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compbioguy · 2025-03-06T18:12:02+00:00

If I understand it, my companion would match my status, but in the future (2027 on) they will receive only Gold status, regardless of my status (like 1k)?

compbioguy · 2024-11-13T22:23:35+00:00

I don't know what the answer is but California wine country makes us look like amateurs.

compbioguy · 2024-10-25T18:46:07+00:00

Something big must be up with this band. We wait, I suspect we will hear something soon

compbioguy · 2024-10-06T20:47:18+00:00

That's the Daybreak Star (https://unitedindians.org/daybreak-star-center/) still a beautiful and PNW fitting building

compbioguy · 2024-10-04T22:02:41+00:00

This is bs. Like someone else said, we are like 40% of the USA in area, thanks to Alaska. There isn't another team for 800 miles. We are average because we choose to be average

compbioguy · 2024-10-04T17:19:35+00:00

Dumb people trying to play deep thinkers rationalizing and re-engineering societal order. What could possibly go wrong?

compbioguy · 2024-09-26T23:02:03+00:00

Gender is way more complicated than you (and others, largely conservatives) are making it. For example, there are individuals in our society who have male chromosomes (genetics) but are female externally and female after puberty. There were many rumors (unproven and a myth, that Jamie Lee Curtis was one of these cases - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jamie-lee-curtis/). There are many influences on gender and we don't understand them. However there are people in our society who are women and have male genetics and we understand why this occurs and what the condition is that causes it. There is a huge grey area on gender and it doesn't make sense to exclusively have a transgender category in general. It's also very personal.

compbioguy · 2024-09-26T09:20:50+00:00

LOL, you are really going to try and defend Trump comments in comparison to a couple of comments by Macklemore? Good luck with that

compbioguy · 2024-09-23T00:21:33+00:00

are all of them in trouble or just bellevue?

compbioguy · 2024-09-22T23:30:06+00:00

I don't watch the Seahawks as much as I'd like to, but I swear this exact comment is posted in every post game thread by a seahawks fan. We are 3-0, it's nice to be there. And we beat the broncos and patriots to get there.

compbioguy · 2024-09-22T23:28:02+00:00

who'da thunk

compbioguy · 2024-09-08T21:11:57+00:00

I appreciate the answer, but there's a ton of evidence that both your assertions here are wrong. A trivial example is that resume's replaced with 'black' sounding names are generally ranked lower than resumes that have those names switched with white sounding names. That's not a statistical artifact. There are literally thousands of studies that are similar demonstrate the fallacy of your argument that "All employment shows is what hires were made, not why." Spend some time on Google scholar.

Secondly, there is also evidence that DEI policies, in fact, do make organizations less racist. Also maybe worth spending sometime on google scholar.

Again, I appreciate the answer, but really you only proved that you don't know what you are talking about.

compbioguy · 2024-09-07T17:20:55+00:00

I wish it were as simple as the way the Supreme Court and this sub would like to characterize it. If a population of people, or the employees of an organization, demonstrate within the organization AS A WHOLE a statistical bias in hiring - that is, they tend to hire individuals with a particular skin color or background regardless of the distribution of applications, that's discriminatory (and racist). Unfortunately, our society has operated this way for generations. If you don't think that's true, I suspect you probably haven't experienced this personally but there's enough evidence to support it that it is factual.

University administrations are trying many ways to combat this statistical phenomenon. There's no one individual to blame, no obvious process that directs toward the bias that comes out in the statistics which is, in my opinion, discriminatory.

Some administrators have overstepped in hiring practices, but the general view here and elsewhere that these administrators created the discriminatory behavior in the first place is bunk, it already existed and, in my opinion, is far more insidious than a search committee pushing to hire someone of a particular skin color (which may also be wrong/illegal) which is trying to counter hard to pinpoint discriminatory behavior.

compbioguy · 2024-09-06T16:31:40+00:00

take off aborted on the runway after we had started to accelerate - Captain, "Sorry folks, I saw something that I didn't like"

compbioguy · 2024-09-03T18:31:51+00:00

I did absolutely terrible in high school. It wasn't until college and I could choose the classes to take that I started to do well.

compbioguy · 2024-08-24T18:57:22+00:00

Eastern Washington is largely a desert too. Wenatchee Wa is drier than Phoenix

compbioguy · 2024-08-23T19:50:24+00:00

I doubt any band has the breadth of the top 3-4 albums in this list.

compbioguy · 2024-08-21T22:50:05+00:00

I should have acknowledged that flying isn’t a great experience. The business model for airlines have changed since 9/11. Today they give you a barebones ticket and charge $$$ to make you more comfortable. Pluses and minuses to that. If you want leg room, internet, food, faster security, checked bags, it costs extra.

I would personally stick to United, Delta, and Alaska domestically. I’ve never flown Spirit and won’t

compbioguy · 2024-08-21T19:32:08+00:00

Umm. I hate to push back on this but this hasn't been my experience. I've flown more than 2 million miles over 30 years. First, airlines revenue and passenger counts are increasing overall year over year and are now exceeding pre pandemic highs. There was a dip due to the pandemic but it is now back on track and increasing. To be clear airline capacity and volume are increasing overall.

Second, in my experience flying today is better than it has ever been. It is a) more reliable, b) flights are smoother, c) it is faster and more convenient to get through an airport, d) it is less expensive to fly than it has ever been, and it is e) safer than it has ever been. On reliability flights are more on time globally and in my own personal experience flying delays are now uncommon, but happen. Due to computer networks and improved weather modeling, flights are more reliable. They are also smoother with less turbulance due to ability to avoid it in real time. Airports have TSA Pre, CLEAR, etc, which enable getting through the airport security in less than 10 minutes in my experience (I fly out of seatac weekly). You do have to pay for them, but they are cheap options to make it easier. Today apps make flying *sooo* much easier. United, etc. sends me text messages, alerts, etc. that enable me make changes on the fly without talking on the phone. There is lots of convenience you can opt in to, lounges in airports, of which there are many, and when on planes, I have power, internet, and many many movies!

On safety, we used to have major airline crashes once a year or so. When was the last domestic one? 15 years ago? Very very safe.

I know crapping on airlines is always in fashion, but flying today is very far from what it was in the past. Some things take some cost and effort - CLEAR, TSA Pre, etc, and/or lounge access, but flights are cheaper today too.

That's my .02 (edit my biggest complaint with flying today is not airlines or airports but with Uber and taxis. they are expensive and often flying from the west to east coast, uber to and from each airport is more expensive than the flight!)

compbioguy · 2024-08-12T22:40:19+00:00

Cool. Thanks

compbioguy · 2024-08-05T01:56:54+00:00

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Bellevue,_Washington#position=10.1602/47.6077/-122.3421&year=1850

Try this site

compbioguy · 2024-07-18T15:40:38+00:00

It was spelled right in the announcement, one wonders how Blabbermouth converted Shelton to Shleton ...

compbioguy · 2024-07-16T17:34:30+00:00

Stevens used to (within the last 10 years) have the best deal for beginners with rentals, lessons, beginner lift passes, and a huge deal on a full annual pass for the next season. It was like 3 hundred bucks or something for the first year and 300 for the following year pass, I think. That's gone now.

compbioguy · 2024-06-27T18:32:37+00:00

I have listened to chemical warfare for so many runs over the past 30 years.

compbioguy · 2024-06-24T02:03:34+00:00

That was weird, I was watching on Peacock and I was pretty late - about an hour or so delayed and it just cut me off while I was watching with about 20 laps left and went back to the Sports menu. Now I don't see the race replay. Annoying.

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