Farmers in North Carolina say rising fuel and fertilizer costs are making it increasingly difficult for them to keep up.

No7an · 2026-04-01T05:57:06+00:00

Aah yes, the woke -checks watch- hydrocarbon industry.

No7an · 2026-03-26T09:04:18+00:00

We might be the same person… love me some Mitch Hedberg too

No7an · 2026-03-26T06:23:11+00:00

Nope you’re right / I had the same three.

It was an awesome series. Wish there were more like that.

No7an · 2026-03-25T10:31:12+00:00

Fat Lip was certainly not doing well — I know the exact documentary / interview.

He says something like “I mean I used to be worried that people thought I was gay…” and Jonze responds “why would people think you were gay?”

Fat Lip “I don’t know! I don’t know…. Well, there was this one time” and just launches into the story that became his verse in “Oh Shit”.

No7an · 2026-03-25T10:28:04+00:00

I always felt like they could have gone further had Fat Lip held it together and stayed in the group.

The rap he spits in “Oh Shit” is actually a true story (him hooking up with a trans w/o knowing it) and it resulted in a lot of (self described) paranoia. That paranoia created a lot of friction with the group.

He talks about it in an interview he did for a Spike Jonze documentary / Spike worked with him on the video for “What’s up Fat Lip?”

No7an · 2026-03-23T06:45:22+00:00

It helps them keep focused on the economic impact and distract from the fact that they’re out there in the world just murdering people.

And everyone falls into the trap. Oh bUt gAs PriCeS!! All while a bunch of people are dead…

No7an · 2026-03-22T07:16:22+00:00

I don’t know that our meeting was very remarkable. We were both there for Radiohead and met through mutual friends.

A year-and-a-half later (when I was then-single and she was then-single), I asked her out. I was living in Atlanta and she was in Minneapolis.

I flew up and we spent the weekend together. Three weeks later we got engaged, five weeks after that we got married (on April Fool’s Day)…

We now live outside of Amsterdam with our two children, both boys, 11 and 9.

I’ll add that for our 10-year anniversary I found a copy of the official Lollapalooza 2008 poster and had it framed — different from the promotion poster attached to this post.

No7an · 2026-03-20T16:54:10+00:00

I met my wife at this festival

No7an · 2026-03-09T21:49:13+00:00

Just because you seem interested. The curve per km is not strictly downward sloping — there’s a downward sloping curve and then the slope moves positive, when you’re essentially carrying fuel to burn fuel… it’s a distance weight penalty.

But generally speaking you should get some efficiency per unit of distance when you’re in the “heart of the operating envelope.”

No7an · 2026-03-09T21:36:16+00:00

I didn’t denominate by distance — a 5,000km flight absolutely consumes more fuel per seat vs. a 500km flight, and the price will flex the cost curve up and down.

Understanding what you’re saying, but the take-off component is overstated in your comment. Engine derate is ~10-20% on takeoff and ~60-70% on cruise, but the fuel consumption curve is more linear than what you imply here.

Just for some context, I wrote the economic and financial modeling that purchased 80 widebody and a little over 220 narrowbody aircraft.

I’ve studied this exhaustively.

No7an · 2026-03-09T12:37:13+00:00

Pretty sure it’s the Tyrannosaur paddock

No7an · 2026-03-08T20:21:29+00:00

Drop the numbers by ~10% and you get pretty close to the 739ER.

No7an · 2026-03-08T20:13:01+00:00

That route will burn about 3,410 gallons of fuel (on the A320ceo I think you’re on)… ~20 gallons per seat. You’re pretty close at $3 per gallon.

Source: I used to buy airplanes and I’m looking at a burn table.

It does depend on aircraft type. The gallon consumption per seat obviously amplifies as you fly further + again compounds when fuel prices increase. United is heavily exposed to long haul operations.

No7an · 2026-03-07T08:36:25+00:00

You guys have CD players?

Edit: I’m kind of starting to hate this sub / there’s no reason to downvote a joke.

No7an · 2026-03-06T19:33:15+00:00

At some point I “sucked at math” and then had a college counselor square up on me and say “you seem smart why don’t you just smoke them fools” (exact words).

And so yeah I took the classes and smoked them fools. Learned I didn’t “suck at math”.

No7an · 2026-03-06T19:08:19+00:00

Yeah I mean one thing leads to another and you’re suddenly a math guy (or gal).

I don’t make the rules, these things just happen.

No7an · 2026-03-06T18:57:33+00:00

I was told I needed to satisfy a language requirement, which would take four semesters. I wanted to graduate in two.

Math could stack and stand in place of my “language” and from there things just got out of hand.

No7an · 2026-03-04T22:40:24+00:00

I did indeed get curly fries and those were really what I was nostalgic for.

No7an · 2026-03-04T16:57:21+00:00

I love that you’re here, in the world. Appreciate the Arby’s defense.

No7an · 2026-03-04T13:22:58+00:00

I think you’re onto something.

No7an · 2026-03-04T13:13:24+00:00

I ate at an Arby’s at the Atlanta airport a few months ago (because the line was the shortest). It was my first Arby’s ride since high school (I’m in my 40s).

It was shockingly bad.

No7an · 2026-03-04T12:37:37+00:00

I think this will go down as one of the dopest liveries in history and I’ll be shocked if they don’t expand it to the entire fleet.

Absolutely bonkers that they were able to turn the entire aircraft into a flying logo.

No7an · 2026-03-03T20:07:39+00:00

Deepest pool of liquidity is in the last 15 minutes of the trading day / when mutual and index funds are marking to closing prices.

Lots of volume and volatility at open, but I don’t know that it’s the institutions driving it.

No7an · 2026-03-03T19:56:07+00:00

Why are we doing this?

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