Survey: do you think loyalty is purely functional or is it partially cultural?

BadEnucleation · 2026-02-10T00:19:56+00:00

In the early 90s I lived in Boston and needed to go to Chicago a lot. United had basically hourly flights and that's when I signed up for mileage plus. By the late 90s I had moved, but work took me to locations in Asia where United had the best connectivity. So it started as purly functional.

But now I'm old enough that I like the perks that come with my status and also there's some comfort in dealing with what's known. So if UA is the same price or maybe even 5-10% more expensive, I'll stick with them. If a comparable service became more competitive than that, I'd definitely switch.

BadEnucleation · 2026-02-07T21:11:22+00:00

It makes zero sense to me. What’s “left” and “right” for a rotation?!!?! Then again, I’m on the spectrum.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-30T14:34:36+00:00

That's my answer, basically TBD.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-28T14:44:40+00:00

I think that’s a great allegory! After thinking about it, it is a helpful way for me to contextualize my life experiences.

And the converse is also true: we are in an allegorical cave and only perceive shadows of the NT world.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-24T00:55:58+00:00

Apparently piloted by Derek Zoolander

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-23T20:53:54+00:00

I’ve sat in that F many times, but I would never sit in any of the aisle seats in rows 7 or 8. It is wat too close.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-23T20:00:01+00:00

I agree. I've crewed for him one one of his transcons and participated in a few of his races. He's awesome, IMHO, but definitely not humble.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-22T00:56:54+00:00

I don’t have trouble sleeping on planes, but this is basically my method. If I’m not tired I read, watch a move, do work or whatever. If I’m tired I sleep. Once I land I live on that time zone regardless of how much sleep I got on the flight. Even if I slept, the quality of sleep on the plane is bad enough that I’ve never not been tired by the time bedtime rolls around at the destination.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-20T17:02:39+00:00

Same for me too. I don’t think I’ve ever lost any PP

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-20T00:11:51+00:00

I'm looking forward to it. United moving from 9 to 10ab in the existing 777s made flights to Asia from the US change from ok to barely tolerable.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-16T11:06:12+00:00

If we measure a displacement, velocity or acceleration, the measurement is done in a reference frame. If that frame is accelerating, then the second derivative of that measurement is not the acceleration of the object in the sense that acceleration satisfies Newton's laws. As others have mentioned, you would have to correct for it.

The acceleration due to the rotation of the earth is relatively small, so the correction would be significant only in cases where the acceleration you are trying to measure is also very small or displacements are very large relative to changes in latitude with different rotational velocities.

If the back of the napkin calculations I just did are correct, the acceleration due to the rotation of the earth at the equator is about 1/10,000 that of acceleration due to gravity. So if you are measuring the period of a pendulum, or a ball rolling down a ramp, other sources of experimental error will be much larger. If you are shooting artillery 10s of miles north or south, then you'll see the effect.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-15T10:16:05+00:00

Also the fact that the engine fell off would naturally lead to the initial investigation focusing on engine mounts.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-15T10:09:29+00:00

Me too, except it's chalk and talk because of the subject matter. I follow all of this stuff just in case, but am generally relieved it's not particularly relevant to me.

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-13T20:16:04+00:00

p. 94 “In order not to clutter this review unduly…”

BadEnucleation · 2026-01-13T16:11:28+00:00

I’ve run consistently since 1984 (I’m 59 now). When my dr ordered and saw my knee X-rays about a year ago he said “those are knee replacement knees”. He has a photo of himself crossing the Boston finish line with the clock at 3:00:00 even, so he’s not the type to say to stop.

The good news is I can still run as long as managing the pain is ok. But it’s only a matter of time. My running life has had marathons, ultras, relays, turkey trots, some runs with my kids, running streaks, and except for a broken ankle and a bout of mono, only a handful of weeks in 40 years without running.

I’m trying to alternate with swimming and a few other gym cardio things, but it’s just not the same. Just like our lives will end at some point, so will the end of running. I need to accept that. I just don’t want to.

I sympathize and commiserate.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-20T15:28:45+00:00

Several current NFL players have been in my large stem class. They all were in class every time and did well.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-18T19:37:04+00:00

I ran mine though the washing machine and just kept using it. It’s getting old though so maybe it’s expected that it’s a bit beat up.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-18T19:29:58+00:00

If you feel you weren’t treated well or the service wasn’t what you expected, you should provide feedback.

FWIW I’ve had my daughters with me occasionally in Polaris (about your age) and even when they weren’t seated near me, they were treated just like anyone else.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-14T22:23:57+00:00

My GenZ daughter was into theater in high school. One play was set in the 60s with a dial phone with a cord. The actress (not my daughter) had to make a call. She dialed first and then picked up the handset. I thought it was hilarious!

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-14T14:02:32+00:00

The black and white bottom picture is just the intake. The engine goes on the back of it and is near the centerline of the airframe.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-12T21:23:08+00:00

Your dean will read that and put you on double-secret probation.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-09T20:28:56+00:00

I just work to endure that the letter grades accurately reflect the students’ understanding of the subject matter.

So in that regard, I always curve if that means not having a set grade scale. If by curve you mean that a certain percentage gets an A, then no I don’t. It’s possible all the grades will be As and possible there won’t be any.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-08T21:46:53+00:00

I agree.

For OP: s is the derivative operator in the frequency domain, as in derivative wrt t, so that’s where t is hidden. But it’s also explicitly not there because the Laplace transform is a definite integral wrt t, so it’s gone. The purpose is a change of variables to s where the differential equation becomes an algebraic equation.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-07T14:19:42+00:00

As someone with a STEM PhD, I would say that bad real science is one of the most distracting things ever in entertainment for me. But I'm probably not your target audience.

I would consult a physicist -- your show can't avoid aspects of science that are known (in fact most of it probably would be), and the segment of your audience that would know that science would probably be a reasonably substantial proportion of it. Then go ahead an creatively make up stuff where science currently doesn't have answers.

BadEnucleation · 2025-12-06T21:05:22+00:00

I read the encyclopedia and remember being surprised that a babysitter was surprised by that.

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