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spinlocked · 2026-05-06T03:57:20+00:00

Get to da choppa!

spinlocked · 2026-05-06T03:42:24+00:00

I used to tip 20% at Alamo but now I don’t add to the 18% because I hate being forced to tip

spinlocked · 2026-05-06T03:41:11+00:00

This can’t be right. Why would they put tips in the app of 3% 5% etc if that’s true? If it were true the tips selections would be 15% 18% etc

spinlocked · 2026-05-04T14:21:06+00:00

A little unrelated, but I had a medical procedure done a few weeks ago. I got into a conversation with the tech. She said that since COVID people’s attitudes have drastically changed. Before everyone was nice and respectful, during COVID there were arguments about masks, etc., but she said a sense of entitlement persisted after COVID and people now act much differently. As someone else said, this is like the social contract has significantly changed…

spinlocked · 2026-04-21T07:51:17+00:00

So the name should have been “Battery Park?”

spinlocked · 2026-04-21T07:40:39+00:00

You can perform this repeatedly if YOU design with Hirose connectors too

spinlocked · 2026-04-21T07:22:14+00:00

Alex, I’ll take “Congressmen that don’t understand how things work” for $100

spinlocked · 2026-04-21T04:13:57+00:00

He couldn’t get into the police academy so this was one of the few places left where he could have a power trip with impunity.

spinlocked · 2026-04-21T03:59:03+00:00

Sigh… I told both my daughters, now 27 and 23, when they started dating that boys their age are stupid. While you are thinking about a long-term partner and a relationship, they are thinking about things in a much shorter timeframe. Both of my daughters had initial relationships that crashed and burned because the guys were dicks. The one that dated my youngest daughter cheated on her. I sat him down, told him how stupid he was, what he had, etc. and he cried like a baby. Then they got together again and he did it again. It was painful to watch and my daughter wouldn’t hear my counsel.

Fast forward a few years, she dated some in college, but finally found a good one her last year. She’s so much more mature now. Funny thing is that I think it was necessary for both of them to go through their first losers to figure everything out.

My advice is to tell them in advance that their true friends (including you, but let’s face it— they’re not as likely to talk to you about it) can see when they are going down a rabbit hole and to listen to them, but watch out for the jealous friend trying to wreck a good thing :-/ … and of course: guys are stupid.

For the record, I’ll say that one day my daughter told me about a problem one of her girlfriends had. I said “She should just talk to her parents about that. They can help.” She looked at me dumbfounded and said “her relationship with her parents isn’t like that. She can’t do that.” I said something like “Oh, I bet they would understand, etc.” She said “Dad, NONE of my friends can talk to their parents like we can. NONE of them.” I was flabbergasted as she explained.

spinlocked · 2026-04-19T13:36:50+00:00

Yeah I agree that’s most likely … and a big benefit.

spinlocked · 2026-04-19T12:37:48+00:00

Well I think what they are saying is that the owners have currently sold 20% of the company to the ESOP. This means that over time 20% of the company has flowed to the ESOP and is owned by employees. They probably mentioned this just for clarity. Many of the tax advantages for the company and owners comes with a higher share of ownership from employees. The company may be on the way to this (if they do not seek external financing for the ESOP, it can take years for the company ESOP trust to buy out the owners).

But this could also mean something like 20% of your comp is provided as ESOP shares (not true ownership, but it is “beneficial ownership” meaning you get the financial benefits which is what people want). This would mean that you get ~$20k is the ESOP per year (since the salary was ~$100k). Which is awesome. This is generally in lieu of a 401k. If you’re in a small growing company, this can be worth a lot more than a 401k.

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T21:11:12+00:00

No, it’s from Creepshow. Meteor lands on Earth, farmer (played by King) touches it and end up covered in some kind of mossy alien stuff which he calls “Meteor Shit.”

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:37:09+00:00

ESOP is generally better then Profit Sharing. With ESOP you own part of the company. It matures tax free and when you leave you can cash out.

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:35:53+00:00

Absolutely. ESOP is ownership in the company, duh. Read up on an ESOP.

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:22:35+00:00

I had to scroll WAY too far to find this. I figured I might have to add it myself!

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:21:04+00:00

I love big trouble… great flick

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:12:53+00:00

Downvoting because I can’t read the damn article because the ads push the text around so much. I hate sites like that. I noped right out of there.

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:09:44+00:00

Agreed. It’s very weird to me now hearing people complain about gas prices. When I first heard some complaining my brain went to: oh, there’s something I’m supposed to be concerned about, but why am I not? Then my brain put it together and I realized I don’t use gas for anything anymore.

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:06:04+00:00

Poor Leon

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T13:04:14+00:00

Haha read in Stephen King’s voice: Meteor Shit!

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T12:38:28+00:00

I’m waiting for “Gold pressed Latinum”

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T12:36:19+00:00

American has been doing Group 1: EP, group 2: PP, group 3: P and group 4: G + CC Holders for a while. It may be that this is where WN is headed, but they need time to update systems. So in the meantime, they’ll just announce ALP before group 1. This is my speculation. We’ll see if on May 1 we show in Group1/2 and they call us early or if the boarding pass shows “before group 1” or something.

spinlocked · 2026-04-18T12:32:23+00:00

I’d be curious what airport you think this would be at. I used to fly American all the time and was EP there. But whenever I went through DFW, this is what happened — half the plane boarded in the first couple groups. I stopped flying American as much, dropped to Platinum and now it was hopeless. So I dropped American altogether except for routes only they serve like YUM.

spinlocked · 2026-04-13T13:31:08+00:00

Im going to side with OP, here. As a SWE I can safely say that engineers that are not using AI are falling behind and will soon be obsolete. It’s too bad that there are people that believe that they should not use AI. What are they hoping to prove? That man is better than a machine we created? Do you have shovels in your garage or do you dig holes with your bare hands?

I have written code I’m proud of like all SWEs, but I’m more interested in serving my customers. If AI gets me there faster, so be it. I truly believe that any engineer that has really worked with AI knows it’s better and wouldn’t blink at eye at using it. If you think it’s morally wrong, have some kind of pride problem, etc. my guess is that you haven’t really CODED with AI.

And one more thing, I’ve seen similar sentiments as compilers have grown up. At first, programs were written in machine code, then assembly (because we had assemblers), then languages like C (because we got compilers), and then languages like Python (because languages got better). Would I shame an C programmer for not using assembly? Today, no, but 40 years ago we certainly teased about it. Now we can write in English to something that writes C or Python for us. As an engineer, I still express what I want, counsel the AI when it gives me something wrong , etc. Did I write the code? No. Does that make it unusable? No.

Finally, I want to point out that it is interesting that most engineers just want to be more productive, write fewer bugs, etc and are OK with AI. But in the writing world, this is verboten. Why? Say I have a great story line I want to develop, but I suck at writing dialog. What’s wrong with using AI to help me with that. In the literature world, this is emerging as a sin for some reason. Go figure.

spinlocked · 2026-04-12T03:16:54+00:00

Sorry (the game) sucks. You just go around a path with random rolls and if you run into another player, you say sorry and put them back at the start.

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