That’s kind of the idea though.

They don’t exactly advertise that they’re doing a bad thing.

I have my reservations about the tree planting thing. I forget the specifics about it from the material I’ve seen.

IIRC it’s half right? I forget why. It’s been a while.

I approve.

(un) related fun fact: you can make up your own title in most countries.

The only titles you can’t use, are those that would imply that you have authority or qualifications that you do not.

Since being a “Lord” is basically meaningless in North America, you can literally just… Call yourself a Lord. No payment required.

But you can’t go around saying you’re a doctor, or a veteran of any kind, or something like that… That shit will get you in trouble.

I believe that this is one of the core scammers in this whole scheme.

There’s whole documentary style videos on it, how it’s a scam, and that they’re largely just pocketing the money.

But if it makes you happy to have paid $100 for a piece of paper that says Lord/Lady (your name here), then I don’t see why you would care, if that’s what you are getting from it.

I had to scroll way too far to see a single fucking comment taking about how fucking shit everything is. You’re the lucky commenter.

Everyone else talking about the merits (or lack thereof) of speeding, missing the whole point.

I’m with you my friend. This shit is fucking tiring.

Everyone in the comments talking about speeding and I’m here like… Yeah, that be my day most days.

We’ve normalized the pain and suffering of modern working life so much that people see this shit and go “oh yeah, speeding is X, y and z” and completely skip over the part where life is a crushing, depressing, and neverending loop of torture.

Yay?

I get you. I mostly didn’t either, I’m also an “elder” millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don’t remember any specific instance where I drank it though.

That’s an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. … Back then, from what I understand, it wasn’t uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there… Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.

I don’t really know, since I wasn’t alive then, and I don’t know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.

Sadly, I’ve had enough experience with phone systems that I do.

Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316

But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the “Belmont” area phone system in order to call it.

Seems like a multi generational issue. I mean, the current generation was taught by someone, and will teach someone the same.

Fascism is not the answer. As a question, the answer should be no.

I don’t. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it’s not, because the challenges change, they don’t go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.

Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.

Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.

When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn’t really a thing either. That’s how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people’s houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I’m not saying that’s entirely a benefit, because it’s not, there’s definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.

You’ll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.

What you don’t know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It’s a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.

IMO, it’s not intended to be tribalism, it’s intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it. I’m sorry that you feel like you’re being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.

It’s AI generated.

This implies that catching fire is easy while in orbit with minimal, if any, atmosphere.

Interesting take.

It depends. What area is the vehicle operating in, what resources are available in the area, both from internal department, intra department, and external/public…

There’s a lot of factors to consider.

I won’t pretend to know what factors got them to that point, but bluntly, it doesn’t really matter. Some set of circumstances created the conditions where such a question needed to be asked.

Procurement for business/government/military (including and especially NASA), is very different than what you would see on a shelf at your local drug store.

The drug store can’t buy a single box of tampons. They have to get an entire case of boxes of tampons. If each box is say, 20 tampons, and there’s more than 5 of those per case, then they’re buying at least 100 tampons so they can get a single box of them.

There’s a lot of alternatives they could have looked into, like neighboring government institutions which may already stock them, asking them to supply a smaller quantity than they would have needed to order, or ordering outside of their typical channels and sending the intern down the road to buy a box from the nearest pharmacy… Those things wouldn’t really get accounted for in their budgeting though… So they would prefer to order through their normal distribution.

It’s a funny comment to make to Ride, “is 100 enough?” And I’m sure everyone had a good chuckle.

Regardless they probably didn’t see another good option for ordering other than to just buy a case of them and figure out the rest later.

I prefer my backup plans to include “halt and catch fire”

This must be new because I have been first aid trained since I was 5… I spent many recent years without renewing my certification, and I’ve heard of FAST, I’ve never heard of VAN, either independently or as an addition to fast.

I just want to point out that you shouldn’t forget those behind you. As soon as you can fan out and get out of the way of the people behind you, the faster those people move, and the faster the people behind them reach the door.

A huge part of this problem is that when people get to the bottle neck that’s slowing everyone down and making everyone go single file, people take their time getting through it. That’s exactly when you need to hurry up and get the fuck out of the way.

It only takes a couple of people to waddle slowly off the plane to set everyone else up to wait several minutes before they can reach the front. And the problem is compounding.

So, what I’m saying here is, stay the fuck out of the way when you’re not engaging in the activity of walking off the plane. If you’re packing shit up, pulling out your luggage, putting on a sweater or backpack, stand in an isle and let everyone past while you fumble around. When you get off the plane don’t stop and stretch and stare at the lights or whatever, move to the side or keep moving at a brisk pace away from the door until you get into a clearing where people can easily move around you.

None of this will make deplaneing fast, but the focus is on not making any slower than it has to be.

Maybe. But in my experience, the most valuable team members are not the ones with the experience, but the ones that are curious and resourceful.

Lol. I think it’s more likely that I’ll win the lottery than users RTFM enough for me to worry about my job.

It’s just a funny thought that any of them would try.