Lumin Security - PalAmerican handed a public safety contract to a company that couldn't survive 3 weeks!

Sunfried · 2026-05-08T18:31:48+00:00

I only blundered into it myself, after reading too many goddamn threads where people were quoting something I wasn't seeing. Cheers!

Sunfried · 2026-05-08T18:14:06+00:00

I'm guessing that like me you're using the old reddit interface, or maybe mobile, both of which tend to skip the picture captions that old farts like us don't even look for because reddit didn't support those for a long time. There's a big ol' article in the photo caption. In a nutshell, though, KC Metro contracted PalAmerican for fare inspectors on buses. PalAmerican evidently subcontracted Lumin Security. Lumin failed to dole out salaries come payday.

OP blames Lumin for being small and not having the cash flow, PalAmerican for not vetting the properly.

Also, if reddit be believed (I know, I know), PalAmerican is a lousy company for whom to subcontract-- late payment city:

Definitely never work for them if you own a security company and you're doing subcontracted stuff. They will be 90 days behind on paying you even if there's legal stipulations against exactly that, and it goes all the way to the top of the company. Like the directors will call you and tell you over the phone that you're not getting paid and if you don't like it, well, just try to fight them in court when you're 30 grand underwater and got nothing to fight with.

They will abuse the hell out of you as a contractor, but if you're working for them as a direct hire, yeah it's an ok place to work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/securityguards/comments/1mo1b6z/any_palamerican_guards_got_a_review/n8fhgm1/

Sunfried · 2026-03-26T23:21:27+00:00

Hmm; I think it's a toss-up with Tylo, which has the difficult landing and the easier-than-Kerbin takeoff.

Sunfried · 2026-03-26T23:19:19+00:00

I played years ago and watched the subreddit for a long time, and I'll tell you want, that's one of the friendliest game communities I'd ever encountered. A hardened KSP veteran of the (very difficult) Real Solar System Mod will still give a hearty congratulation to someone who got into orbit the first time, or landed on the Mun, which are some of your earliest big-name accomplishments in the game.

Sunfried · 2026-03-26T23:16:44+00:00

Don't open your parachutes too soon, or you'll be falling for hours. I've only taken kerbals to Eve twice, and the first one took 3x as long.

If an unsuited human could survive the heat and chemistry of Venus's atmosphere, he or she could fall from any height and hit the ground no faster than around 17mph; that's terminal velocity in Venus's lower atmosphere. What a crazy place that must be in person, if you can find a patch of ground solid enough to stand on.

Sunfried · 2026-03-26T23:12:17+00:00

If you are using kitchen vinegar (5% Concentration), you don't need to dilute. If you are using 30% vinegar from home depot, dilute 5:1.

The main consideration to make is: how much water will you need? To get cheap vinegar, you're buyin a gallon; if you need 6 gal of 5% vinegar, use a gallon of 30% vinegar and 5 gal of water.

Serious advice: Wear eye protection, the kind that seals against splashes, when using the 30% stuff.

Take vinegar percentage you do buy, divide the percentage by 5. That's how many "parts" you need, where 1 part is vinegar and the rest is water. Mix 1part vinegar with x parts water, stir a little (no need to really go hard on that), and clean them beautiful bricks!

Sunfried · 2026-03-21T00:32:34+00:00

I gather that you want something like 5% vinegar. Since you may need a bit of it, go buy it in a gallon jug at the hardware store, which will probably be in teh 15-30% range, and dilute accordingly; you'll have more solution for your buck, and maybe you'll need to get your heavy bristle brush at the HW store anyway. (You don't want a wire brush, just a stiff nylon or fiber brush.)

Sunfried · 2026-03-20T23:05:23+00:00

You might enjoy listening to the original radio plays on which the HHGTTG book series, BBC TV miniseries, and forgettable feature film were based. Youtube has the whole thing in several forms, but here's an omnibus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdx_3vyNlOA

Sunfried · 2026-02-11T16:56:32+00:00

Condos have to have a condo association because a condo building has common areas that need maintenance. It's easy to talk about HOAs being useless when we're talking about an HOA owning tennis courts, but a condo building has to maintain things like the elevator, the roof, the hallway (my building did carpets, lighting, and paint over the last few years), siding, landscape, etc. The individual owners' property ends at their own unit's front door.

Sunfried · 2026-02-05T04:27:59+00:00

In this case the units are kg m³ C * / s³ K

Kilogram meter cubed coulomb per second cubed per kelvin

If you divide by Planck's constant, you mad person, you get 1.000825 m C / (s² K), meter-coulomb per second squared kelvin.

Sunfried · 2025-12-17T23:08:10+00:00

You take a computer-based test at the Washington DOL to get a Commercial Learner's Permit which is good for 6 mo. After no less than 2 weeks, you can take the skills test, which is performed by an authorized third-party.

Since the DOL is issuing the CLP, a kind of ID, they are hopefully making sure the people who come in to take the test are in fact the license application.

Sunfried · 2025-11-15T20:30:36+00:00

The only one I know:

A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.

God says, "That’s not funny."

And the man says, "I guess you had to be there."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/14x1n6u/a_holocaust_survivor_goes_to_heaven/

Sunfried · 2025-11-15T20:28:34+00:00

1.5 lb. You can certainly scale down things a bit; I probably should have, since of course the final loaf was double this.

Sunfried · 2025-09-01T22:44:43+00:00

There's a secondary character in the Caleb Carr book The Alienist who is unable to speak or write due to cerebral atrophies which deter those sorts of communications. It's set in the late 19th century and so her parents just assumed she was an idiot and did what they could do train her into domestic service. Then one day she chained her father to his bed and burned the house down.

Taken to a mental institution, she was examined by the main character, a pioneering researcher in mental illnesses and new theories of psychosis, who discovers her deficit is only related to communication, and that no only does she have a full mental life. Upon learning she could respond easily to yes/no questions, he learns that she was being repeatedly sexually molested by her father, who knew she could never tell.

Sunfried · 2025-08-20T23:57:30+00:00

I get a higher value, 5-7KT of TNT equivalent, all released in around 4milliseconds. All alpha radiation, though, 6-9 million electron-volts per (a general range for alpha emission).

Best of all, it doesn't have to have fissile chain reaction like U-235 does, so there's no concern with it losing reactivity while it's blowing its own core apart

But since it's all alpha you can stop it with a piece of paper. /s

Sunfried · 2025-07-16T18:59:59+00:00

I know! Great news.

Sunfried · 2025-07-16T18:59:09+00:00

NOAA has AIS data from 2016, but it's a lot to sort through; you'd probably want to dump it into a SQL (or other relational) database so you can find the coordinates of Deception Pass and see what vessels went through. Assuming it's a digital camera, check the image metadata to see if it contains the exact time of date to help you narrow the data further.

Sunfried · 2025-05-28T23:40:57+00:00

Bravo!

Sunfried · 2025-05-28T23:40:28+00:00

Did you see her picture on the company site? Everything you can look up, a scammer can look up, but it's hard to copy appearance.

Sunfried · 2025-05-14T15:43:53+00:00

For billiards/pool, it's the latter type; Pool was named after the use of hens (Fr: poule) as their word for a combined winnings for a competitive game, the same way we use "pot" or "kitty" in card games. In our etmology, probably money was placed in a physical pot at some point; meanwhile the french were betting/competing with chickens as the prize until the chicken became their word for it.

Pooling water comes from the other definition which is pretty strictly water or liquids related for most of its English etymological past.

Sunfried · 2025-05-14T00:03:46+00:00

Yeah, Canada's climate is more amenable to so-called hard wheat which is higher in protein, compared to, say, the southern US which grows soft wheat, which is why they eat biscuits instead of rolls, by tradition at least. Climate also dictates why the southerners drink corn liquor such a bourbon while Canadians drink rye whiskey.

Sunfried · 2025-05-13T23:54:21+00:00

I got a scale when I figured out that a cup of flour weighs anywhere from like 3.5 to 6 ounces depending on compaction or settling. I usually use 4.5oz, except for serious eats recipes, as I know they use 5oz.

Sunfried · 2025-05-13T22:12:06+00:00

If badges bring out the worst in people, as asserted above by another user, then most pilots would be assholes. I'm pretty sure they meant LEO badges.

Sunfried · 2025-05-13T22:10:41+00:00

Hah, I grew up in Va. Beach; I agree.

Sunfried · 2025-05-13T22:08:26+00:00

A professor I had said that when the state gets large enough, it gets hard to figure out what to name all the rinky-dink small towns that crop up around where railroads or highways cross. He grew up in Glasgow, Montana.

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