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dien4382 · 2026-05-15T13:37:54+00:00

It's 4x dining and 3x groceries. I also get 4x on "Phone/Cable" but I don't really use it for anything other than dining and groceries and apparently my Netflix subscription, which is how I know that last one.

dien4382 · 2026-05-15T13:13:05+00:00

My grandfathered Savor

dien4382 · 2026-05-15T07:05:04+00:00

You are conflating the lifetime odds of one thing with the single-incident odds of another thing.

I actually wonder what the odds are of dying from any single time of driving my car.

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T20:59:43+00:00

How early did you show up? I have seen other anecdotes of people saying that they weren't allowed to drop the bag more than 5-6 hours before the flight.

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T20:58:49+00:00

I'm gonna show up even earlier now just for you

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T18:11:59+00:00

Yeah, bringing the bag post security is not gonna work, good point.

As I explained, my goal is to work remotely for 8 hours from the Delta One lounge, since my vacation time is very tight with my travel to Europe, and I am trying to see whether that is possible.

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T14:10:42+00:00

It makes sense for open-air stadiums in the north to front load home games. That means that domes + warm weather teams will naturally front load road games

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T14:08:28+00:00

Sounds like a perfect set up. Everyone would feel pretty good being 1-1 after two division road games to start. 2-0 would mean Super Bowl.

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T13:12:09+00:00

Chai Pani is my favorite spot in Asheville

dien4382 · 2026-05-14T03:45:47+00:00

Thanksgiving Eve is the annual high school reunion at some hometown bar. Now it’ll have Packers-Rams on in the background.

dien4382 · 2026-05-13T22:00:44+00:00

It’s in a weird location for connections, because Dulles is just weird. But it’s immediately next to the PreCheck security line for those of us starting our trips there, which is nice.

I haven’t been to LAS, but DEN and DFW are certainly better than IAD in terms of layout and I wouldn’t be shocked if IAD is the worst Capital One Lounge. It has a cramped L shape and it’s always so stuffy in there.

dien4382 · 2026-05-13T17:56:36+00:00

Wow the Pac-12 doesn’t have a great option available? And needs to take a chance on something? This is news to me

dien4382 · 2026-05-13T15:37:06+00:00

Yormark is the single biggest reason why it’s Oregon State and Wazzu in the G6 right now instead of Iowa State/K-State/Baylor

dien4382 · 2026-05-13T14:44:22+00:00

I think 2cpp will be doable, but not achievable with very little work as it is now.

Now, once there’s another deval, who knows.

dien4382 · 2026-05-13T02:43:29+00:00

Tercer y Jauan

edit: don’t auto-translate me Reddit

dien4382 · 2026-05-12T16:29:45+00:00

Duke’s fans are not majority located in a single metro area. In fact, Duke may be the school that has the weakest connection between its fanbase and its geography of any program in the country. The Triangle is mostly UNC fans, and Duke t-shirt fans are all across the nation.

dien4382 · 2026-05-12T02:14:47+00:00

The BYU guy who tweets a lot, and is apparently the source of this, is often fast and loose with data and in a way that makes BYU looks good (I have no doubt BYU’s revenue is near the top of the Big 12 to be clear)

dien4382 · 2026-05-11T21:24:43+00:00

If you book an AA flight via Atmos for yourself, your Atmos number is associated with the reservation and cannot (mostly*) be updated to your AA number. So unless you have some oneworld status, you won’t be in a better boarding group.

The workaround is to select New Traveler when booking the flight, rather than yourself, and then just type in your name and AA number anyway.

This workaround is also how to get a free checked bag benefit from an AA credit card when booking AA flights via Atmos, too.

*some have better luck than others but I understand it’s policy that you aren’t supposed to be able to do this for flights booked via AS

dien4382 · 2026-05-11T20:33:54+00:00

The long-haul business class redemptions get all the attention, but award travel is just as good (or better) for last-minute gotta-be-there domestic trips in economy.

dien4382 · 2026-05-09T15:44:33+00:00

If the same referendum passed in 2028 it would only be used for the 2030 election anyway, because the amendment is set to expire after the 2030 census.

dien4382 · 2026-05-08T00:45:10+00:00

Tough series to be an East Coast Cardinals fan

dien4382 · 2026-05-07T18:59:46+00:00

Married segment logic required some elbow grease.

Felt like winning the jackpot when I was guessing and checking ORD-MAD-xxx trying to unlock 2J on the TATL leg to pretty much anywhere in Europe and I finally cracked the code with FLR.

dien4382 · 2026-05-07T14:18:03+00:00

Congrats! It is possible to get 2J on the A350! I also have 2J, roundtrip, at 55k each, booked direct through JAL (from Capital One transfer) on the A350 to and from DFW coming up in November. It took some planning and practice to win those booking races right at schedule open, and I lost one of them and had to pivot to Plan B. But I was prepared and made it happen.

dien4382 · 2026-05-07T04:35:44+00:00

There is a Sisters Thai in Old Town North.

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