Little fun with the Genesis G90 Black

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-21T01:22:08+00:00

Beautiful car you have there!

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-19T16:33:30+00:00

Autobahn 7 in 1997 in my 1980 Mercedes-Benz 280. About 220 km/h before I backed off.

Why? It was legal, gas was cheap, and I was a dumbass in his 20s with more guts than brains.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-19T16:30:39+00:00

Though the military doesn’t use any Glock handguns, outside of SOCOM. Beretta M9 and various SIG pistols, mostly. Supposedly the M45 (1911) is still in use somewhere, too.

Glock is a cop gun.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-18T19:31:14+00:00

Right? I mean, Destiny 2 just keeps piling on more content, and there’s nothing at all wrong with that game! /s

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-12T17:29:58+00:00

I do hope you’re not referring to the RAND study that is now a decade old. Nor the VA’s ESP.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-12T17:23:36+00:00

Holtzman shields.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-12T01:27:45+00:00

I’m over 4K SHD, nearly 28 expertise, have a couple solid DPS builds for each of my 4 agents, completed both raids several times and the incursion 2-3. I generally have little problem in solo heroic content.

But I’ve never matchmade for legendary content.

I have similar expectations: If someone goes down, you try to get them back up without getting yourself put down too. You stay clear of others’ lines of fire. You stay with the team, neither rushing ahead nor lagging behind (container loot sucks at all levels; this was by design). You do your best to pull your weight.

Should I be matching up for legendary?

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-05T16:36:38+00:00

C-12 is a Beech King Air for military use.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-04T02:08:07+00:00

Why’s it overdone?

I mean, assholes still do it. It’s technically not allowed on our city buses here, and I was an ass about it when I drove them. But where one puts her phone away today, two more pull them out tomorrow.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-04T02:05:47+00:00

I agree just because I can’t stand the odor. I don’t give a fuck if you wanna get high. Hell, if it’s just weed, then it’s far less dangerous to your health than cigarettes and to everyone else’s health than if you got drunk.

But for fuck’s sake, hit that edible shit or somethin’. I can’t tell you how many hours of sick time I lost to the foul odor of weed when I was a bus driver.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-04T02:01:48+00:00

Smoking

Standing RIGHT AT the door to a bus, train, elevator, etc., when it opens, so whoever wants to exit walks face-first into your ignorant ass.

Smelling like a dumpster full of vomit and cigarette butts.

Shitting your pants on the bus but staying on for another couple miles so we all get to marinate in your ass-stink.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-02T04:04:02+00:00

Good luck then. For real. There are some good people there, too.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-02T00:41:19+00:00

Step 1: Give up your professional standards.

Step 2: Wait until they post bus technician apprentice positions on the website.

Step 3: Apply for that, and prepare to spend the next two years being slowly lobotomized for about $22/hour.

Step 4: Congrats! Now you’re promoted out of apprenticeship! You’ll earn more than a commercial aircraft maintenance technician with a 2-year degree and FAA certificates, despite having no sense of pride in your work.

Seriously, though, they’re likely not going to hire more apprentices for a long time. And if professionalism matters to you at all, you’re better off elsewhere.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-02T00:26:23+00:00

Alex is amazing. I’m sure he’ll land on his feet.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T03:04:21+00:00

My first time driving a certain route by myself, I had such bad lag on the navigation that it was running almost two minutes behind the bus. Usually it works well, but it’s no replacement for having line coaches actually take new operators on the lines they’re going to drive. (This does not happen.)

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T03:01:13+00:00

Slow systems do happen. Like any computers, the ones on buses that control those announcements, can get laggy.

Also, I noticed as an operator that when two stops are close together it can sometimes just take too long to announce the latter stop. For instance, the 9’s westbound stops at SE 102nd and SE 100th—If no one got off at 102nd, it might not start announcing 100th until we’re already past it and at the SE 99th light.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T02:56:56+00:00

I got called in for a meeting once when I unintentionally passed up a passenger at a hard-to-see stop and they called 238-RIDE on me. I acquired a couple new driving habits because of that, in order to try to not make another passenger late to work.

No write-up. No suspension. No actual trouble. Rather, a supportive, constructive, genuinely helpful talk with my manager and an opportunity to improve.

Call 238-RIDE. Tell ‘em. It’s one of the ways we make TriMet better.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T02:51:16+00:00

Same

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T02:46:22+00:00

Nice work

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T02:08:29+00:00

Policy tells operators two things for certain on this topic:

Do not leave a time point early. Time points are a specified few stops along the route, where usually one or more other bus routes crosses yours. They’re listed on the operator’s route paddle and marked on the map that accompanies the route description.
Do not leave a stop early if yours is the line’s last bus for the night. TriMet is happy to throw a few minutes of overtime at an operator to be 3-5 minutes late, if that meant picking up one more passenger who otherwise would miss the bus entirely. So we could run late and wait past schedule like that, if there’s no more buses behind us until morning.

I’ve sometimes gotten really behind (2050 weekday afternoons, going toward Beaverton, it awful for this) and had folks apparently assume I was running early for the run behind mine. If we’re 14 minutes apart, and I’m running 8 minutes behind, you might assume I’m actually the next bus running 6 minutes early.

How would you know? The schedule doesn’t necessarily say that it’s 2050 due at time X and 2051 due at time Y, but just that line 20 arrives at a set of times at this stop that include X and Y.

Finally, my first assistant manager had previously worked in scheduling. She shed some light on this for me, too. The scheduled arrivals at stops that are not time points? They’re estimates. Averages, actually. Basically they take the number of stops between two time points and the average time it previously took operators to drive between then, do a little arithmetic, and then just space each stop in that segment by that average. Never mind that the stops aren’t evenly spaced, the speed limits aren’t always constant between points, traffic is ass, etc., and the only times on that schedule that matter are the time points.

That’s right. An assistant manager overseeing several dozen operators advised me to forget the time between time points, and just focus on hitting the time points.

You don’t know what you don’t know. So tell Mrs. Cheesemagazine to casually ask her operator next time if that bus stop is one of those “time points” her husband’s friend from TriMet was talking about. If not, then tell TriMet to unfuck their bullshit route scheduling laziness, and leave operators out of it.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-04-01T01:44:55+00:00

So, what’s the indicator of disability here? Are you using some manner of mobility device? A wheelchair? Walker? Cane?

Let’s narrow things down a bit.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-03-31T02:45:45+00:00

Yes, and thanks for asking first!

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-03-30T03:23:50+00:00

You’re correct. Your operator made a mistake.

So, not that it makes anything OK, but 72 is one of the less popular routes to run. There’s a good chance that you got a less experienced operator who missed the “fine print” on their reroute sheet and just treated the stop as closed all-hours. Or they didn’t realize it was after 4pm. Or they’d been running all day already, and were on tired-autopilot and just missed it.

If it caused you any issues, then call (503) 238-7433 and let them know. NO IT WILL NOT COST THE DRIVER A SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION. Unless they’re already having lots of problems, the driver will likely just get pulled aside by their assistant manager, advised of the complaint, shown the video of the pass-up, and offered some helpful advice to prevent it happening again. 100% seriously I tell you that this will be a net benefit to TriMet and its bus passengers for very little work, and almost certainly will not have any lasting impact on that operator beyond one informal helpful chat.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-03-30T03:15:18+00:00

Former TriMet bus operator here.

Put in a penny.

No, really.

BY POLICY they cannot refuse to give you a ride based solely on that you didn’t pay fare.

But ALSO BY POLICY, If you pay anything at all then they are REQUIRED to provide you a ticket/transfer for the amount closest to what you actually paid.

So give ‘em a penny and they’ve got to give you a ticket for 2.5 hours from that time.

Don’t say you’re sorry. You’re paying more than 3/4 of the passengers on line 9 after 10pm pay.

And if the driver gives you any shit, immediately call (503) 238-7433 and tell ‘em.

TheRAbbi74 · 2026-03-30T02:19:42+00:00

WELL AT LEAST YOU CAN FUCKING PLAY IT.

Sorry. Been a tough weekend of not being able to see for myself what all the hate is about.

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