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  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • Yeah, but they're not charging people extra for parts they're calling tarmac or ramps, and literally no one knows that tarmac is the material used. On the other hand, people know what a window is, and are willing to pay more to sit next to one.

  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • Seat selection, and it seems like every other friggin extra airline fee in the US, seems to be based on how full the flight is and how much people are willing to pay for it. 90% sure they are experimenting with it to the point where that fee will change just by refreshing the page and they likely have everything from $5-$200 'upgrade' fees based on what they've found they can get away with. Hell, I'm surprised they haven't started auctioning the seats while waiting to board. Maybe just typing this was a bad idea.

  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • I would argue the other way. Not all airplanes have this, and unless you fly a lot you may not come across it, and if you do happen to notice, there's no reason to immediately assume that they would necessarily call them window seats. Lots of industries have 'common parlance' that many of their customers may not run into until it causes an issue, and blaming the confusion on the customer is unfair.

    If anything, they should lose the case and be forced to modify their terminology to something like 'window side' seating or something. I mean you could easily argue that a 'window' seat doesn't necessarily give you a great view because it's over the wing or something, but to call it a window seat when it has no window is close to calling a hotel room a 'queen bed room' and then getting there and there's no bed, and claiming it's the same size as a room they would normally put a queen bed in. I mean what are you paying extra for if you pick a fake window seat? Maybe not having someone to the wall side of you, but at bare minimum they should be liable for charging extra while neglecting to mention it's a window seat with no window.

    If nothing else, if you think a 'window seat with no window' seems like an odd phrase, and not an obvious thing sometime should say, then it's not being pedantic to call this out.

  • Dems are suddenly very serious about retaking the Senate

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  • Just remember that Trump dying would set off an internal power struggle. Nobody likes or give a shit who or what Vance supports, so he would have precisely fuck-all a far as pull in down ballot elections. For whatever reason, the base will slobber over every word trump blurts out so any dissent is crippling in a Republican, that would disappear and every Republican worth the title of 'politician' would take advantage of a Vance leadership as a once in a lifetime opportunity out-Trump the competition, but without the centralizing firehose of bullshit trump has been able to use to distract from issues as they come up. Right now trump is able to distract from almost literally any topic by being a force to deal with immediately as he sets other fires to deal with. Vance will have the position, butwon't have that talent and by virtue of their position no other GOP personality will have the power.

    Basically don't stop looking forward to a least bad outcome like natural causes.

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • Funny thing is even that number would be based on all the people who can pay 20 but not 800. If it all has to be balanced by the users it would probably be an order of magnitude.... Or the market would play like it logically should and it would be like 3 companies paying a million a month. But what would they do with it? Sell it at a loss for like 20 per user and hope they figure out some way to make money :)

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  • Probability manipulation seems like just being able to transfer your consciousness into whatever multiverse contains the outcome you prefer. All the other versions of you still experience all the bad outcomes, but you get to surf through your best guess at the ideal one.

  • Trump Baffled That Dems Aren’t Caving to His Demands

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  • Well, no one has ever said no to him and 'really' meant it, or could withstand the frivolous lawsuits he brought against them. All the other times didn't really happen. One imagines anything that doesn't match his own warped sense of reality fades very quickly in his mind. The parts of the story where he isn't the big strong guy are quickly rewritten by the people surrounding him, and they never print out headlines or pictures to remind him about that sort of thing.

  • Trump Baffled That Dems Aren’t Caving to His Demands

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  • But it is, by definition, America. Just because some parts of the brain are firing like normal, if the end result is punching yourself in the face and screaming that you're not going to stop until your ex wife releases the aliens in her trunk, you're still insane. America (speaking as an American, so I think it's fair) is well off the tracks.

  • Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results

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  • That is sad in both directions. You'd think coming to and realizing you are a pathetic piece of shit should be some kind of punishment, but then you realize he would probably still get his sadistic pleasure out of remembering all the bodies he stepped on to get to where he is now.

    Really that's the whole story, in that the world he lives in genuinely rewards greed and disgusting behavior, it's just that most people have some sense or realization of the shame it involves to get there, and he's just not equipped with the self reflection it takes for that shame to do anything.

  • Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results

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  • When you use those statistics you should be careful to consider what the averages mean. Most people didn't die around age 35 back in the 1700s, it's just that childhood mortality was so high that it skews the average. 'If' you lived past 5 years old, you were likely to have at least a comparable lifespan to today, even if it wasn't necessarily 70-80s.

  • Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results

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  • Maybe, and it's hard to give up something you have than it is to block something. The restriction that you have to be at least 35 is basically the exact same thing.

    The real issue is that someone with Aimee skin in the game, rather than someone just looking forward to retirement is way harder for the string outlets to control.

  • Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You’re Not At Work

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  • Maybe that's office wouldn't even use teams, or maybe Carol in that office wouldn't be helped.

  • Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You’re Not At Work

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  • Then why was your question suggesting Carol isn't getting any information she can't get by looking around the office? You literally work in a group that your rhetorical question doesn't even work in? It's almost like you were being intentionally obtuse?

  • Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You’re Not At Work

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  • From your question can i assume you've only been part of a group that works within a single room/building/city/country?

    Seems like a lot of the incredulous 'why would anyone care about x' type responses to these kinds of things are from people who just don't happen to personally be in the situation that they apply to, or even realize people could possibly experience something different than they do themselves.

  • Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You’re Not At Work

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  • I think you nearly overestimate the skills and infrastructure at a company. Sure someone already knows, but a built in teams feature that dumbs it down enough for Carol to trivially see something new to bitch about is never a good thing.

  • I'm in danger

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  • It's never lupus, but lupus is never ruled out.

  • I'm in danger

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  • He prescribes ibuprofen. You have a one in a billion allergy to one of the normally inert binders in the pill. You don't tell him the entire truth about why you missed one of the questions on a quiz you got in second grade. He has to perform an exploratory ear amputation and reattachment to treat for potential parasites which is inconclusive but the way the stitches fit so precisely hints towards a plasticization effect which can only be lupus or thermogenic pulmerization of the t-cells exacerbated by stress induced by cheating, which is why you missed the question in second grade..... You actually knew the answer but cheated off your friend who had the wrong answer the whole time!

  • It's not?

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  • Then your second thought was the wrong one

  • rant

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  • Can't help, except to say i know what it's like to feel helpless and it does suck. Can't even say it will get better, but if it gets worse, consider finding someone else to help. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, or big brother program. Sometimes the only way out is to get out of your own head and see some good.