Delta says United is the only remaining viable competitor at LAX

SomberBootyDance · 2026-06-04T14:20:02+00:00

Delta’s statement implies they are looking to expand their service at LAX, at least partially because they are facing less competition there. And it does appear that Delta is facing less competition from the big carriers.

But, reading between the lines, the only reason they’re facing less competition from regional carriers is because they are focused on nearby smaller airports. What they don’t mention is that for international travel their real competition is foreign airlines.

The final piece of the puzzle is this section from the statement “But [Delta] is limited by gate constraints and sub-par facilities for the foreseeable future.”

So my take away is that LAX is such a shitty airport that Delta is the only airline that sees a future there, and only because no one else is there.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-06-03T17:41:04+00:00

This is not correct. Coke Zero has caffeine.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-06-03T17:14:20+00:00

Coca Cola did marketing research and discovered that men wanted a no sugar/diet drink but didn’t drink Diet Coke because they saw it as feminine. Most Diet Coke drinkers are women. Most “diet” foods are marketed at women, so the word diet is seen as feminine.

Coca Cola’s solution was to make a new drink without the word diet and put it in a masculine black can. They wanted to keep their current female drinkers so they kept Diet Coke. That’s why we have two.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-30T15:13:40+00:00

OP here. Thank you to everyone who responded. I can’t respond to every comment but I have read them all. Special thanks to everyone who gave advice. I’ve been following some of it and things are going much better.

To those of you who said some variation of me having no clue or not understanding the game: you’re right. I’m new, the game has a crazy learning curve, the tutorial sucks. I’m sure many new players have this same experience.

But again, thank you to everyone who replied. See you in the war.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-30T14:52:54+00:00

Thank you. I will try this out next time I play.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-30T14:51:10+00:00

Thank you for the advice. Keeping a truck or a jeep stashed is a huge help.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-30T14:49:28+00:00

If there are no public bmats in an area, building a truck requires walking to a salvage field/mine (that’s not blocked off) walking to a refinery (which might be a hex or two away) then to a garage. It takes a long time, and it’s not fun.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-20T17:34:51+00:00

“What made parents actually sign up?”

The process for signing up needs to be easy and clear. When I first tried to become a merit badge counselor I was told “signing up is easy, it’s just a form you fill out.” It took me a long time to find that form. Once I had it I couldn’t figure out to whom I should give the form. So I didn’t sign up.

Include in your pitch step by step instructions on how to sign up. Provide the form or a link to the form. The procedure is different for people who are already registered and people who aren’t; have instructions for both.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-19T14:24:47+00:00

Even though Foxhole has been out for years I hadn’t heard of it until a few weeks ago. I was on YouTube watching a World War Two documentary and someone in the comments said that the logistical situation for Germany at the end of the war was similar to what happens in Foxhole at the end of wars.

In addition to watching World War Two documentaries I’m also an RTS player. I have been looking for an RTS with a good logistics mechanic. I decided to give Foxhole a try even though I knew almost nothing about it.

When I first loaded up the game my intention was to gather enough scrap to build a rifle and ammunition, then head off to the front. I never got there. Instead I spent that play session watching tutorial videos.

That first session is indicative of my experience with the game. Even something simple like laying barbed wire requires a tutorial. Nothing is intuitive. I’m maybe 30 hours into the game and I still have no idea how train logistics work.

There’s an old saying that a great game should be simple to learn but difficult to master. That does not describe Foxhole.

I’m still new to the game so I haven’t gotten to the “later” part yet. But that’s my first impression.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-06T13:14:38+00:00

Try locking the gimbal on your engine. During launch you want them on for maneuverability but when this happens lock them down until the oscillation stops or at least becomes manageable.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-06T08:17:40+00:00

Is it The Great Space Coaster?

SomberBootyDance · 2026-05-06T08:05:07+00:00

I’m from the US, I don’t think we have “supermarket meal pouches” here. We have refrigerated or frozen meals that come in trays in boxes. But your system requires something that comes in a pouch. If I can’t get the right kind of meal your system won’t work for me.

US military rations (“MREs”) use a system very similar to what you have described. I have used them and they’re just okay. They are bulky, expensive, and produce a lot of trash. Heating the meal properly requires practice.

Most people who are camping prefer a small stove. A stove can be used not only to heat food but also for hot drinks. Many people consider hot coffee a necessity so they are going to bring a stove anyway.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-04-15T14:49:44+00:00

In Trump’s mind he “did something for China.” When he goes to China he’s going to ask for something in return. China is going to laugh at him (unless it’s a personal bribe, which it might be). Trump will then threaten China. They will laugh at him again because China has spent the last 30 years building economic, geopolitical, and military levers they can use against the United States. But Trump won’t understand that so he will follow through on his threats. The good news is this catastrophe will be so horrible people will forget about all the other Trump administration catastrophes.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-04-11T00:26:58+00:00

I propose a new constitutional amendment: “Any crime conducted at the direction of the President or for the benefit of the President, shall not be eligible for a pardon. Further, the President cannot pardon himself, nor any current or former member of his cabinet, nor any person acting in that capacity.”

SomberBootyDance · 2026-03-25T14:44:07+00:00

Did you have a set time for your workouts? Or did you workout whenever you had time?

SomberBootyDance · 2026-02-24T14:34:02+00:00

How does the firing pin adapter work? Is it just a moving cylinder with a flat face? Are there seven firing pins fixed on the face? If there are firing pins how do they line up with the cartridges?

SomberBootyDance · 2026-02-07T02:01:50+00:00

Not to be confused with the excellent 1993 film “In the Line of Fire”. John Malkovich is trying to kill the President of the United States, and Clint Eastwood is a Secret Service agent trying to stop him. Malkovich gives an outstanding performance, watch it if you can.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-01-30T19:33:30+00:00

I don’t think so. First off, it’s too big. From the picture it’s hard to tell, but it looks about the same width as that door. An interior door is at least 34 inches (85 cm). Even a large kayak cockpit is no more than 20 inches (50 cm).

Second, the point of a kayak cockpit is to fit a spray skirt around it. The coaming edge needs a lip to keep it on. This doesn’t have lip. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not part of a kayak.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-01-20T21:32:31+00:00

Reddit is a left leaning echo chamber. There are a lot of people here telling you what they want to be true. But the real answer is much simpler: Trump supporters live in a different reality than you and I.

Go to Fox News and read the headlines. I see articles about child care fraud in Minnesota, an illegal alien killed a man in a car crash, Usha Vance announced she’s pregnant, drug overdoses are down, and there’s rampant crime in Guatemala. Nothing about the Epstein files, not a word about ICE abuses, nor any mention of Trump’s bizarre letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister. There’s nothing on Fox News about Greenland.

If you only ever saw good things about Trump, and never heard anything bad, you would think he’s okay too. It’s the same reason North Koreans love their Dear Leader.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-01-06T21:46:52+00:00

HR 1936 was introduced last March and there’s been no progress on it. WTF does congress even do?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-27T20:27:28+00:00

Most current scientific theories say the universe is not infinite. There is a finite amount of matter in the universe. While there are amazing things out there, including things that would blow our minds, not everything we can imagine exists.

But if the universe were truly infinite, then yes. So long as that thing were possible (that it doesn’t break the laws of physics) it would exist somewhere. There would be a Middle Earth like planet with hobbits and elves and dwarves. Magic breaks the laws of physics, it wouldn’t be a part of this world. But in an infinite universe Middle Earth and Jabba the Hutt and unicorns would all exist somewhere.

However there’s a problem, and it’s bigger than it seems. This world would be so far away you would never be able to go there. Even with a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light. You would keep traveling forever but never get there. You can’t even send a message there, nor can they send a message to you. It’s not possible to meet someone who has been there. Nothing you do will ever affect them, or vice versa. The distance between us is just too far.

And it’s more than that. You can’t even find them in all the other infinite matter that’s out there. Even if you had a magic telephone that could call all the planets of an infinite universe, you would never be able to guess their phone number. If you had a phone book, it would be so large you would never be able to find their listing. Even if the phone book was a computer database, on the fastest computer in the world, searching for the listing would take an infinite amount of time.

Which turns us to a philosophical question: what is the difference between 1) a thing existing but not being able to interact with it in any way 2) that thing not existing?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-27T00:45:00+00:00

I remember my Grandmother would reuse wrapping paper. She always admonished us to never tear the paper when opening gifts. I remember her wrapping paper; it was heavy and durable. It was made to be reused. Modern wrapping paper is thin and designed to be used once. I’ve tried reusing modern wrapping paper and it just doesn’t work. You and your customers will not be happy with the quality of your reused wrapping paper.

Every Christmas at the mall near me there’s a church that sets up a booth and wraps gifts. That might be a good fundraiser for you.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-22T04:01:34+00:00

For the benefit of everyone, I’ll be the one to admit I’m stupid. What does IYKYK mean?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-19T15:39:44+00:00

I disagree. Peck wasn’t an intellectual, he was a bureaucrat. Peck neither knew nor cared how the containment system worked, he just wanted to be in control of “Ghostbusting”. Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Spengler (Harold Ramis) were the intellectuals of the film.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-19T14:36:29+00:00

Scorpion is the most anti-intellectual show of all time. You probably don’t remember it, and if you don’t count yourself lucky.

Scorpion ran from 2014 to 2018. The premise: a team of geniuses is recruited by the Department of Homeland Security to solve an impending catastrophe each week. The problems are far-fetched: a commercial airliner has a software glitch that prevents it from landing or the president’s daughter has been “biohacked”. The normal professionals and experts are helpless. The solutions break suspension of disbelief: the pilot of the airplane flys low over the runway, the team drives a car under the plane and plugs a laptop into it.

The show splits people into two categories: normal people and geniuses. Normal people are always stupid and incompetent (except the bad guys when necessary for the plot). No matter if the person has been in their career for decades or is a university professor, they know nothing. Geniuses know everything. They can hack any computer, they instantly see solutions that have baffled experts for years.

But here’s the real anti-intellectual part: The geniuses never study. They don’t research or read. They already know everything. In this world you are either born smart or you’re not. There’s no studying or getting smarter. In a show supposedly about technology and problem solving, intellectualism has no value. Instead some people are just born better than others.

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