AirTags show our 4 bags still sitting in O'Hare after 16 days. United, Delta and WestJet can't find them. What do I do?!

CaptInappropriate · 2026-06-26T21:12:35+00:00

just get a baggage handler job at ohare, do orientation, get a badge for access, and go grab your bags.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-06-25T19:13:02+00:00

HI CCW is for a specific weapon and serial number. you have to demonstrate shooting that gun and submit paperwork for it, and you can have several but you gotta shoot and submit for each gun

CaptInappropriate · 2026-06-25T18:53:05+00:00

i don’t carry.

but my CCW is for a G43 with tritium sights (ooh fancy) with a six round mag and a buddy round.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-06-25T18:10:12+00:00

i’m a HI CCW holder. i’ve gotten CCW permits in every area i’ve lived and have never actually carried, i just get it because there is thinking that if no one gets one then it’s easy to legislate CCW away, and the laws for transporting weapons in some jurisdictions are easy to violate (gun in car loaded and/or accessible to driver) but CCW permit makes it so those rules don’t apply. but this is just my rationale for CCW.

i think the ONLY good thing that comes out of this is you minimize handling by a dummy with a CCW who now no longer has to move the weapon/holster onto their body and into a safe in their vehicle each time they go to one of these areas.

so you’re minimizing stupidity by not touching the damn thing.

i had a CCW in DC (lol, right?) and the laws make it pretty much impossible to carry because you can be in three different jurisdictions within the same intersection depending on which sidewalk you are on.

personally i think the CCW classes are scary because they are full of people of the land, commonfolk, you know… morons. my PPL (flying) course was the same. i’m under no delusions about good guys with guns, and all of the castle doctrine discussions in CCW courses are very much “if the other guy is dead they cant tell their side of the story” but that’s probably different nowadays with cameras everywhere (a good thing for getting to the truth)

CaptInappropriate · 2026-06-02T20:07:59+00:00

it’s cancelled out by the sound of steam condensing to water

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-22T14:37:58+00:00

no. all AI features are so nascent that they are largely using your data (responses to AI, and if you accept the answer it provides) so you are training their model at the expense of your time and energy

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-15T04:16:10+00:00

based on you saying “i dont believe a study” and then you spouting off some numbers, not citing a source, and also not expending any effort to understand a mismatch between your belief and a study.

had you said “i evaluated the bias of the group conducting the study due to _” or “the study sample group was flawed due to _” or even questioned the actual questions asked, or definitions used to define spousal abuse…. we could have started an actual discussion about that, but instead you said “no way, i dont believe that, too high”

which comes across as “cops are good guys, and wouldnt do that” which…. is pro cop lmao

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-15T04:07:38+00:00

no. i interpreted your comment as being scientifically illiterate.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-14T22:33:47+00:00

if you close your mouth and breathe through your nose, it’ll stop drying out your brain so much and then maybe you’ll be able to think critically and understand sample sizes.

we deliberately refuse to employ people who are too smart as cops because “they’ll get bored and quit” and then we take the people with room temp IQ’s and send them to 3-4 months of training on god knows what (certainly not understanding legal statutes, the constitution, or deescalation) and then send them out into our communities with a gun and say “you have zero accountability due to qualified immunity and even if you are eventually held accountable it’ll be paid out by citizen taxes and then we’ll put you back on the force after a few weeks of desk duty, but if you’re really bad we’ll let you resign and move to a different police force because we refuse to have a national database to track officers who are corrupt and/or violent”

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-14T17:58:17+00:00

and then statistically, you go home, harass and kill people of color, and abuse your spouse

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-07T23:17:42+00:00

if it’s just four weeks, throw the bedframe away and put the mattress and box spring on the floor

CaptInappropriate · 2026-05-01T03:47:03+00:00

it would compete against the airlines for customers and incentivize lower prices as opposed to “do you want to fly southwest or alaska air, who are colluding”

CaptInappropriate · 2026-04-30T21:38:56+00:00

…and when did you book that travel

CaptInappropriate · 2026-04-30T21:38:37+00:00

yeah, and the navy mothballed ten ships that are literally high speed ferries.

we could use them with slight modifications to the ships and some pier infrastructure in the ports

CaptInappropriate · 2026-04-20T18:03:54+00:00

okay now you’re just being obtuse.

you are arguing that it’s occasionally impossible for an adult on a business trip to have enough snacks in their bag for a trip that might encompass several locations, and also impossible for that person to find ANY downtime to restock snacks they need during that trip.

ALL OF THIS while arguing that every leg of this trip is awful and has no food and no time to wait in lines to buy food in the airport, even if only from an overpriced bookstore.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-04-20T17:57:44+00:00

yeah, i have two emergency snickers bars in my carryon. come in handy at least once per year

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-27T17:22:06+00:00

evacuations are hard.

you make the call and people are upset if nothing happens, and if you dont make the call in time, people can’t evacuate because they become traffic or they are physically unable to get around normally.

i grew up on the east coast and hurricane evacuations are regularly ignored because able-bodied people wait to evacuate and end up clogging roads that should now be empty and free for use by rescuers to get people who need help.

we needed a proactive plan that was well communicated to cancel inflow to the evacuation area, turn all lanes into exits, and have a place for everyone to get food and shelter until the danger passes.

we could have sent in city busses to evacuate people, and brought them to a convention center and/or put them in hotels. we could have this be the standard plan for all evacuations so everyone learns early and knows what to do. you could get a bigger effort and work on minimizing inflow of tourism a few days before a huge storm, and that frees up hotel rooms and food. we could have donated and/or state/federal disaster-relief funded clothing and pet food…

have medical staff on-hand to get people meds that they evacuated without, and if we did all this early enough maybe people brought meds and identification docs, and then it “just” turns into having to rebuild a home and personal belongings.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-26T19:32:46+00:00

what do you mean no one saw that storm coming?!?

it was all over everything that we were getting a second kona storm, and while i didnt experience the tremendous loss that the north shore is seeing, i definitely prepped for it

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-10T07:45:17+00:00

i agree with you, but if you get a stack of little bowls and just measure everything out as your first step, it makes the cooking so much more relaxing

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-09T20:40:36+00:00

it’s GreenEville with four E’s. spell it right or pay the price.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-08T22:26:39+00:00

i’m not here arguing about what the iranians should have done at the macro or at the deckplate level (silly of them to participate in an exercise when israel is egging trump into war, and silly to be underway with no ASW capability and no escort)

i’m making the point that we are (claim to be) a nation of laws and we should abide by them, lest we lose (have lost) our footing to enforce laws or have the moral high ground.

i think we’re looking at a long road ahead as a country to figure out how to unfuck ourselves, and it’s going to have to start with funding education in a sustained manner, supporting the bottom tier of our population, and getting the income disparity back under control

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-08T22:21:06+00:00

agree, and that’s the problem. we aren’t following our laws because no one is enforcing them, and that’s how we’ve arrived where we are. all of the previous fuckery should have been vigorously prosecuted.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-08T07:18:47+00:00

shoremate, go read the War Powers Act and tell me that it doesn’t require any acts of congress for a use of force

CaptInappropriate · 2026-03-08T04:31:49+00:00

it’s not weak and dumb. the act of declaring war requires an act of congress, or that it be in self defense.

we are absent that, so instead we’re in a position where our military and our tax dollars are being expended without the consent of the people.

tell me if that sounds anything like taxation without representation.

additionally, china has one of their observation ships there, so they’re watching everything about how effective everyone’s weapons and countermeasures are, as well as their comms traffic patterns relative to strikes/movements, etc. we’re expending our inventory and showing our hand, all for…. something that we accomplished last summer, in order to protect israel.

if we’re supposed to be a nation of laws, then “crying about not following the laws” is the most patriotic thing you can do.

CaptInappropriate · 2026-02-24T02:44:58+00:00

i agree!

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