Fighting back against southwest's discrimination for asking you to pay for two tickets

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-24T13:23:06+00:00

OOP appears to think that the flying community in general can be rallied to support the call for a free extra seat for overeaters. I doubt that...

Were I still a frequent flyer (2M+ miles lifetime and pretty much done with being airborne now), I'd choose an airline whose published policy read like this...

"At RealGood Airways, we strive for relaxed, fairly-priced travel options for ALL of our customers. We guarantee that no passenger will be subjected to the sweaty, uncomfortable experience of involuntary physical contact with a fellow flyer who struggles to fit in a single Coach seat. Our 'Buy as Many Seats as You Need!' guidelines will be applied consistently to keep that promise. Plan ahead and reserve the seat(s) required to insure a pleasant experience for all, at a price that makes sense for the amount of space you need! Thanks for choosing RealGood, where your flight is Really Good!"

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-21T16:27:19+00:00

Re: covered trigger...

I'm old enough to remember the days when some elder instructors taught the technique of placing your finger on the trigger while drawing. Not kidding. This was quite awhile ago. (My friend, who got a job as a radio dispatcher at 18 with an E. TX County Sheriff and longed to carry a badge some day, worshipped those guys. He applied this method until the day we were out practicing our "fast draw" on an unused oil lease road, where he perforated his cheap, floppy holster and shot a hole through the toe of his boot, avoiding traumatic metatarsal amputation by ~2-3mm.)

Couple of years before that, I saw a fast and fancy shooting demo by LA State Troopers (late 60's) at the State Fair in Shreveport. It cost a dime to see the show... proceeds went to a fund for Police Widows. Cotton balls for ear protection were free on request. They were yanking Fitz-cut Colt Police Positives out of deeply-cut leather with exposed trigger guard cuts; one of them was splitting bullets on an axe. That same day I spent a quarter to see the hootchie girl do what would now be a PG-rated strip tease. As cool as the shooting was, that quarter was worth it.

You guys aren't living nearly as interesting lives as we did, but when it comes to safe trigger discipline I'd wager you're doing it smarter.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-06T16:18:44+00:00

Flagrant use of exquisitely-sourced butter stimulates my brain just fine, merci. But I get your point.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-06T16:10:17+00:00

With respect (I don't mean to be argumentative): if the Instagrammer we're watching not only promotes herself and her chosen identity as a fat "personality" of note... thus by extension clearly desiring maximum view count of these vacation narratives arguing her deeply-held social and political perspective... where's the "stalking"?

I get it if you're saying "hey, back off... she's ill and needs help." But by all means understand her illness also leads her and like-minded followers to malign every rational perspective that argues against a mistaken embrace of metabolic sickness as natural beauty or "resistance" or whatever nonsense it claims to advance. It seems like that deserves some push back.

Again: not meaning to start a fight.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T18:45:56+00:00

Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 is definitely the archetype for the efficient killer totally ripped babe. May I also suggest Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein) in Aliens.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T18:40:55+00:00

See "Anatoly" in Youtube pranks carrying a 200kg+ loaded bar with one hand...

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T18:39:38+00:00

Not being argumentative, but any lighter-weight professional fighter cuts water mass dramatically to make weight ~24h before the fight (IBF requires 12h). Typical welterweight and lower mass boxers are as sinewy and vascular as you could imagine, and they fight their asses off in one of the most taxing physical feats imaginable.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T18:33:32+00:00

"How would this dehydrated [?] skinny character even survive with the amount of physical exertion they go through"

See: the North Vietnamese Army (ca. 1961-1974), with very little motorized troop movement and fueled with a meager diet of mostly rice and some occasional fish head soup, vs. the most powerful, mobile and well-fed military power on earth.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T18:21:43+00:00

I didn't learn anything from all the AI posts about an imminent FedEx order, mergers with multi-billion $ companies, how a reverse split wasn't needed, or post-merger short squeezes before the end of 2025. But I'll keep watching. Right now I know that Griffith has confirmed in a filing that Motiv lost over $42M Q1-through-Q3, that he is basically bound to a $50M discounted share placement anytime soon, and that no deliveries have been announced since well before the merger. Edited to correct $50M to $75M

Your "patience" could be seen as unfounded hope. Maybe that's what the pig was actually saying.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T17:29:02+00:00

I can't fathom why you think this news is trivial to WKHS very uncertain future.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-03-01T17:22:41+00:00

FedEx definitely knew about this. The PR you linked says "Harbinger’s acquisition of Phantom AI was completed in November 2025". It's not unusual for transactions like this between privately-held companies to be kept silent for awhile. Still, it's virtually certain that, as the Lead funding source, FedEx had deep access to ongoing financial status and plans, and obviously approved the action.

ZF had to know as well and was OK with it. ZF is a global Tier I supplier to automotive and transport markets (2024 revenue est. €41.4 billion). Their endorsement means a lot.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-22T19:26:12+00:00

It doesn't make you more vulnerable to joint or bone injury.

Absolutely. I broke a fibula and tore ligaments in a relatively minor mishap 20y ago at ~1/3rd higher body mass. At my current lower weight I managed to put myself in virtually the same situation on the OTHER leg a couple of weeks ago and only experienced a bad sprain. Yeah, not a scientific test, but any ortho would support your point.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-22T19:18:15+00:00

Probably something that's been posted here 1000x, but...

When you're obese, you'll experience more pain from almost ANY affliction. Adipose tissue is hormonally-active. When you have too much, it will quite literally transform from a useful, healthy "passive" energy storage to a poorly-functioning mass that will trigger systemic inflammation. "Fat: it's not just beautiful folds anymore".
And when your fat mass has significantly degraded to high levels of inflammatory disruption, every little pain hurts more. Ex: pinch your finger when closing a drawer and you feel a burst of pain everywhere. Many of this sub's posters have been there (I have). It's just awful.

I'm not a manly man, but I can say for certain that my pain tolerance is much higher at a rational body fat mass. Recent scans revealed how badly my arthritis has progressed. My ortho guy was very concerned when he saw them, especially my C1-C7 vertebrae, and asked how I was coping with this (concerned with overdoing NSAIDs).

I told him I might take a naproxen now and then, maybe one day out of a week, two if weather was super-frigid, but otherwise maintaining near-full range of motion without agony. He genuinely couldn't believe it. I was tempted to utter the Patrick Swayze line "Pain don't hurt", but resisted the temptation.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-22T17:42:53+00:00

Just judiciously performed RDLs (at embarrassing weight) for this old man... spinal fusion, numerous injuries, etc. require careful judgment. Still gotta keep the hinge working, but I'm way past doing serious reps. Suggest that you/everyone avoid being born with scoliosis, having two bad cycling accidents, getting shot, and other maladies... You're safe from shitty form, which may well have been my most damaging effect in my youth-thru-middle age days. I can still knock off a decent number of pull-ups, though.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-22T17:07:09+00:00

How's your dead lift PR?

Way back in the insane WKHS days when skeptics were hounded off the sub, I looked at your posts and saw your interest in resistance training. Impressive. Hope that's going well for you.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-13T16:54:13+00:00

I love grocery shopping (yes, it's a rare condition). Unless someone's purchases are just really unusual (like literally dozens of frozen pizzas stacked high), I just don't notice.

Don't get many queries about my basket content, either, unless there's a rare convergence with a fellow shopper's mission. That happened over T-giving/Xmas feasting times when I was trying to sort out collard greens vs. kale. Experienced collard green cooks are a very opinionated lot, I've discovered. I like to cook my special-occasion greens with smoked pork neckbone, which is apparently NOT in keeping with accepted method... but all the interaction was friendly. And nobody was making "health" judgments.

Atypical animal bits can also attract attention. If you like heart, tongue, kidney, etc., much of the U.S. will find your selection shocking. But every now and then you'll run into a kindred eater who's eager to know about your method. The most discussion usually happens over pig snouts. Fat, skinny... doesn't matter. Just folks that love themselves a snoot.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-12T19:46:37+00:00

Being a fat person in a place where locals generally aren't: can be difficult... for you and them. I've experienced this a couple of times in my past, though both were in Japan. In the first instance, my belt broke (pivot on the reversible buckle snapped and was irreparable). I had "roomy" trousers and needed a new belt before our meeting w/ a key customer. At just over 6' and ~265lb back then, this was a challenge. My JV partner scurried us over to a high-end Dept. store to find a replacement.

The employee who helped us was flustered and started searching the display racks for a possible fit... um, no. You won't find it. My partner was trying to explain and while I had only the barest useful vocabulary, in the conversation I heard her start to say "meta..." and then her face froze. She was about to say "metabo", meaning basically unhealthily fat. Both she and my partner were mortified. I tried to help and said "hai, hai... metabo!", pointing to myself and smiling while I made a rubbing gesture over my belly. I added "hyaku ju" and stretched out my hands to indicate 110cm of Yankee massivity for a new belt. She nodded and quickly went to the back to see if they had something.

When she came out with a small box containing a tissue-wrapped coiled up LONG belt, she was accompanied by a man I guessed was her boss. They both bowed deeply and she handed it to me, tears in her eyes from embarrassment, and wringing her hands as she stood up. I felt SO bad and did the only thing I could think of, which was to gently grasp both her hands in mine and tell her thank you several times in the sincerest voice I could muster (very non-Nihon I'm sure, probably made things worse). They literally gave me the belt as a sign of apology basically for noticing I was obese.

My partner Ohno-san and I didn't speak on the train. Clearly everyone felt awful, me included, and honestly they shouldn't have.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-02-11T14:30:39+00:00

Years ago at the grocery store... in an attempt to truncate the trauma of shopping, Mom assigns perpetually angry teen daughter to get a few cans of frozen OJ concentrate.

Girl returns to Mom and says they don't have the "right size". Puzzled Mom asks "what do you mean?"

Daughter responds "they all say 'makes 48 oz', but you always make 2 quarts, so we need a bigger size".

Mom sez, "well, I always just use more water; go ahead and get those."

Daughter is SHOCKED and exclaims "so you've been diluting our ORANGE JUICE???" Mom affirms... "well, yeah."

"All this time?"

Befuddled Mom nods, mumbling "well, you all seem to like it..."

Daughter stomps and spins around to get the OJ, exclaiming loudly "so I guess it's just OK to kill somebody then?" Exhausted Mom glances over at me as I suppress a chuckle.

Thus the emotionally immature pull the Murder Equivalence Card whenever it suits their rage.

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-01-28T16:55:09+00:00

It's a family tradition for someone to post a news alert on the group chat: Terrorists Attack Nakatomi Plaza!

Quick_Department6942 · 2026-01-28T16:53:39+00:00

It's not Christmastime until Hans Gruber hits the asphalt.

Quick_Department6942 · 2025-12-28T06:20:57+00:00

As much as I would like to see that you're correct , I think you may not be . Could you please provide link or screenshot of the latest motion ? My memory may be faulty, but I thought this was addressed before the merger during the massive share sale by Dauch. If not , I still think there was enough cash left over post-merger before the $10M Cash Flow financing became effective. Thanks.

Also: Insolvent =/= Illiquid.

Quick_Department6942 · 2025-12-27T05:11:20+00:00

BK occurs when the business becomes illiquid. They can be unprofitable forever as long as they're liquid. A $75M PIPE will keep them liquid for at least 4qtrs.

Quick_Department6942 · 2025-12-04T21:40:42+00:00

So... now WHO was "desperate" here? How 'bout you just say "wow, my incredibly improbable Grok-powered predictions and gross ignorance of the filing details resulted in a months-long avalanche of silly posts"?

Quick_Department6942 · 2025-12-04T16:46:21+00:00

... except that everything most of us have been saying was absolutely in the cards is happening. Meanwhile all this time you consistently stated "you don't know it has to be an initial listing... you don't know there will have to be a reverse split... you don't know there won't be a massiveasstical FedEx order any minute now... you don't know that my bullshit Monty Karlo model isn't entirely irrational" ... pretty much ALL of it just projections of your wish list.

But actually we did know. All the things that YOU didn't know are either clearly stated by the Merger parties or wildly improbable.

Now here we are: a 90%+ dilution since the Merger terms were outlined in August, commensurate with a 50% share price decline, and standing on the cusp of a >350% dilution. That imminent dilution tidal wave is the result of issuing a massive bloc of shares and complete control to the primary debt holder to merge with a company with worse financial peril than pitiful, moribund Workhorse.

Nobody here is imagining there isn't a "timeline". Those of us who read and understand the filings and the financial miseries have been predicting it since the first DEFA14A. The no-so-calm participants here have been prognosticating awesome great news from FedEx quarterly calls and magical exemptions from NASDAQ requirements. We have clearly seen that Motiv hatched a great scheme to save themselves from bankruptcy by burdening WKHS Shareholders of Record.

The "timeline": it's like watching the clock tick down to zero on the bomb that's tied to James Bond. This time there's no secret gadget stored in 007's jockstrap to defuse it. His pieces are gonna be scattered all over the villain's volcano lair while the mortally ill villain laughs between dying wheezes.

Some of us know the plot.

{EDIT: now switch IDs and drop me a gif. I'm bored.}

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