lmao… nooo… you keep that up there!! 
Little too busy to even notice the weather atm @anon70102222… 
busy is good tho 
about to get a few shipments out and heading out the door!
It does seem like an odd winter here… we had snow, it didn’t stick or stay… just wacky weather!
Stay warm and dry! 
Consider this:
Those super rich make all the rest believe that they live in the greatest country ever and that there’s nothing better than capitalism. Those 1% won’t stone you, they have the 99% in their pocket to do the dirty work for them.
Today, if you mention this, people will scold you for being a socialist, a marxist, a communist. They’ll boo you, stone you, bury you in a shallow grave and get back to their double shift jobs and 2 weeks yearly vacation. Now they’re all trying to make everyone believe that we have to work longer and longer because there’s no money left for pensions… of course not, all the money that was there is now going in their pockets and they’re always finding new ways to pay less and less taxes while the burden is always shifted to the ones that have nothing to begin with.
That distorted view is what I hate. Wake up people! If you let corporations pay their fair share, if you let the rich pay their fair share, if you fight for equality in pay, higher minimum wages, better workers rights, proper/free education, workable pensions, free health care… you’re talking about basic human rights, not luxuries that people shouldn’t take for granted and it doesn’t mean that you’ll go down in history as another failed communist country.
Too many people keep singing the rich people’s songs / slogans and stopping any progress. If you want to live in a better world, this has to change and that means change all of us, change who we vote for. Vote for Trump, vote for Bojo, vote for Putin, vote for all the big names you see in the news all of the time and you’re voting for those rich people that keep ripping you off and toying with you like you don’t know. Those rich people, those 1% … they still want to make you think you’re better, you live in a better country and you do believe them. We all know how our average westerners look at others who have it even worse. Just look at the US trying to keep those dirty Mexicans out. Look at the Brits trying to close the border for those nasty immigrants. Look at the EU making deals with Turkey to keep those disgusting criminals from the Middle East and Africa out while countries inside the EU are fighting tooth and nail to keep the ones that do get through out of their own country.
We’re all conditioned to think that way but that’s how the 1% keeps their status and grows their income even more, sowing more division, more inequality and getting more power at the same time.
We are all people with our own qualities. No matter where you’re born, what color your hair is, what you believe, if your parents are rich or poor… every single one of us should have the same opportunities in life. We should all be able to drink clean water and get proper education, and get treatment if we get sick without going bankrupt and not have to fear that some foreign country is going to drop a bomb on our house in the middle of the night or that we suddenly can’t get medication or food anymore because some rich politicians have different views and one puts a stranglehold on the other for the fun of it. It is creating divisions, hate and violence but it’s so much better for their own power and wallets than building bridges and fight for peace and prosperity.
Every time you can vote you have that opportunity, yet every time you vote for it to get worse 
(of course I don’t mean you personally but people in general, everywhere)
The truth is, I don’t think so … Any vote will always be within this system … We are sold to banks and markets … When the votes do not like them, they do whatever it takes to correct it to their liking … (Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya …) Here too, in Barcelona we were beaten for going to vote!
Sadly, that’s a bit naive, as well as oversimplified.
The core of the problem has been far deeper than that for sometime.
When politicians at that level have the ability to vote their own pay raises (and have done so) and benefits, and manipulate term limits… Without approval by the general population (by a national vote) they profess to serve… There’s bigger problems.
These issues (among many others, including financial lobbying, and campaign financing) need to be addressed before I’ll have any hope of having leveled the playing field enough in which to begin to be able to ‘drag the waters’ and then “drain the swamp”.
Once that’s done, then perhaps there will be an opportunity for meaningful and long lasting change.
But simply placing your vote (as you suggest) does nothing IMO to change the inherit problems of the system as it currently exists.
Please do not confuse this with being commentary on the premise of democracy (or our constitution). Rather, it’s condemnation of the way it’s been abused by those who have not respected the intent of such principles.
The whole system needs to be overhauled to being positions of Public Servants (as was intended). NOT a lifetime of guaranteed income and benefits (including armed security and special privileges).
/goes back to trying to stay out of political issues…
Can we be done with this yet?
OK, ok, … OK. I saw this, and it triggered me. Can you guys sound off on this one, because, it CAN’T just be me here.
Here’s a great jackhole! He was angry that I reclined my seat and punched it about 9 times - HARD, at which point I began videoing him, and he resigned to this behavior. The other jackhole is the
flight attendant who reprimanded me and offered him rum!
A little over the top, perhaps?
Never had these first world problems except for not being able to hear the tv when I’m chomping chips… oh what a world!!!
reminds me of two attention seeking 5 year olds fighting over an old half broken toy that neither of them truly has any interest in… grade school shenanigans lol
gears grinding with hardware
Topside’s (dual AND singles) limited battery door life… such a bittersweet relationship with this friggin device… One more and you could say I have a pile of them, lol… Once the tiny little powdered metal tabs that hold the battery door closed start rounding off (and I have to use a large rubber band to keep it shut) I know I have about ~20 days until other parts start degrading and juice shows up behind the screen, and then the chip craps out a few days after that.
I keep replacing them though 
All about that 21700… otherwise I’d be giving all my lunch money up for that Aegis Squonk. I honestly find it hard to imagine how many times I’d be switching out an 18650 if I average 3-4 swaps with a 21700 as it is… never had a single 18650 squonk mod, and don’t think I ever plan to.
What a great word. A mashup of jackass and asshole that I first heard about 15 years ago, and I still use to this day. 
Whose actions triggered you? 
Having traveled a lot for work and being in that guy’s situation many times, I’ve certainly thought of doing that. However, those seats intentionally recline and the passenger has every right to use that function. He was completely in the wrong. I’d like to say I would have turned around and beat him over the head with anything heavy I could find, but obviously I wouldn’t have. But there would have been words exchanged. Other than his own personal inconvenience there was nothing wrong with her reclining. I do not understand the flight attendant’s response (if it went as she said).
As a simple courtesy, I stopped reclining my seat back many flights ago. I can stand to sit upright 35,000 feet in the air for a little while. Especially in steerage class, it is a bother to have the seat back in front of you recline, but for crap’s sake I don’t own the plane. That guy is a self entitled jackhole. Pay for first class if you need your space that badly.
Exactly my sentiment(s)… been on both sides of that coin, and thus why I actually got out of the habit of reclining my seat on flights as well… Now common sense and/or courtesy lead me to look at the person behind me, and if they’re reclined; I can recline… (#RocketScience)
or ASK if it’s ok that I do so… 99% of people are gonna say yes, and if they change their mind later then the ball’s in their court to make that known.
Seeing the length/degree to which that whole ordeal is being filmed, with head pressed against the back of the seat & earrings bouncing over, and over, and over, and over, and over…
I get a lot of dramatic “instigator” vibes… Rarely have I seen people behave like that for no reason unless mental health was a variable.
Who, in their right mind, invests that much focus and energy into something like that? (and that goes for the both of them)… I don’t think it got to that point simply because she reclined her seat back… (for the record, people used to pay beds to function in a similar way 
)
Either one of them were perfectly capable of behaving in love, and could have taken the high road to mitigate conflict. But instead they both wanted to win, and felt driven to do so by whatever means necessary (steadfast immaturity, IMO)
come to think of it, I think it’s a trick question… I actually feel for all the flight attendants out there!!! Shout out to all those responsible for customer service while locked in confined spaces, for hours at a time, trying to keep everyone happy. 
Here’s to you not having to run a kindergarten at 35,000 feet
That is true. We’re only seeing a portion of the full incident, and from one side. He may have tried to explain that her reclining was interrupting his laptop work or something, and for all we know she then reclined further just to piss him off. But we don’t know. Either way, it did devolve into doggy day care and unfortunately it’s all too common. What we see definitely makes him look really bad regardless.
That’s exactly what I had though, mainly when he “whispered” to her… it very much seemed to be a response/addition to prior communication… Indeed it is mostly conjecture… just painting a picture of her demeanor based on a refined and enjoyed vernacular such as “Jackhole”, and stating it almost like she is on a mission to find “the best one”… (hostility has a knack for finding those of like mind)
Why would she be in a position to be reprimanded unless she crossed lines herself? How is a flight attendant going to reprimand a patron for reclining their seat?
…honestly, “OG Steelers Fan” says a lot in itself
All jokes aside lol, if you go to her account and read further on the matter and put together the pieces from her own various admissions, it becomes pretty obvious how it got so carried away; e.g.- 2 hour flight time, the attendant sharing “etiquette” and courtesies regarding reclined seats, and even spilled drinks, etc… I don’t think it’s a coincidence she wasn’t recording prior to that moment.
It’s gone from “look at these jackholes” to “pain and suffering” and “american airlines should compensate”… Seems like dude punching seats has all but been forgotten.
Our government love to say that vaping nicotine is not legal in Australia because .
The real reason is the $$$$$$$ our government are more addicted to the tax that they collect from smokers than the smokers are to tobacco.
They really couldn’t give a shit about the smokers who die so they can deliver a surplus budget.
Why should we expect anything less from these grubs that were voted in to represent all of us - INCLUDING SMOKERS
Yep, 12.5% increase on tobacco products each year - last 50gram (@1.76oz) pouch we bought was $75 two years ago. I reckon it’d be about $90+ now.
So expensive!!
You know - even if vaping wasn’t safer than smoking, I probably still would’ve switched - couldnt afford that - or would I, as others still do, sacrifice other things to support my smoking habit 
Yeah I heard the other day that white ox was about $100.
No wonder there are so many people picking up ciggie butts off the ground at work. Heaps more than 10 years ago.
Eeww, that’s gross - I mean I get it, i’ve done it - but makes me mad that they have to!