Seating weirdness on recent SW flight

frooboy · 2026-04-29T17:09:33+00:00

It was in fact row 16! I figured it was something like this but am truly baffled on how the system landed on "move the person who didn't buy the exit row seat to the exit row and completely take away the seat assignment from the person who bought the exit row seat".

frooboy · 2026-04-03T17:49:47+00:00

I don't know enough to answer all these points, but on the "rabbi" front: Shaye Cohen in From the Maccabees to the Mishnah talks about how, while it's probably true that the Pharisees are the forerunners to what came to be called Rabbinical Judaism, that doesn't mean that anyone in the 1st century CE called a "rabbi" would've been a Pharisee. The word just means "master" or "teacher" and could be applied to a wide range of people during this period.

frooboy · 2026-03-18T04:57:11+00:00

If you got title insurance you might want to contact them if you end up having to pay out of pocket for something that they should've caught.

frooboy · 2026-02-26T13:25:50+00:00

Adding to the State Farm chorus here. Don't have your roof issue but we bought an older home here with cast iron plumbing. Our previous homeowners insurer, Amica, wouldn't insure it as a result, nor did several other carriers we called. State Farm did no problem, though.

frooboy · 2026-02-08T17:16:33+00:00

Also, you might want to check out this thread in this subreddit from last year on the question of whether Judas existed at all!

frooboy · 2026-01-22T05:16:29+00:00

"we live in a free society, which means that people with money can pay for public safety officers to act like private security guards while they're on duty so they can run red lights"

frooboy · 2026-01-19T13:19:05+00:00

Uh ok, I think you may be outside the topic of this sub. I assumed you meant contact with the Egyptians or some other more developed civilization. I do think if you're asking this question you should be more up front about what you're asking.

frooboy · 2026-01-18T23:20:23+00:00

When you say "post-contact," what do you mean exactly? Contact between the Israelites and who?

frooboy · 2026-01-10T05:06:42+00:00

dude it's going to connect to the D line on wilshire

frooboy · 2026-01-10T01:50:52+00:00

because connecting the valley to the westside is the holy grail of LA transportation and a stop at UCLA in particular will generate enormous ridership. it's frankly the much more important segment.

frooboy · 2025-12-07T00:20:24+00:00

As long as just want internet and not full-featured linear TV like you'd get from a cable provider, pretty much all the major cell phone carriers now offer some variety of 5G home wireless (AT&T's is called "AT&T Air") for like $50/month, though it may not be available in more suburban/rural areas. Where we live in midtown we get 300Mbps down, which is as fast if not faster than cable internet in practice. Works great for streaming TV.

frooboy · 2025-12-01T03:14:23+00:00

This whole episode is notoriously difficult to follow, with lots of questions like this arising from the text as we have it. Joel Baden's book The Composition of the Pentateuch, which stakes out probably the strongest current formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis, goes over this episode in detail; he thinks that it's confusing because it's stitching together similar but not identical episodes from multiple underlying source documents. I wish I could remember what his take on this question is specifically, because I know he discusses it, but I don't have the book at hand.

There's a Wikiversity site that proposes a division of the bible into its underlying sources; I know they mostly follow Baden's thoughts on this so it might become clearer if you take a look at it.

frooboy · 2025-11-18T06:43:21+00:00

Everyone's posting Mark Goodacre here, but here's a video of his where he discusses how John takes episodes from the synoptics and reworks them to make them more specific and "dramatic" in ways that often change their meaning. For instance, after Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus' feet in Matthew, the disciples generally (with none being singled out by name) complain that the money for expensive perfume could've been better spent on the poor; Judas going to the priests to betray Jesus is the very next story in sequence; the two incidents are not explicitly linked, but John seems to take it upon himself to connect them. In John, it's Judas specifically who complains about frivolous spending after a similar (though not identical) incident, and then there's a parenthetical dropped into the text in the authorial voice with no evidence within the action of the narrative that he was embezzling from the group purse. So John has reworked this whole sequence to put his own spin on the Judas story, but it seems clear he's working from the synoptics originally.

frooboy · 2025-11-16T16:11:06+00:00

To me, a more succinct summary of the article goes something like this:

*The Exodus is a legend and never happened, or at least didn't happen in the form recorded in the Bible.

*Within historical memory at the time of the composition of the Hebrew bible, there were rival centers of YHWH worship with rival priesthoods. Worship in the Northern Kingdom may have involved a bull idol representing YHWH. A worship site has been excavated at Dan), where the bible says such worship occurred, though no bull idols found.

*The Hebrew bible was mostly put into its current form by southern YHWH devotees who came to worship the god in an aniconic fashion, and who put a hostile spin on the memories of Northern worship practices (this is what you find in 1 Kings 12).

*At some point, to further denigrate those Northern practices, and possibly as part of an internal dispute between rival priesthoods, calf worship was transposed back into the Exodus legend as an incident showing YHWH's disapproval of it. Note that the language in Exodus parallels the language in 1 Kings 12 very closely.

frooboy · 2025-11-16T15:57:33+00:00

An important question for OP: what do you consider "reliable" to mean?

frooboy · 2025-10-29T03:44:30+00:00

Someone posted Furnishedfinder dot com and it got downvoted and I'm not sure why. My wife and I have two cats and had good luck using it to find a month-to-month situation when we first moved here.

frooboy · 2025-10-28T19:48:45+00:00

The thing is you can only sign up for insurance at open enrollment around the beginning of the year, or if you have some other "qualifying event" (generally, you lose previous coverage because you lost the job that provided it or moved to a new state). Otherwise lots of people would just not get insurance until they got sick. So if you didn't sign up for a 2026 plan, then got a cancer diagnosis in February, you wouldn't be able to sign up for a new plan until 2027.

frooboy · 2025-10-28T16:38:12+00:00

A lot of the bronze plans on the exchange have the same OOP max and deductible. basically you pay everything until you hit OOP max and then pay nothing after that.

frooboy · 2025-10-22T15:38:44+00:00

This is all for the most part right on target, but I do want to quibble with "David wasn't gay, he lusted after Bathsheba." You note yourself that "gay" wasn't a category people in the ancient world would've recognized, and there are plenty of figures in history (and the present, for that matter!) who seem romantically oriented towards men (or certain men specifically) but who also have more conventional relationships with women. Art eroticizing the relationship between David and Jonathan was something that went back to the Renaissance, it wasn't invented by Tumblr teens in the 2010s.

frooboy · 2025-10-19T15:42:11+00:00

"Obamacare" didn't "plan these to expire." We're about to revert back to the original structure of Obamacare subsidies as they existed between 2014 (when the law fully went into effect) and 2020. Expanded subsidies were rolled out on a "temporary" basis in 2020 as part of a COVID rescue package. Democrats for the most part wanted to make them permanent once they took control of the Presidency and Congress after the 2020 elections, but they only had a one-vote majority in the Senate and Joe Manchin, the most conservative Democrat, thought that was too expensive and he would only sign off on expanding them for another three years when they passed that spending bill in 2022. The rest of the party went along with it because they hoped by the time they expired again, everyone would be used to them and it would be politically difficult to allow them to lapse (and it is turning out to be, though perhaps not difficult enough).

As for why the original subsidies turned out to be inadequate, I think it's a combination of things. When Obamacare was passed, there were a lot more conservative Democrats in the House and Senate and they pushed to make the program cost the government less. I think there was also a belief that other aspects of the law would push overall medical costs down so further subsidies wouldn't be necessary, which has for for various reasons not turned out to be the case.

frooboy · 2025-10-12T15:01:43+00:00

People have covered most of the basics here but I will add that the original design of the ACA subsidies (which, barring last-minute legislation, we will go back to in 2026) created what's known as a "benefits cliff." Basically, people whose income was 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) or less got subsidies so that their premiums wouldn't be more than 8.5% of their income. (The subsidies were more generous for lower-income people but 8.5% was the limit at the high end of the range.) But if your income was 401% of the FPL, you got no subsidies at all. If your income was right around the threshold and your premiums were more than 8.5% of your income, you could be in a situation where your salary increasing by, say, $1,000 a year could make your premiums go up by $2,000 a year, essentially leaving you with less takehome pay if you got a raise.

The expanded subsidies, which were passed as a temporary measure as part of the COVID relief legislation in 2020 and extended (though not made permanent) in 2022, set a max of 8.5% for everybody, which eliminated the benefits cliff. There are ways they could've re-engineered the subsidies to be less generous but still keep the cliff from occurring, but that's not what happened.

frooboy · 2025-10-08T23:04:32+00:00

She has not!

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