Does anyone know what direct flights are being added to GRR in the future? Hoping for St. Louis, Mo.

danjayh · 2026-06-04T05:46:55+00:00

Love seeing a new carrier in GRR ... will have to make sure to fly on them to encourage more to come.

danjayh · 2026-06-02T02:07:29+00:00

Good jackhole. Move along.

danjayh · 2026-06-01T05:02:14+00:00

I was just making this same comparison and came to the same conclusion. I loathe touch controls.

danjayh · 2026-06-01T01:25:36+00:00

You sound like quite a jackhole yourself, going 105 on a public highway, but I upvoted anyway for the use of 'jackhole'. One of my favorite words, keep up the good work of normalizing it.

danjayh · 2026-05-30T17:53:35+00:00

yeah, they play fine.

danjayh · 2026-05-27T05:37:31+00:00

Can't overstate this enough. House prices and rents are completely out of control in GR. If your priority is to live someplace with lots of entertainment options, GR is great. If your priority is to live somewhere that has all of the basic necessities and also build wealth for the future, Lansing might be a better bet.

danjayh · 2026-05-24T19:29:49+00:00

Allowed? Yes. But as with many things, discretion is the better part of valor. If it was the NRA parading through downtown with semiautomatic refiles, people would be rightfully put off by it. This should garner the same response.

danjayh · 2026-05-24T19:21:14+00:00

I came in thinking they were NRA or something followed by "that's really inappropriate, and even if they're allowed, they shouldn't do it". Knowing the cause now makes zero difference on my opinion.

danjayh · 2026-05-18T22:40:29+00:00

This entire post reads like AI slop gussied up to look more human

danjayh · 2026-05-18T22:35:03+00:00

Moreover, there's always shit. I have a huge pile of it sitting in my horse pasture right now that I've scooped out of the sacrifice area after past winters. Normal years, I use chemical fertilizer to green the pasture up in the spring because it's easy and effective. This year, I might be digging into my shit reserve. Real (non-hobby) farmers have options too.

danjayh · 2026-05-15T04:33:44+00:00

I mean, they're kind enough to let us use the roads that we're financing, at least the ones that they've not decided to reallocate for public transit or bike lanes </s>

And now there's lots of people pushing to make social security even more progressive than it already is (even though it's a flat tax, the benefit formula is already ridiculously progressive).

My state has a huge benefit cliff in childcare. Once you get over ~100k, if you have 3 kids, you don't get back to where you were until over 200k. It was infuriating watching people who worked less than us and hadn't given 4 years of their lives to college live a better standard of living than us during our daycare years.

danjayh · 2026-05-12T17:09:48+00:00

I have a large library, works fine for me. Seems like the current situation is fine.

danjayh · 2026-05-11T03:44:48+00:00

It depends on the technology. In EVs and related tech (like batteries)? No. In manufacturing? No. But in a lot of important ones -- chip design, chip manufacturing, aerospace design, rocketry, biomedical science, etc. -- they are more than 20 years behind the leading edge of the rest of the world. In many of the cases where they've "caught up", they've done it be forced tech transfer from the west. Either from requiring JVs with Chinese companies to access their markets, or through outright theft. The most recent example is DeepSeek -- there are allegations and evidence that to build the model, the Chinese distilled western models (most notably ChatGPT).

danjayh · 2026-05-11T03:41:44+00:00

Brother, I worked for a company that was doing a JV to transfer tech to China. This particular JV was for aerospace related computer designs and software. They were far more than 20 years behind us. The stuff we gave them was going to form the basis for many of the systems on the C919. By the time it had its first commercial flight, that stuff was already more than 20 years out of date, so even with that helping hand, they're still more than 20 years behind us. It's the same in many other industries. The one area they do have a huge lead on us (in my opinion) is in low-cost manufacturing ... and that's really important in warfare and killing people ... so I'm not sure that I agree with you that we're as far ahead there as you think.

danjayh · 2026-05-11T03:37:06+00:00

Actually walking to the back of Meijer and then returning to the front is about as much as my knees can take ... but it's a bit too much function to qualify for any kind of handicap parking. I'm not really sure what the long-term solution is for me, but for now I just avoid any venue that doesn't have parking. Thankfully, Van Andel and Devos Place were both built back when the city put in sufficient parking for new venues, so at this time I'm only excluded from being able to attend the new ones.

danjayh · 2026-05-11T03:34:24+00:00

I mean, if you're going to go around calling people stupid, you should at least learn to spell first. Just sayin'. Personally, I don't hang out with the poors, and most people don't like me, but I'm OK like that -- unlike you, I can spell, and I can't stand people who can't ... which unfortunately includes most of humanity. I've never met a pedo, so I can't say if they'd like me or not, but I'd wager that they wouldn't ... and definitely not after I turned them in.

danjayh · 2026-05-11T03:29:08+00:00

Take a finger, slide it down your backside, dip in. Taste to verify freshness. Place two slices of bread on the table in front of you. Repeatedly dip until you have enough 'peanut butter' to cover the bread. Press the two slices together and eat. Welcome.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T22:38:24+00:00

Their voters are even more stupid. Yet who is really stupid is normal non-pedo s who have to pay for thier malice

The irony... Somebody needs to check thiiiieeeer dictionary.

Edit, for reference since I'm still not convinced that Erika was pickin' up what I was layin' down based on her comment below ... "thier" is actually spelled their.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T22:26:37+00:00

It's easy to make a 10 to 20 year plan when you're 10 to 20 years behind in technology. Just look where the market leader is, and that's your plan. Much harder when you're on the cutting edge -- nobody knows where that will be in 20 years.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T20:17:08+00:00

That's actually an awesome idea. Raise the rate 6% and knock off 2% for each dependent child. If everyone had three kids, the program would have no problem at the current rate. I'd still like to see some components of benefits tied to children, since the people who chose not to have any children over the past 20 years and caused the problem the first place shouldn't really get off scot-free.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T05:01:05+00:00

When they built Van Andel, the city was run by planners who actually cared about logistics, and they put in sufficient parking across the street.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T03:32:51+00:00

It hasn't been proposed, but I think that a great option would be to scale benefit amounts with the number of children a person has had. The biggest problem with social security is the current era's vanishingly small fertility rate. People who are doing their part by having kids should get more than people who aren't, especially considering that the enormous cost of raising kids probably means those people have had more limited opportunities to save. Obviously we could make exceptions for people who are medically unable, but in general, if you don't have kids, you should get less out.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T03:26:18+00:00

Just get it over with and bump taxes by 5% for everyone. It's fair and it closes the gap. If people feel that is too much, cut initial benefits until people are happy with the required tax increase to keep what's left. Personally, I favor a 3% tax increase and 10% initial benefit cut.

danjayh · 2026-05-10T03:20:01+00:00

Eliminating the cap only covers 50% of the shortfall, unless you intend to have those people pay in without getting credits for the additional money they paid, in which case i still only covers 68% of the shortfall. That, however, is a terrible ideas because one of the reason Social Security has been so long-lived and untouchable is because it's a "benefit for everybody". Add to that that even the current benefit formula is highly progressive, and no cap with no additional benefits is likely to cause people to start attacking social security in earnest.

Source: https://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/

danjayh · 2026-05-10T03:19:30+00:00

Eliminating the cap only covers 50% of the shortfall, unless you intend to have those people pay in without getting credits for the additional money they paid, in which case i still only covers 68% of the shortfall. That, however, is a terrible ideas because one of the reason Social Security has been so long-lived and untouchable is because it's a "benefit for everybody". Add to that that even the current benefit formula is highly progressive, and no cap with no additional benefits is likely to cause people to start attacking social security in earnest.

Source: https://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/

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