Every article like this makes me want to hug my 13-year-old Costco Sharp (is that brand still a thing?) TV that barely has apps and doesn’t get butthurt when I don’t do anything with them

That’s the Senate. OP is about people in the House, which is every 2 years for everyone.

My app happened to crop the caption so I didn’t even see it until I saw your comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you, but also don’t like that it lead me to that negative value caption.

Tl;dr your comment has neutral value 😀

He questioned why the agency should not be held in contempt.

That’s a great question, your honor. Who would be the one to make that decision?

Kinda sorta. Cousins mean you share grandparents. Second cousins share great-grandparents. Third cousins share great-great-grandparents.

The the “removed” refers to generations. My first cousin’s kid is my first cousin, once removed. His kid (my cousin’s grandparent) will be my first cousin, twice removed. So 16x removed would be 14x great-grandparent/child.

In other words, Benedict Cumberbatch’s 14x great-grandparent shared a great-great-grandparent with… Was it a king we were talking about? I already forgot OP.

If we have to play this bubble game, can we at least force them to build some renewable energy sources with their unlimited funds so when the bubble pops, we have some extra renewable energy available to the grid?

I have a friend who worked in Oman for several years. My wife and I went to visit, and the three of us were going to get dinner somewhere. We ended up parking somewhere that wasn’t free, but wasn’t horribly expensive either (honestly, paying for parking is pretty uncommon there from what I saw). Payment was only done in coins or through mobile. Paying with our phones didn’t work, and we only had paper bills, so I went into a small shop asking if they could give me coins for a small bill.

I can’t remember what the shop was for, but it wasn’t anything touristy. Oman is very highly developed, but I’m always mindful about the privilege I have to travel internationally as an American. They said I could pay through mobile, which I said didn’t work. The employee walked outside, asked which car was ours, and plugged our license plate into his phone. How long will we stay? Couple hours. Ok, you’re all set. Cool! How much do we owe you? It’s ok. No, we can pay you. No, it’s ok.

He just would not take payment. Even if it was a small thing, the context and optics meant so much to me at the time. If you ever get a chance to go to Oman, I would strongly recommend it before the tourists take over.

Judge Jia M. Cobb, an appointee of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Oh that Biden! Glad they clarified.

Purple district*

Also, we’re talking about the House where everyone is up for reelection every 2 years.

It means that when there’s a claim for malicious prosecution being done by this administration, there’s another piece of evidence to put into the record. Probably nothing that would make or break anything, but still something to help.

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Yeah, at this point I don’t expect him to last to 2029 (ugh, that number is too damn big) but also I’m not hitting F5 to see if he’s out yet. He’ll go when the shit stops missing the fan.

You take that back!

Yeah, this seems a lot more benign than I expected. Generally speaking, I hate when AI bypasses the human element of what’s being produced. Assuming the main content of the jokes are good, nobody is expecting a photo shoot at a casino to be used for a 10-second joke. Maybe you can find a stock photo and Photoshop to do the job - I don’t think anybody would care. Is AI really a bridge too far and turns the whole thing into slop?

To be clear, I don’t want AI to be “the thing”. I think it’s a matter of time before this over hyped bubble pops. I hate it being shoved down our throat every which way. But it could have some use as a background tool in some circumstances and I’ll pick my battles there.

Yes, but I’m not going to write up a peer reviewed thesis with annotations for an online discussion about how airlines are garbage at handling luggage.

That’s fair. So, I am a former airline employee. Before you start throwing tomatoes at me and get upset about me being a bootlicker or whatever, I’ve been out of the industry for almost a decade and am not particularly attached to it. Honestly, your description of how it works sounds about right, admittedly I never had to get super involved in baggage issues because I worked at a tiny station and lost bags were so rare that I don’t think I ever encountered one (delayed bags, sure)

With that said, nobody wants a bag issue. It’s a headache for everyone involved and the computer systems to handle it sucks (at least, they did when I worked at an airport, which was a few years before I left the industry entirely). And it’s pretty much always going to be cheaper and easier to get your bag back to you than steak with a claim. But yes, it’s hard for it not to be the airline’s fault when all you’re really responsible for is handing it off (but a name tag would be nice).

But also… Everything has its limits. As I already said, there’s a point where a bag and its owner just aren’t going to be reunited. It sucks, it’s rare, but it’s inevitable when the major airlines check at least tens of millions of bags per year (ballparking from the fact that the big airlines do a little over a million flights each). While it happens enough that is caused this shop to open, it’s not exactly a nationwide chain. It’s some random one-off place in Alabama. I get the grossness factor, but the only other real option is eventually going into a landfill. You can’t expect it to be held literally forever.

And as for liability amounts, every method of shipping has risks. Airlines aren’t the only ones to encounter this. IIRC, insurance began from the shipping industry centuries ago. And limits here make sense too. If I threw a few vmulti-million dollar diamonds in my checked luggage (or if I say I did) should there be endless potential liability for the $50 checked bag on a $100 discount ticket? No carrier (including mail or package delivery companies) will do that without some kind of additional insurance.

And if it is done right it can add a dimension of flavor. Carrot and onion develop a bit of sweetness when cooked a while. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it’s not exactly what you’re looking for in a bowl of chicken noodle. Celery, being disgusting when raw, doesn’t do that and helps break that pattern up.

Do you mean the leaves, AKA cilantro? Do you have that gene?

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Do you have anything to back that up other than “my bag got lost once”?

I was trying to focus on the fact that sometimes you just can’t find the passenger for a bag, but if we agree to that I’m happy to offer my perspective there as well… If you care.

I’m not here to argue how the airline should or should not be liable to the passenger for things that went missing forever. I have my own thoughts on that, but for now I’m trying to focus on the fact that when (however rarely, for whatever crazy reason) an airline cannot track down the owner of a bag, that bag doesn’t just magically disappear. They have to do something with it. And I haven’t heard what they should do other than “but something was expensive” as if that makes the owner magically appear.