A month later, and yeah, I can’t go more than a day or so without this making its way back into rotation. Phenomenal all around.

That’s a very kind thing to say. Fair warning though, I am a little bit all over the place.

But by the same token, I am always looking for recommendations so if you think I might like someone based on our Venn, please let me know.

And in my opinion it is his best drumming performance by a bit. So many iconic parts and such Animal from muppets vibe as he pounds the shit out of the drums.

To what?

The last time I listened to this album was definitely on CD so it’s hard to judge between the quality of the format and the quality of the mix but it sounds fantastic.

It sounds incredible.

Any airport in the US is effectively federal property because the TSA does security in all airports, the FAA controls most surface movement and all takeoffs and landings, and in International airports, the CBP controls the port of entry.

And I hate to break it to you but removing the TSA doesn’t mean we revert back to pre 9/11 days. Security at airports is still governed by the Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program which defines the screening requirements, but not necessarily who must complete them.

Trump will be under a lot of pressure from capital not to do this, I suspect, because it would absolutely crater tourism.

Assuming he TACOs, and dems hold strong (sob), I would be looking for one of two scenarios.

Most likely, airports revert to post 9/11-pre TSA setup. Same basic experience, and probably even the same people, but a different uniform. Remember Huntleigh? Argenbright? You may still see these logos on the arms of wheelchair pushers or janitorial staff, but for a long, long time, they operated the checkpoints too. Between maybe the late 80s and up until 9/11, there was still screening but it was much more lax. Basic screening was likely introduced after Pan Am flight 103, and while there were metal detectors and x-rays, anyone could go through, which is what made all the sappy last minute airport reunion scenes possible.

After 9/11, the AOSSP was updated again with much more stringent security requirements, but at first the screening was still done by those vendors - provided at least one specially trained airline representative Ground Security Coordinator was present at the checkpoint. I was a GSC once upon a time, and I don’t think the TSA took over all of the checkpoints until maybe 2005. Though I’m not still current on the AOSSP, I’m fairly certain all of the policy that would enable a complete reversion back to this model is still in place. Airlines at each airport would share the cost of the contract.

Back then, a bunch of Huntleigh Employees suddenly became TSA employees. We might see a bunch of TSA employees become Huntleigh employees.

Or potentially, Trump will split the difference and just make the TSA screeners ICE employees. That’s probably a LITTLE less likely to spook travelers, so it could be a face saving compromise, but more likely he will do something like the first option and spin it as cutting government bloat and a partnership with job creating business leaders.

I mean, look. Who among us, am I right?

One small sense in which I’m proud of my younger self is that I had a similar insight to this around like 11, and pretty much decided then and there that I wasn’t going to pay to wear someone else’s logo (excepting bands & similar) and I would avoid wearing someone else’s logo if I wasn’t being paid to.

And I’ve pretty much stood by that. I’ve made some exceptions for smaller companies that I felt were doing something positive and worth promoting, or for open source things.

Gotta give the man his money’s worth.

Oh I can hear the voice now.

Who is going to protect him? Eventually it’s helicopters all the way down.

I think it is a legit good and funny costume but I am myself a dad and therefore cannot be trusted with these things.

Man I sure wish so many of these didn’t resonate with me so well.

Thanks. I wasted a year on Duolingo and got very little idioms, just some supposedly common sayings like das is schnee von gestern, oder es kostet nur einen apfel und ein ei.

Honestly, ich_iel has done more for my understanding than Duolingo did, but it is still almost nil.

Isn’t it closer to “we are looking for you”?

Damn I should have scrolled down literally at all.

When I was a kid there was a Transformers cartoon show and every time they transformed there would be this “BE-boo-babu-babu-BEEP” sound effect.

And so yeah.

That does seem to be increasingly the fashion among a certain kind of person.

We used one of their products, Foundry, where I work. It is really more of a suite of products that all center on making it easy to connect and interact with data. Before I understood what they were and who was behind them, I was a huge fan. They are objectively impressive tools.

For example, there is a tool that helps you visually understand the lineage of data, essentially showing the different joins behind a given data table.

There was another tool that was pretty amazing at making it easy to interact with, and clean/prep, huge datasets. It very quickly became my preferred method of browsing a new dataset. I could see every column in it, all the metadata of the column, obviously it’s format, but also based on that format, some quick visual insights. For example, a data field that was all dates would quickly show a distribution of the min and max dates and bars representing the number of records in each year. It was just really easy to determine whether the dataset I was looking at would have what I needed, at the granularity or frequency of refresh I would need it. I think my favorite thing is that you could write rules to transform, combine, obfuscate, divide, etc, etc, various columns of a dataset, or even add new columns based on some math of existing columns. Then you could have that output into a new copy of that dataset. I called these cleaners. Then, if the parent dataset happened to be a live one, any updates to the parent dataset would run through the cleaner and into the new dataset, at whatever cadence the parent is being updated. And that relationship chain would be illustrated and represented on that visual lineage tool automatically.

I’m sure a skilled coder or SQL master could accomplish a lot of this, but I am a total generalist and have googled 100% of the SQL I’ve ever run. The visual approach to handling data is just really intuitive and easy to pick up, so it made it really easy for me to wield data I might otherwise not have been able to in the course of my work.

There’s more but I’m starting to feel dirty because I feel like I’m gushing over this monstrosity. None of that simplicity is worth all of This.