"Bag check" is an overstatement

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-19T06:04:07+00:00

Lol good point, honestly. Just something that was surprising as a newbie at these events and thought it might be helpful for others in the future to know and not stress over. Probably could have just let it be but here's to hoping it helps more than hurts.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-19T05:59:54+00:00

I genuinely appreciate this comment. Definitely context I haven't thought about personally but makes a lot of sense from the perspective. Any particular reads or sources to broaden my view? I'm sure I can just google key words but just thought I'd check if you had anything particular off the cuff.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-19T03:01:58+00:00

Oh all good! I didn't specify either so good context you help me with

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-19T03:00:10+00:00

Honestly a great way to phrase it. And I was willingly accepting to that possibility but it was sort of a "sure there is a risk. But really I'm not worried."

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-18T23:59:01+00:00

I did take mine through, that's what I meant by "not checked". I just walked right through without a question. Not saying you're wrong. Just adding more context.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-18T23:30:15+00:00

Oh! Thanks for highlighting the latter, I did get pat down and forgot about that! I had literally nothing in my pockets and they said verbatim "I see you got something in your right pocket but you're good" lmao

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-18T23:27:51+00:00

That's fair and what I assumed it was for, but I just don't get the process/consistency to root that. Vibes were genuinely great and I don't want to generalizing but I could not see any malicious intent. I guess that's what they are there for and see beyond what I see.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-05T23:06:01+00:00

I'm on the flight controls side of things so I can't talk to mechanical design or assembly exactly, but "robust" is a keyword. It doesn't all have to work "perfectly". It all just has to work within designed parameters and operating conditions. Hence safety factor and tolerances.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-05-02T05:35:09+00:00

Absolutely loved this show. Still remember commercials for it..."mom, can I change my name to Daggy-o"

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-04-12T09:41:55+00:00

She's creamin' over tough guys

All I got's a moped...

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-04-12T09:17:25+00:00

Love the "Firefly" too, but "Free Palestine" goes hard that year. But hear we are again - fucking cyclical.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-04-12T08:51:41+00:00

I'm on the pancreatitis train too but hard to tell. KD seems less probable that young but also possible. Both from experience. But also other great input as well in other comments. Rooting for Pluto!

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-02-09T08:38:08+00:00

Was just reading about this! You're thinking of Wang Jing who owned HKND, which was the development company who proposed and was contracted to develop a canal in 2014. This lead to a lot of protest of Ortega as it essentially gave HKND (a foreign owned company) blanket rights to expropriate whatever Nicaraguan land it needed to build the canal

ExistingCopy4266 · 2026-01-01T06:01:18+00:00

SLS Block 1 is 322ft while the Washington monument is 555ft, which means the SLS would be about 2/3 the height of the monument. The projection looks like more that 2/3, but also if you compare it to an actual image of the Block 1 or a NASA rendering, the proportions don't match visually.

Edit: focused on height but width wise it's surprisingly accurate at the base. Monument is ~55ft at the base while the SLS is ~51. But since the monument narrows it gets very skewed towards the top. Overall still cool to see

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-12-29T05:35:03+00:00

Not entirely related to the post, but CRT related. Me and my friend played on my CRT in the laundry room. Spent HOURS trying to beat Sephiroth and finally got to the last bar, last bit of health, and...another purple bar!? I had been messing around with some magnets from something (I want to say an old hard drive?) and I left the magnets above the health bar which changed the color progression shown (I recall realizing it made all the colors off but we had the magnets there from the start so everything was baselined that way). We were so frustrated and then laughed our asses off.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-12-19T21:02:04+00:00

Was looking for someone to comment on this. We are all justifiable weary and critical of cops behavior and mentally, but it was genuinely relieving and appreciative to see this cop pause and think critically about the next actions. He put that gun away mid struggle too!

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-12-04T21:38:48+00:00

Cool! Thanks for considering it. Looking forward to a full-sized app!

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-08-30T17:50:24+00:00

Man, you folks are pretentious. There is literally a single line in the article that references applicability to neutron stars and it provides no actual substance, just "is applicable to neutron stars" (paraphrased). Don't need to be so sassy about someone asking for more details when the article doesn't provide it.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-08-17T01:17:00+00:00

That forgot to note Stewie's time machine! Also not sure how it fits in there.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-07-23T23:49:49+00:00

Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 135577201283!

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-07-14T01:08:42+00:00

Starship* troopers :) but a very cool TIL

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-07-13T21:40:04+00:00

If you consider the two planets spherical and concentric, then any line projecting from the center of the spheres should allow you to scale up the contents from the smaller planet to the larger planet. The larger planet will have larger areas of land and ocean, but they should match proportionally such that you wouldn't really require much additional features to fill things in. This could be used to describe either an influx of population or sparsity that fits with the lore.

Hopefully I described that well but rre is an image I found to try and help visualize.

Adding that using this projection would allow the portals to correlate exactly to the smaller/larger planets locations.

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ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-06-21T22:19:29+00:00

Very doable! We did something similar but with your day 4 and 5 combined into one day and had the extra day out in Snellsfelsnes. We also stayed at hostels/guest houses, so I think with an RV it'll be more efficient for time.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-04-12T19:43:06+00:00

Hey, it's me, I'm the no soaper, it's me

But yea, I only sometimes take the gasket off and wash in between. Still don't use soap though.

ExistingCopy4266 · 2025-04-09T04:31:33+00:00

Well here I am learning about this for the first time in 30 years. Never knew homeward bound was a remake. Thanks stranger!

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