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For real man. There's an amazing little airport ~7 minutes from my house (KXNX) where I'd love to hangar a plane someday...but the hangar situation there is bleak. There are 23 port-a-ports and 40 t-hangars. The current waitlist has 53 guys ahead of me on it (!!!) and the dude that's #1 on the list, next to get a hangar, got on the list in February of 2016 😱 I am not smart on the economics of hangers - why is there such an acute shortage compared to the number of people who want a hangar? Why has the invisible hand not pushed through a shit load of t-hangar construction? It's not a lack of space at least at my local airport! #ThreadDerail

Ya, not my first rodeo, just making a point that modern air travel at current prices (even Delta.com vs DTS prices) is awesome and people are wrong imagining there was a long-lost golden age of flying that was accessible to the same number of people as today. Better for pilots, way hotter FAs, great for the wealthy, yea sure. But today everyday people can fly to Europe or Asia for a week or two’s wages and that simply was not possible in that former era.

I booked a flight in DTS from HDN to BNA (with a brief MSP layover) for $377 on Delta. Hot damn that’s a low price for a hell of a long flight! Air travel today is a modern miracle and people just love to bitch about things that even turn-of-the-century billionaires would kill to enjoy.

Well sometimes the Feds lay down serious fines & convictions for Medicare fraud, but it’s not helpful when voters later put the lead perpetuator in the governor’s mansion of a large state and later the U.S. Senate 🙄 That likely puts a damper on serious enforcement efforts! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

I'm not screaming anything, in fact I rarely post here and overall am unsure why I'm wasting my time right this second. Trump admin started the trend, which I generally don't support, and Biden admin unfortunately continued it. I share your views that Mattis was good and Austin really hasn't been. I don't know her at all and so don't have a specific assessment there. My point was that as an opening argument, someone who is a real civilian is preferable to someone who is a recently retired flag officer. I hear you and agree not everyone is the same, there's just IMHO too many people who are "married to work" and too driven by fears, insecurities, greed, power, etc. and who cling on to top positions far too long. I hope to live my values when I get up to your ancient status and retire in a timely fashion both for my own life enjoyment and for the advancement and prospering of the subsequent generations. I have two numbers: "the number" and icing on the cake. I'll reach "the number" if I can TAFMS retire from the Guard, which is on track. Anything after that is for fun. Icing would be if my wife chooses to work again for a significant stretch and/or I make any money in my second hobby career, both of which seem somewhat likely. Icing on the cake to me means working approx. 0.5 FTE vs full-time, buying an airplane, and flying the (future) grandkids out for very expensive hamburgers. Hell, I might even build that canoe one day! Edit to add: for those having a hard time retiring, can't bring themselves to spend more than they're making just in investment returns, might be inheriting millions, or are planning on leaving their kids millions at death when the "kids" are in their 60s or 70s, I highly recommend the book Die With Zero by Bill Perkins. I liked the book a lot and got a lot out of it.

This guy fuckin' gets it 🍺 #Winning

As a bonafide elitist Dem who would not do anything to maintain power, I do care. I know some of y'all don't talk to many Dems these days it seems... I have never understood the Austin pick and don't know how you could possibly go to the ICU and not direct a member of your staff to inform the White House. In fact you would think he must have directed his staff not to say anything for this to have occured. If I was on Austin's staff, my first phone call would be to the WH Chief of Staff after the boss was admitted to give them a heads up. Specifics of this hospital stay aside, from the start I'm not a fan of waiving the requirement that flag officers should have been out of uniform for seven years. I didn't like the precedent set by approving a waiver for Mattis (even though liked Mattis, especially in a Trump admin), nor do I like that the traditional was continued when Congress approved a waiver for Austin. The SECDEF should be a straight-up civilian defense/security executive, not a very recently retired 4-star with all the active duty military political baggage that comes with it. Someone with a background like Kathleen Hicks, the current Deputy Secretary of Defense, should have been tapped for the top spot in the first place rather than a recently retired general or admiral. Also Austin is 70...for fucks sake Boomers, fucking retire already! Hand-build a canoe in your garage and let your grandchildren sleepover for the weekend. GTFO of high office and enjoy the fruits of a lifetime of labor. And I say this to all of you equally in the 65+ age range. When I am that age, I sure as hell won't be commuting to an office 6am-8pm, busting my hump flying around the world, dealing with Congress & pulling my hair our managing a gigantic organization. Screw that man - that could not possibly sound less appealing.

His apprentice however...

HeloDude coming in defending the upstanding honor of 11Hs everywhere like...😂

Truly a sign that there is not a loving, compassionate god that regularly intervenes in man’s affairs…

Congress: Best I can do is 25 and a couple slicks for pilot pro 😆

Booya! Proud of my former community. Very well deserved recognition that's long-overdue.

I wish I had the drawing but one day during a long set of briefings I drew up a sketch for an AC-130S, the S stands for Shark. Holding tanks to keep the sharks alive, smaller breeds that fit in the common launch tubes already installed in the door, plunge the sharks out the ass of the airplane and of course you have frikin' laser beams on their foreheads. If I were king for a day we'd buy at least a dozen.

YMMV of course, but I would not recommend a whole life insurance policy to nearly anyone. In terms of leaving money to heirs, is it going to be more than $12.92 million? If so, congrats, you have won at life. Or maybe not, IDK...personally I would spend more while I'm alive and not leave as much to my kids after I'm dead, but you can do what you'd like. If you're going to leave less than $12.92m, whole life shouldn't even be in the conversation. Almost regardless of your net worth, IMHO I'd rather just get market returns and pay long-term capital gains taxes in a regular-ass brokerage account vs suffer from below-market returns in a whole life insurance vehicle with a lot of added complexity & fees. BL: whole life insurance is really only a good deal if you sell whole life insurance.

After 72 beers I'm pretty sure I'd be in the hospital, not a bonus hole 😂

Unfortunately there's exactly 1 too many for the current CFP playoff format! Lucky for them they'll get bailed out by at least one of OSU/MI losing when they play each other. All the rest I could see winning out, winning their conferences and then sorry for OSU/MI loser and Oregon, you're on the outside looking in. I'm really looking forward to an expanded playoff next season.

So, so many! 😄 The most obvious one is “full self driving” which at this point is a meme prediction. His timelines are always wildly ambitious and generally you can 2-5x the timeline for anything he promises. Which is usually fine, he’s a CEO who is selling stuff and some of that involves hype. Look I don’t discredit Tesla or SpaceX accomplishments, hell I owned a Tesla and can’t wait to fly via Starlink. Launching the roadster on falcon heavy and nailing the simultaneous landing of the boosters was an incredible thing to witness. I also know that part of the quote wasn’t his main point. FWIW I have also predicted some things wrong, as have we all! BUT I didn’t say what he said, I’m not scolding people to either “be right or STFU.” He truly is the pot calling the kettle black and I just thought that was funny. His opinions on politics, the Middle East, etc. have absolutely zero credibility above a random person’s IMHO.

Elon very famously makes lots of very wild/bold forecasts that do not end up coming true, and yet he continues to confidently make predictions on many things both within and beyond his fields of expertise totally undeterred. He should follow his own advice!

He says with a straight face, absolutely devoid of any shred of irony or self-reflection. 😆

Not sure why the tweet itself wouldn’t embed but…yea…CENTCOM forever, yay! 😑

Pro tip: don’t do magic mushrooms and then sit jump seat 😅

Right, it’s not about employers who choose to rescind job offers based on reprehensible speech, that’s fine. It’s about a random billionaire going out of his way to sleuth down the names of anyone 18-25 who has ever belonged to some of these student groups, and then specifically calling his buddies at different companies, giving them the list of names, and saying they should be blackballed. Like, get a hobby buddy. Inevitably you’re hurting people who had nothing to do with some of these dumb statements, and even absolute best case you’re punching down so many levels it’s laughable. He should spend his time working to counter the Iranian finance operations that actually paid for the rockets and bullets that killed innocent Israelis if he’s so inclined to wanna help. Or just donate a B to Israeli charities…I can think of a million better ways to spend your time and money than harassing idiot college kids.

I think Ackman took things too far. Yea your words have consequences and etc., but man, having a random billionaire ruining your career while you're still on campus is some bullshiite man. Not that I disagree with him that what a some of the students are saying is completely reprehensible, it is. But I would also remind Bill that when he was an undergrad on the hallowed Haavad Yaad he was a) likely a huge fucking moron like the vast majority of of us were, b) certainly said many things others would find unacceptably offensive (haven't we all!), and c) didn't have some Reagan-era billionaire going Dick Tracy on his ass trying to ruin his future before he even got off the ground. I guess forensic speech policing wasn't as easy in 1988 as it is in 2023, but Ackman needs to find other hobbies IMHO.