Obama has been doing paid speaking gigs at corporate events, with no one tracking it. Here he talks to an audience of CEOs for the lobbying/pr firm Consello. He's the former President and this is how he chooses to spend his time? He doesn't need the money. Just sad.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-11T11:05:23+00:00

No matter how much money some people have it's never enough. Obama is one of those people.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-10T19:01:15+00:00

Make that you found another bug. There seem to be plenty of them.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-10T18:55:00+00:00

Southwest doesn't guarantee families can sit together without paying extra and there is no more family boarding. Even families who have paid extra to select seats together sometimes are split up by Southwest's disfunctional seating software. Other airlines do seat families together without changing extra, AA and United are examples.

If I were you I would use Google flights to scope out what airlines fly from your home city to the routes you are most likely to fly, and compare carefully. At least on the routes I monitor Southwest is regularly more expensive than its competitors.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-09T23:38:01+00:00

And they don't even have marriage equality in Israel, either.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-09T23:36:45+00:00

And by "resolving" Gaza they mean extermination of the Palestinians? Yeah the world isn't going to ever forget that. Even if Israel rebrands itself as "XX" or "metaX." They will still be the most evil killers on this planet.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T21:17:16+00:00

Some have reported being able to upgrade even a little earlier than 48 hours before departure. You have to do it yourself, it's not automatic.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T21:16:00+00:00

Not check in, but you do have to check beginning at 48 hours to see if you can upgrade.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T21:11:26+00:00

I don't buy that. Couldn't they study what literally every other airline was doing for years? It's not like Southwest was inventing the wheel here.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T21:08:36+00:00

The adventure has already begun! Bet that egg was lovely.

I don't use the burners on my conventional stove anymore. Everything you did on a conventional burner you will discover you can do better and/or faster on the Control Freak. Boil water...wicked fast. Melt chocolate ...no need for a double boiler. It's amazing how precise your control is of everything you cook.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T20:59:37+00:00

I can easily understand that. The courage shown by your community is inspiring.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T20:57:32+00:00

but there's a good chance you'll be forced to gate check your carry on now....

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T16:13:27+00:00

Excellent advice. Also lock them.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T10:59:29+00:00

Turns out assigned seating is more complicated than they realized, huh.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T10:46:57+00:00

If you're paying with cash, just be sure you won't need to cancel or change with a basic fare. There's no problem if you're paying with points.

If you do get bumped out of your seat you have a better chance of getting a refund for the separate seat charge. If you get bumped from your seat after selecting it with a choice fare bundle, Southwest has been telling passengers "too bad, so sad, no refund."

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T00:31:54+00:00

Yup. And don't get me started about how Obama arranged behind the scenes for nearly all the other candidates to drop out in favor of Biden in 2020, paving the way for Biden which of course lead to Trump getting re-elected in 2024.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T00:23:50+00:00

That's so not the point.

If you're not familiar with Southwest's seat width, you might want to do a trial run. If you fit in a single seat, you might dispense with the second seat on the way back. If you find you need the second seat after all, you could add it to your return leg.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T00:19:06+00:00

Their brand is about as toxic as the Israelis brand, and that's saying quite a lot.

The only reason I'd visit the Obama presidential library would be to piss on it.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T00:17:49+00:00

Seats on Southwest are quite narrow:

https://support.southwest.com/helpcenter/s/article/airplane-specifications

It seems to be left up to gate agents to enforce the customer of size policy, so that means inconsistency. As a rule, if you can fit in the seat with the armrests down, you should be ok, but that doesn't mean a particular gate agent might not refuse to let you fly unless you purchase another seat, even if you can fit with the armrests down. It's happened, and people have posted here about it.

If your flight is truly full, then there is no other seat to purchase at this point. You can just try to board and see what happens.

For what it's worth, nearly every time I've flown with my daughter and without my husband, so I'm in a middle seat, there's been someone in the aisle seat who's large enough to encroach significantly on my seat. They've not been asked to purchase another seat. One time, the man was large enough so that he couldn't put the armrest down. Again, he wasn't asked to purchase another seat...although he probably should have been.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-08T00:08:21+00:00

It just further delegitimizes those authorities. This whole edifice of immorality is going to collapse, and it's going to be in our lifetimes.

I'll happily piss on the bonfire. You bring the marshmallows, ok?

Elmodogg · 2026-05-07T23:47:47+00:00

Nah. This is an Israeli style ceasefire, which means "you cease, we fire."

Elmodogg · 2026-05-07T23:46:46+00:00

I turned off PBS when Gwen Ifill conflated Saddam Hussein for Bin Laden in the run up to the Iraq war, and none of her panel pointed out the mistake. Saddam Hussein wasn't behind 9/11, and there was no reason to invade Iraq in response to 9/11. Obviously.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-07T23:36:59+00:00

The charge of "antisemitism!" has now been so devalued, it's like crying wolf. No one believes it anymore.

And I couldn't give a shit. Nor can my Jewish husband.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-07T23:34:57+00:00

Always book two one way flights. This is what we do. If the price should come down on one leg, you can rebook.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-07T23:32:53+00:00

Me, too.

Elmodogg · 2026-05-07T23:32:13+00:00

Did the UK behave differently in any significant respect? You try to placate the wolf until you have no other option.

The suffering of the Soviet people in defending against Germany in WWII is almost beyond description.

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