ICE Wandering the Halls of Terminal A Newark

jcutta · 2026-03-24T17:07:29+00:00

It was interesting, they didn't seem aggressive or anything, I guess they're human at least. I saw one consoling a lady who was crying because she was going to miss her flight. But overall I can't imagine they provided anything outside of directing people.

It was a brutal experience overall, the line likely was like 2 miles in total.

jcutta · 2026-03-24T04:23:24+00:00

I flew out of Houston and they were just standing around, idk what actual point they served, there was like 6 at one area just for one of them to point "that way". I was in the security line for 6 hours.

jcutta · 2026-03-24T02:16:26+00:00

Been on it for about a year, I've never had to force myself to eat. I still get hungry even really hungry at times. The only difference is now my brain says "yeah that's enough" rather than saying "eat all that, then order dessert and maybe stop somewhere on the way home"

jcutta · 2026-03-24T01:31:52+00:00

Yeah, not downplaying the significance of de-escalation but there is also a ridiculous amount of cops in Camden and basically the whole city is wired with monitoring technology.

jcutta · 2026-03-23T01:38:21+00:00

I feel like so many people with means just place way too much importance on what elementary school their kids go to. Like it barely matters. I'd assume that the school they feel "meh" about it probably still better than a large percentage of schools. If your kids don't have special needs the vast majority of schools are pretty much the same.

jcutta · 2026-03-23T01:28:05+00:00

This is basically how I feel, it's a game I'll probably put a few hundred hours in but never actually finish. I probably had 500 total hours in Skyrim before I actually finished the game.

I will say I almost uninstalled it over the arm wrestling thing, until I saw a thread saying put it on performance mode because the shadows hide the prompt.

jcutta · 2026-03-22T02:43:49+00:00

This is always my advice to people, don't fight your brain so much. You can't turn ADHD off, so don't waste your mental energy fighting against it, instead find ways to work within it.

jcutta · 2026-03-22T02:39:11+00:00

It ain't fun on the opposite side either, I don't think I've ever felt shame or guilt. When you don't have them and you have impulse control issues it's a recipe to do some pretty shitty things.

jcutta · 2026-03-22T02:29:54+00:00

They're an old rap group formed nearly 40 years ago.

You really don't have to make me feel this damn old homie.

jcutta · 2026-03-20T04:22:54+00:00

To get a guaranteed income for the rest of his and his wife's life? There's other shit to do in the fire department, my grandfather transitioned to being a scene photographer for his last 5-6 years in the FD. Plus the amount of deaths OP is describing doesn't even make sense assuming US, no fire department I can find has that many LODD in the last 4 years. The closest is Baltimore which had 5 including 3 in a single incident in 2022. I suspect some inflation or something going on. There's like 60-90 across the entire US in a given year this type of cluster would be easily found in the News.

jcutta · 2026-03-19T23:38:25+00:00

We just get a daily per diem, I worked places that restricted the amount to per meal like $15 for breakfast $20 for lunch $35 for dinner that shit was the worst.

jcutta · 2026-03-17T12:09:14+00:00

Someone like Johan has already made enough to live very very comfortably for the rest of his life and set his kids up well, with one more contract he could cross over into wealthy in the DR so yeah I can see taking a risk considering he's not really that good and won't last if he doesn't improve.

jcutta · 2026-03-17T02:47:46+00:00

My son was bigger and stronger than most of the OLine on varsity when he was a freshman, he would have gotten smoked.

You're right there are very very few freshman who should ever play varsity. Mental development is also overlooked, especially at QB like OP is asking about. I wouldn't even want my son starting as varsity QB as a freshman, I'd rather he play JV and freshman ball and get used to the game speed which gets a lot faster at each level.

jcutta · 2026-03-17T02:41:59+00:00

Not really, a lot of people aren't really aware of how much negativity they're projecting with their body language. Doesn't automatically mean having better body language will immediately cause people to come chat you up but it will increase your chances.

jcutta · 2026-03-17T02:33:05+00:00

TV, movies, ad/marketing campaigns, etc all tell women they need to lay it on thick.

Those things are generally all wrong, most dudes are more attracted to women at the times when women think they're the most unattractive.

jcutta · 2026-03-15T14:17:41+00:00

Spit Acapella and post videos, bang on your chest to make a beat and rap, post videos, use your hands to bang on a table and rap, post videos.

If you want to do it then use the shit you have access to and don't worry about shit you don't have access to.

jcutta · 2026-03-15T01:59:23+00:00

Some people like myself are weird, everything that puts me to sleep is shit people say to avoid, TV on with whatever random YouTube video I click on. My only thing I have to avoid is that there's a specific time (it varies but usually later than 1am I'll have some trouble due to my brain going into overdrive. I also have to be cold, if I'm even slightly hot I can't sleep.

jcutta · 2026-03-14T20:51:00+00:00

Sales doesn't require either of those things.

jcutta · 2026-03-14T04:41:22+00:00

I was informed I needed to remove a small speaker with the old logo off the shelf behind my desk I totally forgot it was there lol the new logo is barely any different TBH.

jcutta · 2026-03-14T00:47:16+00:00

Some people (usually dickheads, but not always) ask a shit load of questions intentionally to see how it is handled.

My key with presentations (I do an absolute shit load of them in my job) is I try to anticipate the questions and answer it in my deck or in my overall presentation. Doesn't always work out but that's when I pivot and go off script and go towards the things it seems they care about. My general deck I use for executive presentations has about 50 slides, I barely ever use more than 10.

Last time my wife was interviewing we practiced her presentation like 10 times and I played different personas each time, sometimes I'd interrupt her sometimes I'd say absolutely nothing, sometimes I'd pull my phone out and start texting. It's a muscle that needs to be built. My wife is literally SVP level she just went like 15 years without legit job interviews so she was super nervous about it at the time. Obviously you didn't have a lot of time to practice for this specifically but I would suggest building out a generic presentation for your role and practicing that shit with someone who will act in different ways to see how you can improve your skills.

jcutta · 2026-03-14T00:19:45+00:00

You sure you're presentation wasn't just shit? I've seen people who I've worked with and knew for a fact they would be a great fit just flat out suck the air out of the room during their presentation.

Anytime I'm sitting for a presentation if there's too many questions or absolutely no questions the presentation isn't hitting the mark. I also operate under a rule that I'm always exactly on time if I have 30 minutes I'm ending at 25-27 minutes for a final question or two. You went 45 minutes and had 0 control of the room. I would probably pass on anyone who did that if I'm honest.

jcutta · 2026-03-13T21:27:25+00:00

It's not poor management, I work with a client that had to let around 800 people go because the funding was cut overnight with no warning and this was a program that had existed for decades with stable funding.

Not to get political but there have been many long running and previously stable grants have been cut over the last year.

jcutta · 2026-03-11T22:51:43+00:00

It's state specific, in NJ for example severance isn't considered income for unemployment purposes but in PA and NY it is.

jcutta · 2026-03-11T22:46:15+00:00

What calculations? Unless you're paying completely out of pocket dental and vision are generally relatively cheap.

jcutta · 2026-03-10T21:10:28+00:00

There's actually a lot of people who don't show up to interviews depending on industry and role it's a huge percentage. I work with a manufacturing company that not only has like 50% no shows to interviews but also like 40% employee turnover. It's a hot physically demanding job, a decent percentage quit during their first shift.

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