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    OT: Spirit shutting down?

    Not approving their merger was a really bad (and maybe political) decision. They were in bad financial shape when their bid to merge was denied and it has only become worse as the taste of the traveling public has changed. (And the fact that they ran out of first time flyers) People are...
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    Diego Pavia

    Or it could be a 3 year deal with Ravens.. who knows?
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    This Artemis II is cool and all but I’d like…

    I get why people think the government may have faked the moon landing(s) as there was a geopolitical motive. Of course you would think Russia etc would still be telling us on a daily basis that we lied about it if it were faked? And what? 6 other countries have sent some sort of probe that has...
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    Arkansas Tickets ?

    What exactly goes on at the ticket office in NW Ark?
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    OT: Twitter/Threads "News"

    That didn’t take long .. good lord
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    Ann Archer or Mercedes Rhule

    We went from “Select the slut” to this? Man.. this board has aged.
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    OT: Go fill up

    Man. I am old enough to have been through enough of these sorts of things that it stresses me next to zero. I get why it is spiking, but this too will pass and prolly sooner rather than later.
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    No State income tax for NIL

    Certainly there are no absolutes, but I have a hard time seeing why an entertainer (and that is what they are) should not get taxed while a school teacher does? Does the bill only apply to NIL for college athletes, or could a musical artist that plays in a bar switch their fee to an NIL and be...
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    OT: Southwest Airlines.. I don't know how they're gonna make it after losing all their handicap passengers.

    And one of the precautions is how you board the aircraft. The reason they put a tail stand on a 737 is because of deplaning. If the people in the front deplane quickly, you have just simulated boarding the aft part of the aircraft first and boom, the tail is on the grounds.Sure it is rare...
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    OT: Southwest Airlines.. I don't know how they're gonna make it after losing all their handicap passengers.

    I dint know we were being airline specific, but I can promise you applies to many variants of the 737. If you are talking about WN in particular, I can’t speak how they would “in theory” handle it since they still don’t board back to front. I was speaking more to airlines that have several...
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    OT: Southwest Airlines.. I don't know how they're gonna make it after losing all their handicap passengers.

    A couple of reasons it doesn’t happen. One, many planes would tip on their tail. You might notice sometimes on some stretched aircraft, they actually put a tail stand under it to prevent it from tipping when it deplanes. The airlines have gone through all sorts of tests to see what is the...
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    The most famous person you’ve ever met….

    Jimmy Carter or Bill Murray. JC is probably higher profile, but Bill was awesome.