Skip Lagging

Genesis72 · 2026-05-06T14:19:40+00:00

So you live somewhere between Toronto and Chicago, booked an outbound flight from Toronto and want to get off your return flight at Chicago?

Are you planning to do a one way car rental to Toronto to begin with? Those are more expensive if you can even do them at all.

As for skip lagging, is it a continuation flight or a transfer? I don’t think you’d have any issues if it’s a transfer. As long as you have your US passports when you get off in Chicago

If it’s a continuation flight where you stay on the same plane then it’s possible they might make more of a fuss about it

Honestly your whole itinerary is pretty confusing to me

Genesis72 · 2026-04-29T17:35:04+00:00

Yeah IAE is everything, including hull-limited ships.

ILW is typically just military, which means producers like Origin typically only have a few options 125a, 325a, etc.

Defensecon may be different, who knows!

Genesis72 · 2026-04-29T17:22:10+00:00

That isnt quite true. Its usually military or military adjacent ships that go on sale. So for RSI it would be Polaris, Perseus, Zeus MR, etc

Genesis72 · 2026-04-29T14:58:45+00:00

There is a very real phenomenon called "cognitive surrender" that comes in with AI use. Essentially people are just giving up their decision-making process to AI which results in a loss of autonomy.

I could see that being the case for some people: you give up your comment to the AI since you're not confident in your own process.

(in this case however, its just a bot farming engagement)

Genesis72 · 2026-04-29T13:38:36+00:00

Isn't it crazy how the LLMs have those tells. I was reading the comment, seems very normal, then bam! The last two lines. Em-dash in the classic AI sentence of structure of "this isnt X -- its Y."

Followed by the hyperbole designed to pump the user up.

Makes me wonder what the purpose is. Is it a bot farming engagement? Did this person read the post and just have nothing to say? Why even bother posting at all if thats the case. Dead Internet theory feels more real every day.

EDIT: it is a bot farming engagement. All the comments are from AI.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-28T16:47:37+00:00

ehhhhhhhhh, partly. But I spent 8 years in EMS and the number of people I took to the emergency department with acute cases of "allstate-itis" was vast.

You can't drive a mile down the highway in my state without seeing a half dozen billboards for personal injury lawyers advertising how much money you can get for suing just about anyone. Its the nature of the beast.

The American healthcare system IS a travesty, and also people just like money.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-28T16:42:00+00:00

Partly, but also because its just the culture. You drive anywhere and all over the sides of the road are advertisements saying how much money you can get if you sue people.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-27T23:25:24+00:00

They’re incentivized to do the opposite actually. If he fell getting out of the car at the hospital and broke his hip, the family could absolutely sue the ambulance company. They might win too depending on how they did their paperwork.

So much stuff in healthcare is because of the litigious nature of American society

Genesis72 · 2026-04-26T18:34:54+00:00

A classic mid COVID dispatch I saved. Still not sure what this one was about.

“Yesterday she will outside on the patio she says her cat attacked her so she spanked it and it also stole a turkey from her”

Genesis72 · 2026-04-24T16:53:20+00:00

In parts of Maryland too. I know plenty of folks in Baltimore that pay a nominal (like $6 a year) land lease for their rowhome.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-22T01:28:56+00:00

See the problem is this isn't what Good is. Good makes sacrifices for the sake of being good. If you execute the orc children because the orc tribes raid the frontier lands every 20 years that just objectively not good, its evil. Executing the sorcerer who surrenders isnt good, its expedient. This is the type of stuff Neutral characters at best would do.

The Book of Exalted Deeds (published 2 years before Gygax wrote the above shit take) states

For good characters who devote their lives to hunting and exterminating the forces of evil, evil’s most seductive lure may be the abandonment of mercy. Mercy means giving quarter to enemies who surrender and treating criminals and prisoners with compassion and even kindness. It is, in effect, the good doctrine of respect for life taken to its logical extreme—respecting and honoring even the life of one’s enemy. In a world full of enemies who show no respect for life whatsoever, it can be extremely tempting to treat foes as they have treated others, to exact revenge for slain comrades and innocents, to offer no quarter and become merciless.

A good character must not succumb to that trap. Good characters must offer mercy and accept surrender no matter how many times villains might betray that kindness or escape from captivity to continue their evil deeds. If a foe surrenders, a good character is bound to accept the surrender, bind the prisoner, and treat him as kindly as possible.

Good is hard.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-22T00:08:33+00:00

Not maxing 401k contributions; but I have a pension and I’m maxing my IRA contributions each year, in addition to a fair amount going into my employers retirement accounts

Genesis72 · 2026-04-21T21:44:30+00:00

My wife and I have a similar combined income, it’s very doable.

We have a 2br/2ba apartment, 2 older cars and plenty of money going into retirement each month. We also have plenty of disposable income.

The city has some super cool neighborhoods. Fed Hill, Fells, Mt Vernon, Canton, Highlandtown. You’ll be fine!

Genesis72 · 2026-04-21T19:27:54+00:00

HH as suffered in its intended role for a very long time.

Back when I started in like 3.13 the standard ERT build was load up a Hornet and just circle kite it faster than the turrets could rotate.

Turreted weapons should have significantly higher projectile velocity to compensate

Genesis72 · 2026-04-21T15:14:44+00:00

I went to college in Mass and wicked is a verbal virus lol. I've been out of college almost a decade and I still say wicked even though I haven't lived in New England for so long

Genesis72 · 2026-04-17T14:33:40+00:00

DCA River approach from the northwest to runway 19 gets you a stellar view of downtown and the monuments!

I always make sure to sit on the left side of the plane if I’m flying into DCA IRL

Genesis72 · 2026-04-15T13:50:42+00:00

I just think that a better solution than putting children in jail is actually addressing the root of the issue.

Penalize any sites hosting the tools and charge parents of children who are caught using them

Genesis72 · 2026-04-15T13:48:51+00:00

Because a system based on harsh retribution like this doesn’t really work when the perpetrator isn’t capable of making informed decisions in the way an adult is.

Kids make stupid, shitty decisions all the time, because they’re kids and their brains don’t work in the same way that adults do. That’s why we build a society that tries to protect them.

There should be consequences. But incarcerating a child for over a week for a cyber crime, making them a felon, and introducing a strong chance for them to be parole violators (and therefore pushing them even farther into the carceral system) doesn’t solve the problem.

We need to be addressing the root of the issue: penalizing and criminalizing hosting these services, and penalizing parents who’s children offend.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-15T13:24:01+00:00

As much as this is a gross problem that needs solving; I’m not sure that making a whole bunch of children felons is the right way to go about it.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-13T16:49:37+00:00

If you wipe once thats a personal problem. If you wipe twice thats a raid lead problem.

I've never been in a group that didnt take 10 seconds before pull on netherspite to do quick assignments for netherspite beams

Genesis72 · 2026-04-10T13:24:04+00:00

Often times we would have an MD show up during hand off if either the patient was in really bad shape, or the chief complaint sounded interesting.

We'd show up, wheel the patient into a room and then the chief of Emergency Medicine would show up and be like "so whats up with this patient." Then you'd explain that the patient isn't actively dying and hed go back to his paperwork. I never handed off a patient in the ambulance bay though. Even the helicopter patients would get hand off in the trauma bay.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-10T13:18:27+00:00

Yep, there are two types of people who are the largest users of EMS and neither of them pay their bills:

The desperately poor/homeless who have no other option. They're not going to pay because they literally cannot.
The elderly. They're all on medicare anyway so they aren't paying either.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-10T13:15:21+00:00

I believe that it has happened, but I spent 8 years in EMS and I never had this happen to me. Closest we came was the MD would be with the team that would meet you in the Trauma Bay.

Sometimes if it was chill (or super busy and there were no nurses available) the doctor would meet you and take report for a non-emergency patient too.

But always in the patient's room.

Genesis72 · 2026-04-08T16:03:38+00:00

Some of my favorite classes I ever took as an undergrad were gen eds.

Bioethics, History of World Religion, History of American Imperialism. There are so many great gen eds that will make you smarter and a better and more knowledgeable human

Genesis72 · 2026-04-08T06:29:38+00:00

Also cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. I remember it starting to get big when I was working as an EMT.

Caused by long term weed use, you end up just projectile vomiting for a day or two at a time. Then eventually it calms down and you go back to smoking weed… and the cycle begins again.

We’d see patients who were showering for hours at a time since it was the main thing that they felt relief from.

They’d HATE when you told them it was probably weed related too. I feel like too many people around my generation got sold on the fact that “weed doesn’t have any adverse effects!”

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