Bill Raduchel

I believe dynamic pricing, while great for our large corporations, is one of many causes of our social inflammation. Today, I was booking a fight on American Airlines, but when I tried to take it, I got an error to pick a new flight or fare. The flight was still there but at $3900. That is gouging. #AmericanAirines

@AmericanAir Apparently, you cannot get Touchless ID on @AlaskaAir with your AAdvantage number. Is this policy?

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers. One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway. But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely. Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop. The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk. The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms. Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk. Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

A week ago my @FedEx package was scanned onto a truck for delivery. That is still the status. Investigation opened 6 days ago. Since then the worst customer service in years. @FedEx says they decide when to tell me more and to quit asking. Think twice before using them.

@FedEx must evaluate its support staff by customer feedback. They have an incentive to lie to get a good rating as there is no way to trace back to them. They have lost a package of mine and will say only an investigation is in process. Promised follow up never happens.

@FedEx is just so bad. So many promises but none kept. Whey they work, great. When they fail, nightmare. Your nightmare.

How bad can @FedEx service be? Really bad. Package sent for delivery Thursday. Out for delivery that morning at 7:30 AM. Still not arrived. No tracking updates. X help seemed responsive but nothing done in the end. Trouble ticket filed a day ago. No updates.

@FedEx Sent a parcel standard overnight. Out for delivery before 8 AM. Never arrives. Status still says out for delivery. Why? Refund?

First @united flight with @Starlink. Flying will be changed forever. 300 Mbps down and 40 up. Thanks @elonmusk. This is a United Express flight. Much better than the 787-9 I flew yesterday.

If @CokeZero is the best Coke ever, why does its biggest outlet not sell it?

@Dexcom Stelho randomly ends early, this is dangerous and expensive. Unlike Dexcom 7 you offer no easy way for compensation. Tacky and dangerous.

@Brink_Thinker Yes! Except be back for dinner.

Be Honest.. Did parents really just let their kids wander the neighborhood all day with no phone and just say... be back before dark?

@Instacart A refund does not make it right for a missing item. I ordered because I needed it. Now I have to go buy it. About to give up on you. Too many of these issues.

Thanks for the memories. #RIP

Great interview with Larry. Thank you. larrykotlikoff.substack.com/p/bill-raduche…

I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.

@elonmusk FSD drove me over 1,000 miles last week with one, optional, intervention. All types of roads and parking situations. A.S.S. Worked perfectly as did Start from Park. Yet people with no knowledge insist it does not work because of political bias.

Gave same question to Gemini. Same error.

Interesting. @grok failed to correctly analyze a cousin relationship.

@CNBC The Secretary of the Treasury by law was the chair of the Fed from 1913 to 1935. The Comptroller of the Currency was a member as well. Changed to ensure independence.