Highly recommend checking out Vintage Recipes on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/JhWD8WWWzXQ

The whole thing was pretty damn good all the way through. The only thing that had me wondering was

Tea

Until it got to

SpillTea

Well played.

My brother works ATC at one of the busiest airports in the country. While forced retirement is at 55, an informal poll of his coworkers that he and his buddies did this week revealed that nearly all of them are planning to take early retirement at 50.

They mapped it out and 80% of the facility will be retiring by 2030. To account for this, his facility alone will need to hire nearly 100 controllers. I asked him how many controllers they’ve hired recently. He said 2 since 2022.

We’re fucked.

Just goes to show, Trump is not the cause of the disease, he’s a symptom. Trump could be Luigied tomorrow and the problems with the Republican party wouldn’t disappear. They are completely owned by billionaires.

“I don’t like Trump’s flirting with Putin," said 49-year-old Fedir Logvynenko. “I don’t quite understand whether it’s from great intelligence or from complete incompetence.”

Hate to break it to you, but it’s pretty obviously the latter.

This may very well be the weirdest comment I’ve ever upvoted

And at those BBQs, they’re gonna fix you a bomb ass plate of some awesome meat that they’ve been working on for hours.

I heard that is the most likely scenario, but I don’t know if I’d say it’s the “best” scenario. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to see criminals prosecuted for their crimes.

Just wanted to point out a minor detail. Thank God these morons were not dumb enough to fire actual ATCs. These firings were for non-ATC positions at the FAA.

Still really important positions like people who do shit like maintain critical systems (who needs radar? lol) but at least they haven’t fucked with ATC numbers yet. Someone must have told President Musk that would cause the collapse of an already fragile system

This whole thing is giving me serious Front Fell Off vibes.

Oddly enough, on my first development project I was paired with a “senior dev” who turned out just to be a guy in his 60s who had never actually coded before, so… just a senior.

I ended up doing 100% of the coding, but the guy managed to keep his job for a few months.

At least he had the good sense to hit the ENTER key before he passed.

Isn’t it crazy that basically every election at this point is basically like:

• Option 1) We keep the status quo, nothing really changes.
• Option 2) We burn it all down to the ground. Not to rebuild something better, but just for the hell of it.

That’s dope as hell!

This is a bit of the classic “both sides being the same” argument. The first article you linked even calls it out.

In the Fox case, Carlson was presenting his own narrative, not even one extrapolating from known facts.

Maddow was like “hey this journalist is working for Putin and writing for OAN. OAN is Russian propaganda.” When in reality, the journalist in question wrote for Sputnik News, which is affiliated with the Russian government. Granted it is a bit of a stretch to say all of OAN is Russian propaganda.

Carlson, on the other hand, just completely made up a story about Karen McDougal blackmailing Trump. A completely made up story.

So yeah, I wouldn’t go saying both sides are the same here.

How you gonna say that and not post a pic?

All I know is he was at my place that night, so couldn’t have been him.

Well that certainly doesn’t sound consensual.

Oh is that what that Cancel button is for?

I think the thing that’s catching you up the most is that you’re assuming Elon has the slightest clue what he’s talking about about. In your mind, you’ve read the words “the social security database” from his post and have made assumptions about what that means.

I’ve worked with databases for 20+ years, several of those being years working on federal government systems. Each agency has dozens or possibly hundreds of databases all used for different purposes. Saying “the social security database” is so fucking general that it’s basically nonsensical. It’d be like saying “Ford’s car database”.

Elon clearly heard someone technical talking about something, then misinterpreted it for his own purposes to justify what he is doing by destroying our government institutions. His follow up of saying the government doesn’t use SQL just reinforces that point.

Trying to logically backtrack into what he actually meant - and what the primary keys should be - is just sane washing an insane statement.