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@McFranchisee I am irritated when I am not offered a receipt, but electronic is okay. I should not have to request it. I reconcile statements with receipts and I have found errors. People who don’t double check statements are almost certainly losing money.

I’m actually a huge fan of optional receipts. Imagine how many trees we lose a year from refused receipts alone. When I try to hand out a receipt, many people refuse to even take it. 90% of people don’t want a receipt. IMO, it should be upon request. 30% of our transactions are digital, yet our system still produces a receipt (despite having an email address on file to send a digital one). It’s a win-win-win 🏆 ♻️ Less waste 🙅‍♀️ Customers aren’t forced to take it 💵 Saves businesses a little money What side are you on, receipts?

@TraceyRyniec @BGH1968 @InezFeltscher Speaking as someone who went through the process, that is exactly how it worked.

@NoManicTweeter @BGH1968 @InezFeltscher That's not how it worked.

For the kids who are too young to remember, you used to be able to get basically full, complete coverage above a max of $5,000 (aka “catastrophic coverage”) for 90 bucks a month before Obama made it “affordable.”

@TraceyRyniec @BGH1968 @InezFeltscher You didn't have to hold the same job, or even a job, you just had to maintain continuous coverage (which was available to purchase directly from insurance companies), and then pre-existing conditions were covered.

@BGH1968 @InezFeltscher You kept the same job from age 18 and forever? Lucky you. The rest of us have lived through recessions, have lost our healthcare and, yes, had to buy it on the open market. But not if you had a pre-existing condition. Millions had one.

@FnMiddle @mechanical_4u Reduce pitch attitude (angle of attack) will typically resolve the stall even without power application.

@mechanical_4u What was done to fix the stall? I heard engine revs increase at the end, but by then the stall was mostly corrected.

Ever wonder what happens when an airplane stalls? This video is a perfect example! Stalls aren't about the engine, they're about the airflow. These yarn strings show smooth, attached airflow over the wing. As angle of attack increases, the airflow separates, lift decreases, and a stall occurs.

@___Gestalt @BigBrainHistori People today are hidden for a reason--they don't want to get involved. The very wealth will "help" by writing checks, but great ideas need mentors, and no one wants to give time. Boomers are largely self-centered and have created succeeding generations with even greater flaws.

this is a great story of something that was normal in the 1970s, people took phone calls in the 1970s, people tried to help young people, it's not unusual they took Steve's call, the real moral of the story is how things have changed, if it were today there would be no one to take Steve's call; go ahead, make that "Steve Jobs call" to @elonmusk and see if he picks up (he won't, I've tried) people today are hidden away

Steve Jobs called Bill Hewlett at 12 years old and got a job at HP. Most people never make that call. Jobs wanted to build a frequency counter but lacked the parts. So he looked up Bill Hewlett's number in the Palo Alto phone book and dialed. "Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter. I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have." Hewlett laughed. Then he gave Jobs the parts and offered him a summer job at HP, building the very frequency counters he had called about. "I was in heaven." Jobs spent the rest of his life thinking about why that moment was possible. "I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. I just asked." The lesson he carried was simple but rare. Throughout history, the people who shaped the world were rarely the most talented or the most connected. They were the ones willing to make the ask that everyone else had already talked themselves out of. "Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them." "If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far." The phone book that connected a 12-year-old to a Silicon Valley legend is long gone. The principle behind that call never changed.

@pastordandavis @Romans828_24_7 @TomBuck The optics are very poor. It's a cost of doing business, and like other similar costs, it should be baked into the price. If they aren't afraid of losing revenue, they can opt to not take credit cards at all. Businesses take credit cards for a reason.

@Romans828_24_7 @TomBuck I imagine if you have a great product and you're a great local business you won't lose any customers over this.

@JohnHCochrane @ojblanchard1 The veiled assumption is always that inaction will result in status quo which we can continue to manage through diplomatic means. However, that is an incredibly naive conclusion in this case, as the Iranian regime has never been content with status quo.

I would be curious to hear Olivier's analysis of the effects of inaction. Ignore Oct 7, leave Iran to build missiles, terror networks, and a nuclear bomb to use on you-know-who. More negotiations? More stern statements? The example is overused, but 1939: inaction of choice. We know the outcome.

A striking analogy: Vietnam: a war of choice, major US military domination, guerilla war. We know the outcome. Iran: a war of choice, major US military domination, guerilla war, but this time on a global scale. Outcome?

@boriquagato At best, these displays strike me as unnecessary pandering, which may not help but almost certainly hurt the business. It's impossible to detect how many prospective customers are sacrified through such "virtuous" signalling. Even crazier when owners say that they don't care.

i have the same policy. if you want to make buying a cheeseburger about race and politics and gender or whatever well, that's your prerogative; but i have no wish to participate. do it without me. the politicization of every aspect of everyday life is misery inducing and those who feel a need to inject it everywhere are societal vandals. there was once a basic decency around "not discussing politics in polite society." we'd do well to restore it.

@itsjjco @kelluvskev @TomCiopp @SawyerMerritt @lloydblankfein They aren't, which is why they struggle against gasoline vehicles in the marketplace. They're more expensive, heavier, have expensive consumables, lack a robust fueling network, take way too long to refuel, and lack the range of gasoline vehicles.

@kelluvskev @TomCiopp @SawyerMerritt @lloydblankfein Saving the environment is a joke 😭 the cars are simply night and day better for day to day usage

Former Goldman Sachs CEO tonight on EVs with Bill Maher: Bill: "Once you have one (EV) it seems barbaric to go to a gas station." Lloyd: "I want to get into a car, know I can drive 300 miles and don't have to have my fingers crossed that I can recharge it and don't have it take 2 hours." Bill: "Lloyd, mine goes 360 (miles)."

@revcjackson It is not in any way equivalent to being a business owner. A pastor can be fired or walk away to the next job at any time with nothing lost. At most, he is perhaps similar to a Chick-fil-a operator, who is also essentially an employee.

@NoManicTweeter Yeah, its not 1:1, for sure. But, it's closer than being a corporate employee.

Since pastoral compensation is something we're all talking about right now, the one thing I'm going to throw out there is that the sole or senior pastor has a roughly equivalent role to a small-business-owner, except he doesn't gain equity in anything. He's expected to have ownership-equivalent agency without actual ownership (and without ownership authority, too.) I think a lot of people approach this issue by comparing the pastor to an employee. That's not quite as close a comparison.

@teegery @stevegentry I imagine most workers would consider sabbaticals "beneficial." However, pastors whining about them is flat-out tone deaf when almost no one in any congregation has the option of taking one apart from unemployment. And no, a pastor's job is not unusually more difficult.

@stevegentry While I do think there are scenarios in which a sabbatical could be beneficial, I find they are typically instituted in a way that drives a wedge between the pastor and the congregation. It says to the laity "I have to leave you in order to be encouraged and refreshed".

My father accompanied me to a church-planting event once. He enjoyed all of the speakers except one. He spoke on the need for sabbaticals. My father (who was not and has never been a pastor) reviewed it as "self-centered, self-pitying, and weak." That speaker disqualified himself from ministry a few years later. I think about that a lot.

@GeraldMarkJames Sounds exactly like most white-collar and at least some blue-collar jobs outside the church, none of which offer “sabbaticals”. Your comment is emblematic of the problem being discussed. Perhaps you should spend less time talking on the subject and more time listening.

I hate the comparing of the pastorate to other vocations. You are on call 24/7. You never truly leave the work at work. You're always under acute observation. You are dealing souls and eternal matters. Its nothing like an 8-5 job.

@FellTolla @DailySignal Someone more focused on his or her looks than what is required to execute job functions is a materially relevant issue in that person's job performance.

That may all be true, but if you want to call someone out for failing to do their job, you don't start by attacking their looks. In this country, we judge people by the content of their character, not their looks—or we're no better than the people we criticize for DEI hires, which no doubt has put millions of lives at risk. We can't shout "Black Lives Matter" and in the same breath call out someone for hair extensions. Noem's hair extensions didn't get her fired; her poor decisions did.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Rise and Fall of Kristi Noem at Homeland Security Three things led to Kristi Noem’s recent demotion as the Department of Homeland Security secretary: She wasn’t judicious in her language when ICE shot two protesters in Minnesota. She spent millions of dollars on campaign ads and lied that President Trump told her to make them. And she abandoned her South Dakota values by allegedly having an affair with Corey Lewandowski. @VDHanson breaks down Noem’s fall and why Border Czar Tom Homan is much better at the law enforcement work she was trying to do. “He represents, you know, kind of America law enforcement, and he’s very good at what he does. And for all of that hard bark on him, he knew that you don’t take high-profile Immigration and Customs Enforcement people and pick people off the street, and that was a rare occurrence.”

@FellTolla @DailySignal She made her job about her looks. There never seemed to be a situation in which she appeared where vanity wasn't a consideration for her. She was hired to run DHS, not model for the cameras.

I think we all know and agree that Noem made mistakes—many mistakes. But when you start your takedown by talking about her looks, you lose all credibility. Then you follow up by slamming her poor decision to tour CECOT prison, but you don’t even know the name of the country, then we have to call out poor journalism by @VDHanson.

@Acyn There will always be collateral damage during war. We are fighting a regime which kills tens of thousands on a whim and has threatened its neighbors and the U.S. for decades in an effort to cling to power. The Iranian regime is ultimately responsible for war dead, not the U.S.

Jennings: I want to know what's incompetent. Sellers: I think Pete Hegseth is incompetent. Jennings: Why? Sellers: Because he has an inability to tell the truth Jennings: What did he say that was false? Sellers: Because we know what happened. Jennings: No we don't. They're investigating. Sellers: I want all of you all to go out on a limb right now and tell me that the United States, even during the fog of war, did not kill those kids. Tell me they didn't.

@CAAnurag_ @KarluskaP Passenger experience should be the top priority. Yes, threats need to be taken seriously, but it’s hard to imagine that treating a planeload of passengers like criminals was the least-intrusive way to handle this situation.

@KarluskaP Scary situation, but this also shows how seriously aviation security works. The moment a threat appears, the flight is diverted and the suspect is detained. Passenger safety has to be the top priority every single time.

Southwest Flight 2094 Diverted to Atlanta due to security threat; passenger detained fox5atlanta.com/news/southwest…

@KarluskaP Everything that’s wrong with the U.S. airline experience in one video. If I were @SouthwestAir CEO, I’d cringe hard at this video. Yes, you need to respond to threats but this is absolutely not the way to do it.

@MCCCANM IMO, U.S. airlines are often too quick to remove pax vs. act to pacify them. Seems that anyone who disagrees with a FA is likely to get the boot, but airlines are in the *service* business. Everything possible should be done before someone is booted.

An opportunity to explain how passengers are removed from a flight, and my thinking. I can’t speak for all pilots, but perhaps I can give you context for when you see these things in the future. Here we go: First, it’s really the Flight Attendants who bear the brunt of this. In my role as Captain, I try to stand at the door during boarding & deplaning to exchange courtesies, but that’s most of my interaction with passengers. I don’t have time for much else. So, this is going to come down to the Flight Attendants. If they come to me with a “should we remove this person?” question, we’ve already gotten into territory we shouldn’t be in. They don’t come to me for every minor infraction…they are trained to handle it themselves, and have their own hierarchy. There is a lead Flight Attendant (sometimes called a “Purser”) & they are going to consult. They generally start with a gentle request to change the behavior…it’s not an immediate threat or demand. Of course, it could be, depending on the situation, but they want to give you a chance. Things can gradually escalate after that, or can go nuclear, depending on the infraction. By the time this situation is brought to my attention, all of the Flight Attendants have discussed this among themselves & tried to resolve it, unsuccessfully. The fact they are asking if they should remove this person means they think it *might* be the best course of action. That doesn’t mean it is. Sure, it’s possible the Flight Attendants have whipped themselves into a frenzy & maybe they are having a bad day. I’m going to ask questions to try to determine this, but be subtle about it. I really want them to make the call on their own. I don’t want them to demand I have someone removed…we need to respect the hierarchy…but I want them to say what they really think. I won’t have to deal with the person while locked behind the cockpit door. They will. Now, even if I have some doubts, do you think I’m going to argue with my crew over a person I haven’t even met in a situation I wasn’t present to witness? No, I’d rather not alienate the people I need to safely fly. Does this mean some people get removed that maybe shouldn’t based on some bad actor Flight Attendant? Possibly, yes. If it does, though, I think it’s an incredibly small percentage & the bad actor is eventually going to be rooted out. There is paperwork that must be filed & eventually a common denominator will be noticed. Ok, so by the time the Flight Attendants come to me, it’s almost certain the passenger is not staying on the flight. They can’t obey commands from the crew on the ground, so we’re definitely not taking them in the air. At this point, I step outside the cockpit. I will be there to support the FAs as an authority figurehead. The FAs don’t remove the passenger themselves, they call a specially trained agent to do it. Once as we waited, a woman came up to me to plead her case. I get the hope & conviction in your righteousness, and maybe all the things she claimed even actually happened, but lady I don’t know you & you have tripped multiple safeties at this point. I technically made the call, but the decision was made for me. The FAs are standing in front of me…you think it’s because they are bullies, but it’s because we don’t want you getting access to the cockpit & yeah, TSA exists, but it’s still possible you have a weapon. Anyway, if the agent can’t convince the passenger to go w/ them, THEN the police are called. A bad day. Once had a guy who was high get aboard. Not supposed to happen. FAs noticed it, had agent come down. He didn’t fight at all, was courteous. I respect that…sober up & I’ll be happy to fly you tomorrow. Make us call the cops, though…no thanks. Flying is not a right. We’ll happily refund you, don’t come back. I should point out that removing a passenger is only something I have to deal w/ maybe once or twice a year. At least in my experience, it’s not common. Hope that helps!

@megbasham What exactly did she think she was voting for which Trump hasn’t done?