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Currently about to take off on an AA flight and I was forced to check my carryon. The barcode printer was not working and I have a layover, so the flight attendant wrote my next flight, final destination, and my name by hand onto the baggage tag. I will update the post when I arrive at the final destination. Currently I have 0 confidence it will arrive at my final destination.

Not sure if anyone else noticed but T-mobile used to work fantastic for me here in Brownsville but recently I feel like it’s been a lot slower. When driving around having more trouble loading maps or music.

As someone who grew up from an academic family background, I have thought much about the quality of professors. Now working in industry as an engineer often needing to explain what I am doing to stakeholders and upper-leadership, I have found that one's ability to explain things to others is a skill with a HUGE variance: some people have the ability to explain and highlight what are the important takeaways and what are details. So how do we measure this for professors: which professors bring value to students and which professors are setting students up for long-term failure? One way is through ratemyprofessor.com, but we all know that this biases heavily toward

There was no logical reason to have a live broadcast and say “you have no cards to play” in such a public manner. Except for one. It united Europe and just about everyone else with Zelenskyy. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it is a very standard “unite everyone against the bad guy” technique. Trump was just so over the top being an asshole disrupting everything Zelenskyy was saying… He is a businessman who understands how to deal with people, and this is his last administration which means he really doesn’t have to care about public perception (and frankly never really has). I suppose also, sometimes the reason might not be to serve in the best interest of the people, but I refuse to beli

Recently an asteroid was discovered with 1% chance of hitting Earth. Where does the variance come from: is it solar wind variance or is it our detection methods?

Let’s start right off the bat: yes it will hurt your typical middle class worker. From the left-wing base they are the most powerful, which is why there is uproar.

However, by removing illegal immigrants, the poor will have less competition for jobs. They will gain higher wages thereby decreasing the poverty rate. Simultaneously, infusing tech workers with H1B will speed up the process of automation, R&D thereby making the United States a better, more efficient country as a whole and slowly eliminating the need for blue collar jobs that pay $10 an hour. Combined, they create the incentives to lift everyone in the United States up. Yes, the rich will become richer, but so will the United St

Or do I just have split personality disorder…

The hat, the spooky music, and when you leave the car at the end, it asks you not to forget your potions and to "stay spooky". It was really a fully immersive Halloween themed ride.

OK maybe I'm dumb or entirely financially illiterate. I have always filed taxes (federal and state) via TurboTax, and nobody has ever told me about local taxes (or that the state doesn't just collect for the local -- I have always thought municipals operate with property taxes): not when I rented a place to live, not when I got my paycheque (like with W-2's), not when I got my license at the DMV or when I registered to vote. And then I got slapped by one of these tax collection agency for tax owed since 2021, which means I haven't paid local taxes for like 2 year: [https://dced.pa.gov/local-government/local-income-tax-information/local-income-tax-collector-2/](https://dced.pa.gov/local-gover