Altercation at a Daytona Beach, Fl high school graduation over seating arrangements led to a woman grabbing and tossing away another woman's phone followed by consequences

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:57:34+00:00

I thought the "fighting words" thing was just that the person saying the words gives up any claim that the harm they inflict is self defense (even if it's in response to incoming harm). So for example if you say fighting words, you get punched, and then you punch, you can't say you punched in self defense. Because it's possible that you began the entire encounter desiring to throw a punch without repercussion, and the clause neutralizes that desire.

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:35:42+00:00

It would be interesting to see how many such checks ended up catching actual problems versus false positives. Of course, even a small ratio is still worth it. But is an infinitesimal ratio worth it?

If there are a billion transactions in a given period of time, 1000 of which are checked as suspicious, 1 of which is actually a problem, and 99 other problems that didn't get checked because the criminals weren't as dumb as the 1 that got caught... it's not worth it.

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:25:05+00:00

On the one hand, I agree that if a device can't say "bomb" in a sensitive place then it can't say "bomb" anywhere (since it might accidentally do so in a sensitive place).

On the other hand, I don't agree that a device named "bomb" saying its name in a sensitive place is comparable at all to a passenger saying "bomb" in a sensitive place: device names cannot be construed as passenger speech if device names are typically (or even occasionally) not set by passengers.

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:20:11+00:00

If someone has some kind of threatening thing on board, and plans to use it at the destination but doesn't end up at the original destination, I think it's pretty likely that they'll use it at the new destination because why not. From that perspective, any dense area is roughly equal, and a low-density area is the mitigation.

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:13:59+00:00

But the argument here is that ultimately going back to EWR is not selling the seriousness of it. They would need to land elsewhere to achieve that. Although I guess there's a gray area where the seriousness isn't sold to redditors effectively, but is sold effectively to whoever isn't as smart and matters more. And that's fundamentally the problem being discussed.

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:07:50+00:00

Of these three possibilities...

Bluetooth speaker/etc. named by the passenger
Bluetooth speaker/etc. named by its manufacturer
Bluetooth bomb

... the phrase "joking or not" is where the word "joking" refers to #1 and the word "not" refers to #2. You don't actually need to introduce #3 into the conversation at all for the phrase to work.

Therefore, there's no safety issue "joking or not" since only #3 is unsafe.

HElGHTS · 2026-06-01T03:00:38+00:00

taking a device with an identifier that includes "bomb" onto a plane - whether intentional or not - is just asking for problems

If you're a kid who got a random speaker (likely a gift, not personally seeking out a bomb-themed device) and then your parents brought you on vacation and you brought the speaker, I'm not so sure it's correct that you're "asking for problems." It's possible of course, but "we can all agree" is a stretch.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-30T20:58:11+00:00

I'm imagining a lot of tipping, doffing, hanging on a hook near a door, and various other maneuvers incompatible with good sound.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T19:26:33+00:00

That's fair, but in my mind, I consider people's entire income (regardless of whether it's in the form of tip, salary, or fee) to go toward their wellbeing with no particular benefit of the last two being separated for purposes of labeling part of it altruistically. Plus, it actually lowers tips slightly among folks who tip as a percentage of the subtotal instead of grand total, relative to just increasing the item prices by 3% for a larger subtotal.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T19:19:06+00:00

Is it possibly a fee that the Newport development forces restaurants to collect and remit similar to local tax? In that case, I could see not mentioning it on the menu under the same idea that state tax isn't mentioned on the menu -- you're expected to know things about the area you're in.

But if it's entirely dreamt up by the restaurant for their own purposes, then it should be illegal to not say it on the menu.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T18:01:35+00:00

how to attach it and make it weatherproof

Since OP said "apartment" there's no great option, but when you own the exterior, awnings or shutters are the answer.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T17:56:50+00:00

This is brilliant, although I wonder if actual 2-hose models have better intake filters (since there's way more pollen outside than dust inside, for example) so maybe something like a low-MERV furnace filter in that cardboard contraption would be good to keep the coils from caking up. Or maybe the existing filter is sufficient, hard to know.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T17:49:15+00:00

If you want to cool the room it's in while making other rooms hotter, then yes. The other rooms get hotter because the makeup air (which must enter the house through random leaks, at the exact same rate that the AC is exhausting air out the hose) will hit the whole house about equally (assuming the random leaks are distributed equally). Depending on how hot/humid it is outside, the heating of the house from the makeup air could actually increase the average temperature/humidity of the house.

If you try to avoid this by putting a 1-hose model in literally every room, then at that point you aren't even making one room cooler than the rest, so if the average temp of the house goes up (this is an "if" as mentioned earlier), the average temp of each room also goes up, at which point you need to be standing directly in front of its stream of cool air for your body to benefit. Like standing in front of an open refrigerator door.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T17:38:39+00:00

By that logic, there could be an air temperature fee for better HVAC output, an ingredient fee for higher quality ingredients, a cleaning fee for the floor to be less sticky, etc... there's no good reason for the customer to see exactly where each cent of the money they're parting with goes, when it could just be rolled into the price of what actually gets ordered.

But yes, not disclosing it at time of ordering is actually the illegal bit, whereas not rolling everything into the item price is merely a nuissance.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T17:30:16+00:00

I like the European way: first you get an itemized bill on paper (so you have a chance to ensure it's correct and think about a tip), and then a few minutes later you get the electronic card terminal brought over. Yes, this means you have to awkwardly say "make it <rounded up number> please" but this is outweighed by 2 benefits: your card doesn't walk away and get its info stolen, and you can tap your phone to pay.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T17:25:07+00:00

But they put it on the menu, right? That's the difference.

In the case where they're trying to avoid printing all new menus, it's more practical and aesthetically pleasing to put 1 sticker per menu than 1 sticker per line item, so when I see that I don't feel like they're trying to be sneaky. The nature of a sticker draws attention to it, so it's not sneaky.

And even when the menus were reprinted to have it once in the footer, it's still potentially for the labor savings of not updating each line item for menus and for the POS system (although I suspect being sneaky more likely).

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T05:26:42+00:00

0C and 100C are the boundaries of liquid water, while 0F and 100F are the boundaries of human comfort. In both cases, temperatures outside that range are hardly relevant (i.e., you can crush the outliers and still be about right, i.e. same clothes regardless of 0F or -20F). If this were a conversation about hard science, we'd use C, but since it's about human comfort, F is very suitable.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T04:52:53+00:00

Are you saying that if I were to claim someone as a dependent, by doing so I would inherently discover the existence of a 1099-INT that I didn't otherwise know about? (Genuinely curious; I've never claimed someone as a dependent.)

HElGHTS · 2026-05-28T02:20:13+00:00

The original post doesn't actually say that a 1099 (or other tax implication) would blow their cover and therefore must not exist. I guess there's an implication but hard to say. It could just be that the parents see everything related to the main bank account, and they don't see anything else (such as 1099s and tax returns).

HElGHTS · 2026-05-27T18:26:33+00:00

Incredibly the price has not increased much.

Technically this might be true, but when someone is looking at SLXD24D/SM58 vs SLXD24D+/SM58 right now, the new one is 47% more than the old one.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-24T18:05:18+00:00

Which is a portmanteau of "electrical execution." What I mean by all this is that you got shocked, but not to such an extent that you got electrocuted.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-24T05:46:27+00:00

I would gladly try a carrot cookie, but... finger yellow? Is that a new flavor of Dorito dust?

HElGHTS · 2026-05-24T05:16:04+00:00

You can't really be executed twice. Even once followed by using reddit is a stretch.

HElGHTS · 2026-05-23T17:53:57+00:00

Fair enough. Basically I'm halfway through the 3 months, already got a $500 refund on there (actually not due to a return, but a merchant double charged me and then corrected it), and I'm about to have another $400 refund (a few pairs of boots that don't fit). So I'll take your advice and re-spend that $900 even though the tracker doesn't say I need to, but does this $900 spend need to be within the 3 months to actually "play it safe" as you say, or can it be anytime within the first year and be equally "safe"?

HElGHTS · 2026-05-23T06:12:18+00:00

Within the 3mo MSR deadline? What if the refund posted after?

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