This.  I’ve worked customer service.  Most of the time I acted like a human, but there were times when my brain was pretty much checked out and I’m sure I came across as sounding pretty robotic.

I suppose so.  I’m just not sure he’d have much of a background for program office kind of work.  On the other hand, maybe that explains why some program offices let their contractors get away with so much crap.

To *distract* people from knowing the TRUTH!!!! of course!

“Translation: You’re gullible enough to listen to the stupid shit people say online for clicks.”

That’s the popular viewpoint. The reality is actually sadder. I’ve known a lot of military folks in my life; I’m related to quite a few. Both active duty and retired military have access to a wealth of resources. The problem is much thornier: it’s really hard to train a person to be bold enough to run fearlessly into…

It does indeed sound very official. It does also sound like exactly the sort of thing a wackdoodle trying to sound important would say, since the acronyms themselves aren’t hidden or particularly obscure. I’m kind of wondering why a special forces guy would supposedly end up in program management anyway, since that’s…

I doubt that would be effective. Seriously. To get to an altitude that would kill bedbugs, you’d have to get to an altitude where the engines and control surfaces don’t work anymore. I mean you’d need hard vacuum, and probably not just for a few seconds. Going up to 30,000 ft is probably just gonna make them…

I would not jump to the conclusion coordination exists.

If so, this guy was weirdly committed to the bit, given he gave his life for it.  If he didn’t leave some kind of a note, it’s gonna probably stay mysterious and spawn a whole lotta conspiracy theories.

I’m going to get right in on the betting with “not”.

Yeah, that is the funny part about this. All the focus was on New Orleans because everybody just sort of naturally assumed the Cybertruck was just a random accident.

Yeah, I’m guessing the entire reason the guy (he’s been identified since this article was posted) picked a Cybertruck for the job was in hopes of detonating the battery. Surprisingly, he seems to have managed to *not* ignite the car. It appears mostly intact, so despite the fact that he reportedly served in special…

Well, not all the time, since I’m more likely to have passengers back there, not cargo. But that is the natural solution that will develop once we get used to it. I’m just anticipating the natural grumbling and complaining that will arise as we get used to it, just like we all got used to the front passenger seat…

Of course, not everything is reasonably securable with a seatbelt, but it’s reasonable advice anyhow.  I do buckle in my Leeann Chin order so it doesn’t tip and make a mess.  ;-)

Oh, we all know how to solve it, and we all do it.  It’s just annoying, so we complain about it.  Sort of like the weather.

That was my immediate thought. I mean, it’s not particularly unusual to have the back seat loaded up with groceries, bags of cement, tools, books, random crap when you’re moving your kid to college, etc. Add this, and now you have to put a seatbelt in the buckle before you start loading or you’re going to have a…

When I was in high school, my parents bought a Grand Jeep Wagoneer, and then totally failed to do proper maintenance on it. Occasionally, it would get an oil change. It was an absolute pig for mileage anyway, but this did not improve matters. I recall it getting between 7 and 11 MPG at first, then deteriorating down…

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Yeah, that’d do it.

I mean, he claims it means “Lolo (Tagalog word for grandpa), CyberTruck, 7 grandkids” but wouldn’t it make more sense then to have 7 be on the other side of CT?  This seems more like a creative way to slip something past the censors.