: Two vessels hit each other Allision: A vessel hits a fixed object Anyway....... Baltimore wasn't a small container port by any means, but it was only 5th biggest on the US East Coast. Given the cur...
Jump to postDIRECTFLT wrote:They are cautioning locals to fill up on gas and food and meds and other supplies. The thousands of visitors coming, could bleed the gas stastions dry, and it might be several days before the gas stations get re-stocked.
I'll be in a conference room in a Philadelphia hotel during this. Actually have had a few conversations about this amongst my colleagues the last couple weeks. Our main distribution center is in the Indianapolis area, and our 3PL has asked us whether we intend to move operations around because of th...
Jump to postMy parents were well off enough to get me a used car when I was a senior in high school (October 2004). I ended up having that car for 15 years, selling it to a friend in September 2019, after I'd already had my replacement car for 7 months. In early 2018 I figured it was time to start looking for a...
Jump to postI rarely get new phones, and when I do they tend to be outdated already. I've had a Samsung S10E since like November/December 2019 and still am satisfied with it. My biggest pet peeve with a phone is the literal size. It has been a pain for a long time to find a decent phone that isn't gargantuan. I...
Jump to postVMCA787 wrote:It looks as if Voyager 1 might have some life left in it!!
https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voy ... index.html
HotelSoap wrote:"as God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
Another in the line of Saigon and Kabul, but with a different flair.
Jump to postLook at the first jets into Afghanistan for the USN. 3 squadrons of up to date F/A-18Cs and 1 squadron of 1972-1973 production F-14As. Guess which squadron lead the strike missions???? You may be saying this implicitly, but wasn't that partly because the F-14As had an absolute advantage over the F/...
Jump to postI generally can get better rates through UPS than FedEx at least without volume. I am not sure who offers better volume discounts though. I typically use Pirate Ship for my shipping, and their UPS rates beat FedEx's standard discounted online rates. There are other similar sites too such as Shippo....
Jump to postIt’s too compromised to move outsized, heavy loads to/ftom austere bases. But that is my point. I don't see the US getting into an expeditionary war in the near to mid term. A war with Russia or China will not involve trying to get Helo into autere bases. bt You need to plan as if you might/could/w...
Jump to postGot some pictures from family in the city - looks like a Christmas card, but I feel sorry for anyone who had to drive in it. Here in eastern PA it wasn't that bad. Actually better on the roads than the prior snow storms we had. Yeah, we got like 8", but it plowed off hard surfaces really easil...
Jump to postI turn off/down the heating when travelling on short trips on airlines with low co2 per passenger km figures. I have nothing to apologize for. I'm not so much an environmentalist as I am a cheap-wad and just don't use my heat in the winter. When I was in grad school I had a middle-floor apartment t...
Jump to postFedEx ground has always been trash. It's what you get when you bid the contracts out to the lowest bidder. I will always pick UPS over FedEx, given the choice, even if it's more expensive. Yep, that's the difference between having a well-paid, motivated staff that considers it a career over outside...
Jump to postAirframeAS wrote:FedEx as a whole has a meltdown all year round... what's new?!
An unexpected mission for the AV-8B pilots of the USS Bataan. Now one of these pilots even qualifies for the ace status after downing no less than 7 drones. "We took a Harrier jet and modified it for air defence," Ehrhart tells me. "We loaded it up with missiles and that way were abl...
Jump to postreadytotaxi wrote:Egypt will be losing money with fewer ship using the Suez canal
And how many packages are we talking? And just you or other people you know in your area?
Jump to postUpdate from Ars Technica, speaking with Project Manager: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/humanitys-most-distant-space-probe-jeopardized-by-computer-glitch/ Suspect memory corruption in FDS, but it's very difficult to debug. Bittersweet comment in the comment section about the likelihood of an...
Jump to postI'll go with "Things I Didn't Expect When I Opened This Thread" for 500, Alex.
Jump to postcasinterest wrote:I missed this one when it first came out. Heck of a chase though.
On the one side you have to wonder if the cop was just in awe of someone that in control of the bike, with a passenger.
Every major rental car company allows their customers who are members with some type of status to go straight to the car and drive away. The only time spent is showing a drivers license at the exit booth. I think it was like May-ish last year I was in IND on a business trip. Got my car, went to the...
Jump to postAt my employer traveling employees are reminded to join frequent flyer/renter/guest programs during onboarding. Especially the frequent renter programs, because these can be linked to the company accounts and come with discounted prices. I don't recall that we're necessarily encouraged to sign up f...
Jump to postIf you're renting with Avis, sign up for the preferred program. Your paperwork and keys will be ready at the booked time. Some other companies just let you walk to the cars and check you out when driving out if you're a member of their frequent renter program. Total game changer. First time I ever ...
Jump to post' Jesus Saves ' He couldn't on my salary. In God we trust - all others have to pay. Joining the trend of the last few posts, there's a line from O Brother, Where Art Thou? by the bank robber character: "Jesus saves, but George Nelson withdraws!" And the remake of Taking of Pelham 123 has ...
Jump to postAnd then there are the tornadoes...
Jump to postDIRECTFLT wrote:
The front (wheel) fell off. Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point. Well there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don't want people thinking that planes aren't safe. Was this plane safe? Well, I w...
Jump to postVolvoBus wrote:On this side of the pond ( Premier League ), a public vote of confidence by the owner in his manager/head coach is usually followed 7 to 10 days later by the announcement of his departure.
The later variations of the HARM let the missile remember the last locked on location so that even when the radar operator does turn of his radar HARM can still arrive on his doorstep. Yes, that's precisely what I'm saying. But a plane is a moving object, so by turning off the radar for a short per...
Jump to postGDB wrote:
Wouldn't you just turn the radar off for a little bit? Can a HARM reacquire a radar after it has been turned off, especially if it moves? A HARM can hit a stationary radar that is turned off, but would think a moving one is a no-go. No, there are no acknowledged examples of a AGM-88 hitting a movin...
Jump to postWouldn't you just turn the radar off for a little bit? Can a HARM reacquire a radar after it has been turned off, especially if it moves? A HARM can hit a stationary radar that is turned off, but would think a moving one is a no-go.
Jump to postIPFreely wrote:Since it’s 2024 it’s safe to call this championship game Big 10 vs Big 10.