Ryan Hassett
@ryanhassett.bsky.social
This account has concentrated costs and diffuse benefits.
When only I was upgraded, they wouldn't even let me do that.
So I gave away my upgrade to the person in the adjacent seat, who was in disbelief.
So I gave away my upgrade to the person in the adjacent seat, who was in disbelief.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
When only I was upgraded, they wouldn't even let me do that.
So I gave away my upgrade to the person in the adjacent seat, who was in disbelief.
So I gave away my upgrade to the person in the adjacent seat, who was in disbelief.
I think there is a good but less than 50% chance that it will cease to exist as a standalone entity in its current form.
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I think there is a good but less than 50% chance that it will cease to exist as a standalone entity in its current form.
AC does not have a large presence at JFK, so moving to T1 (or T4) shouldn't be a big problem.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
AC does not have a large presence at JFK, so moving to T1 (or T4) shouldn't be a big problem.
I'm not sure. I think T6 may be 100% B6, if B6 still exists.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm not sure. I think T6 may be 100% B6, if B6 still exists.
If it's refunded back to the card, then the points will be rolled back.
If you keep it as an airline credit, they won't be, but also you won't have cash then.
If you keep it as an airline credit, they won't be, but also you won't have cash then.
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If it's refunded back to the card, then the points will be rolled back.
If you keep it as an airline credit, they won't be, but also you won't have cash then.
If you keep it as an airline credit, they won't be, but also you won't have cash then.
(You are correct that there are no seats in economy available, though they may just be blocking inventory.)
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
(You are correct that there are no seats in economy available, though they may just be blocking inventory.)
I'm not sure I totally get the question.
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'm not sure I totally get the question.
And if you don't go, it's refundable!
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
And if you don't go, it's refundable!
Look on the bright side. You'll be in business class.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Look on the bright side. You'll be in business class.
I do not understand how the picture on the right is supposed to be of "the same sorts of sandwiches" as the picture on the left, especially given that the sandwiches on the right all cost under $3.70 when purchased alone and ~$5 with an accompanying drink and snack.
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I do not understand how the picture on the right is supposed to be of "the same sorts of sandwiches" as the picture on the left, especially given that the sandwiches on the right all cost under $3.70 when purchased alone and ~$5 with an accompanying drink and snack.
Those are not at all the same?
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Those are not at all the same?
This is what I would have said, though I'd add that YYZ itself is not exactly lacking for destinations.
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is what I would have said, though I'd add that YYZ itself is not exactly lacking for destinations.
Canada has only had an actual poverty definition since 2018, when the "Market Based Measure" was introduced.
Before that, researchers and policymakers would often use the "Low-Income Cut Off", which is a relative measure, not one based on prices, and was never meant to measure poverty qua poverty.
Before that, researchers and policymakers would often use the "Low-Income Cut Off", which is a relative measure, not one based on prices, and was never meant to measure poverty qua poverty.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Canada has only had an actual poverty definition since 2018, when the "Market Based Measure" was introduced.
Before that, researchers and policymakers would often use the "Low-Income Cut Off", which is a relative measure, not one based on prices, and was never meant to measure poverty qua poverty.
Before that, researchers and policymakers would often use the "Low-Income Cut Off", which is a relative measure, not one based on prices, and was never meant to measure poverty qua poverty.
Everything is a social construct and always has been.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Everything is a social construct and always has been.
Anyway, the most insane part of the Federal Poverty Level definition of income is that since it only includes income received on a "regular basis", it ends up excluding 401(k) and IRA distributions since those are technically intermittent.
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Anyway, the most insane part of the Federal Poverty Level definition of income is that since it only includes income received on a "regular basis", it ends up excluding 401(k) and IRA distributions since those are technically intermittent.
(And these things should actually be excluded given what FPL is actually used for, which is determining the benefit levels of programmes!)
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
(And these things should actually be excluded given what FPL is actually used for, which is determining the benefit levels of programmes!)
I think it's simultaneously true FPL underestimates pre-transfer deprivation while the exclusion of non-cash benefits, not just Medicaid, Head Start etc but even cash-like ones like SNAP, LIEAP and HCV, pushes in the other direction when people use it to make casual interpretations of depravation.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I think it's simultaneously true FPL underestimates pre-transfer deprivation while the exclusion of non-cash benefits, not just Medicaid, Head Start etc but even cash-like ones like SNAP, LIEAP and HCV, pushes in the other direction when people use it to make casual interpretations of depravation.
(12% of all Americans, because we lavish our money on the old instead.)
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
(12% of all Americans, because we lavish our money on the old instead.)
I think there might be a misplaced decimal point. 16% of US children are in poverty under the official measure.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I think there might be a misplaced decimal point. 16% of US children are in poverty under the official measure.
Honestly, I think that any analysis that results in the poverty line for a family of 4 being defined as the ~75%ile of HHI in the richest large nation in the history of man has gone seriously off the rails.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Honestly, I think that any analysis that results in the poverty line for a family of 4 being defined as the ~75%ile of HHI in the richest large nation in the history of man has gone seriously off the rails.
Especially here, though.
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Especially here, though.