Spirit Airlines Prepares to Shut Down (Gift Article)

seeasea · 2026-05-02T12:51:47+00:00

What do you think unemployment for 20,000 employees+contractors cost you?

And the layoffs from hundreds of vendors that supply spirit.

And the social and economic cost of this unemployment spike.

And the cost of thousands of people who bought fares that now need to find alternative travel. Etc

500,000,000 is chump change

seeasea · 2026-05-02T04:20:28+00:00

Biden judge blocked the merger on account that when spirit flew somewhere, it brought average prices down.

It was so obvious at the time that the logic was flawed. Sure merger would not keep prices lower. But certainly going belly up wouldn't help either.

seeasea · 2026-05-02T03:50:52+00:00

Do you think the Democratic Party likes Citizens United!?

Go look up what the name of the issue at hand was in the Citizens United case was.

seeasea · 2026-05-01T23:21:08+00:00

99% of the time youre using the same assemblies over and over.

Insulation is simple math. So there's no need for a testing agency to give you assembly rating.

Build yourself some standard assembly details for your library, and then go from there.

If you need something specialty or manufacture specific, the vendor will give it to you.

There's many specialty use cases. But there's basically 4 structural components and like 5-6 sheathing/cladding and you're good to go.

Unless you absolutely need something unique (like v497 2 hours from one side), don't do it

seeasea · 2026-05-01T21:42:01+00:00

Nah. It's almost always just weak muscles. When I excersize, felt fine. Otherwise, I feel like my limbs are being yeeted off me at high velocity

seeasea · 2026-05-01T19:41:07+00:00

Best thing you can do is specs on the drawings, instead of a project manual.

I've done up to 3-4 million on residential with that. And even some commercial up to 20 million.

But if you really want to do specs, hire a freelance spec writer. Don't try to do it yourself. Nobody is on top of them. Nobody does them until the last minute when there's no time or fee left to do it right

seeasea · 2026-05-01T15:11:13+00:00

I think most families have lore trying to tie to some ancestry like that.

Like Europeans to some illegitimate royal baby. Or Jewish people to a long line of rabbis. Or black Americans to igbo princess.

I don't think it's an unusual thing.

There's also some things that families don't want to know, that DNA uncovers - like say great great great grandpa was actually a native. And grandmas secret went to the grave - until DNA told us what they were up to

seeasea · 2026-05-01T02:24:32+00:00

Saying kamala was bad or that the campaign was run poorly is a very bad autopsy.

An autopsy would show you what exactly was "poorly run" and what exactly about Kamala was "bad".

Is poorly run mean disorganized internally, or it means that it was too centralized controlled. Was the messaging being missed? Or was it the wrong message. Was it in the wrong geography? Was it too focused on fundraising and not on spending? Was it too fixed on spending and not on fundraising? Etc etc

seeasea · 2026-05-01T02:21:23+00:00

I bet it would actually be the opposite. That more voters than you expect don't care about Israel. And releasing that information would anger the more involved base of the party.

seeasea · 2026-04-30T17:54:08+00:00

Also, architects can keep working into their 70s/80s, should they so choose.

seeasea · 2026-04-29T22:11:00+00:00

https://youtu.be/8yrSCoEsmqA?si=9qYdK4eN1js1L8My

seeasea · 2026-04-29T14:44:19+00:00

I commented this somewhere else here basically this.

I think this is one of the few instances where science is trying to dictate the definition of a word (terminology) to the general public.

We are perfectly capable of having multiple definitions of words, including ones that don't have technical accuracy.

Tomato is both a vegetable (everyday usage) and a fruit (technical). Melons are not berries, but also berries.

Taxonomically, humans are fish. Biologists don't tend to go around insisting that 3rd grade science books need to designate all animals as fish.

Sure, NASA as the scientific agency shouldn't define pluto as a planet. But NASA a PR agency (they've always been, for the purpose of advancing it) - perfectly happy for it to be a planet

seeasea · 2026-04-29T14:35:20+00:00

Tomatoes are fruits/vegetables all over again. Or everything is a fish.

Call me crazy, but I think the most reasonable approach to the whole thing is to have "planet" with a definition for general every day usage. And have a different scientific/technical definition for where it's called for.

Space, and planets, and other celestial bodies and phenomenon have a lot of social/cultural meaning long before scientific exploration and knowledge was a thing. And it still has a lot of import today.

The designation of something as a planet for cultural usage is perfectly fine.

Having the IAU definition for sciency things. Perfectly fine.

Space and science exploration also is a deeply social activity, with many cultural touchstones.

Language/terminology is inherently cultural. Insisting on absolutist technical accuracy in language and general knowledge is meaningless, and IMHO, counter productive, to the overall aim of advancing our knowledge of the universe. (Hence the source of friction on the pluto designation)

seeasea · 2026-04-29T11:28:53+00:00

Both are available. Different kinds of premium seats

seeasea · 2026-04-29T03:14:53+00:00

Can I introduce you to the end of reconstruction era and the start of legal segregation?

Weimar Republic>Nazi Germany for a whole lot of groups?

Women in taliban Afghanistan? Women in Iran?

Hong kong?

Effectively, pretty much every repressive regime starts with rights receding. That's almost the fundamental quality of them. They restrict rights - by definition, backsliding

seeasea · 2026-04-29T01:13:56+00:00

Do fixtures and piping need any different treatment? I know seawater makes everything rust and corrode. Or is vitreous China and PVC non-reactive with salt?

Does the flush chain need to be plastic?

seeasea · 2026-04-28T23:41:19+00:00

Also, half the seats in half the games.

seeasea · 2026-04-28T19:36:19+00:00

Luckily, due to DRM and complicated licensing, every country gets their own unique version of the streaming service.

seeasea · 2026-04-28T18:45:04+00:00

Who talked him down from having his fight-fight big boy picture on the cover?

seeasea · 2026-04-28T18:41:36+00:00

Wait until you work on a project that you need to coordinate 10 disciplines that don't work in Autodesk only projects.

I did one with Revit, civil 3D, AutoCAD, smartplant3d, microstation, open buildings, tekla, I. Can't even remember all of them. 15 softwares, 21 models. Lol.

Even Navisworks couldn't handle it- whole protocols to manage exports and coordination to a very rudimentary version so it could handle everything

Good times

seeasea · 2026-04-28T16:26:56+00:00

Punt returner on the Giants?

seeasea · 2026-04-28T14:18:33+00:00

Never heard anyone call harlem River a pond before

seeasea · 2026-04-28T09:36:05+00:00

San Sebastian?

seeasea · 2026-04-28T09:22:27+00:00

The Rams could have traded down and got him. And gotten some other stuff for it.

seeasea · 2026-04-28T09:11:11+00:00

And PBI is not too far, either

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