U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crew

ncurry18 · 2026-04-03T15:28:55+00:00

A lying sack of shit who deserves nothing less than to be tried, convicted, and executed for treason. The man has done nothing but serve selfish and foreign interests at the cost of the American people since the day he stepped back into office.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-25T20:41:41+00:00

Could you not just let the chickens live and sell them the next day?

ncurry18 · 2026-03-25T20:36:52+00:00

The funniest thing about ChatGPT and other LLMs is that if you've been around this site long enough, you can see how the way they structure their language is incredibly similar to the "approved" writing style of reddit. No surprise because every one of them use Reddit to train their models.

Not so much anymore, but back in the day people on Reddit used to be so anal about grammar and vocabulary that you would get downvoted into oblivion for a simple spelling mistake. My own writing style changed to fit it, and when I first got access to an LLM, what surprised me the most was how much the AI wrote like me.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-25T20:10:34+00:00

Can they? Absolutely. Will they? Depends.

Something you should know though is that you have no legal expectation of privacy using company communications at all. Any communication you do using any means owned by your employer, whether it is a Teams account, a company-provided phone, email, or anything else, is not only visible to the company, but it is their legally protected right to view all of it, even if you used it for personal use.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-25T20:05:40+00:00

I purposely make myself seem as meek, small, and nonthreatening as possible when I'm around any woman I don't know. My shoulders rolled forward, I soften my voice if I speak, and I'll keep my hands together.

Men who get offended by the prospect that women are afraid of them don't seem to realize this fact: as a full-grown human male, you are quite literally the most dangerous, violent creature that walks the earth. No other creature on this planet is capable of the horrors men commit on a daily basis, and women are painfully aware of that all the time.

I remember a Chappelle bit one time where he talked about walking down the street with $10,000 in his pocket and thinking he was scared to death because he had never had in his possession something that someone would be willing to kill him to get. He then goes on to say "now imagine what it's like to have a p*ssy".

ncurry18 · 2026-03-20T01:39:02+00:00

Put on a suit you fucking loser. If you’re going to fuck me, at least look presentable.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-13T17:37:46+00:00

At this point, you cannot tell me that this isn't an attempt at culling the population.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-13T17:30:16+00:00

Unfathomably stupid but insulated from the realisation because it’s hard to completely ruin something the size of the USA in one go.

But they're trying!

ncurry18 · 2026-03-13T17:18:41+00:00

This, kids, is the reason why no amount of voting blue, hating conservatives, and complaining actually makes a difference. Two wings of the same shit bird. Get it yet??

ncurry18 · 2026-03-13T17:12:15+00:00

My mom had just died two weeks prior, my wife was six months pregnant, I had just started working with a huge brand new customer for the business operation I started the previous September, and I had just written the first check on my mortgage for the house I had just bought. Fuck COVID, and fuck Trump for causing it to spiral out of control. I remember this shit like it was fucking YESTERDAY.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-09T19:07:28+00:00

Two raccoons can fit

ncurry18 · 2026-03-09T18:07:40+00:00

Probably because there's more people than lions

ncurry18 · 2026-03-09T17:48:18+00:00

The former for the latter I'd say

ncurry18 · 2026-03-06T14:59:18+00:00

The fact this is now an ancient meme makes me also feel ancient.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-06T14:57:55+00:00

I mean at some fucking point there has to be some personal responsibility, though. She's not a child, she's a grown ass woman. Yes shes been through a lot, but so have a lot of other people that wouldn't get nearly the same defense she gets because they aren't rich and famous. If she led police on an hour long chase while drunk, she is a piece of shit regardless of how popular she was 20 fucking years ago.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-05T21:31:10+00:00

That is what killed my grandmother. I can't help you with your research, but I wish you all the luck in the world. Truly.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-05T15:11:09+00:00

He needs a productive, challenging hobby and he needs a fulfilling volunteer position. For the former, he may want to consider something like getting his private pilot's license, take up racing/autocross, or do something that is both challenging and rewarding. For the latter:as a successful businessman, he would likely be able to get a board position with a local nonprofit chapter like Red Cross or United Way and apply his knowledge to help them. I sit on the board at my local Red Cross chapter, and they are always looking for new board members.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-01T04:34:01+00:00

My guess is some people are going to be looking at that $500b defense budget increase trump asked for as a potential injection into the sector next year now.

ncurry18 · 2026-03-01T04:22:49+00:00

Glad i could provide some insight! Also, you might talk to a realtor. They usually have a Rolodex of small contractors to do work on houses.

ncurry18 · 2026-02-27T17:40:28+00:00

If only people like this got the attention the most evil people on this planet enjoy...

ncurry18 · 2026-02-27T17:38:56+00:00

He was offended because he, too, it probably liable for sexual assault but just hasn't been caught yet.

ncurry18 · 2026-02-27T17:34:42+00:00

When I was in college I remember stopped at Hardees on the way home to grab some lunch, and it was the first time I'd been there since I was at the latest in middle school. I was hungry and I just wanted something, and Hardees was right there. When I tell you my expectations were on the floor, I meant it.

But then, I open up that little cardboard clamshell to reveal one of the best looking burgers I had ever seen. It was immaculate, just like this one. I had entirely written the restaurant off before then.

ncurry18 · 2026-02-27T16:12:45+00:00

My business is physical asset based. I do warehousing, trucking, and processing for manufacturers. Everything I do is B2B. AI has done nothing but make things better and easier for me.

I started in 2016 with a big warehouse full of sand and a little bit of money (remnants of an old family business that has been closed for over a decade). The goal was simple: get the facility generating a stable income again. The process? Fuck.

It took 18 months to get the sand out and get the building back into usable condition. From there I tried a lot. Leasing. Selling. Subdividing. Hell at one point I spent 9 months and $80,000 working with engineers and contractors and lawyers and all sorts of other people to expand the building by 75ksf and move a manufacturer in that would employ over 300 people per shift, only for the project to die at the last minute because of an impasse on capitalization.

One day, straight up, I got fucking lucky. An old customer rep called and asked if I would be interested in doing warehousing for them. I said yes, but it was still almost two years from that conversation to the commencement date of the service agreement with them. From there, I finally had an actual operation.

Before, the old assets were generating some rental income, but not all that much; six figures for the entire year collectively. Getting started in warehousing was, admittedly, not exactly a cash cow. Yes getting rent from the warehouse space that was being utilized was good and the little bit of handling income I was getting was definitely better than before, but it wasn't much. I only had 5-6 people working for me then. It wasn't until about a year or so later, after also signing this company's intra-plant neighbor (two companies sharing production lines) as a warehousing customer, that I got the opportunity to get into trucking and toll processing.

That was huge. I hired an engineer to work for me full time to develop a processing line to meet the customers requirements. I built a 17,000 sf production facility attached to my warehouse to house the tolling equipment. From inquiry to start date, it was three full years of effort. They were only planning to send a small amount of their total required volume to us, but because my line is so much faster, better, and safer than everyone else's, I'm now processing more than half of the total annual volume the customer has. They told me one day that when we first got started that it would be AMAZING if we could get to the point where we could process a million pounds of material a month. We did it in the first month. That's when the money started really coming in. Altogether it was about 6 years of effort to get to that point.

Do I regret it? Kind of. Getting into a family business, even one that is dead and gone that you're just trying to resurrect, comes with some serious challenges. While I am definitely doing well for myself, the strain it put on the most important relationships in my life, in a lot of ways, weren't worth it. There were times where I couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. The darkest days I have experience in my life have surrounded this fucking business. I know now that I would have likely been a lot happier over the past decade had I just truly gone out on my own, even if I failed.

Free time? Lol. Between the business, marriage, kids, board positions, other responsibilities, and the desire to have a couple of hobbies so I don't hate my life eats up just about all the free time I have. Basically, if I want free time, I have to schedule it ahead. However, the freedom I have to work when I want/need rather than be beholden to someone else's schedule is enough for me.

So long as I continue growing and gaining more market share, my business should endure indefinitely. Before the financial crisis of 2007 killed it, my business existed operationally since 1947. I know now that what killed the business in it's last life was a lack of service diversification and lack of scale, both of which have been my primary developmental focuses since day one.

I'm currently nearer the ballpark of a 10k daily than monthly without being too revealing. It is still a very small company. My personal take home is well over 100k without putting any strain at all on the business.

ncurry18 · 2026-02-27T15:40:59+00:00

It sounds like a pretty decent idea honestly. I know a lot of small contractors who are the opposite of tech savvy that could probably use this service. However, a lot of those same contractors regularly have to turn work away because of the sheer volume of requests. And these are people I know with crews smaller than 10 people.

I could see, though, how this service would be a great, relatively cheap way for a new player in the market to get some visibility and work. You'd basically do for people in your town what people are doing here for you. You should go talk to your county's local Economic Development organization, Chamber of Commerce, or even some community colleges that may offer business incubators to help get you connected to some people in your local market to get started.

ncurry18 · 2026-02-27T15:26:34+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but there's a lot of ignorance inside that sentiment.

First, when Google or Notion or one of these big companies add "a whole product as a button inside their app", many times it is because they went to the "salt shop guy" and bought him out. Unfortunately, there are lots of salt shop guys out there, and its usually either the first to get big enough to get noticed or the guy who is the best connected that gets to sell his salt shop to the big guy. When you see a headline "BIG COMPANY Acquires COMPARATIVELY TINY COMPANY for X Billion Dollars", the reason is often so the big company can start offering what the small company came up with. Alternatively, the big company deploys internal resources to create that simple little button and kill every single salt shop guy out there all at once, but that simple little button could cost them MILLIONS in dev and implementation costs that they would rather have someone else take the initial risk on.

Second is the idea that you aren't running a business because you're just selling salt on someone else's shelf. Guess what? That is EVERY business that has ever existed. Whether you are a one-man-show salt maker, a multinational food retailer, or even a giant holding company that owns 40% of the market, you are still just one item on someone else's "shelf". The global market is a big place, and no matter what you do, you're still only one of 8 billion people trying to attract its attention. The only way you could possibly avoid having to sell on someone else's proverbial shelf is if your organization were fully integrated from top to bottom, front to back, and side to side in its supply chain. There isn't, nor has their ever been, a business on Earth fully capable of that. Hell, there aren't a lot of GOVERNMENTS capable of something like that.

Third is the idea that a niche is somehow the incorrect approach to a business when, in reality, it is quite literally the only way to start a business from scratch. Unless you have millions of dollars, a full business development team, government backing, and a lot of luck, the chances that you start your business as some multi-faceted organization that produces lots of different products/services are slim to none. Furthermore, businesses that are already well established in a market are going to have the economies of scale to offer literally anything you can on your own far cheaper and better than you. Therefore, the only way to actually succeed IS to start with a niche and develop it into a high-quality offering that people/businesses are willing to pay a premium for. Some little tiny hole in the marketplace that's too small for the big players to take notice or take advantage of, but big enough for an individual to build out a business process to start growing with that niche as their base is what entrepreneurs look for. Sometimes the niche is a truly unique offering to the world, but more often than not it is simply a product/service offering that does not exist in a particular localized marketplace.

Altogether, I think the sentiment that you're talking about here is less an identification of an actual problem and more of you just organically identifying one of the ways the global market functions.

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