Depends what you’re after, really. If you want absolutely no extras, economy at budget airline is probably fine.

I’ve flown enough to prefer the “normal” airlines for what is included: yes, I need to bring a carry-on. And yes, I have checked luggage in addition to that. Sometimes several. And some of them are often heavy as fuck. No extra charge at a normal airline.

At a budget airline, anything beyond getting you and only you from A to B is an extra, and extra services carry a cost. And I absolutely detest the paperwork involved in filing an expense claim.

Also, when I’m flying I’m either flying to work and want to arrive well rested, or I’m finally on my way home and can finally unwind. For these reasons I prefer to chill in a lounge during my connection, and/or upgrade to business class on the longer flights. Budget airlines usually don’t have any of those as an option.

As far as I can recall, I haven’t been left to fend for myself by a budget airline delay cancelation, at least not to a significant degree. But whenever something unexpected happens with the normal airline happens it seems they always have a good routine in place to make sure everything is taken care of, including rebooking, sorting out any connection complications, overnight stay at a proper hotel. Previous time this happened I got to pick any flight the following day that worked with my schedule, as opposed to being shoved into an early and really inconvenient one.

Years ago, my mate and I stole one, took it into the forest, and used it as a grill during the summer. Which alignment does that make us?

Never. Because I don’t drink tea.

However, the ones in my household who do use an electric kettle. I’ve never seen them use the machine crowave for tea.

Sacrifice is an amazing game. Extremely original gameplay.

I for one would definitely download a car, if I did not already own one I really like.

I’d happily let’s others download mine, if it didn’t affect me or my car in any way.

They both exploit desperate people for profit, but one of them is honest about doing so. The other one is just misery porn camouflaged as therapy.

My only connection with the state is Mobile. I quite like the city, but I doubt it’s very representative for the rest of the state.

Went there for a work related assignment regarding a ship that was visiting a dry dock there. The ship was delayed by a few days, so I spent some time just checking out the city.

Does Pulse count? If not, I’m having a hard time choosing between The Wall, Division Bell, and DSOTM

My Knightmares come true

I can still do this provided that the language is Perl. But the few cases when I actually have to do so are rare, and never in public.

Obligatory: Source?

No. I am convinced that dreams are brain training towards scenarios that may or may not become relevant one day.

Last night I dreamt about being at an airport, unsure about where and when my connecting flight was. Surprisingly realistic, considering how often I fly, but unrealistic in the sense that I always k ow this beforehand and always carry with me a small paper note listing the following:

• Flight number
• When
• From-To
• Estimated landing time
• Booking code

The Mandalorian.

Succession.

Chess, mostly

Simplified: It’s a crystal ball that allows you to see through space. However, the target can see you back.

Think of it like one of those crying balls from the Disney movies. Or a two-way-camera setup.

Can’t wait for some dork with a python script to figure out that the god password for Palantir is “StudMuffin1234” and dump everything online, thus making the two-way aspect a reality…

I think the only “required” one on your list is Instance: It’s one out of many servers. Lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.

I find it useful to think of it topologically like an IRC server, if you’re familiar with how those work; many of them connect and share content - You’re on an instance/server, but can interact with users and content from different ones.

The rest are more oriented towards Linux, servers (in general), and aren’t really required for Lemmy use in general.

This is where I started to explain what a codebase fork is, but then I realized that I fucking hate typing on my phone.

If it’s urgent, I go down there. If not, I schedule an appointment (how soon usually depends on the severity. Can be the next day, or the next week).

Example: My oldest kid (12 years old) fractured his arm while in school last spring. I was notified right away, so I’ll picked him up at school and took him to the local clinic (3 minutes away) . The doctor wanted some xrays done, so he referred him to the local hospital and gave him some painkillers for the one hour trip (we live kind of in the middle of nowhere).

We arrived at the ICU (it was after “office hours”), so we had to wait 30 minutes for the x-ray tech to be available. Turned out a titanium rod insert was needed, which requires anesthesia, so they couldn’t do it the same day because of fasting requirements. Operation “scheduled” for the next day. He was given a temporary cast.

Day arrived, and while there was a bit of wait since it was something they’d just have to insert into the schedule for the day whenever possible. Surgery went according to plan, and he was given a sandwich upon waking up, as he hadn’t eaten since the day before. He had a new cast on that he had to keep for a couple of weeks. The local clinic could remove it, but they wanted to do it at the hospital so they could do a follow up xray to see that it was healing properly.

A few weeks later, and things looked good. Cast removed.

A couple of months ago he had the titanium rod removed without much ado.

My only expense was the fuel cost for driving to the hospital.

Depends on how you define “opposite”. I’m thinking direct democracy or anarchy.

No use for me. DHS and probably every other three letter agency in the US have my prints, name, and picture on file after getting various work visas a while back.

Yup. In addition to the above, “When I spend a Saturday evening adding a shitty perl hack to fix a critical system flaw in production”, it can be illustrated by a UN emergency food drop. It may be 99% rice, but it’ll keep you from starving and it’ll have to do for now.