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I've been playing around with Openclaw, and it's a pretty cool glimpse into the future. I'm building my personal AI assistant, and with only conversational text, it's programmed custom flight monitoring scripts to track my airline flights, and a "crew journal" that will extract my trips them dig down to the flights and get the crew members I flew with, then after I land it'll all me if I want to record any notes about anyone. Then the next time I go to fly, it'll recap my previous entries about the crew member so we can resume the conversation instead of playing the awkward-intro game every time we fly together. No coding, just tell it what you want. It definitely benefits from the user having a coding background, because you know what to ask for. But that won't be the case in a couple years.

I hope Claudia Sheinbaum authorizes us (not that the current administration would really care about asking if it came down to it) to use everything in our arsenal including Hellfire's to assist. Not surprisingly the Cartels are as heavily armed as any insurgency with armored vehicles and RPGs

The latter. The KC-46 has an upgraded APU from a 767-200 due to the amount of power needed for the RVS system and to mitigate OBIGGS resets. To use power carts, it either takes one bigger external power cart or two of the smaller ones used on the KC-135.

I see your point. Unfortunately, deaths occur more often than they should because something was unknowingly laced with Fentanyl. Definitely a risk with anything not manufactured commercially.

Are the APUs actually prematurely failing or are they being run on the ground way past the normal amount that an APU is normally run? I've heard the latter...

Mostly, Canada was America’s liquor store during Prohibition (among others) so with demand there will be a supply. Drugs, booze, excess of any sort is just a feature of any society that never goes away, treat it and accept it, the grass always will need to be cut. Cudos to Mexico, they are not just taking this without fighting back https://www.breitbart.com/border/2026/02/23/mexican-government-confirms-25-national-guardsmen-killed-in-cartels-terror-response-to-el-menchos-death/

Does he carry hot sauce in his purse?

I am sure my liberal friends will point out the outright racism from their leading candidate for 2028. Gavin Newsom in conversation with Mayor Andre Dickens addresses the Atlanta crowd: “I’m like you…I’m a 960 SAT guy. I can’t read.” Newsome.mp4

AI is going to impact SO many aspects of our lives...it certainly doesn't help when the police fail trying to use it, then LIE and arrest you anyway.

EPIC SAVE!!!! by Connor Hellebuyck😁

The blame all goes to Americans who buy the cartels product.

Mexico is perhaps the most perfect example of gun laws being absolutely useless and only screwing over good people, and the root cause of violence problems being a lack of positive societal norms/proliferation of dogshit societal norms.

Getting spicy in Mexico BreitbartMexico Erupts in Flames After Death of Largest Terrorist...Cartel gunmen have begun carrying out terrorist attacks in various states in Mexico in response to the death of the country’s most powerful terrorist | Border / Cartel ChroniclesGB NewsEl Mencho killing causes chaos as gunmen storm major inte...El Mencho was killed by military forces on Sunday

Epic game! jack Hughes interview after scoring the game winner and losing teeth was solid. He won’t be skipping the White House. Hockey just became America’s sport. Also the team still supporting the guadreau family was amazing Well done!

If only we practiced strategic thinking… select one large cabin biz jet as the base platform for the replacement of big wing HVAAs for a new concept of more, medium wing HVAAs Bombardier family of jets as we already fly the E-11 is one option Bombardier 6500 or 7500 Tanker, AWACs, UCAS C2, Medivac, etc… Or work on bigger strategic partnerships with South America and specifically Brazil, could work on Argentina too with this idea Embraer for either a deal on KC and C-390s and Phenom for a multi engine trainer, could look at updated ERJ but that is probably not worth the squeeze, they partner with an American manufacturer and solve the Buy American provision Tangent: I’d also propose talking to Argentina about their IA-63 and IA-100 trainer aircraft, that’s just a secondary idea but… using these acquisitions to engage with nations China is trying to pull into their orbit is a way to link up lines of effort so that they all in some amount pull in the same general direction

I don’t understand how this can be with all of Mexico’s strict gun control laws?

https://www.newsweek.com/state-dept-advises-shelter-place-mexican-army-kills-jalisco-cartel-mencho-11563510

The MRTT also holds eight 463L pallets in the forward and aft lower cargo hold. The KC-46 holds 10 centerline and 18 side-by-side (before that FCIF restricting side-by-side cargo loading due to another Boeing design fuck up). Every KC-46 can do AE missions, unknown about the MRTT because countries either configure them for full cargo hauling with the “cookie sheet” pallets civilian cargo uses or full passenger A330 config. The MRTT also isn’t cleared to refuel conformal fuel tank (CFT) F-16 two-seaters due to the lack of clearance due to the massive size of the boom (STS) compared to the KC-46. Then you have the strategic mission that the KC-135s do, the KC-10s didn’t, and the KC-46s sorta due. Unknown how the MRTT would do that mission. If Boeing fixed the RVS with RVS 2.0, stopped the APUs from prematurely failing, fixed the cargo loading system/cargo floor, the KC-46 wouldn’t be that bad.

Huge attack in Puerto Vallarta ongoing. Cartels upset the Federal Forces conducted an operation and killed one of the Cartel leaders. Reports of American taken hostage at the airport.

They booed the U.S. National Anthem, and we took the gold. #Suck it!

Copy, your Memes were not communicating that. We are in violent agreement when it comes to trust but verify. I personally think a lot of the skepticism is who we send to the staff. As a multi-time commander I would vector some of my best and brightest to the staff and it would be met with wailing and gnashing of teeth. I finally had a CC call and laid it out, do you like some of the equipment we have...."No sir" if I don't send some sharp candles to the staff then weak swimmers or worse, the admin REMFs are going to continue to pick what we get and how we get it. I need a few meat eaters FIGHTING for change and the right tools to do our mission. Not a slam against our Guard and Reserve folks but in recent at a lot of the MAJCOMs the active component has short-filled the staff jobs and few Guard and Reserve folks have stepped in as senior advisors to the commander...it was my experience that 69% of them were completely out of touch with new tech and capabilities...especially as you went higher in rank. DOW does indeed need have better contracts and be more nimble in awarding said contracts. Not dragging politics into this but look at NASA right now as a good example. Jared Issacman is justifiably turning the place on it's skull. If you haven't you really should listen to his outbreif on the Dreamliner incident. In short, it exceeded the threshold for a Class A 100 FOLD, but the bobs downplayed the mistake in order to save the program. It has now come to light we nearly lost that crew. He is raking Boeing over the coals and they deserve every bit of it. Interestingly, Boeing got more than double of fundage as compared to SpaceX and they completely failed, meanwhile SpaceX had to rescue the crew. A lot of lessons that could be imported to DOW. For me a big change would be DOW taking a few more chances while holding people accountable...force the timeline. Don't be afraid to fail, but if you are going to fail, fail fast.

ID to vote??? Racist, sexist, and a crime against democracy !!! ID to shovel snow? Absolutely required in the workers paradise by Comrade Mamdani. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/02/21/mamdani-snow-shoveling-n2671695

I think we're talking past one another here. The attitude I have is one of skepticism with regard to defense companies and their ability to do what they say they can in a timely fashion. I'm also skeptical that anyone's prior service outweighs their loyalties when selling a product for their new employer. That just means I don't put added weight to what someone at the company is saying because they wore a flt suit way back when. One solution to said skepticism is for the DoW to stop signing contracts that allow us (us being the end users and taxpayers) to get bent over by companies. Or, as you said, force honest assessments from companies and hold thier feet to the fire. DoW bares half the blame in my opinion when it comes to our acquisition woes. I think a lack of skepticism on the part of DoW decision makers, specifically when dealing with the primes, is part of what has put us in this vicious cycle. Skepticism from my view does not mean scoff the newcomers and go back to the primes. DIUx is a prime (pun intended) example of where I'd like to see us moving w.r.t acquisitions. Trust but verify, is all I'm saying when it comes down to it.