Depends what you’re after, really. If you want absolutely no extras, economy at budget airline is probably fine.

I’ve flown enough to prefer the “normal” airlines for what is included: yes, I need to bring a carry-on. And yes, I have checked luggage in addition to that. Sometimes several. And some of them are often heavy as fuck. No extra charge at a normal airline.

At a budget airline, anything beyond getting you and only you from A to B is an extra, and extra services carry a cost. And I absolutely detest the paperwork involved in filing an expense claim.

Also, when I’m flying, I’m either flying to work and want to arrive well rested, or I’m finally on my way home and can finally unwind. For these reasons I prefer to chill in a lounge during my connection, and/or upgrade to business class on the longer flights. Budget airlines usually don’t have any of those as an option.

As far as I can recall, I haven’t been left to fend for myself by a budget airline delay cancelation, at least not to a significant degree. But whenever something unexpected happens with the normal airline happens it seems they always have a good routine in place to make sure everything is taken care of, including rebooking, sorting out any connection complications, overnight stay at a proper hotel. Previous time this happened I got to pick any flight the following day that worked with my schedule, as opposed to being shoved into an early and really inconvenient one.

Never. Because I don’t drink tea.

However, the ones in my household who do use an electric kettle. I’ve never seen them use the microwave for tea.

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He’s too far into the K-hole to realize that the face of Mark Zuckerberg isn’t an upgrade.

My only connection with the state is Mobile. I quite like the city, but I doubt it’s very representative for the rest of the state.

Went there for a work related assignment regarding a ship that was visiting a dry dock there. The ship was delayed by a few days, so I spent some time just checking out the city.

Does Pulse count? If not, I’m having a hard time choosing between The Wall, Division Bell, and DSOTM

No. I am convinced that dreams are brain training towards scenarios that may or may not become relevant one day.

Last night I dreamt about being at an airport, unsure about where and when my connecting flight was. Surprisingly realistic, considering how often I fly, but unrealistic in the sense that I always know this beforehand and always carry with me a small paper note listing the following:

• Flight number
• When
• From-To
• Estimated landing time
• Booking code

The Mandalorian.

Succession.

Chess, mostly

Simplified: It’s a crystal ball that allows you to see through space. However, the target can also see you.

Think of it like one of those crying scrying (ducking autocorrect) balls from the Disney movies. Or a two-way-camera setup.

Can’t wait for some terminally online dork with a python script to figure out that the god password for Palantir is “StudMuffin1234” and dump everything online, thus making the two-way aspect a reality…

EDIT: Just for the record, it’s been over 30 years since I read the books. I may remember it incorrectly.

I think the only “required” one on your list is Instance: It’s one out of many servers. Lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.

I find it useful to think of it topologically like an IRC server, if you’re familiar with how those work; many of them connect and share content - You’re on an instance/server, but can interact with users and content from different ones.

The rest are more oriented towards Linux, servers (in general), and aren’t really required for Lemmy use in general.

This is where I started to explain what a codebase fork is, but then I realized that I fucking hate typing on my phone.

If it’s urgent, I go down there. If not, I schedule an appointment (how soon usually depends on the severity. Can be the next day, or the next week).

Example: My oldest kid (12 years old at the time) fractured his arm while in school last spring. I was notified right away, so I picked him up at school and took him to the local clinic (3 minutes away) . The doctor wanted some xrays done, so he referred him to the local hospital and gave him some painkillers for the one hour trip (we live kind of in the middle of nowhere).

We arrived at the ICU (it was after “office hours”), so we had to wait 30 minutes for the x-ray tech to be available. Turned out a titanium rod insert was needed, which requires anesthesia, so they couldn’t do it the same day because of fasting requirements. Operation “scheduled” for the next day. He was given a temporary cast.

Day arrived, and while there was a bit of wait since it was something they’d just have to insert into the schedule for the day whenever possible. Surgery went according to plan, and he was given a sandwich upon waking up, as he hadn’t eaten since the day before. He had a new cast on that he had to keep for a couple of weeks. The local clinic could remove it, but they wanted to do it at the hospital so they could do a follow up xray to see that it was healing properly.

A few weeks later, and things looked good. Cast removed.

A couple of months ago he had the titanium rod removed without much ado.

My only expense was the fuel cost for driving to the hospital.

The only negative feedback I have is that my son didn’t get to keep the titanium rod as a souvenir after they removed it. I guess the doctors have better things to do than washing gore off of scrap metal.

Depends on how you define “opposite”. I’m thinking direct democracy or anarchy.

Some nuance I read recently: The argument from above is basically that they want Ai research to continue as it has national security value. Therefore, any limitations or regulations to AI research should only happen on a federal level.

The idea is that all states should share the same playing field so that any researchers do not have to treat states differently.

No use for me. DHS and probably every other three letter agency in the US have my prints, name, and picture on file after getting various work visas a while back.

Worst: My sister’s wedding. Because I was so hungover the next day words cannot possibly describe its magnitude.

Best: My friends wedding. I was the best man, so I took it relatively easy, so despite being one of the last people to call it a night, I was relatively fine the day after.

However, I’ve only ever been to two weddings, so the range isn’t that wide: They were both pretty fun events.

Are we seeing AFAB also now?

Those damned firefighters saving kittens and ensuring public safety. Who do they think they are rescuing people like that??

Knowing Elon it’s probably supposed to be pronounced Robert

And your name shall be X-Grok-&$#@

Everything is toxic, it’s just a matter of dosage.

Also, there are plenty of rubber O rings, gaskets, and bushings between your tap and your water source - using anything else in your spigot will make absolutely no difference.

Unless you use something biodegradable. Then it would be an E-coli farm AND “toxic”.